Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Dem negotiator: Time here for health care action (AP)
• Obama promotes new ways to save for retirement (AP)
• Obama's back-to-school message is responsibility (AP)
• Analysis: Crunch time for Obama on health care (AP)
• US Embassy memo: 'Afghan First' (Politico)
• Hillary movie puts campaign finance limits at risk (AP)
• For the jobless, every day is a battle (AP)
• Airplane trade ruling may seem outdated (AP)
• Dems signal resistance to Afghan troop increase (AP)
• Maine's Snowe seen as key player in health care (AP)
• Pelosi loath to drop hammer on Rangel (Politico)
• INSIDE WASHINGTON: A costly bid to help Hawaii (AP)
• Obama unveils measures to spur retirement saving (Reuters)
• Fresh violence flares in Gabon (AFP)
• Gabon hit by new clashes, football fails to bring relief (AFP)
• Iran's Mousavi defiant after MPs back Ahmadinejad (Reuters)
• Brief look at the major players in 'Hillary' case (AP)
• Campaign finance laws before the Supreme Court (AP)
• What groups are telling court about 'Hillary' case (AP)
• The first family you can identify with (Politico)

Dem negotiator: Time here for health care action (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2009 04:36 PM PDT AP - The Senate's chief Democratic negotiator on a health care bill is indicating it's time to act and has told his colleagues he won't wait much longer for a Republican compromise.

Obama promotes new ways to save for retirement (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2009 02:56 PM PDT AP - The recession has eaten into people's nest eggs so the government is promoting ways to make it easier to save for retirement.

Obama's back-to-school message is responsibility (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2009 03:48 PM PDT AP - Classrooms are filling up as kids head back to school, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan's two children are among them.

Analysis: Crunch time for Obama on health care (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2009 03:14 PM PDT AP - When Barack Obama was considering running for president in 2006, the political strategist who had engineered his Senate victory two years earlier bluntly stated a potentially fatal concern.

US Embassy memo: 'Afghan First' (Politico) Posted: 05 Sep 2009 01:01 PM PDT Politico - U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, retired Gen. Karl Eikenberry, has distributed an unclassified memo to U.S. diplomatic and foreign assistance personnel, obtained by POLITICO, which calls for the “Afghanization” of foreign assistance to that country.

Hillary movie puts campaign finance limits at risk (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2009 04:48 PM PDT AP - The Supreme Court appears poised to wipe away limits on campaign spending by corporations and labor unions in time for next year's congressional elections in a case that began as a dispute over a movie about Hillary Rodham Clinton.

For the jobless, every day is a battle (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2009 04:26 PM PDT AP - Every day it's a battle. The nearly 15 million unemployed Americans won't enjoy Labor Day as a relaxing respite from work. Instead, they'll once again need to prepare to get up, hit the pavement and keep hunting for a job.

Airplane trade ruling may seem outdated (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2009 04:54 PM PDT AP - The World Trade Organization's ruling that European loans for Airbus were illegal subsidies is being cheered by U.S. lawmakers loyal to the Boeing Co., even though the preliminary decision may seem outdated now that government subsidies, bailouts and takeovers are common.

Dems signal resistance to Afghan troop increase (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2009 03:55 PM PDT AP - Senate Democrats are signaling that any push by the White House for more troops in Afghanistan probably will run into resistance.

Maine's Snowe seen as key player in health care (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2009 04:29 PM PDT AP - While working for a marketing firm, Michael Townsend coined the signature phrase that appears on highway signs, T-shirts and tourism promos in these parts: "Maine — the Way Life Should Be."

Pelosi loath to drop hammer on Rangel (Politico) Posted: 05 Sep 2009 04:47 PM PDT Politico - Why is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refusing a growing chorus of calls to drop the hammer on ethics-challenged Charlie Rangel?

INSIDE WASHINGTON: A costly bid to help Hawaii (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2009 04:32 PM PDT AP - A veteran House member from Hawaii has found a way to help his state's struggling construction industry — and boost his campaign for governor. The catch? It would cost taxpayers an extra $10 billion.

Obama unveils measures to spur retirement saving (Reuters) Posted: 05 Sep 2009 03:49 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama announced new measures on Saturday to encourage Americans to save more money for retirement, a move the White House said would put the economy on a stronger footing in the future.

Fresh violence flares in Gabon (AFP) Posted: 05 Sep 2009 03:20 PM PDT AFP - Gabon's president-elect Ali Bongo appealed for calm Saturday after protests against his hotly disputed election victory left two people dead and unrest broke out again for a third night running.

Gabon hit by new clashes, football fails to bring relief (AFP) Posted: 05 Sep 2009 12:34 PM PDT AFP - Gabon's president-elect Ali Bongo attended a World Cup qualifying match on Saturday amid heavy security following protests against his hotly disputed election that left two people dead.

Iran's Mousavi defiant after MPs back Ahmadinejad (Reuters) Posted: 05 Sep 2009 08:42 AM PDT Reuters - Opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi called on Saturday for more protests over Iran's disputed June election, two days after lawmakers backed most of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's new government ministers.

Brief look at the major players in 'Hillary' case (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2009 07:20 AM PDT AP - A brief look at some of the people involved in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission arguments in front of the Supreme Court on Wednesday:

Campaign finance laws before the Supreme Court (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2009 06:15 AM PDT AP - The federal and state campaign finance laws and legal interpretations of them at stake as the Supreme Court hears a reargument of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission:

What groups are telling court about 'Hillary' case (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2009 06:15 AM PDT AP - A brief look at what different groups are telling the Supreme Court about the current campaign finance laws in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case to be argued Wednesday:

The first family you can identify with (Politico) Posted: 05 Sep 2009 05:14 AM PDT Politico - Labor Day marks the end of summer and, along with it, the highly photogenic vacations of the first family. No more pictures of President Barack Obama riding a bike or swinging a golf club before taking his daughters for ice cream.

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