Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama junks Bush's European missile defense plan (AP)
• AP sources: Intel report drove new missile plan (AP)
• House bill would boost Pell Grants (AP)
• Analysis: Shelving missile shield entices Moscow (AP)
• Boehner works to keep up with base (Politico)
• Dems unhappy with proposed tax in health care bill (AP)
• Cheney undergoes elective back surgery (AP)
• Analysis: Baucus pleases few with health care bill (AP)
• Obama honors soldier killed in battle (AP)
• Pelosi worried about angry health care rhetoric (AP)
• Karzai says vote was fair, Italian troops hit (Reuters)
• FAA says airlines are no longer its 'customers' (AP)
• Obama task force calls for National Ocean Council (AP)
• Beck vs. Limbaugh (Politico)
• First lady speaks and shops at farmers market (AP)
• Obama: Mideast peace goal on Jewish holy day (AP)
• Obama woos supporters at massive health care rally (AFP)
• Gov't: Border fence to cost $6.5B over 20 years (AP)
• Obama pitches health care at college campus (AP)
• Obama to reassure G20 on Wall Street reform (Reuters)

Obama junks Bush's European missile defense plan (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 04:39 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama abruptly canceled a long-planned missile shield for Eastern Europe on Thursday, replacing a Bush-era project that was bitterly opposed by Russia with a plan he contended would better defend against a growing threat of Iranian missiles.

AP sources: Intel report drove new missile plan (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 05:05 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's decision to scrap a Bush-era missile intercept system in Europe was based largely on a new U.S. intelligence assessment that Iran's effort to build a nuclear-capable long-range missile would take three years to five years longer than originally thought, U.S. officials said Thursday.

House bill would boost Pell Grants (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 03:11 PM PDT AP - The House voted Thursday in favor of the biggest overhaul of college aid programs since their creation in the 1960s — a bill to oust private lenders from the student loan business and put the government in charge.

Analysis: Shelving missile shield entices Moscow (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 05:05 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is betting Moscow will return the favor on missile defense by helping him blunt Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Boehner works to keep up with base (Politico) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 03:16 AM PDT Politico - House Minority Leader John Boehner spent much of last week trying to persuade a stubborn Rep. Joe Wilson to apologize to the House — telling associates he needed to “get to” Wilson before the weekend to elicit an apology.

Dems unhappy with proposed tax in health care bill (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 04:39 PM PDT AP - Unhappy Senate Democrats on Thursday found plenty to complain about in the fine print of the latest health overhaul bill, particularly a tax provision they fear would hit hard at middle-class Americans, from coal miners in West Virginia to firefighters in New York.

Cheney undergoes elective back surgery (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 04:52 PM PDT AP - Former Vice President Dick Cheney underwent elective back surgery Thursday, a procedure his office said "went well."

Analysis: Baucus pleases few with health care bill (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 04:55 PM PDT AP - His fellow Democrats shuddered and Republicans sneered when Sen. Max Baucus unveiled legislation to remake the health care system. Now, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee gamely insists that it can pass the Senate, core provisions intact.

Obama honors soldier killed in battle (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 02:48 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama on Thursday praised a U.S. soldier who three times left cover for an attempted rescue while Taliban bullets and grenades rained around him, ultimately losing his own life while trying to save his comrade on an Afghan battlefield.

Pelosi worried about angry health care rhetoric (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 04:39 PM PDT AP - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that the anti-government rhetoric over President Barack Obama's health care reform effort is troubling because it reminds her of the violent debate over gay rights that roiled San Francisco in the 1970s.

Karzai says vote was fair, Italian troops hit (Reuters) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 04:11 PM PDT Reuters - President Hamid Karzai defended Afghanistan's disputed presidential election on Thursday after preliminary results showed he won, and a suicide bomb attack on Italian troops tested the resolve of a major NATO ally.

FAA says airlines are no longer its 'customers' (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 03:40 PM PDT AP - Responding to criticism that his agency has become too cozy with companies it regulates, the new head of the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday the FAA will stop calling airlines "customers," as he announced steps to ensure air carriers comply with safety orders.

Obama task force calls for National Ocean Council (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 03:39 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration on Thursday released the first glimpse of a plan to strengthen the way the nation manages the oceans, coasts and the Great Lakes.

Beck vs. Limbaugh (Politico) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 03:13 PM PDT Politico - GOP media strategist Mark McKinnon thinks there are two people in the world who fear Glenn Beck — even if "neither will admit it."

First lady speaks and shops at farmers market (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 02:35 PM PDT AP - First lady Michelle Obama bought cheese, fingerling potatoes, eggs, black kale and other items Thursday at the launch of a new farmers market blocks from the White House.

Obama: Mideast peace goal on Jewish holy day (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 02:12 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is using a Rosh Hashana message to renew his call for peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors.

Obama woos supporters at massive health care rally (AFP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 01:56 PM PDT AFP - At a rally that recaptured the energy and exuberance of his presidential campaign, President Barack Obama wooed and charmed America's young and called for their help to pass health care reform.

Gov't: Border fence to cost $6.5B over 20 years (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 01:25 PM PDT AP - It will cost taxpayers $6.5 billion over the next 20 years to maintain the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a government audit.

Obama pitches health care at college campus (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 12:57 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama called reinventing health care a "defining struggle of this generation" on Thursday, even as several Democrats criticized some of the fine print in a Senate proposal the president has praised.

Obama to reassure G20 on Wall Street reform (Reuters) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 11:45 AM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama will pledge U.S. action on financial regulatory reform at the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh and underscore the need for global coordination on the issue, a senior aide said on Wednesday.

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