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Yahoo! News: Elections

Foreign govt's among Clinton donors (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 02:42 PM PST

In this June 21, 2007 file photo, Frank Giustra, a Canadian businessman, speaks as former President Bill Clinton looks on during a news conference in New York to announce the Clinton Foundation's launching of a new sustainable development initiative in Latin America. A donor list released on New Year's Day by the William J. Clinton Foundation shows that Giustra gave to the former president's charity. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)AP - Foreign countries including Norway and Oman contributed to former President Bill Clinton's charity, and donors including Donald Trump, multinational soft drink company Coca-Cola and singer Elton John's foundation also pitched in as Hillary Rodham Clinton served her first year as secretary of state.

Labor moves quickly on job safety, workers' rights (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 12:49 PM PST

FILE - In this May 12, 2009 file photo, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, left, accompanied by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, speaks at the Treasury Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - Soon after she became the nation's labor secretary, Hilda Solis warned corporate America there was "a new sheriff in town." Less than a year into her tenure, that figurative badge of authority is unmistakable.

CIA bombing intensifies focus on agents' safety (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 10:55 AM PST

The CIA symbol is shown on the floor of its headquarters in Langley, Virginia. A suicide attack in Afghanistan that killed seven agents marks one of the deadliest blows ever for the CIA, dealing a painful setback to an agency increasingly on the frontline of US wars.(AFP/Getty Images/File)AP - The brazen attack that killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in Afghanistan is likely to raise questions about whether the agency could do more to protect its operatives on dangerous assignments.

GOP banks on repeal push for 2010 (Politico)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 02:31 AM PST

Politico - Republicans hope a push to repeal the Democrats' health care bill will inspire voters to turn out for them in the 2010 elections — even though some of them admit that it has no realistic chance of working.

Iraqis outraged as Blackwater case thrown out (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 01:44 PM PST

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 25, 2007 file photo, an Iraqi traffic policeman inspects a car destroyed by a Blackwater security detail in al-Nisoor Square in Baghdad, Iraq. A federal judge dismissed all charges Thursday Dec. 31, 2009 against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in a crowded Baghdad intersection in 2007. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)AP - Iraqis seeking justice for 17 people shot dead at a Baghdad intersection responded with bitterness and outrage Friday at a U.S. judge's decision to throw out a case against a Blackwater security team accused in the killings.

Pakistan Taliban says it carried out CIA attack (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 12:44 PM PST

AP - The Pakistani Taliban claimed Friday that they used a turncoat CIA operative to carry out a suicide bombing that killed seven American CIA employees in Afghanistan as revenge for a top militant leader's death in a U.S. missile strike.

White House defends its TSA nominee (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 11:03 AM PST

President Barack Obama, waves to the crowd after going to the movies in Kaneohe, Hawaii Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. The Obamas are in Hawaii for the holidays.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Acknowledging he has given inconsistent answers to Congress, President Barack Obama's pick to lead the Transportation Security Administration wrote to lawmakers to explain a reprimand he received for running background checks on his then-estranged wife's boyfriend two decades ago.

Miami students trek to DC for immigrant rights (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 10:14 AM PST

This Dec. 18, 2009 photo shows Juan Rodriguez, 20, center, along with other Florida teens walking from the Miami Dade downtown campus to a church in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami for a press conference to raise awareness about immigration reform. Juan and four other teens will will set out New Years Day on a nearly 2,000 mile walk from Miami to Washington D.C. to raise support for immigration reform. (AP Photo/Jeffrey M. Boan)AP - While their fellow college students sleep off the night's revelry, four South Florida students are celebrating the New Year with a slightly more active approach.

Google executive running for Vermont governor post (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 01:45 PM PST

AP - Internet search giant Google is based in Silicon Valley, yet it runs its community affairs operation out of a former bread factory in an old New England railroad town, hard by the confluence of the White and Connecticut rivers.

Democrats' worst nightmare: Terrorism (Politico)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 12:31 PM PST

Politico - From the time he launched his campaign for president three years ago, Barack Obama had to consider how he would react to the first serious act of terrorism during the campaign, or if he won, on his watch.

Iran's Mousavi ready to die for opposition cause (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 11:26 AM PST

Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, seen here in Tehran in 2009, said that he was ready to sacrifice his life in his campaign for reform after the disputed June re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)AFP - Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said on Friday that he was ready to sacrifice his life in his campaign for reform after the disputed June re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Opposition head Mousavi: Iran in "serious crisis" (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 10:51 AM PST

A masked Iranian student, supporter of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi, gestures while holding a photo of the Islamic revolution's father, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, during a rally in central Tehran December 13, 2009. REUTERS/via Your ViewReuters - Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi said on Friday he was ready to die for his reformist campaign after a disputed election in June, defying hardline calls for his execution.

Obama begins new year reviewing US intel system (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 01:27 PM PST

Transportation Security Administration staffers secure the entrance to the American Airlines terminal during an investigation by the Los Angeles Airport Police bomb squad at the Los Angeles International Airport Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - President Barack Obama is reviewing reports from homeland security officials as his administration tries to determine what U.S. policy and personnel failures preceded the attempted Detroit jetliner bombing.

Obama wishes US a happy New Year (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 10:38 AM PST

President Barack Obama, waves with daughter Sasha Obama, 8, after going to the movies in Kaneohe, Hawaii Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. The Obamas are in Hawaii for the holidays.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama is wishing the nation a happy New Year with "brighter days ... ahead of us."

Law enforcement deaths for 2009 reach 125 (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 06:45 AM PST

AP - The death of a Washington state police officer Dec. 28 raised the total law enforcement deaths in 2009 to 125, still the fewest annual fatalities in the line of duty since 1959.

AP-GfK Poll: Americans seek silver lining in 2010 (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 06:14 PM PST

Jennifer Lopez looks up as a light rain fell as she rehearsed on the Nivea Countdown Stage on Times Square in New York Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)AP - The bank account is thin, but the future looks pretty good. That, oddly enough, is the view of many Americans who predict 2010 will be a better year than this one, even if they fear that the U.S. economy and their own financial circumstances won't improve.

Economy 101: The year in autos, by the numbers (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 05:41 PM PST

File - In a Monday, Dec. 28, 2009 file photo, employees assemble car parts at a factory of Chinese auto maker JAC Motors in Hefei, in central China's Anhui province, China has overtaken the U.S. as the world's biggest market for automobiles, the first time any other country has bought more vehicles than the nation that produced Henry Ford, the Cadillac and the minivan. (AP Photo, File)AP - The car industry got a historic makeover in 2009, most of it not for the better.

Ex-Minn. senator seeks revival in governor's race (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 05:31 PM PST

AP - It took Mark Dayton two tries and many millions from his personal fortune to win one of Minnesota's U.S. Senate seats. After one frustrating term, he couldn't wait to flee Washington.

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