Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama hails chat with Gates, cop as 'thoughtful' (AP)
• AP sources: Govt to suspend 'cash for clunkers' (AP)
• Poll: Obama mishandled comments on race (AP)
• No. 3 Republican to back Sotomayor for high court (AP)
• 'Beer summit' letdown (Politico)
• House passes far-reaching food safety bill (AP)
• Minn. Gov: GOP must welcome others, broaden base (AP)
• Analysis: White House beers a way to change topic (AP)
• Senators seek investigation of CVS-Caremark merger (AP)
• Obama: Economic report to show 2nd qtr contraction (AP)
• Iran police clash with protesters on mourning day (AFP)
• 'Cash for clunkers' going broke (Politico)
• Obama enacts new U.S. stem cell research rules (Reuters)
• Obama says GDP to show contraction, job losses (Reuters)
• Obama praises House vote for food safety reform (Reuters)
• Obama picks former Kentucky congresswoman for CPSC (AP)
• Obama commends House passage of food safety bill (AP)
• Obama, Arroyo show solidarity over Myanmar (Reuters)
• Fish for dinner: Overfishing easing in some areas (AP)
• US adviser to Iraqi military urges early US exit (AP)

Obama hails chat with Gates, cop as 'thoughtful' (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 05:22 PM PDT AP - With mugs of beer and more-carefully chosen words, President Barack Obama tried to push himself and the nation beyond a political uproar, hailing a "friendly, thoughtful" conversation with the black professor and white policeman whose dispute had ignited a fierce debate over race in America.

AP sources: Govt to suspend 'cash for clunkers' (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 04:59 PM PDT AP - The government plans to suspend its popular "cash for clunkers" program amid concerns it could quickly use up the $1 billion in rebates for new car purchases, congressional officials said Thursday.

Poll: Obama mishandled comments on race (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 03:35 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's approval rating among white Americans has fallen as they have watched him wade into the racially tinged dispute between a white Cambridge, Mass., police officer and a well-known black Harvard scholar, according to a poll released Thursday.

No. 3 Republican to back Sotomayor for high court (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 02:09 PM PDT AP - The Senate's No. 3 Republican announced Thursday he'd break with the rest of his party's leaders to support Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, who's in line to become the first Hispanic justice.

'Beer summit' letdown (Politico) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 04:43 PM PDT Politico - President Barack Obama’s highly anticipated “beer summit” with Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge police Sgt. Jim Crowley was reduced Thursday for viewers at home to two minutes of shaky, silent video of the men gathered around a table in the Rose Garden.

House passes far-reaching food safety bill (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 03:59 PM PDT AP - The House passed a far-reaching food safety bill Thursday in the wake of the recent outbreak of salmonella in peanuts that killed at least nine people.

Minn. Gov: GOP must welcome others, broaden base (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 03:15 PM PDT AP - Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty urged fellow Republicans Thursday to welcome outsiders into the party ranks, rather than scorn them, as the GOP rebuilds from defeats last year that left the White House and Congress in Democratic hands.

Analysis: White House beers a way to change topic (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 04:25 PM PDT AP - "If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose," the comedic philosopher Jack Handey once theorized.

Senators seek investigation of CVS-Caremark merger (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 03:24 PM PDT AP - Three Democratic senators have asked the Federal Trade Commission to re-examine the 2007 merger of prescription drug giants Caremark and CVS, expressing concern the merged company will drive independent pharmacies out of business.

Obama: Economic report to show 2nd qtr contraction (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 02:07 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama said he expects Friday's report on the nation's gross domestic product to show the economy contracted during the second quarter of the year but that the United States has, in his words, "stepped away from the precipice."

Iran police clash with protesters on mourning day (AFP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 05:15 PM PDT AFP - Riot police used tear gas and batons to break up a demonstration in Tehran and clashed with mourners at a defiant graveside commemoration for people killed in election violence, witnesses said.

'Cash for clunkers' going broke (Politico) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 05:15 PM PDT Politico - The Obama administration is telling lawmakers that its much-touted "cash-for-clunkers" program is already running out of money and will be suspended  Thursday night, according to three Senate aides familiar with the discussions.

Obama enacts new U.S. stem cell research rules (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 04:44 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama directed federal agencies on Thursday to enact new rules governing federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells.

Obama says GDP to show contraction, job losses (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 04:38 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama braced the country for more bad economic news on Thursday, saying second-quarter GDP figures would show the economy contracted and job losses were still a "huge" problem.

Obama praises House vote for food safety reform (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 04:34 PM PDT Reuters - The House passed a bill for a sweeping reform of the U.S. food safety system, a vote immediately praised by President Barack Obama as step to protect Americans from tainted food.

Obama picks former Kentucky congresswoman for CPSC (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 04:31 PM PDT AP - The White House says President Barack Obama will nominate former Republican Rep. Anne Northup of Kentucky to a seat on the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Obama commends House passage of food safety bill (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 04:10 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says a food safety bill passed by the House will be a "major step forward."

Obama, Arroyo show solidarity over Myanmar (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 03:51 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama and Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo showed solidarity over Myanmar on Thursday before an expected verdict in the widely condemned trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Fish for dinner: Overfishing easing in some areas (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 03:41 PM PDT AP - Crabcakes and fish sticks won't be disappearing after all.

US adviser to Iraqi military urges early US exit (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 04:10 PM PDT AP - A U.S. Army adviser to the Iraqi military command in Baghdad argues in an internal memo that the U.S. should "declare victory and go home" next year, 16 months ahead of schedule.

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