Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Airline attack could lead to more scanners (AP)
• Key dates surrounding the Christmas Day attack (AP)
• AP-GfK Poll: 2009 was bad for America, Americans (AP)
• Yemeni forces raid al-Qaida hideout, clashes erupt (AP)
• Exclusive: Details from Obama's probe (Politico)
• TSA subpoenas bloggers, demands names of sources (AP)
• GOP senator says Dems trying to rush TSA nominee (AP)
• Mailman to deliver aid in case of anthrax attack (AP)
• US moves to place new duties on steel from China (AP)
• Mother Teresa, Gene Autry on upcoming US stamps (AP)
• Nevada gov. fires adviser over first lady comment (AP)
• Executive linked to Iranian probe pleads guilty (AP)
• Dems try to trim presidential primary calendar (AP)
• The media on terrorist alert once again (Politico)
• No re-election bid for NC pol who shot intruder (AP)
• Ron Paul son Rand makes Ky. Senate run official (AP)
• `The Cracked Ceiling' examines women in politics (AP)
• Anxious Dems divide over path forward (Politico)

Airline attack could lead to more scanners (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 04:39 PM PST AP - The Christmas Day attack on a jetliner over Detroit, combined with technological improvements to protect people's sense of modesty, could lead to dramatically wider use of full-body scanners that can see through travelers' clothing.

Key dates surrounding the Christmas Day attack (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 04:37 PM PST AP - A look at key events surrounding the Christmas Day attack on a U.S. airliner. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is accused of trying to detonate an explosive device hidden on his body as the plane approached Detroit on a flight from Amsterdam.

AP-GfK Poll: 2009 was bad for America, Americans (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 06:03 PM PST AP - For all their differences, Americans largely agree on two things: 2009 was a lousy year for the nation, and 2010 is likely to be better. Nearly three-fourths of Americans think 2009 was a bad year for the country, which was rocked by job losses, home foreclosures and economic sickness. Forty-two percent rated it "very bad," according to the latest AP-GfK poll.

Yemeni forces raid al-Qaida hideout, clashes erupt (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 06:03 PM PST AP - Yemeni forces raided an al-Qaida hideout and set off a gunbattle Wednesday as the government vowed to eliminate the group that claimed it was behind the Christmas bombing attempt on a U.S. airliner.

Exclusive: Details from Obama's probe (Politico) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 09:17 AM PST Politico - Information that would have kept a bomb off Northwest’s Christmas Day flight from Amsterdam to Detroit was “vague but available” to intelligence agencies, according to officials involved in reviews ordered by President Barack Obama.

TSA subpoenas bloggers, demands names of sources (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 05:24 PM PST AP - As the government reviews how an alleged terrorist was able to bring a bomb onto a U.S.-bound plane and try to blow it up on Christmas Day, the Transportation Security Administration is going after bloggers who wrote about a directive to increase security after the incident.

GOP senator says Dems trying to rush TSA nominee (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 04:37 AM PST AP - A Republican senator who has been blocking President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration complains that Democrats are trying to rush a vote on the nominee without adequate debate.

Mailman to deliver aid in case of anthrax attack (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 04:25 PM PST AP - If the nation ever faces a large-scale attack by a biological weapon like anthrax, the U.S. Postal Service will be in charge of delivering whatever drugs and other medical aid Americans would need to survive.

US moves to place new duties on steel from China (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 02:52 PM PST AP - The U.S. government is imposing new duties on imports of steel pipes from China, the latest sign of trade tensions between the two countries.

Mother Teresa, Gene Autry on upcoming US stamps (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 04:46 AM PST AP - Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa and Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin will be honored on U.S. postage stamps next year.

Nevada gov. fires adviser over first lady comment (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 04:55 PM PST AP - Gov. Jim Gibbons fired his campaign adviser Wednesday for comments that described first ladies as "window dressing."

Executive linked to Iranian probe pleads guilty (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 04:28 PM PST AP - The former president of a foundation that prosecutors say has a history of legal entanglements over its alleged ties to Iran's government pleaded guilty Wednesday to obstruction.

Dems try to trim presidential primary calendar (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 03:17 PM PST AP - Democratic Party leaders are trying again to shorten the presidential primary process, which lasted 11 months last year.

The media on terrorist alert once again (Politico) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 02:33 PM PST Politico - It all came rushing back — the “War with Islam?” graphics, the terrorism experts, the breathless reports of a “suspicious van” parked near Times Square, and Chris Matthews mincing no words when describing the Al Qaeda threat.

No re-election bid for NC pol who shot intruder (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 12:32 PM PST AP - North Carolina's longest-serving state senator won't seek re-election next year as he faces possible criminal charges over a shooting at his home in August.

Ron Paul son Rand makes Ky. Senate run official (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 11:38 AM PST AP - Former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul's son has officially entered the GOP Senate primary in Kentucky.

`The Cracked Ceiling' examines women in politics (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 08:30 AM PST AP - "Notes From the Cracked Ceiling: Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and What It Will Take for a Woman to Win" (Crown, 288 pages, $25), by Anne E. Kornblut: If you thought the 2008 election was a triumph in the cause of getting a woman closer to the White House, political reporter Anne E. Kornblut begs to differ.

Anxious Dems divide over path forward (Politico) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 01:41 AM PST Politico - Mounting anxiety about their prospects in next year’s elections is suddenly reviving a debate that has split the Democratic Party for a generation: Should it tack to the political middle to claim centrist swing voters or remain true to liberal principles to motivate the base and other change-hungry voters.

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