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Yahoo! News: Elections


Toyota recalls won't 'totally' fix sudden surges (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 05:21 PM PST

James E. Lentz, president and chief operating officer, Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc., testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010, before the House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing on Toyota. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Massive recalls of popular Toyota cars and trucks still may "not totally" solve frightening problems of sudden, unintended acceleration, the company's American sales chief conceded Tuesday, a day before the Japanese president of the world's largest automaker must confront angry U.S. lawmakers.


Navy will soon let women serve on subs (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 01:46 PM PST

A Los Angeles-class attack submarine. The US navy has decided to allow women to serve on submarines, Pentagon officials said on Tuesday, ending one of the last all-male bastions in the American military.(AFP/NVNS/File)AP - The Pentagon has moved to lift a decades-old policy that prohibits women from serving aboard Navy submarines, part of a gradual reconsideration of women's roles in a military fighting two wars whose front lines can be anywhere.


GOP's Brown branded turncoat for jobs bill vote (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 05:21 PM PST

Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., talks to reporters after he voted for cloture on the Jobs Bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 22, 2010. A bipartisan jobs bill cleared a GOP filibuster with critical momentum provided by the Senate's newest Republican. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - A month after being crowned the darling of national conservatives, Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts is being branded "Benedict Brown" for siding with Democrats in favor of a jobs bill endorsed by the Obama administration.


Chiefs warn against lifting gay ban too quickly (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 05:21 PM PST

Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey, right, and Army Secretary John McHugh, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010, before the the Senate Armed Services Committee. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)AP - Top Army and Air Force officers said Tuesday they would be reluctant to overturn a 17-year policy that prohibits gays from serving openly in the military without more time to ascertain it won't hurt the services.


The Obama plan (Politico)

Posted: 22 Feb 2010 07:01 AM PST

Politico - President Barack Obama released a $950 billion health care reform proposal Monday aimed at pleasing the warring wings of his own party and bringing along skeptical voters, in part by including a provision to put off an unpopular tax on high-cost health insurance plans until 2018.

Experts say US must do more to secure the Internet (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 03:39 PM PST

AP - The government must take a more active role in securing the Internet, industry experts told Congress Tuesday, arguing that as businesses and governments rely more on cyberspace the prospect of a serious attack grows.

Gates: NATO, in crisis, must change its ways (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 01:02 PM PST

Crew Chief Spc. Timothy Johns, left, of Mitchell, S.D., with Task Force Pegasus, waits while a British Army soldier refuels his Black Hawk helicopter following a medevac mission, at Camp Bastion, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday Feb. 20, 2010. Pegasus crews have come under fire daily while on missions evacuating those wounded as U.S. and Afghan troops take part in the assault in the Taliban-held town of Marjah. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - With the war in Afghanistan as his guide, Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday called for sweeping changes in the way NATO prepares for and fights nontraditional conflicts.


Hutchison: Perry's tactics tough on her campaign (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:36 PM PST

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) and gubernatorial candidate speaks at a news conference Monday, Feb. 22, 2010 in Houston. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison acknowledged Tuesday that Republican Gov. Rick Perry has succeeded at casting her as a Washington insider, hindering her effort to kick him out of the Texas governor's mansion.


AP source: New full-body scanners for 2 airports (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 05:08 PM PST

A woman raises her arms in a new full body scanner on the first day of a three-month test at Charles de Gaulle airport, north of Paris, Monday Feb. 22, 2010. The scanner, that can see through clothes of travelers, could be used for flights heading to the United States, although the French parliament will discuss concerns over whether the devices invade travelers' privacy or pose health risks. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - The first of 150 full-body scanners planned for U.S. airports will be installed in Boston next week, officials said Tuesday.


Dems, GOP: Summit will not break logjam on health (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 05:21 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama speaks in the White House press briefing room in Washington. Obama has summoned both Democrats and Republicans to a White House summit to be cast live on C-SPAN and perhaps cable Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010, gambling that he can save his embattled health care overhaul by the power of persuasion.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - Here's one point on which Democrats and Republicans agree on health care: President Barack Obama's much-touted televised summit has virtually no chance of breaking the political logjam. That means Democrats will be forced to find a way to pass an overhaul on their own or face a huge political defeat.


Lawyer for Edwards' mistress accuse aide of theft (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 03:13 PM PST

Andrew Young, former aide to former Senator John Edwards, talks with his attorney Robert Elliott during a hearing at the Orange County Superior Court House in Hillsborough, N.C., Tuesday Feb. 23, 2010. John Edwards former mistress, Rielle Hunter, has sued Young for invasion of privacy. Attorneys for Young want to watch a tape purportedly showing the former presidential candidate in a sexual encounter with his pregnant mistress.   (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis)AP - Attorneys for John Edwards' mistress on Tuesday accused a former aide to the Democratic presidential candidate of theft after he turned over a video camera that belonged to the woman.


Obama urges repeal of insurers antitrust exemption (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 03:03 PM PST

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs briefs reporters at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama urged Congress on Tuesday to strip health insurers of their decades-old exemption from federal antitrust laws — hardening his stand against the industry as he tries to revive his stalled health care overhaul.


Georgia plans federal lawsuit over voter checks (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 02:43 PM PST

AP - Georgia plans to sue the Obama administration after the Justice Department for the third time blocked the state's efforts to check the citizenship of newly registering voters.

Obama backs repeal of insurer antitrust exemption (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 02:19 PM PST

Reuters - The Obama administration on Tuesday threw its weight behind a bid to repeal an anti-trust exemption protecting health insurers, keeping the industry in its crosshairs as it prepares to host a bipartisan summit on revamping healthcare.

High court weighs anti-terror material support law (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 12:36 PM PST

AP - The Supreme Court struggled Tuesday to balance the constitutional rights of humanitarian aid groups with the government's efforts to combat terrorism.

White House recommits to "Volcker rule" trade ban (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 12:12 PM PST

Reuters - The Obama administration said on Tuesday it is still committed to the "Volcker rule" to ban risky trading by banks, although Congress looks increasingly unlikely to adopt the rule as proposed.

Pennsylvania loved Obama in '08, but ardor is gone (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 12:12 PM PST

US President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC on February 22. China on Tuesday demanded the United States McClatchy Newspapers - READING, Pa. — Elden Buck, a self-described independent, voted for President Barack Obama in 2008, persuaded by the then-candidate's pledge to remake Washington.


Romney backs former rival McCain for re-election (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 10:53 AM PST

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - Mitt Romney is endorsing former rival John McCain as the 2008 Republican presidential nominee fights to keep his Senate seat.


White House to welcome French president next month (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 10:47 AM PST

AP - President Barack Obama will welcome France's President Nicolas Sarkozy to the White House on March 30.

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