Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama, Sarkozy push for UN sanctions on Iran (AP)
• Chili Bowl, schoolkids for chic French first lady (AP)
• Loan changes to help students, community colleges (AP)
• Obama takes care in sizing up 'tea party' movement (AP)
• Judge seeks more answers on alleged CIA misconduct (AP)
• Pentagon eyeing drone shift to aid Somalia (AP)
• Republicans say Steele will survive nightclub flap (AP)
• Obama credits Karzai with change, says more needed (AP)
• Obama signs law finalizing health care, loan redo (AP)
• University of Wyo. cancels William Ayers speech (AP)
• Feds: Christian militia needed to be `taken down' (AP)
• Obama wants U.N. sanctions on Iran in weeks (Reuters)
• Court says judges can settle mutual fund fee fight (AP)
• Post office seeks opinion on Saturday delivery (AP)
• Obama says wants Iran sanctions within weeks (AP)
• G-8 demands Iran compliance on nukes (AP)
• Obama wants to sign financial bill by late May (Reuters)
• NASA will help probe Toyota acceleration problem (AP)
• Iraq PM will follow law on election: US envoy (AFP)

Obama, Sarkozy push for UN sanctions on Iran (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:39 PM PDT AP - With the president of France at his side, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday he hopes to have international sanctions against Iran in place "within weeks," not months, because of its continuing nuclear program. But he acknowledged he still lacks full support at the United Nations.

Chili Bowl, schoolkids for chic French first lady (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:51 PM PDT AP - Forget tea with Michelle Obama. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, on her first trip to Washington as France's first lady, visited a school in a poor neighborhood and had lunch at Ben's Chili Bowl.

Loan changes to help students, community colleges (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 01:58 PM PDT AP - Bigger grants for college students who need them. Relaxed payment terms for students with loans. More money for community colleges and historically black institutions.

Obama takes care in sizing up 'tea party' movement (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:38 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama stepped carefully when talking for the first time about the conservative tea party movement, acknowledging it has legitimate concerns about federal reach and spending, but he contended the core of the loose anti-government network is "on the fringe."

Judge seeks more answers on alleged CIA misconduct (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 10:56 AM PDT AP - A federal judge chastised the government Tuesday for striking a $3 million settlement over alleged CIA misconduct without punishing anyone.

Pentagon eyeing drone shift to aid Somalia (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 01:05 PM PDT AP - The Pentagon is considering dispatching surveillance drones and other limited military support for a Somali government offensive against al-Qaida-linked insurgents, U.S. officials said, part of a cautious move to increase U.S. assistance to the anarchic African nation.

Republicans say Steele will survive nightclub flap (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:21 PM PDT AP - Democratic groups tried Tuesday to make a campaign issue out of news that the national Republican Party spent $1,946 at a sex-themed California nightclub, but GOP activists said party chairman Michael Steele will weather the hubbub.

Obama credits Karzai with change, says more needed (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 11:36 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says Afghan's President Hamid Karzai has made progress in cleaning up corruption "but there's a long way to go."

Obama signs law finalizing health care, loan redo (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:28 PM PDT AP - Finalizing two major pieces of his agenda, President Barack Obama on Tuesday sealed his health care overhaul and made the government the primary lender to students by cutting banks out of the process.

University of Wyo. cancels William Ayers speech (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 05:04 PM PDT AP - The University of Wyoming has canceled a speech by former 1960s radical William Ayers after it raised hundreds of objections from citizens and politicians over the man who became an issue in the 2008 presidential campaign.

Feds: Christian militia needed to be `taken down' (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:06 PM PDT AP - It started inside a trailer home in rural Michigan, where a small family gathered before bed for prayer. Years later, the private devotions had evolved into a small militia of "Christian warriors" preparing to fight the Antichrist.

Obama wants U.N. sanctions on Iran in weeks (Reuters) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he wanted tougher U.N. sanctions in weeks against Iran over its nuclear program, and the world's leading industrial nations expressed optimism that China will agree on possible next steps.

Court says judges can settle mutual fund fee fight (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:50 PM PDT AP - The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a standard that investors say would have made it almost impossible to sue over "excessive" fees on mutual funds, a popular investment vehicle for millions of Americans.

Post office seeks opinion on Saturday delivery (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:29 PM PDT AP - The Postal Service may have provided a clue why it is losing money when it asked regulators — by e-mail — for an opinion on dropping Saturday delivery service.

Obama says wants Iran sanctions within weeks (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:22 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says he wants to see U.N. sanctions in place against Iran within weeks.

G-8 demands Iran compliance on nukes (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:38 PM PDT AP - Diplomats from the world's leading economies say Iran's recent actions deepen the doubts that its nuclear program is aimed at anything other than building a bomb, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton predicted Tuesday that world powers will agree on a new round of U.N. sanctions.

Obama wants to sign financial bill by late May (Reuters) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:06 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama wants legislation in place overhauling financial regulations by the September anniversary of the 2008 Wall Street collapse, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Tuesday.

NASA will help probe Toyota acceleration problem (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 11:45 AM PDT AP - NASA and the National Academy of Sciences are joining the government's effort to figure out what caused the sudden acceleration problems that led to Toyota's massive recalls.

Iraq PM will follow law on election: US envoy (AFP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 10:30 AM PDT AFP - The US ambassador to Iraq voiced confidence Tuesday that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki would abide by the law despite his mounting criticism of what he alleges is election fraud.

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