Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Reid's wife, daughter injured in accident (AP)
• Dems look to health vote without abortion foes (AP)
• US criticizes China's domestic, economic policies (AP)
• Dodd to offer his own financial regulation bill (AP)
• Freshmen: Massa right about money (Politico)
• Obama details plans to boost exports, create jobs (AP)
• Gov't may seek more authority on vehicle safety (AP)
• Obama backing of immigration overhaul 'unwavering' (AP)
• Senate seeks to boost regional airline safety (AP)
• GOP loses bid for ethics probe of Dem leaders (AP)
• Al-Qaida seen eyeing less complex attacks on US (AP)
• Obama gives away $1.4M Nobel prize (AP)
• Obama lobbied on black unemployment, immigration (Reuters)
• AP sources: Senate run likely for ex-war spokesman (AP)
• US report: Afghan, Iraq human rights abuses up (AP)
• GOP gets big help race for Patrick Kennedy seat (AP)
• Obama gives $1.4 million Nobel prize to 10 charities (Reuters)
• Google honours Iranian women bloggers (AFP)
• Highway deaths drop to lowest level since 1950s (AP)

Reid's wife, daughter injured in accident (AP) Posted: 11 Mar 2010 03:35 PM PST AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife and daughter were being treated in a hospital Thursday for serious injuries they sustained when their vehicle was rear-ended by a truck, a spokesman said.

Dems look to health vote without abortion foes (AP) Posted: 11 Mar 2010 04:46 PM PST AP - House Democratic leaders Thursday abandoned a long struggle to strike a compromise on abortion in their ranks, gambling that they can secure the support for President Barack Obama's sweeping health care legislation with showdown votes looming as early as next week.

US criticizes China's domestic, economic policies (AP) Posted: 11 Mar 2010 04:02 PM PST AP - The Obama administration accused China on Thursday of abusing its citizens' rights and maintaining currency policies that cost millions of U.S. jobs, a double-barrel attack that comes amid a growing willingness to confront and even antagonize the Asian power.

Dodd to offer his own financial regulation bill (AP) Posted: 11 Mar 2010 03:50 PM PST AP - With one eye on the calendar and the other on elusive bipartisanship, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd plans to offer his own version of a sweeping overhaul of financial regulations without Republican support.

Freshmen: Massa right about money (Politico) Posted: 11 Mar 2010 01:50 AM PST Politico - At least one part of former Rep. Eric Massa’s hourlong, train-wreck interview with cable-television host Glenn Beck rang true to his fellow House freshmen Tuesday: the grim description of the intense and time-consuming fundraising pressures that dominate the lives of junior members.

Obama details plans to boost exports, create jobs (AP) Posted: 11 Mar 2010 12:47 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama sought Thursday to put some detail behind his lofty drive to double U.S. exports over the next five years, calling the effort imperative to putting people back to work. But doubts remain about how many net jobs his trade agenda will create — and how he will get it done.

Gov't may seek more authority on vehicle safety (AP) Posted: 11 Mar 2010 02:15 PM PST AP - Government vehicle safety regulators may seek greater authority to investigate defects in cars and trucks and are weighing a range of new safety requirements in response to Toyota's recall of more than 8 million vehicles over brake and acceleration problems.

Obama backing of immigration overhaul 'unwavering' (AP) Posted: 11 Mar 2010 04:11 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama on Thursday assured immigration advocates frustrated by the wait for a promised overhaul of U.S. immigration laws that he remains committed to fixing a system he has said is broken.

Senate seeks to boost regional airline safety (AP) Posted: 11 Mar 2010 01:31 PM PST AP - The Senate is pushing to strengthen pilot training and hiring requirements in an effort to improve the safety of regional airlines, a problem exposed by an air crash last year that killed 50 people.

GOP loses bid for ethics probe of Dem leaders (AP) Posted: 11 Mar 2010 04:06 PM PST AP - House Democrats on Thursday stopped a Republican bid to force an investigation of Democratic leaders aimed at determining whether they covered up sexual harassment allegations against ex-Rep. Eric Massa.

Al-Qaida seen eyeing less complex attacks on US (AP) Posted: 11 Mar 2010 04:06 PM PST AP - Ever since al-Qaida attacked the United States in 2001, U.S. authorities have worked to detect and prevent the next big terrorist strike.

Obama gives away $1.4M Nobel prize (AP) Posted: 11 Mar 2010 03:59 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama plans to donate the $1.4 million from his Nobel Peace Prize to helping students, veterans' families and survivors of Haiti's earthquake, among others, drawing attention to organizations he said "do extraordinary work."

Obama lobbied on black unemployment, immigration (Reuters) Posted: 11 Mar 2010 03:29 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama on Thursday faced pressure to help create jobs in African-American communities and deliver an immigration overhaul even as he tried to push healthcare reform across the finish line.

AP sources: Senate run likely for ex-war spokesman (AP) Posted: 11 Mar 2010 03:11 PM PST AP - A former spokesman for the U.S.-led military incursion in Iraq under President George W. Bush is likely to enter the Republican primary to challenge Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

US report: Afghan, Iraq human rights abuses up (AP) Posted: 11 Mar 2010 02:21 PM PST AP - As the U.S. military prepares to leave Iraq, the State Department is blaming the Iraqi government for arbitrary killings of civilians and other human rights abuses.

GOP gets big help race for Patrick Kennedy seat (AP) Posted: 11 Mar 2010 02:14 PM PST AP - The Republican candidate running to replace Rep. Patrick Kennedy in Congress says he's getting help in his bid from several former GOP presidential candidates.

Obama gives $1.4 million Nobel prize to 10 charities (Reuters) Posted: 11 Mar 2010 01:46 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama on Thursday named 10 charities to share his $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize, with causes ranging from wounded veterans to Haiti's earthquake survivors and education for minorities.

Google honours Iranian women bloggers (AFP) Posted: 11 Mar 2010 01:21 PM PST AFP - Internet giant Google on Thursday joined a top journalists' rights group in rewarding a collective of Iranian women bloggers for their reporting on last year's post-election unrest.

Highway deaths drop to lowest level since 1950s (AP) Posted: 11 Mar 2010 12:44 PM PST AP - The roads today are full of hazards: Runaway Toyotas, teen drivers texting, commuters using the rearview mirror to check their hair while juggling cups of scalding coffee. Nonetheless, the number of people dying on the highway is the lowest since the 1950s.

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