Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Sotomayor pushes back hard on racial bias charges (AP)
• Senator blocked by bias claims now raises them (AP)
• Temperament of nominee called into question (AP)
• Ex-defense contractor CEO enters fraud guilty plea (AP)
• Sotomayor contradicts Obama (Politico)
• AP sources: House lays groundwork for CIA probe (AP)
• Sotomayor on Sotomayor: Revises, extends her words (AP)
• Exchanges from the Sotomayor confirmation hearing (AP)
• House health plan to boost taxes on rich (AP)
• Obama on burden of fixing economy: 'Give it to me' (AP)
• Senator won't resign, will seek re-election (AP)
• Ensign's mistress may decide his future (Politico)
• Mays: So proud when Obama elected that he cried (AP)
• McCain backs Obama on F-22 cuts, but advocates vow fight (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Achievement gap still splits white, black students (AP)
• Democrat favored to win vacant US House seat (AP)
• White House turns up heat on Arizona senator (AP)
• Officials to probe color-coded terror alert system (AP)
• Obama hopes for new phase after Afghan elections (AP)
• Obama nominates new Peace Corps director (AP)

Sotomayor pushes back hard on racial bias charges (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:28 PM PDT AP - Sonia Sotomayor pushed back vigorously Tuesday against Republican charges that she would bring bias and a liberal agenda to her seat as the first Hispanic woman on the Supreme Court, insisting repeatedly she would be impartial as GOP senators tried to undercut her with her own words from past speeches.

Senator blocked by bias claims now raises them (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 03:28 PM PDT AP - Sen. Jeff Sessions, the Republican equating Sonia Sotomayor's supposed empathy with racial bias, was blocked from the federal bench himself two decades ago for making insensitive remarks about the Ku Klux Klan and the NAACP.

Temperament of nominee called into question (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:45 PM PDT AP - Sonia Sotomayor kept her cool Tuesday, even when she was being portrayed at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing as just the opposite — a hotheaded judge who is sometimes mean to lawyers who appear before her.

Ex-defense contractor CEO enters fraud guilty plea (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 03:16 PM PDT AP - The former chief executive of a defense contractor with ties to Rep. John Murtha pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to a kickback scheme and defrauding the Air Force, and promised to cooperate in an ongoing criminal investigation.

Sotomayor contradicts Obama (Politico) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 08:34 AM PDT Politico - Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday broke with the man who nominated her – President Barack Obama — saying she took issue with Obama's statement in a 2007 speech that a judge's “heart” would dictate the outcome in a small number of cases.

AP sources: House lays groundwork for CIA probe (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:28 PM PDT AP - The House Intelligence Committee has asked the CIA to provide documents about the now-canceled program to kill al-Qaida leaders, congressional officials said Tuesday. The agency spent at least $1 million on the eight-year program before it was terminated last month, one congressional official said. Intelligence officials say the operation never progressed beyond a planning stage.

Sotomayor on Sotomayor: Revises, extends her words (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:00 PM PDT AP - It's a good thing Sonia Sotomayor speaks Sotomayoran.

Exchanges from the Sotomayor confirmation hearing (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 12:30 PM PDT AP - A look at some exchanges in Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor:

House health plan to boost taxes on rich (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:28 PM PDT AP - House Democrats on Tuesday rolled out a far-reaching $1.5 trillion plan that for the first time would make health care a right and a responsibility for all Americans, with medical providers, employers and the wealthiest picking up most of the tab.

Obama on burden of fixing economy: 'Give it to me' (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 03:01 PM PDT AP - Conceding unemployment will get worse before it shrinks, President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled a $12 billion plan to help community colleges prepare millions of people for a new generation of jobs. Challenging critics, he said he welcomed the task of turning around the economy.

Senator won't resign, will seek re-election (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:40 PM PDT AP - Republican Sen. John Ensign says he has no plans to resign despite his affair with a staffer's wife and his parents' $96,000 payout to the woman's family, and intends to seek re-election in 2012.

Ensign's mistress may decide his future (Politico) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:38 PM PDT Politico - Cindy Hampton once held the keys to John Ensign's heart.

Mays: So proud when Obama elected that he cried (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 03:50 PM PDT AP - Baseball legend Willie Mays says he was so proud the night Barack Obama was elected president that he "cried for most of the night.".

McCain backs Obama on F-22 cuts, but advocates vow fight (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 03:49 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Arizona Sen. John McCain, in an uncommon alliance with the Obama administration, is squaring off against fellow Republican and Senate Armed Services Committee colleague Saxby Chambliss of Georgia in a fight against adding $1.75 billion in funding to expand the F-22 Raptor jet fighter production line.

Achievement gap still splits white, black students (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 03:34 PM PDT AP - Despite unprecedented efforts to improve minority achievement in the past decade, the gap between black and white students remains frustratingly wide, according to an Education Department report released Tuesday.

Democrat favored to win vacant US House seat (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 02:54 PM PDT AP - Democrat Judy Chu was favored to claim a vacant U.S. House seat Tuesday after a campaign that tested racial lines in a Los Angeles-area district.

White House turns up heat on Arizona senator (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:41 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration is firing back at Sen. Jon Kyl for calling for an end to economic stimulus spending, and it's aiming where it hurts the most — at home in Arizona.

Officials to probe color-coded terror alert system (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:29 PM PDT AP - The Homeland Security Department will review and possibly replace the often-ridiculed multicolored terror alert system created after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Since it was created in 2002, the system has been confusing and became the butt of jokes by late-night television comics.

Obama hopes for new phase after Afghan elections (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 02:04 PM PDT AP - Raising expectations for scaling back military operations in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he hopes U.S. involvement can "transition to a different phase" after this summer's Afghan elections.

Obama nominates new Peace Corps director (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 01:22 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says he will nominate a career international development specialist to be director of the Peace Corps.

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