Reuters - President Barack Obama will make a statement on the economy at 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 GMT) Monday in the White House Rose Garden, the White House said.

Reuters - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak urged Europe on Monday to throw its weight behind U.S.-led efforts to secure a peace agreement between Palestinians and Israelis.

Reuters - Four Ugandan peacekeepers were killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday when al Shabaab Islamist rebels fired mortars at the presidential palace, an African Union spokesman said.

Reuters - A public opinion poll showing Americans are increasingly convinced, wrongly, that he is Muslim does not trouble him, President Barack Obama said on Sunday.

Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Sunday there was no magic bullet for what ails the struggling U.S. economy but urged steps such as passage of his small-business lending proposal.

Reuters - The Obama administration is hosting Israeli and Palestinian leaders in Washington this week in an effort to restart direct Mideast peace negotiations after a 20-month hiatus.

Reuters - The Obama administration has not decided whether it should resurrect a popular tax credit for first-time homebuyers, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said on Sunday.

Reuters - Flood waters threatened to engulf two towns in southern Pakistan on Saturday, a month after the disaster began, as the United Nations warned that tens of thousands of children risked death from malnutrition.

Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Saturday Iraq could "chart its own course" and told Americans the drawdown of U.S. troops helped fulfill a promise he made during the 2008 presidential campaign.

Reuters - Former President Jimmy Carter and an American who had been jailed after crossing into North Korea landed at Boston's Logan International Airport on Friday after the reclusive state released the prisoner.

Reuters - An expert panel named by President Barack Obama spelled out ideas to simplify the byzantine U.S. tax code, including pre-filled-out returns for some individuals and reducing the corporate tax rate while cutting loopholes.

Reuters - The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy.

Reuters - President Barack Obama, anxious to show he is still focused on the battered economy despite being on vacation, took time out of his golf game on Friday to chat about the growth situation with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg before they hit the course.

Reuters - The land owner and developer building the long-delayed new World Trade Center sealed a deal on Thursday to speed construction just over a year shy of the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Reuters - Muslim, Jewish, Christian and civic groups formed a coalition on Wednesday to back a plan for a Muslim center near the site of the World Trade Center attacks in New York that has sparked heated national debate.

Reuters - A deal likely to speed construction of two new towers on the site of the former World Trade Center in Manhattan is expected this week, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

Reuters - President Barack Obama held a conference call with top economic advisers on Wednesday to discuss newly released grim data that has raised fears the economy is at risk of a new downturn.

Reuters - Former President Jimmy Carter met North Korea's nominal head of state on Wednesday after touching down in Pyongyang for a private visit to win the release of an American jailed in the reclusive country.

Reuters - Swedish police are to question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over alleged molestation, Sweden's chief prosecutor said on Wednesday, but a second case against him has been dropped, she said.

Reuters - Democrat John Hickenlooper has a substantial lead in the Colorado governor's race thanks to a third-party candidate who is splitting the Republican vote, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday.

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Republican Senate candidate and Tea Party favorite Ken Buck has a 49 percent to 40 percent lead among likely voters over Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet with 10 percent undecided, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted Aug. 20-22. The margin of error is 4.6 points.

Buck's margin is smaller when all registered voters are tested -- 44 percent to 40 percent with 15 percent undecided. The margin of error in this case is 4 points.

In the governor's race -- which is now a three-way -- affair, former Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo's presence as a third party candidate is throwing a big monkey wrench into Republican hopes to win the seat.

Democrat John Hickenlooper, Denver's mayor, leads Republican businessman Dan Maes by 41 percent to 33 percent among likely voters with 16 percent for Tancredo and 9 percent undecided. Hickenlooper's margin is bigger if all registered voters are surveyed.

If Tancredo were to drop out, Maes and Hickenlooper would be tied at 45 percent each with 9 percent undecided among likely voters. However, among all registered voters, Hickenlooper leads 48 percent to 38 percent with 13 percent undecided.

Polling analyst Nate Silver has observed that the "general consensus" among pollsters is that "likely voter polls are better when you're close to an election but perhaps not any better when you're months away from one and few people are tuned into politics." It being almost Labor Day, it's hard to judge on this one.

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Reuters - At least 800,000 Pakistanis stranded by floods are at risk of dying of starvation or disease unless the United Nations gets more helicopters to urgently reach them, officials said on Wednesday.

Michelle Malkin - The "Summer of Recovery" is looking more and more like the Beltway Chainsaw Massacre for America's workers. As President Obama lolls on Martha's Vineyard with his well-heeled Chicago pals, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that 72 percent of people are very worried about joblessness and 67 percent are very concerned about massive government spending.

Reuters - Stunned and disappointed Obama administration officials said on Tuesday they would appeal a federal court ruling that temporarily barred federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.