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Yahoo! News: Elections


Toyota probe grows with questions on Prius brakes (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 05:38 PM PST

FILE - In this June 5, 2009 file photo, a Toyota Motor Corp. worker gives the final examination on an newly assembled 2010 Prius at Toyota Tsutsumi Plant in Toyota, central Japan. The Japanese government said Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 it has received 14 complaints in Japan about brake problems with the popular hybrid. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)AP - Americans should park their recalled Toyotas unless driving to dealers for accelerator repairs, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood warned Wednesday — then quickly took it back — as skepticism of company fixes grew and the government's probe expanded to other models in the U.S. and Japan. Questions now are being raised about the brakes on Toyota's marquee Prius hybrid.


Holder: I made decision to charge terror suspect (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 05:38 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2009 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a news  conference at the Justice Department in Washington. Holder said Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010, he made the decision to charge the Christmas Day terror suspect in civilian court rather than the military system, with no objection from all the other relevant departments of the government. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday he made the decision to charge the Christmas Day terror suspect in civilian court rather than the military system, with no objection from all the other relevant departments of the government.


Dems, GOP, warily eye issue of gays in military (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 04:42 PM PST

Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen, right, accompanied by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing onthe 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - For many lawmakers, "don't ask, don't tell" makes a lot of sense — for themselves. Ten months before elections, neither party sees much to gain in stirring up the once-volatile issue of letting gays serve openly in the military. Any candidate who isn't laser-focused on jobs is making a big mistake, strategists from both parties said Wednesday, noting that public support for gay rights has grown substantially in recent years.


Obama prescribes election plan to Democrats: Lead (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 05:38 PM PST

President Barack Obama listens to questions at the Senate Democratic Policy Committee Issues Conference, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010, at the Newseum in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - In a blunt election prescription for his own skittish party, President Barack Obama on Wednesday implored Democratic leaders to swing big, be honest with an angry public and expose any obstructionism by Republicans.


Palin's got Ohio on her mind (Politico)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 01:47 AM PST

In this photo taken Sunday, July, 26, 2009, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gives her resignation speech during a ceremony in Fairbanks, Alaska. The fallout from Palin's hasty retreat as governor is being cleaned up by the man she appointed attorney general in her waning days in office. Attorney General Dan Sullivan has proposed broad changes to Alaska's ethics rules that Palin complained helped drive her out.  (AP Photo/Al Grillo)Politico - Sarah Palin’s political action committee has been selective and strategic in its donations to candidates over the past six months, but if money is any indication of where her heart lies, her political loyalties can be traced to Ohio.


Clinton says no prisoner swap with Iran (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 04:36 PM PST

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheik Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa, meet reporters at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 3,2010, during a media availability. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday ruled out Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's suggestion that three detained American hikers in Iran be swapped with Iranian citizens held in the United States.


Obama's words fail to bridge health care divide (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 04:53 PM PST

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., listens to President Barack Obama, right, during the Senate Democratic Policy Committee Issues Conference, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010, at the Newseum in Washington.  Just weeks ago, it seemed inconceivable that Republicans could win control of Congress this fall. Not anymore. Almost by the day, Republicans are sensing fresh opportunities to pick up ground. Just Wednesday, former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats announced he would try to reclaim his old seat from Democrat Evan Bayh, who barely a year ago had been a finalist to be Barack Obama's running mate. And Republicans nationwide are still celebrating Scott Brown's January upset to take Edward Kennedy's former seat in Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama exhorted Democrats to "finish the job" on a health care overhaul Wednesday, but his comments failed to bridge deep divisions within his party.


Swiss taking Uighur brothers held by US since 2002 (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 01:54 PM PST

AP - A decision by Switzerland to give a home to two Chinese Muslim brothers detained at Guantanamo Bay for nearly eight years could allow the Obama administration to avoid a difficult Supreme Court argument over whether a judge can order detainees released into the United States.

Obama pushes energy plan that GOP may support (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 04:19 PM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama is seen in the East Room of the White House in Washington in this January 8, 2010 file photo. China warned Obama on Wednesday that a meeting between him and the Dalai Lama would further erode ties between the two powers, already troubled by Washington's arms sales to Taiwan. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/FilesAP - Looking for a political and policy victory, President Barack Obama on Wednesday pushed energy proposals designed to attract allies and opponents alike, calling for increased ethanol production and new technology to limit pollution from the use of coal.


