Yahoo! News: Elections

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• House Dems unveil health bill, cheered on by Obama (AP)
• Accused spy scientist held without bond (AP)
• Financial overhaul bill gets wary reception (AP)
• STIMULUS WATCH: Stimulus jobs overstated in report (AP)
• Clinton has tough sell in Pakistan (Politico)
• Obama honors fallen Americans at Dover (AP)
• Senate clears bill to avert agency closing (AP)
• Obama considers 'McChrystal Light' Afghan war plan (AP)
• Clinton to meet Abbas, Netanyahu over weekend (AP)
• Military notified too late to launch fighter jets (AP)
• Race re-emerges in tight Atlanta mayoral election (AP)
• House ethics panel probes two Dems (Politico)
• Ind. soldier was 'free spirit,' champion wrestler (AP)
• Calif. firm, execs charged in bond bid-rigging (AP)
• How fat am I? NJ's GOP gov hopeful jokes on weight (AP)
• Iraqi election delay could stall US troop pullout (AP)
• Obama to welcome Turkish prime minister on Dec. 7 (AP)
• Clinton scolds Pakistan over inaction on al-Qaida (AP)
• First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Gets Obama Nod (U.S. News & World Report)
• 1,990 pages at $2.2 million a word (Politico)

House Dems unveil health bill, cheered on by Obama (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2009 05:52 PM PDT AP - Cheered by President Barack Obama, House Democrats rolled out landmark legislation Thursday to extend health care to tens of millions who lack coverage, impose sweeping new restrictions on the insurance industry and create a government-run option to compete with private insurers.

Accused spy scientist held without bond (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2009 01:35 PM PDT AP - A space scientist accused of attempted espionage was ordered held without bond Thursday after prosecutors said he was a "walking safe deposit box" of government secrets who claimed to have already passed some of them to Israel.

Financial overhaul bill gets wary reception (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2009 03:30 PM PDT AP - An Obama administration plan to dissolve large, struggling financial firms rather than bail them out is encountering Republican resistance, Democratic doubts and only qualified support from regulators.

STIMULUS WATCH: Stimulus jobs overstated in report (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2009 05:52 PM PDT AP - The White House is promising that new figures being released Friday will be a more accurate showing of progress in President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan. It aggressively defended an earlier, faulty count that overstated by thousands the jobs created or saved so far.

Clinton has tough sell in Pakistan (Politico) Posted: 29 Oct 2009 05:00 PM PDT Politico - LAHORE, Pakistan — Hillary Clinton would have been hard-pressed to find a more potentially receptive audience anywhere in Pakistan than the leafy campus of the co-ed Government College University, where she held a town hall for students on Thursday.

Obama honors fallen Americans at Dover (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2009 05:12 PM PDT AP - Hours after a personal encounter with the grim cost of war, President Barack Obama said Thursday the sight of 18 flag-covered cases holding the remains of Americans killed this week in Afghanistan can't help but influence his thinking about sending more troops overseas.

Senate clears bill to avert agency closing (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2009 03:39 PM PDT AP - The Senate Thursday cleared a stopgap spending measure to avoid shutting down most federal agencies at midnight Saturday.

Obama considers 'McChrystal Light' Afghan war plan (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2009 04:19 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is considering sending large numbers of additional U.S. forces to Afghanistan next year but fewer than his war commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, prefers, U.S. officials said.

Clinton to meet Abbas, Netanyahu over weekend (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2009 04:50 PM PDT AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders over the weekend to push ahead with flagging efforts to restart peace talks, the State Department said Thursday.

Military notified too late to launch fighter jets (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2009 04:17 PM PDT AP - The U.S. military would have launched fighter jets to track down an errant Northwest Airlines flight that overshot the Minneapolis airport if officials had been notified sooner, a top commander said Thursday as federal authorities defended the decision to revoke the licenses of the pilots involved.

Race re-emerges in tight Atlanta mayoral election (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2009 05:34 PM PDT AP - A neighborhood activist with crossover appeal on the verge of making history. A city leader with a civil rights legacy. A native son seen by some as the heir apparent to the city's first black mayor.

House ethics panel probes two Dems (Politico) Posted: 29 Oct 2009 05:25 PM PDT Politico - The House ethics committee has voted to begin full-scale investigations into ethics allegations against Democratic Reps. Maxine Waters (Calif.) and Laura Richardson (Calif.), but decided against investigating Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.).

Ind. soldier was 'free spirit,' champion wrestler (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2009 04:49 PM PDT AP - Sgt. Dale Griffin was the son of a Mormon bishop, a champion wrestler and college student who was struggling to find his way in the world when he turned to the military.

Calif. firm, execs charged in bond bid-rigging (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2009 03:48 PM PDT AP - A politically connected financial firm and two of its executives were indicted Thursday for what prosecutors say was a bid-rigging scheme in the municipal bond business.

How fat am I? NJ's GOP gov hopeful jokes on weight (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2009 03:47 PM PDT AP - The Republican in New Jersey's race for governor wants the incumbent to weigh in more candidly about the challenger's heft.

Iraqi election delay could stall US troop pullout (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2009 03:37 PM PDT AP - U.S. troops could leave Iraq later than currently planned if the fragile nation's elections are delayed, the Pentagon said Thursday.

Obama to welcome Turkish prime minister on Dec. 7 (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2009 03:35 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama will meet with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (REH'-jehp TY'-ihp UR'-doh-wahn) on Dec. 7.

Clinton scolds Pakistan over inaction on al-Qaida (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2009 04:11 PM PDT AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton chided Pakistani officials Thursday for failing to press the hunt for al-Qaida inside their borders, suggesting they know where the terror leaders are hiding.

First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Gets Obama Nod (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 29 Oct 2009 02:22 PM PDT U.S. News & World Report - An extension of the $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit appears all but certain after the Obama administration called on Congress to give house hunters more time to claim the popular tax perk. The move comes shortly after Senate lawmakers stuck an agreement to not only push back the measure's looming deadline but expand it to allow current homeowners and more affluent buyers to claim the credit. ...

1,990 pages at $2.2 million a word (Politico) Posted: 29 Oct 2009 02:22 PM PDT Politico - It runs more pages than War and Peace, has nearly five times as many words as the Torah, and its tables of contents alone run far longer than this story.

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