AP - President Barack Obama said Saturday that the GOP stance on a small business lending bill is proof the country “can’t afford the do-nothing policies and partisan maneuvering that will only take us backward.”

Politico - After visiting two auto plants, President Obama calls the rescue of the industry a success.

Politico - Tea partiers rally around “The Starfish and the Spider,” as they struggle to maintain their impact.

AFP - After an intensely secretive build-up, Chelsea Clinton and her hedge fund manager beau were to marry on Saturday at a star-studded wedding outside New York.

AP - Germany held a memorial service Saturday for the victims of the Love Parade techno music festival, where 21 people were crushed to death and 500 injured in a tunnel that was the only entrance to the event.

Reuters - President Barack Obama on Saturday accused Republicans of holding American small businesses “hostage to politics” after Republican senators refused to back a $30 billion small-business lending package.

AP - The case of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and the massage therapist has been closed.

AP - Rep. Charlie Rangel is getting sympathy from some fellow Democrats but scant support from others as he faces trial on several ethics charges.

AP - It’s hard to travel incognito when you’re the president — even on a mission to a spy museum.

AFP - After an intensely secretive build-up Chelsea Clinton and her hedge fund manager beau were to marry Saturday at a star-studded wedding outside New York.