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Yahoo! News: Elections

Officials: Gitmo court system likely to stay open (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 05:38 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2009, file photo, reviewed by the U.S. Military, a guard talks to a Guantanamo detainee in the open yard in Camp 4 detention center on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, FILE)AP - The Obama administration may revamp and restart the Bush-era military trial system for suspected terrorists as it struggles to determine the fate of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay and fulfill a pledge to close the prison by January.


US taking `all necessary precautions' on swine flu (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 02:52 PM PDT

President Barack Obama congratulates Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius after her ceremonial swearing in at the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama said Saturday that the U.S. is taking "all necessary precautions" to be prepared if the swine flu develops into "something worse" and spoke to Mexico's president about how to keep the flu strain from spreading.


What you need to know about the new swine flu (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 02:27 PM PDT

Medics work wearing protective gear as a sick child is carried by her mother in the emergency area where people with swine flu-like symptoms are checked at the naval hospital in Mexico City, Friday May 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - As the new swine flu spreads, people have lots of questions about how it affects their day-to-day life. Here are some answers.


GOP group launches listening tour to rebrand image (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 05:45 PM PDT

FILE -- In this June 19, 2008 file photo, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush responds to questions at the Excellence in Action conference, a national summit on education reform, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.(AP Photo/John Raoux, File)AP - With its party struggling to define itself, a group of prominent Republicans launched a listening tour Saturday in a bid to boost the GOP's sagging image and regroup for future elections.


GOP leaders launch listening tour (Politico)

Posted: 02 May 2009 12:42 PM PDT

Politico - With the party at its lowest standing in several decades, Republicans on Saturday launched a listening tour in the heart of the Democratic suburbs, where several of the party’s leading voices steered clear of hot-button issues and instead emphasized the need to advance new policy ideas to revive the party's prospects.

Dems sense opportunity on gay marriage (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 03:57 PM PDT

FILE - This April 28, 2009 file photo shows gay rights advocate Matthew Arnold-Lloyd of Albany, N.Y., right, meeting nose to nose with an unidentified man opposed to gay marriage during a rally outside the Capitol in Albany, N.Y.  Gay marriage legalization in several states and the public's growing acceptance of same-sex unions have Democrats sensing political opportunity and some Republicans re-evaluating their party's hard-line opposition to an issue that long has rallied its base.  (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)AP - Gay marriage legalization in several states and the public's growing acceptance of same-sex unions have Democrats sensing political opportunity and some Republicans re-evaluating their party's hard-line opposition to an issue that long has rallied its base.


GOP: Obama's first 100 days all spending, taxing (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 05:40 PM PDT

In this Aug. 6, 2008, file photo, then Kansas Treasurer Lynn Jenkins talks with reporters in Topeka, Kan.  In the Republican party's weekly radio and Internet address, Rep. Lynn Jenkins chided Obama and Democrats in Congress for pushing through a $787 billion stimulus package and a $3 trillion federal budget for next year that she said will waste taxpayers' dollars and burden future generations.  (AP Photo/Chuck France, File)AP - Republicans say President Barack Obama's first 100 days in office can be summed up in three words: spending, taxing, borrowing.


Analysis: Flu control tests Obama balancing skills (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 05:42 AM PDT

President Barack Obama meets with his Cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 1, 2009. Left is Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and behind, partially visible is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - There's a fine line at the White House between hand-washing and hand-wringing.


Resistance to Obama high court pick may be modest (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 11:50 AM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo shows then New Hampshire state Supreme Court Justices David Brock, left, and David Souter in Concord, N.H. Souter has told the White House that he will retire from the Supreme Court at the end of the court's term in June, a source said Thursday night April 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)AP - Awaiting President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court pick, activists expect a less-spirited nomination battle than would have been anticipated if a conservative justice had stepped down or Democrats held a slimmer edge in the Senate.


CDC says a third of US flu cases visited Mexico (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 03:08 PM PDT

Updates figures and day in chatter to Saturday; graphic shows daily reported U.S. cases of swine flu since AprilAP - About a third of the confirmed U.S. cases of swine flu are people who had been to Mexico and likely picked up the infection there, a federal health official said Saturday.


