Skip Those, Read This: The Slatest and The Huffington Post lead with the New Orleans Saints' 31-17 victory over the favored Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV. "Four years ago, who ever thought this would be happening when 85 percent of the city was under water from (Hurricane) Katrina," Saints quarterback Drew Brees told The Associated Press. "Most people not knowing if New Orleans would ever come back or if the organization and the team would come back. ... This is the culmination of that belief and that faith." But to check out the scene down in New Orleans, readers should go to the home page of the hometown paper, the Times-Picayune.
Speaking of Defense: The Daily Beast leads with an AP report indicating Iran's plans to build unmanned aircraft with surveillance and strike capabilities. Tehran also announced Monday that the country "would soon deploy a missile air defense system more powerful than the advanced Russian S-300 system Tehran has ordered from Moscow in 2007 but has yet to receive."
The Next Move on Health Care: Both The Daily Beast and The Slatest pick up a Washington Post report on President Barack Obama's plans for a televised summit with Republicans to discuss health care reform. The summit will be held Feb. 25, and Obama has invited Republicans to "bring their best ideas for how to cover more Americans and fix the health insurance system to the public discussion." The president is also expected to present a merged version of the House and Senate health reform bills that already have passed their respective chambers.
Catch of the Day: The Daily Beast links to a New York Times story on the latest bad news from Toyota. The company is expected this week to recall more than 300,000 of its 2010 Prius hybrid models after complaints about faulty brakes. Already, Toyota has recalled more than 8 million vehicles of other models over sticky gas pedals.
Rumors and Innuendo: Only the Huffington Post picks up the rumor, swirling around media outlets this weekend, that the New York Times is preparing an explosive story on New York Gov. David Paterson that will prompt him to resign. Huffington offers its own roundup of the story, which began when Business Insider reported on Sunday, "We've now heard from a single source familiar with the goings on at the governor's office that the story will likely drop on Monday, and that the governor's resignation will follow." Allusions have been made to some sort of sex scandal. Meanwhile, a source close to Paterson has said that while the Times is working on a profile of Paterson, the governor is cooperating with the story and won't resign. The Filter cautions patience.
Disturbed Dad?: The Daily Beast picks up a story from Britain's Daily Mail, reporting on a U.S. soldier who allegedly waterboarded his 4-year-old daughter because she couldn't recite the alphabet. Joshua Tabor, stationed at Lewis-McChord base in Tacoma, Wash., "was arrested after being seen walking around his neighbourhood wearing a Kevlar military helmet and threatening to break windows." Police spoke to his girlfriend, who told them about the alleged abuse; responding officers reported that they arrived to find that the girl, who had bruises covering her body, had locked herself in a closet. The local Nisqually Valley News, paraphrasing the Yelm, Wash., police chief, added that Tabor allegedly "held his daughter's head, backward in a sink of water" -- but notably, the local paper did not follow the British tabloid in using "waterboarding" to describe his actions.
