Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Dems scramble after warning from health insurers (AP)
• 2 Nobel winners may shape financial crisis debate (AP)
• Job data to show stimulus aided teachers, laborers (AP)
• GOP uses ACORN to fight bank redlining law (AP)
• What's with all the @#%! language? (Politico)
• Official: Taliban better financed than al-Qaida (AP)
• Day care next frontier in fighting kids' obesity (AP)
• Clinton to press Russia on Iran, arms control (AP)
• Summers: Bush era set stage for economic troubles (AP)
• Job losses mar recovery, create woes for Dems (AP)
• Panel on presidency in nuclear age at JFK library (AP)
• Obama aide accuses Fox of operating as GOP arm (AP)
• Obama invites tribal leaders to Nov. WH conference (AP)
• Obama song video prompts protests at NJ school (AP)
• Sharpton to NFL: Block Limbaugh (Politico)
• Cities lag in preparations for high-stakes census (AP)
• Clinton in Belfast seeks power-sharing progress (AP)
• Key senator says Afghanistan mission in jeopardy (AP)
• Clinton says Nobel a recognition of Obama's vision (AP)
• Clinton says Afghanistan's Karzai needs to change (Reuters)

Dems scramble after warning from health insurers (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 04:57 PM PDT AP - Insurance companies aren't playing nice any more. Their dire message that health care legislation will drive up premiums for people who already have coverage comes as a warning shot at a crucial point in the debate, and threatens President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.

2 Nobel winners may shape financial crisis debate (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 02:49 PM PDT AP - One scholar studies how best to manage resources like forests, fisheries and oilfields. A fellow American looks at why some companies grow so large. Together they're winners of this year's Nobel Prize in economics for groundbreaking work that could affect efforts to prevent another global financial crisis.

Job data to show stimulus aided teachers, laborers (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 01:30 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's stimulus plan spared tens of thousands of teachers from losing their jobs, state officials said Monday amid a nationwide effort to calculate the effect of Washington's $787 billion recovery package.

GOP uses ACORN to fight bank redlining law (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 04:57 PM PDT AP - Conservative Republicans are capitalizing on the troubles of community activist group ACORN — ranging from charges of voter registration fraud to embarrassing videos of its employees — to revive their long-standing fight against a federal law that grades banks on their investments in poor and minority neighborhoods.

What's with all the @#%! language? (Politico) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 02:56 AM PDT Politico - President Barack Obama called rap star Kanye West “a jackass.” Vice President Joe Biden told a senator to “Gimme a f—-ing break!” Economic adviser Christina Romer declared that Americans had yet to have their "holy s—-” moment over the economy.

Official: Taliban better financed than al-Qaida (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 04:57 PM PDT AP - The Taliban are in much stronger financial shape than al-Qaida and rely on a wide range of criminal activities to pay for attacks on U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, a senior Treasury Department official said Monday.

Day care next frontier in fighting kids' obesity (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 09:57 AM PDT AP - Grilled chicken replaced the hot dogs. Strawberries instead of cookies at snack time. No more fruit juice — water or low-fat milk only. This is the new menu at a Delaware day care center, part of a fledgling movement to take the fight against obesity to pudgy preschoolers.

Clinton to press Russia on Iran, arms control (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 02:47 PM PDT AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to press Russian leaders for "specific forms of pressure" against Iran if the regime fails to comply with international demands to prove its nuclear program is peaceful.

Summers: Bush era set stage for economic troubles (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 02:52 PM PDT AP - A top White House official issued a robust defense of the Obama administration's recovery policies on Monday with a pointed critique of economic conditions and fiscal policies during the presidency of George W. Bush.

Job losses mar recovery, create woes for Dems (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:12 AM PDT AP - A distressed economy is widely blamed for President George H.W. Bush's re-election defeat in 1992, and a decade earlier, for the loss of 26 House seats in midterm elections by Ronald Reagan's Republicans. Yet in both instances recession had already ended or was winding down.

Panel on presidency in nuclear age at JFK library (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 04:07 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama should learn from the experience of previous U.S. leaders when grappling with thorny nuclear issues ranging from the ambitions of Iran and North Korea to the threat of terrorism, experts told a forum on the shaping of American foreign policy in a nuclear age.

Obama aide accuses Fox of operating as GOP arm (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 01:42 PM PDT AP - One of President Barack Obama's top aides says Fox News Channel acts like a wing of the Republican Party.

Obama invites tribal leaders to Nov. WH conference (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:38 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is inviting Native American leaders to a White House conference on Nov. 5.

Obama song video prompts protests at NJ school (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:05 AM PDT AP - Protesters brought some different songs Monday to an elementary school where students sang in praise of President Barack Obama, bringing criticism from conservative commentators who said children were being indoctrinated.

Sharpton to NFL: Block Limbaugh (Politico) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 09:48 AM PDT Politico - The Rev. Al Sharpton has joined those imploring the National Football League to deny conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh the opportunity to buy the St. Louis Rams franchise.

Cities lag in preparations for high-stakes census (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 08:04 AM PDT AP - With the 2010 census looming, major U.S. cities whose residents are at high risk of being missed are struggling with a shortage of money and manpower to prepare for an accurate count.

Clinton in Belfast seeks power-sharing progress (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 07:32 AM PDT AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged the rival leaders of Northern Ireland's power-sharing government Monday to keep making their awkward coalition work for the sake of lasting peace.

Key senator says Afghanistan mission in jeopardy (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 05:12 AM PDT AP - Saying the U.S. mission in Afghanistan is in "serious jeopardy," the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee says more troops are needed to combat an increasingly potent Taliban.

Clinton says Nobel a recognition of Obama's vision (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 04:39 AM PDT AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she thinks President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize because of "his attitude toward America's role in the world."

Clinton says Afghanistan's Karzai needs to change (Reuters) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 01:50 AM PDT Reuters - President Hamid Karzai needs to do more to ensure stability in his country if he is declared the victor of a disputed election, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday.

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