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Yahoo! News: Elections


Obama promises sustained US support to help Haiti (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 03:05 PM PST

Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, right, walk under the Colonnade towards the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010, where President Barack Obama asked Bush and Clinton to help with U.S. relief efforts after the earthquake in Haiti. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Standing alongside two former presidents, President Barack Obama on Saturday promised that U.S. support for Haitian relief would continue long after the scenes of death and destruction fade from the headlines.


Bush, Clinton call for long-term help for Haiti (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 05:36 PM PST

President Barack Obama, center, walks out of the Oval Office of the White House with former Presidents Bill Clinton, left, and George W. Bush, right, to deliver remarks in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010.  Obama asked the former presidents to help with U.S. relief efforts in Haiti after the earthquake.  (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton called on Americans Saturday to dig deep in their pockets for desperately poor Haiti, not just in the coming weeks, but for its long-term recovery.


Mass. Senate candidates shift to bank tax debate (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 04:40 PM PST

Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, right, poses for a picture with Rose Gillooly, 5, of Milton, Mass., center, and her brother Johnny, 3, during a campaign stop, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010, in Quincy, Mass. Brown is on the ballot of the Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010, special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)AP - The Massachusetts Senate candidates clashed Saturday over President Barack Obama's proposed bank bailout tax, an issue Democrats and the president himself hope will win back voters angry about Wall Street abuses, the recession and high unemployment.


AP Exclusive: Tobacco's plea — no big US payments (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 02:21 PM PST

FILE - This May 1, 2008 filer photo shows U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler before the start of a ceremony at the federal courthouse in Washington. In 2006, Kessler ruled that the tobacco companies engaged in a scheme to defraud the public by falsely denying the adverse health effects of smoking, concealing evidence nicotine is addictive, and lying about their manipulation of nicotine in cigarettes to create addiction. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - Tobacco industry lawyers met secretly with Solicitor General Elena Kagan in an effort to avoid the government's last-ditch attempt to extract billions from companies that illegally concealed the dangers of cigarette smoking, The Associated Press has learned.


More D.C. books controversy coming (Politico)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 03:41 AM PST

Politico - “Game Change” by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin has touched off a debate about anonymous sourcing and the accuracy of narrative-driven political books. But the debate isn't likely to end soon because Bob Woodward and at least two other prominent political journalists, Jonathan Alter and Ryan Lizza, have similar books about the Obama administration coming out this year.

Slow start, then Obama gained momentum on Haiti (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 01:06 PM PST

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton discusses the earthquake in Haiti and announces she is canceling the remainder of her Pacific trip during a news conference at U.S. Pacific Command at Camp Smith, Hawaii, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Lucy Pemoni) cAP - Hillary Rodham Clinton was in a Honolulu hotel lobby and getting ready to fly to the South Pacific when she finished a series of cell phone calls to Washington. The trip was still on, the secretary of state told reporters, despite the terrible earthquake in Haiti almost a day earlier.


Obama confident bank tax plan will pass Congress (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 02:25 PM PST

President Barack Obama announces a new fee on big banks to recover up to $120 billion in taxpayers' money used to prop up corporations during the economic crisis, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010, at the White House in Washington. From left are, Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christina Romer, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, National Economic Council Director Larry Summers, and Budget Director Peter Orszag. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama expressed confidence Saturday that lawmakers would approve his proposed tax on banks to recover bailout money, despite opposition from Republicans and the financial industry.


Analysis: Voter ire evident in Mass. Senate race (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 01:12 PM PST

Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic candidate vying for the seat vacated by the death of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., talks with supporters while walking with U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., left, during a campaign stop in Melrose, Mass., Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010.  Coakley and Republican candidate Scott Brown are campaigning across the state in the final weekend push before the special election on Tuesday Jan. 19th. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP - The ill winds of an angry electorate are blowing against Democrats, the warning signs clear in a closer-than-expected Massachusetts Senate race that may doom President Barack Obama's health care agenda and foreshadow the party's election prospects this fall.


US Navy en route to make Haiti seaport usable (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 02:02 PM PST

AP - The Navy is going to try to get the wrecked seaport in Haiti's capital up and running. A Navy commander says the salvage ship Grasp is en route to Port-au-Prince with divers and underwater construction personnel to assess the damage to piers and other port facilities.

Enthusiasm gap in Mass. Senate race (Politico)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 04:51 PM PST

Politico - HYANNIS, Mass. – As the two candidates running in the special Senate election here barnstormed across the state Saturday, the enthusiasm gap between the two parties was on vivid display.

Obamas' celebrate first lady's birthday (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 04:50 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama has treated first lady Michelle Obama to a surprise birthday party at a tony Washington restaurant known for its commitment to organically grown food.

Mass. GOP Senate candidate claims defamation (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 02:51 PM PST

AP - Republican Scott Brown charged Saturday that a Democratic mailing against his U.S. Senate campaign violates a Massachusetts law prohibiting false statements against a political candidate.

Ga. congressman to run again, depite hepatitis C (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 02:09 PM PST

AP - Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson says he will run for re-election even though he is still being treated for hepatitis C.

Analysis: Obama tied to health bill's fate (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 01:59 PM PST

President Barack Obama, right, stands with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., during the House Democratic Caucus retreat at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - For months, President Barack Obama has owned the health care legislation that's struggling to cross the finish line in Congress.


Food, water coming to earthquake-ravaged Haiti (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 01:00 PM PST

U.S. troops with the 82nd Airborne Division carry boxes of military meals for earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010. Relief groups and officials are focused on moving aid flowing into Haiti to survivors of the powerful earthquake that hit the country on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - More food, water and relief supplies are on the way to Haiti from the U.S.


Obama's Democrats risk disaster in Senate election (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 12:23 PM PST

US Senate democratic nominee Martha Coakley waves to the crowd during a rally on January 15, at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. President Barack Obama flies to Boston Sunday to try to avert defeat for the Democrats in a Senate by-election that threatens to end up killing his biggest domestic initiative.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Darren McCollester)AFP - President Barack Obama flies to Boston Sunday to try to avert defeat for the Democrats in a Senate by-election that threatens to end up killing his biggest domestic initiative.


Obama, Bush and Clinton launch Haiti aid appeal (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 09:20 AM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama is joined by former U.S. Presidents George W. Bush (R) and Bill Clinton (L) in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington January 16, 2010. REUTERS/Larry DowningReuters - U.S. President Barack Obama, flanked by his predecessors George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, on Saturday said the two former presidents would lead a national drive to raise money for Haiti's earthquake survivors.


US death toll in Haiti quake rises to 15 (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 09:09 AM PST

AP - The State Department says the U.S. death toll in the Haiti earthquake has risen to 15.

Obama taps Bush, Clinton for Haiti relief role (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 08:45 AM PST

AP - President Barack Obama says the Haitian earthquake relief effort will not be measured in days or weeks, but in months and even years.

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