Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Gone fishing: Secret hunt for a sunken Soviet sub (AP)
• Failure of health care overhaul will add more woes (AP)
• Obama names special envoy to global Islamic group (AP)
• Now Tweeting: White House press secretary Gibbs (AP)
• Tauzin to step down from PhRMA (Politico)
• Obama says new budget rules will rein in spending (AP)
• British general says no casualties in offensive (AP)
• Obama nuke plant loan reflects new energy strategy (AP)
• Obama getting briefed on Afghanistan operation (AP)
• Providence mayor to run for Patrick Kennedy's seat (AP)
• Obama names U.S. envoy to Muslim world body (Reuters)
• String of Iraq bomb attacks target poll candidates (Reuters)
• Obama Touts Fiscal Discipline, Chides Congress in Weekly Address (CQPolitics.com)
• Why Cheney attacks (Politico)
• Obama keeps focus on deficit cuts in radio address (Reuters)
• Obama to give nuclear loan guarantee to Southern Co (Reuters)
• AP source: Lamont to announce Conn. governor bid (AP)

Gone fishing: Secret hunt for a sunken Soviet sub (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 03:07 PM PST AP - In 1974, far out in the Pacific, a U.S. ship pretending to be a deep-sea mining vessel fished a sunken Soviet nuclear-armed submarine out of the ocean depths, took what it could of the wreck and made off to Hawaii with its purloined prize.

Failure of health care overhaul will add more woes (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 02:24 PM PST AP - What could be worse than health care overhaul? No health care overhaul.

Obama names special envoy to global Islamic group (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 02:01 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama on Saturday named a White House lawyer as his special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, part of his continuing effort to repair strained U.S. relations with the world's Muslims.

Now Tweeting: White House press secretary Gibbs (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 04:28 PM PST AP - White House press secretary Robert Gibbs has a new way to communicate directly to people — Twitter.

Tauzin to step down from PhRMA (Politico) Posted: 11 Feb 2010 09:55 PM PST Politico - Billy Tauzin, the backslapping former Louisiana congressman who went on to earn $2 million a year as head of the drug industry's powerful Washington trade group, is stepping down from his post in June.

Obama says new budget rules will rein in spending (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 11:09 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama said Saturday new budget rules that say spending cuts must accompany spending increases will force Congress to "pay for what it spends, just like everybody else."

British general says no casualties in offensive (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 11:17 PM PST AP - The British commander of the massive force of American, British and Afghan soldiers hammering at Taliban insurgents in the strategic south Afghanistan town of Marjah says his troops have made substantial progress without any casualties.

Obama nuke plant loan reflects new energy strategy (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 03:44 PM PST AP - The Obama administration's planned loan guarantee to build the first nuclear power plant in the U.S in almost three decades is part of a broad shift in energy strategy to lessen dependence on foreign oil and reduce the use of other fossil fuels blamed for global warming.

Obama getting briefed on Afghanistan operation (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 04:56 PM PST AP - A White House spokesman says President Barack Obama is keeping a close watch on combat operations in Afghanistan, getting multiple updates as thousands of U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers storm a Taliban stronghold.

Providence mayor to run for Patrick Kennedy's seat (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 03:29 PM PST AP - The mayor of Providence, R.I., and a former state Democratic Party official are running for Patrick Kennedy's U.S. House seat.

Obama names U.S. envoy to Muslim world body (Reuters) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 01:29 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama on Saturday named a new special envoy to a top Islamic body to deepen Washington's cooperation with the Muslim world.

String of Iraq bomb attacks target poll candidates (Reuters) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 01:11 PM PST Reuters - A string of bombings targeted groups taking part in Iraq's March election late on Saturday, wounding seven people, an Interior Ministry official said.

Obama Touts Fiscal Discipline, Chides Congress in Weekly Address (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 01:08 PM PST CQPolitics.com - President Barack Obama used his weekly radio address on Saturday to tout his signature of "pay-as-you-go" budget-neutral legislation into law on Friday.

Why Cheney attacks (Politico) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 12:09 PM PST Politico - Former Vice President Cheney will appear on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, and it’s a safe bet what he will say: President Barack Obama projects weakness to terrorists and puts American lives at risk.

Obama keeps focus on deficit cuts in radio address (Reuters) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 03:19 AM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama on Saturday touted the importance of long-term deficit reduction, saying the United States must go through its budget line by line and figure out ways to save money.

Obama to give nuclear loan guarantee to Southern Co (Reuters) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 06:05 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama will announce an $8.3 billion loan guarantee next week for Southern Co to build and operate the first new U.S. nuclear power plant in nearly three decades, an administration official said on Friday.

AP source: Lamont to announce Conn. governor bid (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 05:57 PM PST AP - Ned Lamont, the political upstart who challenged U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman four years ago, plans to officially announce his bid for Connecticut governor next week, according to a state Democratic official.

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