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Yahoo! News: Elections

White House: Afghan war not in crisis (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 12:56 PM PDT

In this photo released by China's official Xinhua news agency, passengers walk in Urumqi airport, northwest China's Xinjiang autonomous region, early Monday August 10, 2009, after the airport was restored to order. An Afghan plane bound for the restive western Chinese region of Xinjiang was sent back to Afghanistan after a bomb threat, Chinese media said Sunday. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Sadat)AP - President Barack Obama's national security adviser did not rule adding more U.S. forces in Afghanistan to help turn around a war that he said on Sunday is not now in crisis.

Obama attending first US-Canada-Mexico summit (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 04:58 PM PDT

FILE -- In this Feb. 19, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrive in the Rotunda on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada. Obama returns to Mexico Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009, for a lightning-quick, three-way US-Canada-Mexico summit as the now-global swine flu that spread from Mexico is increasingly back in the news, and is at the top of the summit agenda. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Tom Hanson, File)AP - When President Barack Obama visited Mexico in April, the now-global swine flu epidemic — unbeknownst to the White House — had just begun here and an Obama aide returned home sick.

Clinton: No illusions Iran will return to talks (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 02:47 PM PDT

A supporter of Iranian reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi hangs up campaign posters in Tehran in May 2009. A top Revolutionary Guards official has called for Iran to put on trial the main opposition leaders who are campaigning against the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the United States has no illusions that Iran will accept overtures to return to negotiations about its nuclear program and will not wait much longer for Tehran to respond.

Consumer protections lost in health care debate (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 06:38 AM PDT

FILE -- In this July 29, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama listens to a question during a town hall meeting on health care at a supermarket in Bristol, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)AP - It's one issue in the health care debate that nearly everyone — even the insurance lobby — seems to agree on: Better consumer protections are needed to end the nightmare of not being able to get covered for a treatable, if costly, illness.

Obama arrives in Mexico (Politico)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 02:46 PM PDT

Politico - GUADALAJARA, Mexico — President Barack Obama arrives in Mexico this evening for 18 hours of speed diplomacy with the United States’ bordering neighbors, which will yield more discussions than solutions.

US willing to hold direct talks with North Korea (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 08:38 AM PDT

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il seen in May 2009 in Wonsan, Kangwon province. Kim Jong-Il appears to be in AP - The Obama administration said Sunday it is willing to hold direct talks with North Korea over its nuclear weapons if it first resumes international negotiations.

Clinton presses Angola to sweeten trade ties (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 12:41 PM PDT

AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, bringing her democracy and development tour of Africa to oil-rich Angola on Sunday, encouraged the war-ravaged country to continue reforms and pledged to boost trade ties with a major energy producer.

GOP senator warns against pulling a 'Rumsfeld' (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 08:21 AM PDT

AP - A Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee says more troops are needed in Afghanistan and is warning that the U.S. must not 'Rumsfeld' the war.

White House: Iran confirms 3 US hikers in custody (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 06:36 AM PDT

AP - The White House says Iran has confirmed it has three American hikers in custody.

National security adviser: US believes Mehsud dead (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 09:51 AM PDT

In this photo provided by CBS, White House National Security Advisor James Jones speaks to media outside the CBS studio in Washington after appearing on the CBS talk show 'Face the Nation' Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009. Jones said the United States is nearly certain the Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud is dead, and there now is a leadership struggle within the terrorist group. 'Mehsud was a very bad individual, a real thug,' said Jones. 'This is a big deal.' (AP Photo/CBS, Karin Cooper)AP - The United States is nearly certain the Pakistani Taliban's leader is dead, and there now is a leadership struggle within the terrorist group, White House national security adviser James Jones said Sunday.

Arne Duncan, educational kingmaker (Politico)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 04:27 PM PDT

Politico - When Arne Duncan was the head of the Chicago public schools, one of the calls he dreaded most came from a certain federal bureaucracy — the Department of Education.

CORRECTS Obama (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 03:29 PM PDT

FILE -- In this April 16, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama, left, points something out to Mexico's President Felipe Calderon prior to a state dinner at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. At the time the swine flu epidemic had just begun there, and an Obama aide returned home sick. Obama returns to Mexico Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009, as the now-global swine flu that spread from there is increasingly back in the news, and is at the top of the agenda of at a lightning-quick, three-way US-Canada-Mexico summit Sunday and Monday. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)AP - (Stations: Please substitute the following for V4257, slugged Obama, which moved at 6:20 p.m. Eastern time. The new version CORRECTS typo in Canadian prime minister's name.)

Trade, security focus at "Three amigos" summit (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 02:05 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama speaks at the White House on August 6, 2009. US authorities heard debate Friday on slapping punitive duties on tire imports from China to save jobs at home, in a litmus case for Obama's trade policy.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)Reuters - Leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada -- also known as "the three amigos" -- begin a summit on Sunday in Mexico to talk about simmering trade issues and the threat of drug gangs.

Rice denounces Iran 'show trials' (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 01:56 PM PDT

US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, pictured in July 2009, on Sunday condemned what she described as AFP - US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice on Sunday condemned what she described as "show trials" for demonstrators in Iran who protested the results of June's disputed presidential election.

US showed support for Iran protestors: Clinton (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 11:19 AM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, pictured on August 7, 2009, said Sunday that the United States did a lot AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday that the United States did a lot "behind the scenes" to show support for demonstrators contesting Iran's disputed presidential election results.

Political Economy: Lemons-Aid (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 09:40 AM PDT

CQPolitics.com - Timing is everything in politics and economics: Just ask Barack Obama. Thus it's not a huge surprise that the fate of the Democrats in the next election may depend in no small part on something as seemingly inconsequential and potentially frivolous as "cash for clunkers."

Clinton: 'We are under no illusions' (Politico)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 08:28 AM PDT

Politico - In a wide-ranging interview taped while she was in Nairobi last week, Hillary Clinton on “Fareed Zakaria GPS” said that her differences with Barack Obama during the campaign were "maybe [a] difference in degree, not kind," and said she had no worries about foreign policy power moving from the State Department to the White House, noting, "I'm not exactly a shrinking violet."

Official: Closing Gitmo prison can be done by Jan. (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 07:30 AM PDT

A US Army guard opens the gate at Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba, in 2004. Four US senators, including two Republicans, in a letter Thursday urged Barack Obama to ensure that September 11 terror suspects are tried in a special military court and not in civilian courts on US soil.(AFP/POOL/File/Mark Wilson)AP - The White House national security adviser says he's confident the administration will meet President Barack Obama's deadline for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility by January.

Iran military says opposition chiefs should face trial (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 07:21 AM PDT

From left: Defeated Iranian presidential candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, and former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami are all pictured earlier this year. A top official with Iran's Revolutionary Guards has called for the main opposition leaders to be put on trial for trying to orchestrate a AFP - A top official with Iran's Revolutionary Guards called on Sunday for the main opposition leaders to be put on trial for trying to orchestrate a "velvet coup" after the disputed presidential election.

GOP leader says no more stimulus spending needed (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 06:57 AM PDT

AP - The Senate's Republican leader says the economy doesn't need any more stimulus spending and the Obama administration should turn its attention toward dealing with the national debt.

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