Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Beer diplomacy: Obama aims for calm and comity (AP)
• Powell mildly critical of Gates (AP)
• AP source: Bipartisan group eyes Medicare savings (AP)
• Analysis: Tough decision time for Obama on health (AP)
• Obama camp labors to return bad cash (Politico)
• Judiciary Committee OKs Sotomayor for high court (AP)
• Proposed tax on 'Cadillac' coverage questioned (AP)
• NTSB: Planes at increasing risk from large birds (AP)
• US, China pledge closer cooperation (AP)
• Lawmakers support restrictions on executive pay (AP)
• Executive pay bill approved in House committee (Reuters)
• Fox's Glenn Beck says he believes Obama is racist (AP)
• Obama delivers on pledge for $100 million in cuts (AP)
• Obama Cabinet to meet at Blair House this weekend (AP)
• Obama nominates OSHA head (AP)
• California man convicted of threatening Obama (AP)
• Sports leagues seek order against Delaware betting (AP)
• Police aid a 'blessing' — for those who get it (AP)
• White House issues veto threats; House fights loom (AP)
• California Gets 14 Special Election Candidates (CQPolitics.com)

Beer diplomacy: Obama aims for calm and comity (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2009 04:44 PM PDT AP - Three guys, sitting around a picnic table, having a cold one. Beer diplomacy? The "teachable moment" the president promised? Or just a way for the White House to get people to quit talking about the president's comments on a racial brouhaha in Massachusetts?

Powell mildly critical of Gates (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2009 03:20 PM PDT AP - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell was mildly critical Tuesday of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., whose angry response to a Cambridge, Mass., police officer touched off a national debate involving President Barack Obama.

AP source: Bipartisan group eyes Medicare savings (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2009 05:11 PM PDT AP - Congressional officials say a bipartisan group of senators has tentatively agreed on a plan to squeeze an additional $35 billion out of Medicare over a decade and larger sums in the years beyond.

Analysis: Tough decision time for Obama on health (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2009 03:44 PM PDT AP - After months of talk, decision time is nearing for President Barack Obama on health care.

Obama camp labors to return bad cash (Politico) Posted: 28 Jul 2009 02:44 AM PDT Politico - More than eight months after President Barack Obama won the White House, the remnants of his campaign organization is struggling to deal with some unfinished business: returning about $669,000 in tainted or illegal campaign contributions to a motley assortment of donors, among them a convicted murderer, Washington lobbyists and a number of foreign nationals, including his own aunt.

Judiciary Committee OKs Sotomayor for high court (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2009 04:36 PM PDT AP - Pushing toward a historic Supreme Court confirmation vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justice, over nearly solid Republican opposition.

Proposed tax on 'Cadillac' coverage questioned (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2009 04:36 PM PDT AP - They call them Cadillac health plans. But a clunker may be hiding behind the sticker price. Senators scrambling to pay for a $1 trillion health care overhaul are leaning toward taxing health insurance companies on policies costing more than $25,000 a year — about twice the value of the average employer-provided family plan.

NTSB: Planes at increasing risk from large birds (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2009 03:18 PM PDT AP - The risk of commercial airplanes crashing because they've struck large birds is increasing and design standards should be strengthened so that aircraft can withstand the collisions, federal safety officials said Tuesday.

US, China pledge closer cooperation (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2009 04:30 PM PDT AP - The United States and China on Tuesday pledged closer cooperation to deal with global hot spots such as Iran and the worst financial crisis since the 1930s.

Lawmakers support restrictions on executive pay (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2009 03:24 PM PDT AP - A House panel voted Tuesday to prohibit financial firms from offering corporate pay packages that encourage executives to take big risks, going further than what President Barack Obama wanted to curb excessive salaries and bonuses on Wall Street.

Executive pay bill approved in House committee (Reuters) Posted: 28 Jul 2009 04:39 PM PDT Reuters - Legislation that would slap new limits on U.S. executive pay won approval on Tuesday by a congressional committee, advancing a component of the Obama administration's broad plan to tighten financial regulation.

Fox's Glenn Beck says he believes Obama is racist (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2009 04:39 PM PDT AP - Fox News Channel commentator Glenn Beck said he believes President Barack Obama is a racist. Beck made the statement during a guest appearance Tuesday on the "Fox & Friends" morning show. He said Obama has exposed himself as a person with "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture."

Obama delivers on pledge for $100 million in cuts (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2009 03:49 PM PDT AP - It's not real money as measured by the Washington adage of "$1 billion here and $1 billion there," but President Barack Obama's Cabinet has just delivered on his demand for $100 million in budget savings.

Obama Cabinet to meet at Blair House this weekend (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2009 03:47 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's Cabinet members are going to spend part of their weekend at work.

Obama nominates OSHA head (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2009 03:34 PM PDT AP - The White House says President Barack Obama plans to nominate an epidemiologist to head the government's workplace safety agency.

California man convicted of threatening Obama (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2009 03:11 PM PDT AP - A man has been convicted in San Diego of making racially charged comments on the Internet during the U.S. presidential campaign about killing Barack Obama.

Sports leagues seek order against Delaware betting (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2009 02:49 PM PDT AP - The four major pro sports leagues and the NCAA asked a federal judge Tuesday for a preliminary injunction to prevent Delaware from implementing its sports betting plan.

Police aid a 'blessing' — for those who get it (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2009 02:37 PM PDT AP - A $1 billion stimulus program to keep cops on the streets was praised Tuesday as a heavenly blessing in places like tiny Anguilla, Miss. — while New York City and other places that got nothing cursed their luck.

White House issues veto threats; House fights loom (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2009 02:22 PM PDT AP - The White House threatened Tuesday to veto a $636 billion spending bill for the Pentagon, citing funding for F-22 fighters and a much-criticized replacement presidential helicopter. President Barack Obama wants to terminate both programs.

California Gets 14 Special Election Candidates (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 28 Jul 2009 01:42 PM PDT CQPolitics.com - California Lt. Gov. John Garamendi and two prominent state legislators are the headliners among the 14 congressional candidates certified Monday to run in a Sept. 1 special primary election.

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