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Yahoo! News: Elections


What does Brown change? Nearly everything for Dems (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 03:43 PM PST

Sen.-elect Scott Brown, R-Mass. arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday,  Feb. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - Washington confronted a new world order Thursday as the Democrats' supermajority died, taking with it much of President Barack Obama's agenda and any certainty of his party maintaining control of Congress.


Law official: Airline bomb suspect flips on cleric (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 02:15 PM PST

This Dec. 2009 photo released by the U.S. Marshal's Service shows Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in Milan, Mich.  A grand jury indicted Abdulmutallab on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010 on charges accusing him of attempting to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day by trying to use a weapon of mass destruction.  (AP Photo/U.S. Marshal's Service)AP - The Nigerian suspect in a failed Christmas Day airliner bombing turned against the cleric who claims to be his teacher and has helped the U.S. hunt for the radical preacher, a law enforcement official said Thursday.


Sen. Landrieu defends Medicaid deal for La. (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 04:15 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2009, file photo, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., right, talks with an aide on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democrats say they never saw it coming, but the breakdown of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul was abetted by their own mistakes.  (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)AP - Called a prostitute by conservative talk show hosts, a Louisiana Democrat on Thursday defended a deal she cut for her Hurricane Katrina-ravaged state in the Senate health care bill.


House agrees to $1.9 trillion more debt (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 02:15 PM PST

Graphic shows statutory debt limits set by Congress from 1990 to presentAP - The House on Thursday voted to allow the government to go $1.9 trillion deeper in debt — an increase of about $6,000 more for every U.S. resident that provided a vivid election-year reminder of the nation's perilous financial condition.


GOP cash provides 2012 clues (Politico)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 08:38 PM 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 - The battle for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination quietly began last year — maybe not for the candidates, but for their political groups.


Pentagon to offer emergency contraception abroad (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 03:57 PM PST

AP - The Pentagon for the first time will require military bases worldwide to offer emergency contraception or the so-called morning-after pill, a military spokeswoman said Thursday.

Obama tells Democrats to keep faith (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 05:46 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks during a Democratic National Committee (DNC) fundraising event in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama rallied his party faithful on Thursday — and took their campaign donations — while telling them that he understands their frustration that Washington hasn't changed during the first year of his presidency.


Dalai Lama to meet Obama at White House this month (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 11:38 AM PST

The Dalai Lama delivers a speech in Washington, DC in October 2009. The White House is standing tough on President Barack Obama's plans to meet with the Dalai Lama, firmly rejecting Chinese pressure to snub him as rows escalate between Washington and Beijing.(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)AP - President Barack Obama will welcome the Dalai Lama to the White House this month for a meeting sure to enflame tensions between China and the U.S.


Pentagon seeks billions to battle terror abroad (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 12:26 PM PST

AP - The Obama administration is seeking billions in budget increases to target terror threats from abroad, especially Pakistan and Yemen, with boosts for surveillance and attack drones, special operations forces and a new military cyber command.

Obama says healthcare may be 2010 election issue (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 05:20 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks during a Democratic National Committee (DNC) fundraising dinner in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Reuters - President Barack Obama vowed on Thursday not to quit in his quest for a healthcare overhaul and said if the effort fails this year, Americans will render a judgment about it in November congressional elections.


Franken lays into Ax over health bill (Politico)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 04:47 PM PST

Politico - Sen. Al Franken ripped into White House senior adviser David Axelrod this week during a tense, closed-door session with Senate Democrats.

Obama warns voters will judge Congress on health care (AFP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 04:41 PM PST

US President Barack Obama delivers remarks at DNC fundraising reception in Washington. Obama Thursday sharply warned lawmakers, including those in his Democratic Party, that they must answer to voters if they balk at passing his long-delayed health reforms.(AFP/Yuri Gripas)AFP - US President Barack Obama Thursday sharply warned lawmakers, including those in his Democratic Party, that they must answer to voters if they balk at passing his long-delayed health reforms.


Senate Democrats muster all 60 votes one last time (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 04:02 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama called for more civility and bipartisanship at a prayer breakfast on Thursday, but Congress kept to its old ways with a party-line Senate vote on a long-stalled administration nominee and partisan barbs after another stalled nominee was overwhelmingly approved.

Toyota woes mount as gov't examines Prius brakes (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 03:11 PM PST

2010 Toyoto Prius cars are lined-up in a dealership lot in Seattle, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Toyota faced mounting pressure Thursday as the government opened a probe of brake problems with the Prius, a crown jewel of its lineup. The beleaguered automaker said it was "too soon" to decide whether to add the hybrid to the millions of cars it has recalled.


Brown sworn in as US senator from Massachusetts (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 03:24 PM PST

This frame grab video image provided by Senate Television shows Vice President Joe Biden administering the oath to Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, on the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sen. John Kerry, D-mass., right, and outgoing Massachusetts Sen. Paul Kirk, second from right, look on. (AP Photo/Senate Television)AP - Republican Scott Brown took over the seat of the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy on Thursday, vowing to be an independent voice in a bitterly divided Senate.


Rounds says he pushed for SD in energy meeting (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 02:42 PM PST

AP - Gov. Mike Rounds said Thursday he pushed for federal action that would help South Dakota develop ethanol plants and wind-generated electrical power when he met this week with President Barack Obama and top federal officials.

Court to rule on deporting Obama's aunt by May (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 02:14 PM PST

Reuters - Authorities will decide by May at the latest whether to deport an aunt of President Barack Obama to her Kenyan homeland, the Justice Department said after a hearing in her case on Thursday.

House backs debt limit hike, sends to Obama (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 01:51 PM PST

Reuters - The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to increase the government's borrowing authority to $14.3 trillion, sending the measure to President Barack Obama to sign into law.

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