Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Health care foes compete to frame Kennedy's legacy (AP)
• Top officer says US bungling Muslim outreach (AP)
• DHS: Senators wrongly took credit for money (AP)
• Alleged leader of Phillipine kidnapping extradited (AP)
• Boston remembers its hometown hero (Politico)
• Analysis: Vote snarls US job instead of easing it (AP)
• Judge dismisses case against accused drug dealer (AP)
• US warned Scotland bomber could get hero's welcome (AP)
• GOP hints Dems would deny Republicans health care (AP)
• Kennedy embodied bygone era of bipartisan dealing (AP)
• Reid slams health care coverage (Politico)
• CBO: House bill could make some seniors pay more (AP)
• Fla. governor taps ex-aide to replace US senator (AP)
• Mass. governor seeks demand on Kennedy succession (AP)
• GOP blasts Idaho candidate's 'Obama tags' comment (AP)
• More post offices may face cuts (AP)
• Nixon dug deep for dirt on Ted Kennedy (AP)
• Who needs a smoking gun? Here's the hot pants tape (AP)
• White House condemns any Afghan vote fraud (AFP)
• SPIN METER: College aid outpaced by college costs (AP)

Health care foes compete to frame Kennedy's legacy (AP) Posted: 28 Aug 2009 02:55 PM PDT AP - Liberals and conservatives, at odds over health care, are competing to use the legacy of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy to further their goals.

Top officer says US bungling Muslim outreach (AP) Posted: 28 Aug 2009 04:30 PM PDT AP - The U.S. military is bungling its outreach to the Muslim world and squandering good will by failing to live up to its promises, the nation's highest-ranking military officer wrote Friday.

DHS: Senators wrongly took credit for money (AP) Posted: 28 Aug 2009 04:33 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration said Friday that two Democratic senators falsely took credit for steering millions of dollars to projects in their home state, even as officials acknowledged that the Homeland Security secretary met with the lawmakers and discussed financing the projects.

Alleged leader of Phillipine kidnapping extradited (AP) Posted: 28 Aug 2009 04:51 PM PDT AP - Fourteen years after a mass kidnapping of four Americans and other vacationers at a Philippine resort, an alleged Muslim militant accused of leading the hostage-taking has been brought to the United States to face criminal charges.

Boston remembers its hometown hero (Politico) Posted: 28 Aug 2009 03:23 PM PDT Politico - DORCHESTER, Mass. — After two wind-chilled hours in line outside the JFK Presidential Library Friday, June Aminpour told her two restless young sons exactly why they needed to pay their respects to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy.

Analysis: Vote snarls US job instead of easing it (AP) Posted: 28 Aug 2009 04:54 PM PDT AP - Inconclusive election results in Afghanistan, disappointing voter turnout and the prospect of rising ethnic tensions and political turmoil are new roadblocks to the Obama administration's plan to turn around a backsliding war.

Judge dismisses case against accused drug dealer (AP) Posted: 28 Aug 2009 03:11 PM PDT AP - A judge on Friday dismissed a major international drug case and ordered that the alleged dealer not be charged again after the prosecution fell apart.

US warned Scotland bomber could get hero's welcome (AP) Posted: 28 Aug 2009 11:59 AM PDT AP - Attorney General Eric Holder warned his Scottish counterpart in June that the man convicted of blowing U.S.-bound Pan Am Flight 103 out of the sky could get a hero's welcome if allowed to return to Libya, according to the head of a group representing the families of victims.

GOP hints Dems would deny Republicans health care (AP) Posted: 28 Aug 2009 12:45 PM PDT AP - The national Republican Party has mailed a fundraising appeal suggesting Democrats might use an overhaul of the health care system to deny medical treatment to Republicans.

Kennedy embodied bygone era of bipartisan dealing (AP) Posted: 28 Aug 2009 11:56 AM PDT AP - Over nearly a half-century, Ted Kennedy watched his beloved Senate change from a collegial boys' club known for bipartisan deal-cutting to a far less friendly place dominated by polarized parties, where broad compromise is a dying art.

Reid slams health care coverage (Politico) Posted: 28 Aug 2009 05:05 PM PDT Politico - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today slammed the news media for its coverage of the health-care debate, accusing news organizations of paying too much attention to rowdy town-hall meetings. “The press has not been” focused enough “on what we’ve been doing,” Reid told listeners in a telephone town hall meeting with Nevadans Friday afternoon, arguing that the media has focused on town hall attendees “yelling and screaming” rather than discussing the substance of the health-care reform effort.

CBO: House bill could make some seniors pay more (AP) Posted: 28 Aug 2009 03:20 PM PDT AP - Some seniors could end up paying 20 percent more for their Medicare prescription drug plans under health care legislation in the House.

Fla. governor taps ex-aide to replace US senator (AP) Posted: 28 Aug 2009 02:57 PM PDT AP - Gov. Charlie Crist is giving Florida a preview of what he'd be like as a senator by picking his former chief of staff to fill the remainder of Republican Sen. Mel Martinez' first term.

Mass. governor seeks demand on Kennedy succession (AP) Posted: 28 Aug 2009 02:50 PM PDT AP - Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said Friday that he wants to honor a request by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy and demand that any appointee to his seat pledge not to run for the seat in the special election.

GOP blasts Idaho candidate's 'Obama tags' comment (AP) Posted: 28 Aug 2009 02:20 PM PDT AP - The list of Idaho Republicans condemning a GOP gubernatorial candidate's comments about buying a license to hunt President Barack Obama grew Friday, as party leaders worried the incident would reflect badly on the state.

More post offices may face cuts (AP) Posted: 28 Aug 2009 02:18 PM PDT AP - The number of post offices being considered for possible closure to save money seems to be growing.

Nixon dug deep for dirt on Ted Kennedy (AP) Posted: 28 Aug 2009 12:20 PM PDT AP - President Richard Nixon considered Ted Kennedy such a threat that he tried to catch Kennedy cheating on his wife, even ordering aides to recruit Secret Service agents to spill secrets on the senator's behavior.

Who needs a smoking gun? Here's the hot pants tape (AP) Posted: 28 Aug 2009 12:13 PM PDT AP - On April 9, 1971, President Richard Nixon conferred with aides on how to get Ted Kennedy followed, or "covered," in hopes of catching the senator doing something scandalous.

White House condemns any Afghan vote fraud (AFP) Posted: 28 Aug 2009 11:53 AM PDT AFP - The White House on Friday condemned any evidence of fraud from the Afghan election, after details emerged of a "testy" meeting between a top US envoy and President Hamid Karzai.

SPIN METER: College aid outpaced by college costs (AP) Posted: 28 Aug 2009 11:42 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says a bill in Congress would help him send millions more Americans to college. But the measure may fall short of Obama's goal.

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