Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Dems mull dropping Medicare expansion in overhaul (AP)
• AP source: Feds eye NY trial for Gitmo suspect (AP)
• Obama implores top bankers to increase lending (AP)
• New VA patients younger, more likely to be women (AP)
• Bank execs miss Obama's tough talk (Politico)
• Court to review employer access to worker messages (AP)
• 22 million missing Bush White House e-mails found (AP)
• Report: Islamic terror rising as al-Qaida fades (AP)
• Congress: Would you please turn that TV ad down! (AP)
• Back from combat, women struggle for acceptance (AP)
• Congress readies defense budget (AP)
• Obama: UN resolutions in Lebanon must be enforced (AP)
• Senate Dems weigh dropping Medicare expansion (AP)
• General says Afghan troop surge will take longer (AP)
• Tennessee Democrat Gordon Won’t Seek 2010 Re-Election (Bloomberg)
• Clinton: New sanctions on Iran needed (AP)
• W.H. to Reid: Cut deal with Lieberman (Politico)
• Tenn. Rep. Gordon won't seek re-election next year (AP)
• Obama seen notifying Congress soon on trade talks (Reuters)
• Clinton: Iran charges on US hikers unfounded (AP)

Dems mull dropping Medicare expansion in overhaul (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2009 05:23 PM PST AP - The end game at hand, Senate Democrats appeared ready to jettison a proposed Medicare expansion from sweeping health care legislation Monday in a bid to remove the largest remaining obstacle in the way of Christmas-week passage of the measure.

AP source: Feds eye NY trial for Gitmo suspect (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2009 03:09 PM PST AP - Federal prosecutors are considering sending a Guantanamo Bay detainee named Majid Khan — who grew up in Maryland before allegedly enlisting with al-Qaida — to face trial in New York, a person familiar with the discussions said Monday.

Obama implores top bankers to increase lending (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2009 05:07 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama implored top bankers Monday to help keep the fragile recovery from faltering by boosting lending to small businesses and getting behind an overhaul of financial regulation. "We rise and fall together," Obama declared.

New VA patients younger, more likely to be women (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2009 10:45 AM PST AP - Doctors at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in this quiet, bucolic town tucked between coal country and the nation's capital used to go months without treating a female veteran.

Bank execs miss Obama's tough talk (Politico) Posted: 14 Dec 2009 08:48 AM PST Politico - President Barack Obama’s plan to talk tough to bankers in a meeting at the White House Monday morning lost some of its punch when the executives at several top financial institutions could not make the sit-down due to bad weather.

Court to review employer access to worker messages (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2009 02:02 PM PST AP - The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide how much privacy workers have when they send text messages from on their employers' accounts.

22 million missing Bush White House e-mails found (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2009 05:07 PM PST AP - Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days' worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years, according to two groups that filed suit over the failure by the Bush White House to install an electronic record keeping system.

Report: Islamic terror rising as al-Qaida fades (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:15 PM PST AP - Targeted by drone strikes in Pakistan, al-Qaida is losing ground and financing even as attacks by Islamist groups are on the rise, according to a report obtained by The Associated Press.

Congress: Would you please turn that TV ad down! (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2009 11:45 AM PST AP - Television viewers jarred by abrupt spikes in volume during commercial breaks may someday be able to give their mute buttons a rest.

Back from combat, women struggle for acceptance (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2009 03:03 PM PST AP - Nobody wants to buy them a beer.

Congress readies defense budget (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:52 PM PST AP - Congress is knocking nearly $1 billion off President Barack Obama's request for Afghanistan's security forces and instead devoting the money to buying more mine-resistent vehicles for U.S. troops there.

Obama: UN resolutions in Lebanon must be enforced (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:18 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama said Monday a U.N. resolution calling on Hezbollah to disarm must be enforced.

Senate Dems weigh dropping Medicare expansion (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2009 03:52 PM PST AP - Senate Democrats say they may jettison a proposed Medicare expansion from health care legislation they are eager to pass before Christmas.

General says Afghan troop surge will take longer (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2009 03:24 PM PST AP - The military may not finish its surge of 30,000 American troops to Afghanistan until nearly a year from now, a senior U.S. commander said Monday — a slower pace than President Barack Obama has described. The White House insisted it was sticking with a goal of completing the buildup by late summer.

Tennessee Democrat Gordon Won’t Seek 2010 Re-Election (Bloomberg) Posted: 14 Dec 2009 01:38 PM PST Bloomberg - Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Representative Bart Gordon, a Tennessee Democrat, announced he would retire from Congress, becoming the latest Democrat from a competitive district not to seek re-election next year.

Clinton: New sanctions on Iran needed (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2009 11:01 AM PST AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday the Obama administration's nearly yearlong effort to engage Iran has fallen short and new sanctions are needed to press the Iranian leadership to come clean about its suspect nuclear program.

W.H. to Reid: Cut deal with Lieberman (Politico) Posted: 14 Dec 2009 10:36 AM PST Politico - The White House is encouraging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to cut a deal with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), which would mean eliminating the proposed Medicare expansion in the health reform bill, according to an official close to the negotiations.

Tenn. Rep. Gordon won't seek re-election next year (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2009 10:21 AM PST AP - Rep. Bart Gordon, a 13-term congressman from Tennessee, announced Monday he will not seek re-election next year, the latest Democrat in a string of retirements.

Obama seen notifying Congress soon on trade talks (Reuters) Posted: 14 Dec 2009 09:23 AM PST Reuters - U.S. business groups widely expect President Barack Obama to formally notify Congress as early as Monday of his intention to negotiate a regional free trade agreement with countries in the Asia Pacific.

Clinton: Iran charges on US hikers unfounded (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2009 08:50 AM PST AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that Iranian charges against three detained Americans are "totally unfounded" and appealed anew to authorities in Iran to release them.

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