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Yahoo! News: Elections


Bill Clinton has two stents placed in heart artery (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 05:24 PM PST

In this Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 photo, former President Bill Clinton attends the SOS Saving Ourselves Help for Haiti concert in Miami, Fla. (AP Photo/Donald Traill)AP - Former President Bill Clinton, who had quadruple bypass surgery more than five years ago, was hospitalized Thursday to have a clogged heart artery opened after suffering chest pains. Two stents resembling tiny mesh scaffolds were placed inside the artery as part of a medical procedure that is common for people with severe heart disease.


Dems offer smaller jobs bill in bid for support (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 05:13 PM PST

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D- Nev., speaks to the media following a meeting with the Senate Democratic Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Stung by criticism that a bipartisan jobs bill emerging in the Senate wouldn't create many jobs, Senate Democrats on Thursday proposed a new, stripped-down version they hope will still get support from both Republicans and Democrats.


Dodd finds new GOP partner for banking bill talks (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 04:17 PM PST

Key US lawmaker Chris Dodd, pictured in January 2010, chairman of the powerful Senate Banking Committee, teamed up with Republican Bob Corker Thursday to announce a joint plan to regulate the US financial system.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Kris Connor)AP - After all the talk, some glimmers of real bipartisanship. Senate Democrats and Republicans are looking for a few dry patches of common ground, showing mixed results on a jobs bill and new hope for legislation aimed at avoiding another financial meltdown.


SPIN METER: Regional air safety gains questioned (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 01:50 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2009 file photo, a plane burns after it crashed into a house in Clarence Center, N.Y. For months, Federal Aviation Administration chief Randy Babbitt has been talking up safety initiatives his agency launched after a regional airliner crashed near Buffalo, N.Y., a year ago, killing 50 people. After releasing a 200-page report on those efforts last month, he declared himself 'very pleased with the progress.' (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)AP - A year after the fiery crash of a regional airliner killed 50 people near Buffalo, N.Y., regulators have missed their own deadlines for overhauling pilot-fatigue rules and are still rewriting regulations to improve crew training. They also haven't done anything to address tiring long-distance commutes by regional companies' pilots.


Can Gregg help W.H. save health bill? (Politico)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 01:39 AM PST

Politico - Is Judd Gregg a tease or a real potential partner for President Barack Obama in trying to salvage some health care reform in this Congress?

Toyota president expected to travel to US in March (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 05:07 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2010, Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda, speaks to reporters after meeting with Japan's Transport Minister Seiji Maehara at the ministry in Tokyo, Japan. Toyota's top executive has delayed a visit to the United States until early March, a news report said Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010, amid a call by a lawmaker that he testify before Congress this month about the automaker's safety lapses. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)AP - Toyota's top executive is expected to visit the United States in early March amid pressure from a House Republican that the company's leader testify before Congress about the automaker's safety lapses.


Obama to address Hampton U. and Michigan graduates (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 05:02 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks at a Black History Month event celebrating the music of the Civil Rights Movement in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama will deliver commencement addresses this spring at the University of Michigan and Virginia's Hampton University.


Defense source: US to spread training in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 02:53 PM PST

A boy and his sibling, injured in a suicide attack, await treatment at a hospital in Bannu, located in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province February 11, 2010. Two suspected suicide bombers attacked police in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday killing 15 people and wounding about 20, including a town police chief, a doctor and police said. The bombing in Bannu town, 260 km (160 miles) southwest of Islamabad and near the North Waziristan militant enclave on the Afghan border, was the second attack on police in as many days.  REUTERS/Stringer   (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)AP - The U.S. military is planning to set up new training centers inside Pakistan where American special operations trainers would work with Pakistani forces close to the Afghan border battle zone, a senior defense official said.


American Indian tribes get $1B in stimulus funds (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 03:13 PM PST

AP - Seventy-six American Indian tribes across the country will share $1 billion in economic stimulus money to help create jobs and revitalize Indian communities.

Obama report: 95,000 jobs to come each month (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 02:05 PM PST

Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christina Romer briefs reporters at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - The United States is likely to add an average of 95,900 more jobs each month this year, while personal savings will remain high as credit remains tight, according to a White House report released Thursday.


Texas gov. candidate questions any US role in 9/11 (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 05:25 PM PST

Texas Gov. Rick Perry addresses an oil and gas conference Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010 in Houston.  (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - A Republican gubernatorial candidate said Thursday she has questions about whether the U.S. government was involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — a statement she swiftly backed away from and one that drew immediate criticism from her better-known rivals in the race.


Obama wishes Clinton a speedy recovery (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 04:38 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama has called Bill Clinton to wish him a speedy recovery.

Nevada Lt. Gov. won't seek race against Harry Reid (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 03:58 PM PST

AP - Nevada Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki says he won't seek the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Harry Reid, despite months of courting from top party leaders in Washington.

Obama pins hope for growth on exports, investment (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 03:09 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama's administration said on Thursday that exports and investment would drive future U.S. economic growth and provide a more solid basis for prosperity than past reliance on consumption.

Woman asks Obama to cut 27-year term for crack (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 02:37 PM PST

AP - A woman serving a 27-year prison term for a crack cocaine conspiracy is asking President Barack Obama to use his power of forgiveness for the first time since taking office to commute her sentence.

Clinton says Blair to play bigger role in Mideast (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 02:13 PM PST

Elders of the community walk near the flag-draped coffin of Israeli soldier Ihab Chattib during his funeral in the northern Druze-Arab village of Maghar February 11, 2010. A Palestinian police officer stabbed and killed Chattib in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the military said, in an attack that could place more strain on U.S. efforts to revive Middle East peace talks. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen (ISRAEL - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST IMAGES OF THE DAY)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is going to play a bigger role in efforts to get Israel and the Palestinians back to peace talks by intensifying his partnership with special U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell.


Call for clean slate on health reform divides U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 01:47 PM PST

Reuters - Americans are deeply divided over demands by U.S. Republicans that bills backed by President Barack Obama to reform the $2.5 trillion health system be scrapped and the whole process be started again from scratch.

US Senate unveils pared-down jobs bill (AFP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 01:39 PM PST

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus (L) talks with ranking member Sen. Charles Grassley (R) during a meeting in Washington, DC in 2009. Baucus and Grassley unveiled a jobs package on Thursday that offers tax breaks and construction projects to boost the economy and aid to those hunting for work.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Win Mcnamee)AFP - President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in the US Senate pushed a pared-down jobs package on Thursday, aiming for speedy passage amid election-year worries about high unemployment.


States get new leeway to tally prisoners in census (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 01:35 PM PST

U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert M. Groves walks out of the home of eighty-nine year-old village elder and World War II veteran Clifton Jackson in Noorvik, Alaska in this January 25, 2010 handout. Jackson became the first citizen in the nation to be enumerated for the 2010 Census. When the U.S. Census Bureau's 2010 population count officially kicks off on Monday, the roughly 600 residents of a remote Inupiat Eskimo village in Alaska are due to be the first citizens to be tallied.   REUTERS/Al Grillo/U.S. Census Bureau/Handout   (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY POLITICS) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNSAP - Prisoners will soon be bigger players in those high-stakes redistricting fights, even if unwittingly, thanks to a change in federal policy governing how they're to be counted in the 2010 census.


US dismisses Iran's uranium claims (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 01:34 PM PST

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs gestures during a press briefing at the White House, in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - The Obama administration on Thursday dismissed Iran's contention that it is enriching uranium at a higher level than before and accused the Iranian government of mounting an unprecedented crackdown on the opposition to quell protests on the anniversary of the Islamic revolution.


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