Gates: Don't rush to lift ban on gays in military (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 05:40 PM PST

Defense Secretary Robert Gates testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010, before the House Armed Services Committee hearing on the Defense Department's fiscal 2011 budget. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The United States should not rush into a change as large as repealing the ban on gays serving openly in the military without making sure the people it affects are on board, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday.


The Presidency in pictures (The Newsroom)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 05:47 PM PST

White House photographer Pete Souza takes a picture of President Barack Obama and workers before he serves lunch to people at So Others Might Eat, a social services organization, in Washington Monday, Jan. 18, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)The Newsroom - One year in, things are looking less than ideal for President Obama. Ted Kennedy's Senate seat has flipped to a Republican, the President's proposed budget has come under fire for its $1.56 trillion deficit, and his health-care reform package appears to be in serious jeopardy. But New York's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has announced plans that may cheer him up.


Brown demands to be sworn in earlier than planned (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 05:38 PM PST

Sen.-elect Scott Brown, second from left, sits with Boston FM radio personality Greg Hill, second from right, during a so-called 'beer summit' at a bar in Boston's South End neighborhood, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. Brown agreed to the beer summit during a September 2009 radio interview. Ten winners of a raffle held to benefit the charity Homes for Our Troops attended the get together in the bar. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown changed course and demanded he be sworn in to replace the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on Thursday, an accelerated timetable that conservatives had been clamoring for and one that Democrats quickly accepted — and had already been moving to accommodate.


Confusion the winner in Ill. governor primaries (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 05:38 PM PST

Robert Piekosz, and Latasha Lee, forground, count paper ballots from yesterday Illinois primary election with other employees at the Cook County Board of Elections Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010, in Chicago. Workers at a warehouse on the west side counted 635 paper ballots that came from 13 of 24 precincts in suburban Cook County where there were issues transmitting ballots on Tuesday. Cook County Clerk David Orr says each vote is crucial_especially for several close races in Illinois' primary election that remain undecided. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - The primary election that was expected to launch a political battle in President Barack Obama's home state instead left Democrats and Republicans squabbling amongst themselves Wednesday over governor's races that were virtually tied.


Senate close to deal on credit for adding workers (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 04:30 PM PST

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., left, accompanied by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. talks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010, to dicuss campaign finance reform after the Supreme Court ruling. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)AP - Key Democrats and Republicans neared agreement Wednesday on plans to give businesses a tax break for hiring unemployed workers, a rare glimmer of bipartisanship in Congress that could hand President Barack Obama a badly needed political victory.


Obama keeps North Korea off US terror list (AFP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 04:09 PM PST

This undated picture, released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency in 2009 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il inspecting a Unhung Cooperative Farm in Thaechon County in North Pyongan province. President Barack Obama certified that North Korea would remain off the US list of terrorist states, despite some calls from Congress for the Stalinist state to be put back on.(AFP/KCNA/KNS/File)AFP - President Barack Obama on Wednesday certified that North Korea would remain off the US list of terrorist states, despite some calls from Congress for the Stalinist state to be put back on.


Obama aunt girds for new bid to avoid deportation (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 04:07 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2009 file photo, President Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, speaks to The Associated Press during an interview in her home in Boston. She will make a second bid for political asylum as she goes before an immigration judge Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, to argue that she should be allowed to stay in the United States. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)AP - President Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenya native who once cared for his siblings, defied a deportation order in 2004 and became a political liability for her famous nephew, is preparing to make her case in federal Immigration Court that she be allowed to stay in the United States.


China warns against Obama-Dalai Lama meeting (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 03:10 PM PST

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama gestures during a talk to an audience in Melbourne in this December 10, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Mick TsikasReuters - China warned President Barack Obama on Wednesday that a meeting with the Dalai Lama would further erode ties between the two powers, already troubled by Washington's arms sales to Taiwan.


Ex-Ind. Sen. Coats to take on Dem Bayh (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 02:48 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2005 file photo, then-former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats leaves the White House in Washington. In a recruiting coup, Coats plans to challenge Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana in November, Republican officials said Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)AP - In a recruiting coup, former Republican Sen. Dan Coats said Wednesday he's preparing to challenge Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana in November, a potential matchup already generating tough talk.


Obama eyes biofuels, clean coal in new climate push (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 02:14 PM PST

A process operator shows a handful of corn at the GreenField Ethanol plant in Chatham, Ontario, in this April 10, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Mark Blinch/FilesReuters - President Barack Obama laid out new steps on Wednesday to nudge the United States toward energy independence, backing measures to boost production of biofuels and bury pollution from coal.


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