Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama: US intel had info ahead of airliner attack (AP)
• Analysis: Many question 'system worked' comment (AP)
• Web posts suggest lonely, depressed terror suspect (AP)
• Obama's options for airline security (Politico)
• CAPITAL CULTURE: Big first year leaves Obama tired (AP)
• Obama moves to curb federal secrets (AP)
• Yemen investigates Nigerian's al-Qaida contacts (AP)
• Karzai, NATO clash over reports of civilian deaths (AP)
• GOP California congressman will retire next year (AP)
• NY Senate committee meets to decide senator's fate (AP)
• Obama says "systemic failure" in plane incident (Reuters)
• Obama: 'Systemic failure has occurred' (Politico)
• US congressmen press Afghanistan to delay election (AP)
• With a twist, race still a factor in Ala. gov race (AP)
• Iowa lawmaker predicts Palin run for White House (AP)
• California's Radanovich to Retire (CQPolitics.com)
• NKorea confirms it has detained an American (AP)
• Drama for Obama as child's injury delays golf game (Reuters)

Obama: US intel had info ahead of airliner attack (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 05:53 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the intelligence community had bits of information that should have been pieced together that would have triggered "red flags" and possibly prevented the Christmas Day attempted terror attack on a Detroit-bound airliner.

Analysis: Many question 'system worked' comment (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 05:50 PM PST AP - The Obama administration claim that "the system worked" after a failed aircraft bombing wasn't quite as jolting as President George W. Bush's "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job" while New Orleans sank under deadly Hurricane Katrina. But both raised disturbing questions about presidential response in a time of crisis.

Web posts suggest lonely, depressed terror suspect (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 03:19 PM PST AP - Internet postings purportedly written by a Nigerian charged with trying to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day suggest a fervently religious and lonely young man who fantasized about becoming a Muslim holy warrior.

Obama's options for airline security (Politico) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 01:43 AM PST Politico - President Barack Obama has promised to tighten up aviation security in the wake of last week's frightening attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight as it approached Detroit, but experts say nearly all the steps Obama is likely to consider come with tradeoffs that have scared off other policymakers in the past.

CAPITAL CULTURE: Big first year leaves Obama tired (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 05:01 PM PST AP - After a sleepless, overnight flight to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month, President Barack Obama made a not altogether surprising admission. He was tired.

Obama moves to curb federal secrets (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 04:16 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama on Tuesday ordered the federal government to rethink how it protects the nation's secrets, in a move that was expected to declassify more than 400 million pages of Cold War-era documents and curb the number of government records hidden from the public.

Yemen investigates Nigerian's al-Qaida contacts (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 05:10 PM PST AP - Officials in Yemen were investigating Tuesday whether the Nigerian suspected in the attempted Christmas Day attack on a U.S. airliner spent time with al-Qaida militants in the country in the months leading up to the botched bombing.

Karzai, NATO clash over reports of civilian deaths (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 10:11 AM PST AP - Afghan government and foreign military officials sparred Tuesday over reports that 10 civilians died during a military operation — claims that further inflamed public sentiment against the international military presence as thousands more troops prepare to deploy.

GOP California congressman will retire next year (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 04:22 PM PST AP - California Republican George Radanovich said Tuesday that he will not seek re-election to Congress next year but will serve out his eighth term representing a GOP-leaning district.

NY Senate committee meets to decide senator's fate (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 03:13 PM PST AP - A New York Senate committee met Tuesday to decide whether a state senator convicted of assaulting his girlfriend should remain in office, but reached no immediate conclusion.

Obama says "systemic failure" in plane incident (Reuters) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 02:19 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday there had been "systemic failure" had occurred in connection with the failed attack on a Detroit-bound passenger plane on Christmas Day.

Obama: 'Systemic failure has occurred' (Politico) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 01:47 PM PST Politico - HONOLULU –In a marked change of tone from his previous comments on the incident, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that a “systemic failure” led to the unsuccessful terrorist attack aboard a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day and promised to hold accountable those responsible for it.

US congressmen press Afghanistan to delay election (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 12:42 PM PST AP - U.S. Congressmen said Tuesday they are urging Afghan President Hamid Karzai to delay the next parliamentary ballot until electoral reforms are in place or risk American financial support for his government.

With a twist, race still a factor in Ala. gov race (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 12:06 PM PST AP - The man vying to become Alabama's first black governor is battling some unlikely critics — black Democratic leaders who were on the front lines of the civil rights movement.

Iowa lawmaker predicts Palin run for White House (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 11:59 AM PST AP - An Iowa Republican congressman says he thinks former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will seek the GOP presidential nomination in 2012 and that she's among a few people who could win the state's leadoff caucuses.

California's Radanovich to Retire (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 11:32 AM PST CQPolitics.com - Rep. George Radanovich, R-Calif., announced Tuesday that he will not seek re-election in 2010 in the state's Central Valley-based 19th District.

NKorea confirms it has detained an American (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 03:20 PM PST AP - North Korea acknowledged Tuesday it had detained an American for illegally entering the reclusive country, news welcomed by relatives of an Arizona missionary who feared they would never hear from him again after he sneaked across the border.

Drama for Obama as child's injury delays golf game (Reuters) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 11:03 AM PST Reuters - Vacationing President Barack Obama interrupted a golf game on Monday and sped back to his holiday house after the child of friends was hurt in a beach accident.

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