The Note’s Must-Reads are a round-up of today’s political headlines and stories from ABC News and the top U.S. newspapers. Posted Monday through Friday right here at http://www.abcnews.com

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SEN. TED KENNEDY DIES AT THE AGE OF 77:

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ABC News: ?Ted Kennedy Dies of Brain Cancer at Age 77? LINK

ABC News? Huma Khan and Caitlin Taylor: ?Ted Kennedy Legislative Accomplishments? LINK

USA Today’s Kathy Kiely: “Ted Kennedy: A lifetime of public service” LINK

USA Today’s Kathy Kiely: “Illness deprived Kennedy of seeing out ’cause of my life'” LINK

The Washington Post’s Joe Holley: “Mass. Sen. Ted Kennedy Dies at 77, After Cancer Battle” LINK

The Los Angeles Times’ Rich Simon and Claudia Luther: “Edward Kennedy dies at 77; ‘liberal lion of the Senate'” LINK

NY Daily News? Larry McShane: ?Sen. Ted Kennedy dies at age 77 after year-long battle with brain cancer? LINK

The Hill’s Reid Wilson: ?Senate loses liberal lion: Kennedy dead at 77″ LINK

The Washington Times’ Stephen Dinan: ?U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy dies at 77″ LINK

Politico?s Staff: ?Special election likely in January? LINK

Politico?s Staff: ?Remembering Ted Kennedy? LINK

Politico?s David Rogers: ?Ted Kennedy, 77, dies on Cape Cod? LINK

Politico?s Kathryn McGarr: ?The Kennedy Speeches? LINK

The Wall Street Journal?s Naftali Bendavid: ?Senator Edward Kennedy Dies after Battle with Cancer? LINK

Bloomberg?s Ed Rowley: ?Kennedy?s Legislative Legacy Will Be Hard to Replicate in Senate? LINK

Bloomberg?s Jonathan D. Salant: ?Edward Kennedy, U.S. Senator and Democratic Icon, Dead at 77? LINK

Boston Herald?s Dave Wedge: ?Sen. Edward M. Kennedy dies at age 77? LINK

HEALTH CARE REFORM:

The Hill’s Jared Allen: ?Connolly fends off criticism of ?death panels?” LINK

The Los Angeles Times’ Rich Simon and Claudia Luther: ?Connolly fends off criticism of ?death panels?” LINK

PRESIDENT OBAMA:

USA Today’s Richard Wolf: “Obama vacationing, but keeping busy” LINK

The Washington Post’s Ed O’Keefe: “GOP Senator Asks Obama To Drop Labor Dept. Pick” LINK

The Washington Post’s Dan Balz: “Obama Dances Awkwardly With Bush Policies” LINK

The Boston Globe’s Matt Viser: “In protesting the president, civility rules” LINK

PRESIDENT OBAMA AND BEN S. BERNANKE:

Time Magazine?s Michael Grunwald: ?Why Obama Reappointed Bernanke to the Fed? LINK

The Hill’s Silla Brush and Bob Cusack: ?Bernanke outreach to lawmakers key to reappointment” LINK

The Wall Street Journal?s Jon Hilsenrath, Elizabeth Williamson and Jonathan Weisman: ?Calm in Crisis Won Fed Job? LINK

Bloomberg?s Julia Goldman and Robert Schmidt: ?April Thank You From Obama Started Embrace of Bernanke at Fed? LINK

PRESIDENT OBAMA AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS:

The Washington Post’s Scott Wilson and Joshua Partlow: “On Afghanistan, Political Test for Obama” LINK

CIA / TORTURE:

ABC News? Mathew Cole and Brian Ross: ?Deaths, Missing Detainees Still Blacked Out in New CIA Report? LINK

The Washington Post’s Joby Warrick, Peter Finn and Julie Tate: “CIA Releases Its Instructions For Breaking a Detainee’s Will” LINK

The Washington Post’s R. Jeffrey Smith: “Cheney Criticizes Widening Investigation of CIA Counterterrorism Program” LINK

The Washington Post’s Paul Kane and Carrie Johnson: “Key Members of Both Parties Criticize Holder Decision to Look Into Alleged CIA Abuse of Detainees” LINK

Newsweek?s Mark Hosenball: ?Did Waterboarding Actually Work?? LINK

The Wall Street Journal?s Siohman Gorman and Gary Fields: ?Probe of CIA Imperils Interagency Trust? LINK

ECONOMY / DEFICIT:

ABC News? Yunji de Nies, Karen Travers and Stephanie Z. Smith: ?Obama Nominates Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to Second Term? LINK

ABC News? Karen Travers and Kate Barrett: ?Budget Blues: White House and CBO Release Summer Outlooks? LINK

USA Today’s Mimi Hall: “‘Historic’ deficit a political thorn” LINK

USA Today’s Keith Matheny: “States go head-to-head to lure businesses” LINK

The Washington Post’s Lori Montgomery: “Deficit Projected To Soar With New Programs” LINK

The Washington Post’s Thomas Heath: “Cupcakeries Emerge as Washington’s Sweet Spot in a Downturn” LINK

The Boston Globe’s Chris Reidy and Katie Johnston Chase: “Home market on the rise” LINK

The Los Angeles Times’ James Oliphant: ?News on federal deficit likely to be used against Obama’s agenda” LINK

The Washington Times’ Patrice Hill: ?FDIC chairman sees new wave of big risks” LINK

The Washington Times’ David M. Dickson: ?$1.5 trillion deficits eyed for ’09, ’10” LINK

Politico?s Eamon Javers: ?Barack Obama doubles down on Ben Bernanke? LINK

DEMOCRATS/REPUBLICANS:

The Hill’s Mike Soraghan: ?Vocal minority greet Howard Dean at town hall” LINK

AFGHANISTAN & VOTING:

USA Today’s Jim Michaels: “Partial tally shows slight Karzai lead” LINK

The Boston Globe’s Bryan Bender: “Top officer offers a dire assessment on Afghanistan” LINK

Time?s Joe Klein: ?Early Afghan Results: Karzai Will Win? LINK

ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT:

USA Today’s Kathleen Gray: “Appliances get their own recycled clunkers programs” LINK

OTHER MUST-READS:

The Associated Press: “Supreme Court: Catholic abuse documents can’t stay sealed” LINK

Religion News Service’s Kristen May: “First Amendment battle: School officials face trial in prayer case” LINK

The Washington Post: “Who’s Sitting on the Federal Bench” LINK

The Los Angeles Times’ Robin Abcarian: ?Abortion foes turn on each other over the Operation Rescue name” LINK

ABC NEWS VIDEOS:

?Sen. Ted Kennedy Dies of Cancer? LINK

?Ted Kennedy Receives Medal of Freedom? LINK

?Kennedy the Young Politician? LINK

?Kennedy: ‘I Feel Change in the Air’? LINK

?Kennedy Stands Up for Disabled Workers? LINK

?Obama’s Major Economic Announcement? LINK

U.S. GDP to grow 2% by 2014: IMFThe Note’s Must-Reads for Thursday, August 13, 2009

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