Yahoo! News: Elections

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• White House open to new tax on health benefits (AP)
• Analysis: Obama scores major, much-needed victory (AP)
• Republicans eyed for 2012 weigh Sanford fallout (AP)
• GOP leader says time needed for Sotomayor records (AP)
• Axelrod: Senate will pass energy (Politico)
• Obama adviser not ready to back a second stimulus (AP)
• Obama aide: President has written Jackson family (AP)
• Obama officials say talks with Iran still possible (AP)
• US has talked with deposed Honduran leader (AP)
• Analysis: Somalia aid tied to shaky government (AP)
• Sanford: Sex scandal with political twist (Politico)
• Iran spars with U.S. and Britain over election (Reuters)
• Iran arrests British embassy staff for 'role in riots' (AFP)
• Army overthrows Honduras president (Reuters)
• UN ambassador: US closely monitoring NKorean ship (AP)
• Miss. governor says no plans to run for president (AP)
• Axelrod: No ultimatum on public plan (Politico)
• Mitt: Govs to live by 'higher standard' (Politico)
• Axelrod expects Senate to tackle health care first (AP)
• General says Iraq violence is counterproductive (AP)

White House open to new tax on health benefits (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2009 03:32 PM PDT AP - The Obama White House left open the possibility Sunday that the president would break a campaign promise and raise taxes on people earning less than $250,000 to support his health care overhaul agenda.

Analysis: Obama scores major, much-needed victory (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2009 02:43 PM PDT AP - Facing a rare defeat, President Barack Obama put a big dose of political capital on the line and scored a major victory just when he needed one.

Republicans eyed for 2012 weigh Sanford fallout (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2009 12:31 PM PDT AP - A potential White House contender in 2012 staked a claim Sunday to rehabilitating the Republican Party in the wake of extramarital affairs by two leading Republicans that have damaged the GOP's family-values image.

GOP leader says time needed for Sotomayor records (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2009 01:55 PM PDT AP - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday the committee preparing for hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor needs time to review 300 boxes of records that recently turned up in connection with her work for a legal advocacy group.

Axelrod: Senate will pass energy (Politico) Posted: 28 Jun 2009 08:27 AM PDT Politico - White House senior adviser David Axelrod says the energy and climate bill passed by the House was crafted to “ameliorate some of the hard edge that people were worried about, and I think that will carry the day in the Senate”

Obama adviser not ready to back a second stimulus (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2009 04:46 PM PDT AP - A senior White House adviser said Sunday the economic stimulus has not yet "broken the back of the recession" but set aside calls for a second massive spending bill. Republicans, meanwhile, called spending under way a failure.

Obama aide: President has written Jackson family (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2009 08:42 AM PDT AP - A top White House adviser says President Barack Obama has written a private letter to Michael Jackson's family.

Obama officials say talks with Iran still possible (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2009 03:57 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration is open to discussions with Iran over its nuclear ambitions despite protests questioning the legitimacy of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election, U.S. officials said Sunday.

US has talked with deposed Honduran leader (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2009 04:25 PM PDT AP - U.S. diplomats are working to ensure the safety of deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and his family as they press for restoration of constitutional law and his presidency.

Analysis: Somalia aid tied to shaky government (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2009 05:30 AM PDT AP - The Obama administration's recent move to increase aid to Somalia takes aim at Islamic extremists' safe havens, pouring resources into a government that analysts say may not be worth salvaging.

Sanford: Sex scandal with political twist (Politico) Posted: 28 Jun 2009 01:23 PM PDT Politico - In the should-he-stay-or-should-he-go drama now playing out in South Carolina over Gov. Mark Sanford, there is one group of people that is fervently, if quietly, hoping that he will stay.

Iran spars with U.S. and Britain over election (Reuters) Posted: 28 Jun 2009 01:13 PM PDT Reuters - Iran accused the United States of trying to destabilize it and sparked a new row with Britain on Sunday, underscoring the hardline leadership's efforts to blame post-election unrest on foreign powers rather than popular anger.

Iran arrests British embassy staff for 'role in riots' (AFP) Posted: 28 Jun 2009 12:23 PM PDT AFP - Iran has arrested eight local British embassy staff, triggering London's fury on Sunday and further exacerbating tensions with the West over the post-election turmoil in the Islamic republic.

Army overthrows Honduras president (Reuters) Posted: 28 Jun 2009 01:26 PM PDT Reuters - The Honduran army ousted and exiled leftist President Manuel Zelaya on Sunday in Central America's first military coup since the Cold War, triggered by his bid to make it legal to seek another term in office.

UN ambassador: US closely monitoring NKorean ship (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2009 08:53 AM PDT AP - The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says the U.S. is keeping close tabs on a suspected North Korea arms ship.

Miss. governor says no plans to run for president (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2009 08:12 AM PDT AP - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says he would be "very surprised" if he ended up running for president.

Axelrod: No ultimatum on public plan (Politico) Posted: 28 Jun 2009 07:57 AM PDT Politico - White House senior adviser David Axelrod says President Barack Obama would like to have a public option – or government-run insurance plan – as part of a health reform package, but will not insist on it.

Mitt: Govs to live by 'higher standard' (Politico) Posted: 28 Jun 2009 07:47 AM PDT Politico - Discussing disgraced South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a fellow Republican, said governors and other national leaders are expected “to live by a higher standard because … the culture of the nation” can be hurt by their failings.

Axelrod expects Senate to tackle health care first (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2009 07:04 AM PDT AP - A top presidential adviser says it probably will be the fall before the Senate deals with a major climate change bill that just passed the House.

General says Iraq violence is counterproductive (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2009 06:52 AM PDT AP - The top U.S. commander in Iraq says he believes that the recent increase in violence in Iraq may end up hurting the extremists who are behind the attacks.

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