AP - President Barack Obama said Sunday he has not ruled out a New York federal court trial for Sept. 11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, but he was taking into account the objections of the city’s mayor and police commissioner.
AP - In the first major step to revive his health care agenda after his party’s loss of a filibuster-proof Senate majority, President Barack Obama on Sunday invited Republican and Democratic leaders to discuss possible compromises in a televised gathering later this month.
AP - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (GYT’-nur) says the U.S. government “will never” lose its sterling credit rating despite big budget deficits and a newly increased debt limit that now tops $14 trillion.
Politico - Reid says he’s tried to avoid the need for Obama to make recess appointments, but asks what alternative is left?
Politico - Scott Lee Cohen drops out of the race less than a week after winning the nomination.
AP - Sarah Palin says it would be “absurd” for her not to consider running for president in 2012.
AP - An exasperated White House newly committed to preaching partisan peace slammed Republicans for playing politics on national security and making ignorant allegations about the investigation into the Christmas airliner plot.
CQPolitics.com - It’s hard to think of Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh, who has won two landslide elections to the Senate and previously served as a popular two-term governor, as anything but politically safe. But such is the political environment for Democrats these days, and there are signs that even Bayh will have to hustle to win a third term.
AP - Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu has been elected mayor of New Orleans, replacing term-limited Ray Nagin and becoming the majority-black city’s first white mayor since 1979.
AP - Still wonder exactly why Justice Samuel Alito shook his head and mouthed the words “not true” during President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address? He objected to the president’s saying the ruling reversed a century of law.
AP - No, maybe he can’t. President Barack Obama, who insisted he would succeed where other presidents had failed to fix the nation’s health care system, now concedes the effort may die in Congress.
AP - NATO and U.S. officials are putting a more optimistic face on the eight-year-old Afghanistan war, suggesting that tens of thousands more foreign troops can finally turn the corner against a growing Taliban insurgency.
AP - The “tea party” activists all agree: Government is too big. Spending is out of control. Individual freedom is at risk. And President Barack Obama’s policies are making it all worse.
Politico - “We had a very good exchange,” Axelrod tells C-SPAN’s “Newswmakers” program.
Politico - Sen. compares rep.’s missed votes to going AWOL from the Navy, drawing gasps from the crowd.
AP - Presidential quips about Washington’s supposed lack of winter toughness have disappeared as snow accumulations mounted.
AP - Just when Illinois was starting to move on from the scandals of ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich, along comes Scott Lee Cohen.
AP - The grandson of President Richard Nixon is among seven Republicans seeking the nomination to challenge an incumbent Democratic congressman on Long Island.
AP - The Obama administration is suggesting the Supreme Court dismiss a case that tests whether a federal judge can order Guantanamo Bay detainees released in the United States.
The Christian Science Monitor - Impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich received a redrafted and expanded set of indictments Thursday as federal prosecutors sought to eliminate wording that has to do with a judicial statute prosecutors hoped would help their case but that the US Supreme Court may soon strike down.