Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama to Congress: Don't lose heart on health care (AP)
• Room to roam: House votes to protect wild horses (AP)
• Sotomayor wins GOP backers after smooth hearings (AP)
• House intel panel to probe secret CIA program (AP)
• The right to bear nunchucks? (Politico)
• Summers: Economy has moved back from catastrophe (AP)
• White House wants more power to set Medicare rates (AP)
• CAPITAL CULTURE: Female helo pilot finishes tour (AP)
• Senate bill would expand federal hate crimes law (AP)
• Panel gives huge boost to high-speed rail projects (AP)
• W.H. $50B foreclosure plan a bust so far (Politico)
• Biden to reassure allies in Ukraine, Georgia (Reuters)
• Obama moves to reassure doubters on health plan's cost (McClatchy Newspapers)
• US official: At least 8 from US wounded in Jakarta (AP)
• AP source: Obama to host Apollo 11 astronauts (AP)
• Obama: Health Bill Will Get Done This Year (CQPolitics.com)
• Obama to have news conference on Wednesday (AP)
• Obama to hold primetime news conference on July 22 (Reuters)
• Obama says health care overhaul can't wait (AP)
• AP source: Unions OK drop of 'card check' in bill (AP)

Obama to Congress: Don't lose heart on health care (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2009 04:58 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama, worried about growing resistance to his health care plan, exhorted Congress not to "lose heart" Friday and urged deeper cost cuts to calm concern over the huge expense of covering millions of uninsured Americans.

Room to roam: House votes to protect wild horses (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2009 12:41 PM PDT AP - Galloping to the aid of the nation's wild horses and burros, the House voted Friday to rescue them from the possibility of a government-sponsored slaughter and give them millions more acres to roam.

Sotomayor wins GOP backers after smooth hearings (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2009 04:58 PM PDT AP - Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor won her first public pledges of support from Senate Republicans and one prominent GOP opponent, after a smooth performance at her confirmation hearings that has placed her firmly on track to become the high court's first Latina and the first Democratic-named justice in 15 years.

House intel panel to probe secret CIA program (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2009 01:44 PM PDT AP - The House Intelligence Committee said Friday it will investigate whether the CIA broke the law by not informing Congress promptly about a secret program to deploy teams of killers to target al-Qaida leaders.

The right to bear nunchucks? (Politico) Posted: 17 Jul 2009 02:07 PM PDT Politico - Republican senators spent hours at Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearing this week trying to discern her true views on the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

Summers: Economy has moved back from catastrophe (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2009 02:31 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's top economic adviser has new cause for optimism. Back in January, Lawrence Summers said, Google searches for "economic depression" had increased by a factor of four. Today, the searches are back to pre-crisis levels.

White House wants more power to set Medicare rates (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2009 12:43 PM PDT AP - The White House is asking Congress to give the executive branch more power to limit Medicare's rising costs.

CAPITAL CULTURE: Female helo pilot finishes tour (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2009 03:22 PM PDT AP - Jennifer Grieves wanted independence, exposure and something she could be proud of when she joined the Marine Corps. She got all that, and more — including a place in history as the first woman to ever pilot Marine One, the president's helicopter.

Senate bill would expand federal hate crimes law (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2009 01:00 PM PDT AP - People attacked because of their sexual orientation or gender would receive federal protections under a Senate-approved measure that significantly expands the reach of hate crimes law.

Panel gives huge boost to high-speed rail projects (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2009 03:54 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's high-speed rail initiative would get an enormous boost under a spending bill that a House committee approved Friday.

W.H. $50B foreclosure plan a bust so far (Politico) Posted: 17 Jul 2009 03:38 PM PDT Politico - The Obama administration's $50 billion program to curb foreclosures isn't working, and the White House knows it.

Biden to reassure allies in Ukraine, Georgia (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jul 2009 03:27 PM PDT Reuters - Vice President Joe Biden travels to Georgia and Ukraine next week to reassure the two U.S. allies that the Obama administration has not abandoned them in its efforts to "reset" ties with Russia.

Obama moves to reassure doubters on health plan's cost (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 17 Jul 2009 03:08 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, facing a revolt by centrist Democrats in Congress over the cost of overhauling the health care system, warned Friday that "now is not the time to slow down."

US official: At least 8 from US wounded in Jakarta (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2009 02:58 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration on Friday said a pair of suicide bombings in luxury American hotels in the Indonesian capital were proof of the need to remain vigilant against terror groups. But officials said they do not see the attacks as a sign that violent extremism is on the rise again in Indonesia.

AP source: Obama to host Apollo 11 astronauts (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2009 03:59 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama will host the Apollo 11 crew on Monday, the 40th anniversary of man's first landing on the moon.

Obama: Health Bill Will Get Done This Year (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 17 Jul 2009 01:51 PM PDT CQPolitics.com - President Obama on Friday tried to maintain momentum for his plan to overhaul the U.S. health system while skeptics in Congress signalled growing unease over the cost and aggressive timetable.

Obama to have news conference on Wednesday (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2009 01:50 PM PDT AP - The White House has announced on its Twitter page that President Barack Obama will have a prime-time news conference on Wednesday.

Obama to hold primetime news conference on July 22 (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jul 2009 01:48 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama will hold a news conference on July 22, the White House said, taking the unusual step of announcing it on its Twitter page.

Obama says health care overhaul can't wait (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2009 01:33 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says Americans may find it impossible to obtain health insurance if the nation's medical care system is not overhauled this year.

AP source: Unions OK drop of 'card check' in bill (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2009 03:53 PM PDT AP - Organized labor is nearing a deal to salvage legislation that could aid the union movement, but it had to drop "card check" — a key component of the original bill that would allow workers to form a union by signing cards instead of holding a secret ballot vote.

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