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Yahoo! News: Elections


Some House foes eye switch to 'yes' on health care (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 05:13 PM PST

President Barack Obama greets Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz. in the Blair House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010, prior to the start of the health care reform summit. At left is House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio.  (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Nine House Democrats indicated in an Associated Press survey Monday they have not ruled out switching their "no" votes to "yes" on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, brightening the party's hopes in the face of unyielding Republican opposition.


Candidates make last sweep before Texas primary (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 05:13 PM PST

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, comments to supporters in a bagel shop, during a campaign stop in Tyler, Texas on the day before the Republican Primary against Gov. Rick Perry and Debra Medina in her candidacy for the Republican nomination for Texas governor on Monday, March 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman)AP - With the clock ticking in a rough Republican primary, Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison swept through the urban areas of Texas on Monday seeking votes in their gubernatorial showdown.


Vulnerable Ark. Dem faces Senate primary challenge (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 05:14 PM PST

U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., speaks at the opening of her campaign headquarters in Little Rock, Ark., Monday, March 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP - Faced with a primary challenge from Arkansas' lieutenant governor, Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln found herself in the precarious position Monday of fending off angry liberal activists on the left as well as conservative Republicans on the right in her effort to keep her seat in the Senate.


2,000 transportation workers idled over impasse (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 05:13 PM PST

FILE - In this July 29, 2009 file photo, Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky. takes part in a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Two thousand federal transportation workers will be furloughed without pay on Monday, and the Obama administration said they have the Kentucky senator to blame for it. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - Jobless benefits suddenly ended for some laid-off workers, Medicare payments to doctors were delayed and 2,000 federal transportation workers were sent home Monday in a spending dispute tinged with election-year politics.


Defense company BAE Systems enters guilty plea (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 03:49 PM PST

Defence giant BAE Systems is to pay fines of nearly 450 million dollars to settle corruption charges with Britain's Serious Fraud Office and the US Department of Justice, the firm said(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AP - Defense company BAE Systems PLC pleaded guilty to conspiracy on Monday and a judge imposed a $400 million fine, among the largest in the Justice Department's efforts to combat overseas corruption in international business.


Biden defends bailouts before labor leaders (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 01:50 PM PST

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden attends a town hall meeting at the University of Tampa Bob Martinez Sports Center in Tampa, Florida, January 28, 2010.  REUTERS/Larry DowningAP - Vice President Joe Biden told AFL-CIO leaders Monday that the government bailouts of the banking and auto industries were necessary steps the Obama administration needed to take before it could tackle causes important to organized labor.


Obama seeks money, interventions to stem dropouts (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 02:08 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks at The America's Promise Alliance Education event, hosted by Alliance Founding Chairman Colin Powell and his wife and Alliance Chair Alma Powell, Monday, march 1, 2010, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama on Monday addressed the nation's school dropout epidemic, proposing $900 million to states and school districts that agree to drastically change or even shutter their worst performing schools.


High court hears ex-Enron CEO Skilling's appeal (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 12:39 PM PST

Jeff Skilling (C), former Enron CEO, and attorney Daniel Petrocelli (R) are escorted by federal marshals, away from Houston Federal court October 23, 2006. REUTERS/Tim JohnsonAP - The Supreme Court appeared troubled Monday by the selection of the jury that convicted former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling as well as the use of a federal fraud law against him.


Polite or panicky may depend on time to react (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 12:15 PM PST

FILE - In this May 1, 1915 black-and-white file photo, the ocean liner Lusitania, under British registration, leaves New York on its last voyage. When the ship is sinking is it really women and children first, or every man for himself? The answer, it seems, may depend on how fast it's going down. Comparing who survived two of history's most famous sinkings — the Titanic and the Lusitania — indicates sharply different behavior on the two doomed vessels, neither of which had enough available lifeboats for all passengers. (AP Photo, File)AP - When the ship is sinking is it really women and children first, or every man for himself? The answer, it seems, may depend on how fast it's going down.


Ford won't run against Gillibrand in NY for Senate (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 05:28 PM PST

FILE - In this file photo of Monday, Jan. 25, 2010, Harold Ford Jr. visits the Capitol in Albany, N.Y.  A person close to Ford said Monday, March 1, 2010, that Ford will not run against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in the New York Democratic  primary.  (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)AP - Former Tennessee congressman Harold Ford Jr. says he's decided not to challenge Kirsten Gillibrand (KEHR'-sten JIL'-uh-brand) for U.S. Senate in New York's Democratic primary because he doesn't want to divide the party.


Desserts to blame for Obama's higher cholesterol (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 02:14 PM PST

President Barack Obama walks across Lafayette Park as he returns to the White House in Washington, Monday, March 1, 2010, after speaking at The America's Promise Alliance Education event at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Poll results, congressional head counts and federal deficits aren't the only numbers President Barack Obama has to worry about. Now, he's trying to walk off a marginally high cholesterol count.


Clinton ferrying satellite gear to quake-hit Chile (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 01:53 PM PST

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton wave as she arrives to the Legislative Palace to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Uruguay's President Jose Mujica in Montevideo, Monday, March 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Andres Cuenca)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday she will bring 20 satellite phones and a technician with her when she visits earthquake-damaged Chile.


US report: Drug runners shifting south from Mexico (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 01:00 PM PST

AP - Drug traffickers are adjusting to law enforcement pressures in Mexico by shifting their operations to smuggling corridors in Central America and the Caribbean, the State Department said Monday.

Romney set for warmup to 2012 run with new book (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 12:47 PM PST

The cover of Mitt Romney's new book Reuters - President Barack Obama may have three years to go before the next presidential election, but Mitt Romney has regrouped after his failed 2008 White House run and is already setting himself up for the 2012 Republican nomination.


First lady talks obesity with school nutritionists (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 12:09 PM PST

First lady Michelle Obama speaks to the School Nutrition Association Legislative Action Conference in Washington, Monday, March 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - First lady Michelle Obama says the people who prepare meals for schools have more influence over what kids eat than parents do.


Court weighs if silence alone can invoke Miranda (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 10:52 AM PST

AP - Police told Van Chester Thompkins he had a right to remain silent, and so he did.

Al-Qaida growing in strength and numbers in Africa (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 10:44 AM PST

FILE - In this April 18, 2003, file photo a girl walks past a wall with graffiti about the al-Qaida network in a Muslim area of the northern city of Kano, Nigeria. Al-Qaida's terror network in North Africa, which calls itself Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), is growing more active and attracting new recruits, and threatening to further destabilize fragile governments of heavily-Islamic North Africa,  according to U.S. defense and counterterrorism officials. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, File)AP - Al-Qaida's terror network in North Africa is growing more active and attracting new recruits, threatening to further destabilize the continent's already vulnerable Sahara region, according to U.S. defense and counterterrorism officials.


White House Pushes Harder for Renewal of Expired Highway Programs (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 10:27 AM PST

CQPolitics.com - The Obama administration is ratcheting up pressure on Congress to pass an extension of highway programs that expired Sunday.

Obama to name Kohn Fed replacement before end June (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 09:09 AM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama will nominate a replacement for Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn, who is stepping down from his post, in time for confirmation before Kohn's term ends on June 23, a White House official said on Monday.

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