Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Major makeover of Wall Street regs passes House (AP)
• AP sources: FBI questions students, eyes charges (AP)
• Blackwater Predator missile-load contract ending (AP)
• House approves financial reform bill (Politico)
• Leaked memo points to IL as detainee prison site (AP)
• AP source: Al-Qaida operative killed by US missile (AP)
• Mosque: VA men detained in Pakistan 'regular kids' (AP)
• Senator Baucus gave girlfriend $14,000 raise (AP)
• Senators propose new approach to climate issue (AP)
• Business Roundtable edges away from health reform plan (Politico)
• House approves sweeping financial reforms (Reuters)
• Democrats plan nearly $2 trillion debt limit hike (AP)
• Headline (CQPolitics.com)
• Obama dog Bo has own Christmas stocking (AP)
• White House says Republicans "rooting against" recovery (Reuters)
• Republicans press Obama on stalled trade deals (AFP)
• White House to help close health bill loophole (AP)
• Obama says Afghanistan not US 'protectorate' (AP)
• Obama wishes Jews worldwide a Happy Hanukkah (AP)

Major makeover of Wall Street regs passes House (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 03:43 PM PST AP - The House passed the most ambitious restructuring of federal financial regulations since the New Deal on Friday, aiming to head off any replay of last year's Wall Street failures that plunged the nation deep into recession.

AP sources: FBI questions students, eyes charges (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 02:29 PM PST AP - FBI agents have questioned some of the young Americans arrested in Pakistan as U.S. investigators gather evidence that could lead to a conspiracy charge against them, an American official and another person familiar with the case said Friday.

Blackwater Predator missile-load contract ending (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:41 PM PST AP - CIA Director Leon Panetta has canceled a contract with the former Blackwater security firm that allowed the company's operatives to load missiles on Predator drones in Pakistan.

House approves financial reform bill (Politico) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 11:43 AM PST Politico - A little over a year after Congress bailed out the financial system, the House on Friday passed a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s financial architecture and the rules that govern it, seeking to prevent a repeat of last year’s meltdown.

Leaked memo points to IL as detainee prison site (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 03:58 PM PST AP - Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin says a draft memo leaked to a conservative Web site is an encouraging sign that the government intends to transfer Guantanamo Bay detainees to his state.

AP source: Al-Qaida operative killed by US missile (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:23 PM PST AP - A senior al-Qaida operations planner was killed in an American missile strike this week in western Pakistan, a U.S. counterterrorism official said Friday.

Mosque: VA men detained in Pakistan 'regular kids' (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 02:46 PM PST AP - The five young Americans detained in Pakistan as part of a terrorism investigation were wholesome kids who never exhibited any signs of religious extremism, according to the youth director at a mosque where they worshipped.

Senator Baucus gave girlfriend $14,000 raise (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 01:38 PM PST AP - Sen. Max Baucus gave the director of his Montana office a nearly $14,000 raise as they were becoming romantically involved last year, a spokesman for the senator said Friday.

Senators propose new approach to climate issue (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 11:04 AM PST AP - Two senators on Friday offered yet another approach to tackling climate change, proposing the government sell pollution allowances to industry to cut greenhouse gas emissions and then use most of the money to send tax-free monthly checks to every American.

Business Roundtable edges away from health reform plan (Politico) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 03:26 PM PST Politico - Without fundamental changes to the current health reform plans, the White House and congressional Democrats risk losing the last major corporate group that is standing by their effort: The Business Roundtable.

House approves sweeping financial reforms (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 03:21 PM PST Reuters - The House of Representatives approved the biggest changes in financial regulation since the Great Depression on Friday, marking a win for the Obama administration and top Democrats in Congress.

Democrats plan nearly $2 trillion debt limit hike (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 02:48 PM PST AP - Democrats plan to allow the government's debt to swell by nearly $2 trillion as part of a bill next week to pay for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The amount pretty much equals the total of a year-end spending spree by lawmakers and is big enough to ensure that Congress doesn't have to vote again on going further into debt until after the 2010 elections.

Headline (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 02:00 PM PST CQPolitics.com - Early Exit Equals Special Election Headache for Democrats

Obama dog Bo has own Christmas stocking (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 01:41 PM PST AP - Bo, the White House dog, has his very own Christmas stocking.

White House says Republicans "rooting against" recovery (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 12:39 PM PST Reuters - The White House accused senior Republicans on Friday of "rooting against" recovery and a top congressional critic charged President Barack Obama was pursuing a "job-killing" agenda in a fresh round of political bickering over the economy.

Republicans press Obama on stalled trade deals (AFP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 11:53 AM PST AFP - A group of US President Barack Obama's sharpest congressional critics urged him in a letter released Friday to revive stalled free trade pacts with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea in early 2010.

White House to help close health bill loophole (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 03:51 PM PST AP - In a victory for people with cancer and other serious medical problems, the White House agreed Friday to help close a loophole in the Senate health care bill allowing annual dollar limits on their care.

Obama says Afghanistan not US 'protectorate' (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 11:33 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama says he needed to set a deadline to start withdrawing U.S. forces so the Afghans wouldn't assume their country would be "a permanent protectorate" of the United States.

Obama wishes Jews worldwide a Happy Hanukkah (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 11:21 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama says Hanukkah's lessons should inspire everyone to be thankful for what they have.

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