Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Ohio native, ex-Navy Seal among CIA workers killed (AP)
• Obama adviser: No smoking gun in airline bomb plot (AP)
• Passengers on US-bound flights face more screening (AP)
• U.S. tightens international air security (Politico)
• Obama adviser says Cheney is wrong in criticism (AP)
• Some Dems want Gitmo-to-Yemen transfers stopped (AP)
• Fed: Regulation 1st defense against speculation (AP)
• Obama wraps Hawaiian vacation to return to capital (AP)
• Obama adviser says TSA nominee should be confirmed (AP)
• British PM Brown named worst-dressed man (AFP)
• Feds probe Obama effigy in Jimmy Carter's hometown (AP)
• No "smoking gun" in airplane plot, says White House (Reuters)
• Obama effigy found hanging in Georgia: report (Reuters)
• The resurrection of Howard Dean (Politico)
• Will latest jobs bill really produce jobs? (AP)
• GOP cash woes threaten House bids (Politico)
• Yemen reignites U.S. politics of terror (Politico)

Ohio native, ex-Navy Seal among CIA workers killed (AP) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 04:32 PM PST AP - A former Navy Seal and an Ohio native whose wife is expecting the couple's first child were among seven CIA employees killed in a suicide bombing attack on an agency base in southeastern Afghanistan last week.

Obama adviser: No smoking gun in airline bomb plot (AP) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 03:36 PM PST AP - U.S. intelligence agencies did not miss a "smoking gun" that could have prevented an alleged attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day, President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser said Sunday.

Passengers on US-bound flights face more screening (AP) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 03:33 PM PST AP - Passengers flying into the United States from Nigeria, Yemen and other "countries of interest" will be subject to enhanced screening techniques, such as body scans and pat-downs, the Transportation Security Administration said Sunday.

U.S. tightens international air security (Politico) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 11:50 AM PST Politico - All travelers flying into the U.S. from foreign countries will receive tightened random screening, and 100 percent of passengers from 14 terrorism-prone countries will be patted down and have their carry-ons searched, the Obama administration was notifying airlines on Sunday.

Obama adviser says Cheney is wrong in criticism (AP) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 09:31 AM PST AP - Dick Cheney's withering criticism of the Obama White House's terrorism-fighting policies came under an equally harsh response Sunday, with the former vice president accused of being ignorant or intentionally misleading.

Some Dems want Gitmo-to-Yemen transfers stopped (AP) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 10:41 AM PST AP - Some Democratic lawmakers who support closing Guantanamo Bay say the U.S. should reconsider whether to repatriate suspected terrorists from Yemen, given the al-Qaida activity in the poor Arab nation.

Fed: Regulation 1st defense against speculation (AP) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 10:41 AM PST AP - Stronger regulation is the best way to prevent financial speculation from getting out of hand and throwing the economy in a new crisis, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Sunday.

Obama wraps Hawaiian vacation to return to capital (AP) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 11:12 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama is spending part of his last day in Hawaii reading intelligence assessments and asking advisers about threats to the United States.

Obama adviser says TSA nominee should be confirmed (AP) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 08:12 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser says the White House's nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration is well qualified and should be confirmed promptly.

British PM Brown named worst-dressed man (AFP) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 05:24 PM PST AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown has received a pre-election kick in the pants, being named the worst-dressed man of the year by the British edition of GQ magazine.

Feds probe Obama effigy in Jimmy Carter's hometown (AP) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 04:56 PM PST AP - The U.S. Secret Service says it is investigating an effigy of President Barack Obama found hanging from a building in the hometown of former President Jimmy Carter.

No "smoking gun" in airplane plot, says White House (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 04:06 PM PST Reuters - A top White House official said on Sunday the plot to bomb a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day exposed errors but he played down the need for a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. security system.

Obama effigy found hanging in Georgia: report (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 04:04 PM PST Reuters - An effigy of President Barack Obama was found hanging in the rural hometown of former President Jimmy Carter, local media reported on Sunday, and the Secret Service said it was investigating the case.

The resurrection of Howard Dean (Politico) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 03:31 PM PST Politico - After four relatively low-profile years pushing the official party line as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Dean is once again the tribune of frustrated liberals. And after he called out President Barack Obama and his congressional allies over their concessions on health care, those close to him predict he’s just getting warmed up.

Will latest jobs bill really produce jobs? (AP) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 07:29 AM PST AP - When the Senate takes up a jobs bill later this month or early in February, the debate will center on whether it really will create jobs and be worth plunging the government tens of billions of dollars further into debt.

GOP cash woes threaten House bids (Politico) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 04:00 AM PST Politico - With the Republican Party on the cusp of major gains in the House next year — and with the dream of retaking the House appearing to be a real, if improbable, possibility — one major obstacle remains: tightfisted Republican incumbents.

Yemen reignites U.S. politics of terror (Politico) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 07:56 PM PST Politico - The partisan battle over President Barack Obama's handling of terrorism turned Sunday to Yemen – as the White House defended temporarily shutting the embassy there while Republicans called it a sign of weakness.

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