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Yahoo! News: Elections

Obama watching, weighing Cuba's next moves (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 01:36 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, left, talks to Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez,right, as El Salvador's President Tony Saca , second from right, Uruguay's President Tabare Vazquez, center, and Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, second from right listen during the group photo of the 5th Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Saturday April 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)AP - President Barack Obama says America's estranged relationship with Cuba will not change overnight. It just did — at least in tone.

US to boycott United Nations racism meeting (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 02:59 PM PDT

AP - The Obama administration will boycott "with regret" a U.N. conference on racism next week over objectionable language in the meeting's final document that could single out Israel for criticism and restrict free speech, the State Department said Saturday.

Congress weighs far-reaching global warming bill (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 08:08 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 1978, photo a fence bars the contaminated Love Canal dump site in Niagara Falls, N.Y. From 1969 to 1980, Congress passed a wide range of environmental bills tackling air and water pollution, garbage, protections for fisheries and marine mammals, and endangered species; in 1990 Congress tackled acid rain by overhauling the Clean Air Act. Now in the week of April 20, 2009, lawmakers begin hearings on an energy and global warming bill that could revolutionize how the country produces and uses energy, and could for the first time reduce the pollution responsible for heating up the planet. (AP Photo/FILE)AP - The last time Congress passed major environmental laws, acid rain was destroying lakes and forests, polluted rivers were on fire and smog was choking people in some cities.

Obama: Like families, govt to make hard choices (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 01:59 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama (R) greets Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega during the official photo session at the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, April 18, 2009. REUTERS/Jorge Silva (TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO POLITICS IMAGE OF THE DAY TOP PICTURE)AP - Families are making tough decisions about their money and so too will their government, President Barack Obama said Saturday, promising that spending cuts are coming — and soon.

Cuba, Chavez dominate attention (Politico)

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 09:15 AM PDT

Politico - PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago — There were smiles and a handshake last night, yet today Hugo Chavez gave President Obama a book that sharply criticizes the United States' involvement in Latin America.

Wanted: Computer hackers ... to help government (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 08:40 AM PDT

AP - Wanted: Computer hackers.

Obama extends hands to Chavez, Ortega at summit (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 02:10 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, left, talks to Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez,right, as El Salvador's President Tony Saca , second from right, Uruguay's President Tabare Vazquez, center, and Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, second from right listen during the group photo of the 5th Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Saturday April 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)AP - President Barack Obama offered a spirit of cooperation to America's hemispheric neighbors at a summit Saturday, listening to complaints about past U.S. meddling and even reaching out to Venezuela's leftist leader.

At summit, Obama gets friendly with Chavez (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 06:45 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama is extending a friendly hand — literally — to America's neighbors in the Western Hemisphere.

Congress back to deal with big issues, big goals (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 06:40 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 26, 2009 file photo, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., concludes a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. So far this year, Congress has done what it does best — spend a lot of money and make a lot of promises. Now, as lawmakers return from a two-week spring break, comes the hard part, the actual crafting of legislation that will change how banks are regulated, health care is delivered and the nation consumes energy. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, FILE)AP - So far this year, Congress has done what it does best — spend a lot of money and make a lot of promises.

White House announces $100M fund for hemisphere (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 11:55 AM PDT

AP - The White House says it will participate in a $100 million program to help small entrepreneurs in Western Hemisphere.

Obama's handshake diplomacy (Politico)

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 03:46 PM PDT

Politico - PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago — To the White House, a handshake’s a handshake, nothing more.

WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama may not read book gift (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 03:42 PM PDT

AP - Blame it on an overcrowded presidential nightstand.

Obama says he'll cut dozens of wasteful programs (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 12:47 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama (R) greets Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega during the official photo session at the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, April 18, 2009. REUTERS/Jorge Silva (TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO POLITICS IMAGE OF THE DAY TOP PICTURE)Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Saturday he would soon announce the elimination of dozens of wasteful or ineffective government programs as part of a broad effort to restore fiscal accountability to the federal budget.

Obama picks new team to help streamline government (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 11:32 AM PDT

This image obtained from the Virginia Secretary of Technology website, shows Aneesh Chopra. US President Barack Obama on Saturday named Chopra, a Harvard-educated Indian-American, to the newly created post of Chief Technology Officer in an appointment much-awaited by Silicon Valley.(AFP/HO)AP - President Barack Obama on Saturday named Jeffrey Zients, a longtime management consultant, as chief performance officer to head an effort to streamline government and cut costs.

Obama disappointed by reporter's Iran sentencing (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 11:25 AM PDT

AP - The White House says President Barack Obama is "deeply disappointed" by Iran's sentencing of an American journalist.

Analysis: Obama policy on torture has two sides (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 10:48 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 15, 2009 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder addresses a dinner marking the opening of the West Point Center for the Rule of Law at West Point Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. Seeking to move beyond what he calls a 'a dark and painful chapter in our history,' President Barack Obama said Thursday, April 16, 2009, that CIA officials who used harsh interrogation tactics during the Bush administration will not be prosecuted. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, FILE)AP - President Barack Obama is trying to close a chapter in the nation's history that continues to haunt U.S. foreign policy.

Senator says spy case `miscarriage of justice' (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 09:24 AM PDT

AP - Sen. Byron Dorgan calls it "a shocking miscarriage of justice."

Analysis: Week of change for Obama (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 09:15 AM PDT

President Barack Obama smiles during a multilateral meeting at the 5th Summit of the Americas on Friday, April 17, 2009 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - In a whirlwind week of change, President Barack Obama jettisoned Bush administration policy on greenhouse gases, shone an unforgiving light on its support for torture as an interrogation tactic and eased its restrictions on Cuba.

Yellow submarine to try again for Atlantic glide (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 08:10 AM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by Coastal Ocean Observation Lab, Rutgers University shows the launch and an unmanned, with with no motor, glider that can rise and dive, seeking out currents that will carry it along without worrying about refueling. Whenever it comes to the surface it radios its findings back to the scientists. A second try at sending a little yellow submarine gliding across the Atlantic Ocean to collect scientific data from beneath the waves is about to get underway. (AP Photo/Coastal Ocean Observation Lab, Rutgers University)AP - A second try is about to get under way at sending a little yellow submarine gliding across the Atlantic Ocean to collect scientific data from beneath the waves.

VIDEO: Obama asks Cabinet for cuts (Politico)

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 04:44 AM PDT

Politico - President Barack Obama will ask his Cabinet Monday to identify cuts in their budgets as he moves in the coming weeks to eliminate dozens of wasteful government programs.

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