Yahoo! News: Elections

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• New financial rules: Major changes for big, small (AP)
• Analysis: Ensign affair one more woe for GOP (AP)
• Financial crisis shifts balance toward regulation (AP)
• Obama: More benefits for gay workers only one step (AP)
• McCain: Obama needs to step it up (Politico)
• Clinton: US intent on direct talks with Iran (AP)
• AG Holder: 50 or more Gitmo trials possible (AP)
• Ex-campaign aide to Sen. Ensign confirms affair (AP)
• War-spending bill may face difficulty in Senate (AP)
• Lawmakers clash over cost of health care overhaul (AP)
• AG: More agents will be able to fight drugs (AP)
• Evaluation ordered for man accused of Obama threat (AP)
• Health reform hits Senate speed bumps (Politico)
• Cyber-sympathizers aid Iran protestors in online battle (AFP)
• LaHood offers plan to fund highway programs (AP)
• US public opposes Obama on GM, Guantanamo: poll (AFP)
• Obama extends benefits, promises more for gays (Reuters)
• Iran set for day of mourning after protest deaths (Reuters)
• Financial crises almost always bring tighter rules (AP)
• Republicans Struggle to Unite in the Obama Era (U.S. News & World Report)

New financial rules: Major changes for big, small (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2009 05:02 PM PDT AP - From simple home loans to Wall Street's most exotic schemes, the government would impose and enforce sweeping new "rules of the road" for the nation's battered financial system under an overhaul proposed Wednesday by President Barack Obama.

Analysis: Ensign affair one more woe for GOP (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2009 05:31 PM PDT AP - It's just about the last thing the beleaguered Republican Party needed: a Christian conservative with national aspirations admitting to an extramarital affair with an ex-staffer.

Financial crisis shifts balance toward regulation (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2009 05:37 PM PDT AP - The pendulum of government regulation is swinging in a new direction. The government spent most of the past three decades dismantling rules put in place to fix the bad practices that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. President Barack Obama's financial overhaul plan marks a clear step back toward greater regulation.

Obama: More benefits for gay workers only one step (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2009 04:56 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama signaled to gay-rights activists Wednesday that he's listening to their desire for greater equality in "a more perfect union." But he didn't give them even close to everything they want, bringing to the surface an anger that's been growing against the president.

McCain: Obama needs to step it up (Politico) Posted: 17 Jun 2009 02:19 PM PDT Politico - Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) criticized President Barack Obama Wednesday for failing to take a strong leadership role in voicing opposition to the election results in Iran.

Clinton: US intent on direct talks with Iran (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2009 05:41 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration will pursue talks with Iran on nuclear and other issues regardless of who emerges as president in the aftermath of Iran's disputed election, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday.

AG Holder: 50 or more Gitmo trials possible (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2009 05:45 PM PDT AP - Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday there may be 50 or more trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees as the Obama administration works to shut the detention center by early next year.

Ex-campaign aide to Sen. Ensign confirms affair (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2009 04:12 PM PDT AP - A former campaign aide to Sen. John Ensign confirmed her involvement Wednesday in an extramarital affair with the conservative Republican, lamented his decision to "air this very personal matter" and said she eventually would tell her side of the story.

War-spending bill may face difficulty in Senate (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2009 05:36 PM PDT AP - The Senate on Wednesday agreed to prohibit the release of photos depicting the abuse of detainees by U.S. troops, clearing a choke point to congressional approval of a $106 billion war-spending bill.

Lawmakers clash over cost of health care overhaul (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2009 04:20 PM PDT AP - Hoping to make history, the Senate set off on its major overhaul of the nation's health care system Wednesday, but its first steps were quickly overtaken by fresh cost concerns and partisan anger. An ambitious timetable that called for completing committee action in early summer seemed in danger of slipping away.

AG: More agents will be able to fight drugs (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2009 05:56 PM PDT AP - More federal agents will be able to investigate drug cases under a new agreement between government agencies battling Mexican cartels, Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Wednesday.

Evaluation ordered for man accused of Obama threat (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2009 05:38 PM PDT AP - A judge on Wednesday ordered a psychiatric evaluation for a man accused of telling bank employees he was "on a mission to kill" President Barack Obama.

Health reform hits Senate speed bumps (Politico) Posted: 17 Jun 2009 04:56 PM PDT Politico - Health care reform hit a serious setback Wednesday, with the Senate Finance Committee blowing its own deadline for a bill and the Health Committee breaking sharply along partisan lines — developments that place President Barack Obama’s August deadline for passing a bill in doubt.

Cyber-sympathizers aid Iran protestors in online battle (AFP) Posted: 17 Jun 2009 04:41 PM PDT AFP - Cyber-sympathizers from around the world have joined forces online to help Iranian protestors dodge censorship, get out news of violent clashes and avoid real-world capture following Iran's disputed election.

LaHood offers plan to fund highway programs (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2009 04:36 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration on Wednesday offered a temporary finance plan that could put off an overhaul of federal highway programs — and what is likely to be a politically sensitive vote to raise gas taxes — until after next year's midterm congressional elections.

US public opposes Obama on GM, Guantanamo: poll (AFP) Posted: 17 Jun 2009 04:30 PM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama's popularity has slipped and most Americans oppose his push to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and his rescue of General Motors, according to a new survey out Wednesday.

Obama extends benefits, promises more for gays (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jun 2009 04:10 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama on Wednesday extended limited job benefits to gay partners of U.S. government workers in what he called a first step to end discrimination against gays and lesbians.

Iran set for day of mourning after protest deaths (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jun 2009 03:40 PM PDT Reuters - Supporters of Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi prepared to heed his rallying call for a national day of mourning on Thursday for those killed in post-election clashes.

Financial crises almost always bring tighter rules (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2009 02:22 PM PDT AP - The pendulum of government regulation is swinging in a new direction.

Republicans Struggle to Unite in the Obama Era (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 17 Jun 2009 02:19 PM PDT U.S. News & World Report - It isn't getting any easier to be a Republican. Only 22 percent of the voters identify with the GOP, according to the Pew Research Center, compared with 39 percent who see themselves as independents and 33 percent who consider themselves Democrats. The party has no consistent message. And in an era when Barack Obama so clearly represents the Democrats, the Republicans are ill defined, with a multiplicity of voices inside and outside Congress, none of them very popular and most little known outside Washington or their home states.

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