Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Bottom line on public insurance plan gets blurry (AP)
• Controversy over fiery remarks fells Obama adviser (AP)
• Duncan says furor over Obama speech 'silly' (AP)
• Analysis: More wrangling could doom health care (AP)
• More czars on conservative hit list (Politico)
• Arms dealer's arrest exposes Iran's smuggling (AP)
• Mass. lawmakers prep for Kennedy successor hearing (AP)
• Obama's back-to-school message is responsibility (AP)
• Case of Abramoff protege puts lobbying on trial (AP)
• INSIDE WASHINGTON: Labor board in gridlock (AP)
• Beck up, left let down and Jones defiant (Politico)
• Gabon threatens emergency powers to quell unrest (AFP)
• CDC chief says swine vaccine for my kids, too (AP)
• Karzai inches toward Afghan poll win (Reuters)
• Axelrod: Firm on public option (Politico)
• Jones Resigns as Obama Aide, Citing ‘Smear’ Campaign (Bloomberg)
• White House sees healthcare reform this year (Reuters)
• Van Jones and the W.H. casualty list (Politico)
• Obama's "green jobs" guru Jones resigns after uproar (Reuters)
• Van Jones resigns amid controversy (Politico)

Bottom line on public insurance plan gets blurry (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 04:18 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration's bottom line on a government health insurance option blurred Sunday as White House officials stressed support but stopped short of calling it a must-have part of an overhaul.

Controversy over fiery remarks fells Obama adviser (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 12:42 PM PDT AP - The White House environmental adviser under fire for inflammatory statements made before he joined the administration resigned after what he called a "vicious smear campaign against me."

Duncan says furor over Obama speech 'silly' (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 03:28 PM PDT AP - The furor surrounding President Barack Obama's upcoming address to the nation's schoolchildren is "just silly," his education chief said Sunday, and a conservative senator who led the Education Department in the first Bush administration suggested teachers make it a civics lesson.

Analysis: More wrangling could doom health care (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 11:48 AM PDT AP - The patient isn't dead yet.

More czars on conservative hit list (Politico) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 10:37 AM PDT Politico - With the resignation of green jobs adviser Van Jones, the conservative firing squad is setting its sights on other White House czars.

Arms dealer's arrest exposes Iran's smuggling (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 07:36 AM PDT AP - The arrest of a reputed arms dealer known as "The Field Marshal" is the latest success in a global cat-and-mouse game between federal agents and a network of shadowy business figures trying to smuggle weapons and equipment to Iran from the country most determined to stop them: the United States.

Mass. lawmakers prep for Kennedy successor hearing (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 12:43 PM PDT AP - Democratic and Republican lawmakers are gearing up for a contentious public hearing over a bill that would allow Gov. Deval Patrick to name a temporary replacement for the late Sen. Kennedy's vacant U.S. Senate seat.

Obama's back-to-school message is responsibility (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2009 09:00 PM PDT AP - Classrooms are filling up as kids head back to school, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan's two children are among them.

Case of Abramoff protege puts lobbying on trial (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 11:00 AM PDT AP - Years into the scandal, a protege of Jack Abramoff is the first member of the imprisoned lobbyist's team going before a jury to fight federal corruption charges that will put their very profession on trial.

INSIDE WASHINGTON: Labor board in gridlock (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 10:18 AM PDT AP - Another Labor Day, another year of dysfunction in the agency that's supposed to protect workers from unfair labor practices and referee clashes between unions and management.

Beck up, left let down and Jones defiant (Politico) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 04:04 PM PDT Politico - The resignation early Sunday of “green jobs” adviser Van Jones says as much about the Obama White House as it does about Jones – marking the latest sacrifice to the political gods after a long summer of compromises and surrenders highlighted the limits of White House power.

Gabon threatens emergency powers to quell unrest (AFP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 03:26 PM PDT AFP - Gabon's government threatened Sunday to impose emergency powers to quash unrest in its second city Port-Gentil after three people were killed in post-election violence.

CDC chief says swine vaccine for my kids, too (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 10:46 AM PDT AP - The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says his kids are going to get the swine flu vaccine when it's available.

Karzai inches toward Afghan poll win (Reuters) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 09:22 AM PDT Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai inched closer to a first-round victory as more results came in from an election last month marred by accusations of fraud.

Axelrod: Firm on public option (Politico) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 08:42 AM PDT Politico - White House senior adviser David Axelrod tells POLITICO that the administration is not dialing back its support for a public health-insurance option as part of a reform bill, and that a comment he made on NBC’s “Meet the Press” was misinterpreted.

Jones Resigns as Obama Aide, Citing ‘Smear’ Campaign (Bloomberg) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 08:16 AM PDT Bloomberg - Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Van Jones, an environmental adviser to President Barack Obama, resigned today, citing a “vicious smear campaign” by opponents of health care and energy plans focused on comments he made before joining the administration.

White House sees healthcare reform this year (Reuters) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 08:05 AM PDT Reuters - The Obama administration is optimistic about pushing through reforms to the U.S. healthcare system this year despite heavy opposition from Republicans in Congress, White House adviser David Axelrod said on Sunday.

Van Jones and the W.H. casualty list (Politico) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 07:15 AM PDT Politico - When President Barack Obama's green jobs adviser, Van Jones, submitted his resignation this weekend, he became the first casualty of the Obama administration not to go quietly.

Obama's "green jobs" guru Jones resigns after uproar (Reuters) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 04:03 AM PDT Reuters - A White House environmental policy adviser who specialized in "green jobs" resigned on Sunday after an uproar over his previous affiliation with a September 11 conspiracy group.

Van Jones resigns amid controversy (Politico) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 03:50 AM PDT Politico - The White House, in an unusual pre-dawn announcement Sunday, said its “green jobs czar” Van Jones would resign after fierce criticism from Republicans about some of his statements and associations prior to joining the administration.

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