Obamas take a walk, holding hands in the evening (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 06:19 PM PDT

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama hold hands as they walk along the South Lawn of the White House after returning from an evening dinner, Saturday, May 2, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - The first couple took full advantage of the cool spring night.


Obama: Wall Street will play less dominant role (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 06:09 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama, seen here on May 1, 2009, said Saturday that he preferred to do more rather than less in the face of a swine flu epidemic, arguing that scientists still knew little about the origins of the virus.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AP - Wall Street is not going to play as dominant a role in the economy as regulations reduce "some of the massive leveraging and the massive risk-taking that had become so common," President Barack Obama says.


Growing pains for Talking Points Memo (Politico)

Posted: 02 May 2009 04:29 PM PDT

Politico - NEW YORK — The Bush years were very, very good to Joshua Micah Marshall.

Obama says financial sector to shrink (Reuters)

Posted: 02 May 2009 03:28 PM PDT

Reuters - The financial sector will make up a smaller part of the U.S. economy in the future as new regulations clamp down on "massive risk-taking," President Barack Obama said in an interview published on Saturday.

Analysis: New justice may reignite social issues (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 08:21 AM PDT

President Barack Obama arrives for a naturalization ceremony for active duty service members  in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - President Barack Obama has tried to hold off debate on contentious social issues such as abortion, immigration and gay rights as he focuses on the economy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Supreme Court vacancy will make that harder to do.


16 militants, 2 Pakistani soldiers die in clash (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 11:43 AM PDT

Pakistani troops fire artillery rounds towards the hideouts of Taliban near the Buner district in April 2009. Pakistani security forces Saturday seized control of a key road in Buner as troops and helicopter gunships shelled militant hideouts, the military said.(AFP/File/Tariq Mahmood)AP - Pakistani forces repelled a mass assault on their outpost near the Afghan border Saturday in a battle that left 18 dead and shook claims by Pakistan's army to have regained control of a critical region.


Regular flu shots this fall, maybe swine jab too (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 06:41 AM PDT

In this photo released by the Ohio Department of Health, shipment of Tamiflu vaccine is received and stored by the Ohio National Guard at an undisclosed location Tuesday, April 28, 2009 in Ohio. Laboratory testing shows the new virus is treatable by the anti-flu drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, and the first shipments from a federal stockpile arrived Wednesday in New York City and several other locations in the U.S.. The government was shipping to states enough medication to treat 11 million people as a precaution. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Health)AP - Americans might have to line up twice next winter for flu shots — once for the regular jab and again later for swine flu protection.


California's Garamendi Opts for Front-Lawn House Campaign (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 02 May 2009 06:29 AM PDT

CQPolitics.com - Home, they say, is where the heart is. But Democrat John Garamendi, the lieutenant governor of California, had unusual leeway in deciding where "home" is, before he announced last week that he plans to run in a pending special House election for the 10th Congressional District seat.

Immigrants push for reforms at rallies nationwide (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 05:24 AM PDT

People gather for a march and rally for immigration law reform, in Los Angeles Friday, May 1, 2009. Organizers are urging passage of an immigration law that provides a path to citizenship for the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - Thousands of immigrants and their families marched in cities from coast to coast, hoping to channel the political muscle Hispanics flexed last fall as President Barack Obama won election. This time, they hoped to jump-start an old cause: forging a path to citizenship for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S.


Doctor: 64 die in shelling of Sri Lanka hospital (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 11:06 AM PDT

In this handout photograph made available by Tamil Net, a pro-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam website, dead bodies are seen lying inside a ward in a makeshift hospital after it was shelled in Mullivaaykkaal, Sri Lanka, Saturday, May 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Tamil Net website, HO)AP - Sri Lankan forces shelled a makeshift hospital in the war zone Saturday, killing 64 civilians despite a pledge to stop using heavy weapons in its battle with the Tamil Tigers, a rebel-linked Web site said.


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