Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Sen. Ensign admits affair with ex-campaign staffer (AP)
• Obama wants new financial agency for consumers (AP)
• House passes $106 billion war funding bill (AP)
• Obama labels nuclear-armed NKorea 'grave threat' (AP)
• W.H. defends Bush visitors policy (Politico)
• Lee and Obama discuss free trade deal (AP)
• Dems seek to trim health bill as estimates soar (AP)
• Obama troubled by Iran election but sees change (AP)
• Sebelius says kids may get swine flu shots first (AP)
• AP Interview: FDA chief focuses on produce safety (AP)
• Republican Senator Ensign admits affair (AFP)
• U.S. House clears $106 billion war funding, Senate next (Reuters)
• Detroit council's Conyers snarled in bribes probe (AP)
• Ind. court rules Terre Haute mayor can keep office (AP)
• Obama vows to press on with 'tough' Iran diplomacy (AFP)
• Michelle Obama: Government alone can't rebuild (AP)
• South Korea trade deal needs more work: Obama (Reuters)
• Ensign admits affair; sources say blackmail involved (Politico)
• Obama Won’t Rule Out Taxing Employer Health Insurance (Bloomberg)
• Sotomayor answers GOP as Senate braces for debate (AP)

Sen. Ensign admits affair with ex-campaign staffer (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2009 04:56 PM PDT AP - Sen. John Ensign of Nevada, a leading Republican mentioned as a potential presidential candidate, admitted Tuesday he had an extramarital affair with a woman who was a member of his campaign staff. "Last year I had an affair.

Obama wants new financial agency for consumers (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2009 04:40 PM PDT AP - Setting up a certain fight with big business, President Barack Obama is proposing a new regulatory agency to police lenders and protect consumers in credit, savings and other banking transactions .

House passes $106 billion war funding bill (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2009 04:08 PM PDT AP - War-funding legislation survived a fierce partisan battle in the House on Tuesday, a major step in providing commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan the money they would need for military operations in the coming months.

Obama labels nuclear-armed NKorea 'grave threat' (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2009 04:13 PM PDT AP - Declaring North Korea a "grave threat" to the world, President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged the U.S. and its allies will aggressively enforce fresh international penalties against the nuclear-armed nation and stop rewarding its leaders for repeated provocations.

W.H. defends Bush visitors policy (Politico) Posted: 16 Jun 2009 02:03 PM PDT Politico - President Barack Obama’s administration is adhering, at least for now, to a Bush administration policy that White House visitor logs are presidential records that the public has no right to see.

Lee and Obama discuss free trade deal (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2009 04:44 PM PDT AP - South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is urging representatives of top U.S. companies to push for quick ratification of a stalled U.S.-South Korean free trade deal.

Dems seek to trim health bill as estimates soar (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2009 04:56 PM PDT AP - Jolted by cost estimates as high as $1.6 trillion, Senate Democrats agreed Tuesday to scale back planned subsidies for the uninsured and sought concessions totaling hundreds of billions of dollars from private industry to defray the cost of sweeping health care legislation.

Obama troubled by Iran election but sees change (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2009 04:56 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama expressed "deep concerns" Tuesday about the legitimacy of Iran's presidential elections and post-voting crackdowns but declined to term hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election a fraud. His spokesman said the U.S. offers to talk with Iran's government over its suspected nuclear weapons program would not change regardless of the victor.

Sebelius says kids may get swine flu shots first (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2009 02:31 PM PDT AP - Schoolchildren could be first in line for swine flu vaccine this fall — and schools are being put on notice that they might even be turned into shot clinics. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday she is urging school superintendents around the country to spend the summer preparing for that possibility, if the government goes ahead with mass vaccinations.

AP Interview: FDA chief focuses on produce safety (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2009 03:26 PM PDT AP - Calling it "a critical time" for food safety, the Food and Drug Administration's new chief said Tuesday she plans to strengthen steps to prevent contamination of fresh fruit and vegetables.

Republican Senator Ensign admits affair (AFP) Posted: 16 Jun 2009 04:47 PM PDT AFP - Nevada Senator John Ensign, a rising star of the Republican Party regarded as a possible contender in the 2012 presidential election, admitted an extra-marital affair here Tuesday.

U.S. House clears $106 billion war funding, Senate next (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jun 2009 04:36 PM PDT Reuters - The House of Representatives on Tuesday narrowly backed a $106 billion bill to pay for the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and extend billions in new credit to the International Monetary Fund.

Detroit council's Conyers snarled in bribes probe (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2009 04:16 PM PDT AP - City Council member Monica Conyers, the wife of a prominent congressman, sought political support from Baptist pastors and prayers from constituents Tuesday as her re-election bid collided with a corruption probe involving cash bribes handed over in fast-food parking lots.

Ind. court rules Terre Haute mayor can keep office (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2009 04:08 PM PDT AP - The Indiana Supreme Court says Terre Haute Mayor Duke Bennett can stay in office because his eligiblity to run wasn't questioned until after the election.

Obama vows to press on with 'tough' Iran diplomacy (AFP) Posted: 16 Jun 2009 03:57 PM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama said Tuesday he would press home his "tough diplomacy" towards Iran whatever the result of its electoral tumult and warned US meddling in Tehran's politics would backfire.

Michelle Obama: Government alone can't rebuild (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2009 03:51 PM PDT AP - First lady Michelle Obama said Tuesday that struggling communities shouldn't look to government alone for help.

South Korea trade deal needs more work: Obama (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jun 2009 03:51 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that auto, beef and other trade issues with South Korea must be resolved before he will ask Congress to vote on a two-year-old free trade agreement with the longtime ally.

Ensign admits affair; sources say blackmail involved (Politico) Posted: 16 Jun 2009 03:47 PM PDT Politico - Nevada Republican Sen. John Ensign said Tuesday evening he is “truly sorry” about an affair he had last year with a campaign staffer, going public with an embarrassing admission about his marital infidelity.

Obama Won’t Rule Out Taxing Employer Health Insurance (Bloomberg) Posted: 16 Jun 2009 03:35 PM PDT Bloomberg - June 16 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said he wouldn’t rule out a proposal in Congress to tax employer- provided health-insurance benefits as a way to pay for his health-care plan.

Sotomayor answers GOP as Senate braces for debate (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2009 04:12 PM PDT AP - Defending her membership in an elite all-women's club, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor told senators that the group doesn't discriminate unfairly by gender and includes men in many of its activities. Her explanation, in a letter submitted Monday evening to the Senate Judiciary Committee, was accompanied by copies of several rulings, briefs and speeches that the judge had not previously given to the panel.

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