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AP - Already in distinctive company as an American president, George W. Bush seeks to join an even more select group: president and top-selling author.

CQPolitics.com - While serious Democratic observers worry whether their party can somehow hang on to 218 seats in the House, more than a few Republican strategists and neutral observers have become convinced that the GOP is on the cusp of a stunning victory that could at least equal the party's 52-seat 1994 gain.

CQPolitics.com - YORK, S.C. -- Rep. John M. Spratt Jr. had just finished opening the 27th annual Summerfest fair here in his hometown when he came face to face with a former donor who was, at that moment, only interested in giving the Congressman a piece of his mind.

Politico - The new proposal would allow companies to write off 100 percent of their investments in new plants.

AP - A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans' hard economic times.

Politico - The president of ABC News announces in a staff e-mail that he's stepping down after 13 years.

Reuters - President Barack Obama will propose on Wednesday that businesses be allowed to write off all their new investments in plant and equipment through 2011, an administration official said on Monday.

AFP - US President Barack Obama paid tribute Monday to Jefferson Thomas, who was among nine black students who fought segregationist mobs 53 years ago to integrate a southern US high school.

Politico - With early voting starting soon, Obama fights to convince voters that he's still working to fix the economy.

CQPolitics.com - Although Alaska's Libertarian Party has already voted against allowing GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski to run for another Senate term as the Libertarian candidate, discussions have occurred since then, the Anchorage Daily News reported Saturday.

CQPolitics.com - GOP Senate candidate Joe Miller was cited in a car accident in his Alaska hometown, the New York Times reported.

AFP - US President Barack Obama Monday promised more than 50 billion dollars to create jobs rebuilding roads, railways and airports, targeting huge unemployment and ripping resurgent Republicans.

AP - Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank's retort was an Internet sensation.

AP - A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans' hard economic times.

AP - President Barack Obama says problems facing working class families more serious than ever.

AP - A Russian regional leader who claims to have visited an alien spaceship says he is retiring.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama Monday proposes a quick $50 billion boost in federal spending to rebuild roads, railways and runways — a move he says will create jobs and which Democrats hope will improve their election prospects in November.

AFP - Chinese and US officials congratulated each other Monday on a warming of ties between the two powers, after relations were strained earlier this year.

Politico - Nevada Senate candidate is accused of violating copyright laws on her campaign website.

AP - Israel's Holocaust museum Yad Vashem signed an agreement with Poland on Monday that gives it access to World War II-era documents held in archives across the eastern European country.