Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama heads to Prague to sign arms deal (AP)
• Toyota official: 'We need to come clean' (AP)
• FBI arrests Calif man for alleged Pelosi threats (AP)
• Taliban release video of captured US soldier (AP)
• Sen. Reid tells voters: 'I need your help' (AP)
• Calif. lawmaker: Silence on Palin visit unlawful (AP)
• Developing test to warn smokers of cancer danger (AP)
• Nearly half of US households escape fed income tax (AP)
• Obama talks less of terror in outreach to Muslims (AP)
• GOP officials back Steele in conference call (AP)
• Kyrgyz opposition says running government, wants election (Reuters)
• US Treasury beefing up staff in Afghanistan (AP)
• Obama's next-door neighbor in Chicago sells house (AP)
• UK's Brown pledges reform, clashes on economy (Reuters)
• Pennsylvania Gov. Field Still Under the Radar (CQPolitics.com)
• Leahy won't delay hearing for appeals court pick (AP)
• Financial Reform: Obama, GOP Far from a Deal in Congress (Time.com)
• Obama heads overseas to sign new arms treaty (AP)
• Obama calls nuke terrorism the top threat to US (AP)

Obama heads to Prague to sign arms deal (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2010 04:33 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is taking the first major step in his push toward a nuclear-free world, returning to Prague to sign the kind of arms-reduction treaty with Russia unseen for nearly two decades.

Toyota official: 'We need to come clean' (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2010 05:06 PM PDT AP - Five days before Toyota announced a massive recall, a U.S. public relations executive at the automaker warned colleagues in an internal e-mail: "We need to come clean" about accelerator problems, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday.

FBI arrests Calif man for alleged Pelosi threats (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2010 05:13 PM PDT AP - A California man angry about health care reform allegedly made threatening and harassing phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, including at least one call in which he got through and spoke to her directly, law enforcement officials said.

Taliban release video of captured US soldier (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2010 05:07 PM PDT AP - The Taliban released a video Wednesday of a man identified as an American soldier captured in Afghanistan last June, showing him pleading for his freedom and to be returned home.

Sen. Reid tells voters: 'I need your help' (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2010 04:41 PM PDT AP - As he embarked on a campaign swing through his home state this week, Sen. Harry Reid didn't have to look far to see that trouble is coming at him.

Calif. lawmaker: Silence on Palin visit unlawful (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2010 05:42 PM PDT AP - A California lawmaker said Wednesday that a state university is breaking the law by failing to disclose correspondence about an upcoming fundraiser appearance by Sarah Palin.

Developing test to warn smokers of cancer danger (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2010 05:15 PM PDT AP - Scientists may have found a way to tell which smokers are at highest risk of developing lung cancer: measuring a telltale genetic change inside their windpipes.

Nearly half of US households escape fed income tax (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2010 02:38 PM PDT AP - Tax Day is a dreaded deadline for millions, but for nearly half of U.S. households it's simply somebody else's problem.

Obama talks less of terror in outreach to Muslims (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2010 04:17 PM PDT AP - Less talk about "Islamic radicalism" and a lot more about doing business. In the year since President Barack Obama pledged a new beginning in the relationship with the Muslim world, the White House has begun to change the U.S. focus.

GOP officials back Steele in conference call (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2010 03:58 PM PDT AP - Republican Party officials did not urge chairman Michael Steele to resign or discuss replacing him during a conference call Wednesday, though the embattled GOP leader was urged to make "internal adjustments" and watch his rhetoric.

Kyrgyz opposition says running government, wants election (Reuters) Posted: 07 Apr 2010 03:20 PM PDT Reuters - Kyrgyz opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva said on Thursday she had taken over the government after violent protests forced the president of the Central Asian country to flee the capital.

US Treasury beefing up staff in Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2010 02:15 PM PDT AP - The U.S. Treasury Department is sending more staff to Afghanistan to target the financial networks that provide money for the Taliban, a Treasury official said Wednesday.

Obama's next-door neighbor in Chicago sells house (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2010 01:22 PM PDT AP - When President Barack Obama and his family return to Chicago they will have new next-door neighbors to get to know.

UK's Brown pledges reform, clashes on economy (Reuters) Posted: 07 Apr 2010 11:24 AM PDT Reuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Wednesday he would overhaul a scandal-hit parliament and take more steps to secure an economic recovery if his Labour Party defies the polls and wins a May 6 election.

Pennsylvania Gov. Field Still Under the Radar (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 07 Apr 2010 10:57 AM PDT CQPolitics.com - It stands to reason that candidates will become better known as the campaign for an upcoming election intensifies. Yet the latest Quinnipiac University poll on Pennsylvania's May 18 primary for governor shows that the major-party contenders have made only incremental gains in implanting themselves in voters' consciousness.

Leahy won't delay hearing for appeals court pick (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2010 10:18 AM PDT AP - Senate Democrats have rejected a Republican effort to delay a hearing for a liberal appeals court nominee, making clear they are ready for a partisan fight.

Financial Reform: Obama, GOP Far from a Deal in Congress (Time.com) Posted: 07 Apr 2010 09:35 AM PDT Time.com - Beltway consensus is that reform of the financial regulatory system is inevitable. But there are significant roadblocks

Obama heads overseas to sign new arms treaty (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2010 02:12 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama has overseas travel plans Wednesday.

Obama calls nuke terrorism the top threat to US (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2010 10:21 PM PDT AP - Rewriting America's nuclear strategy, the White House on Tuesday announced a fundamental shift that calls the spread of atomic weapons to rogue states or terrorists a worse threat than the nuclear Armageddon feared during the Cold War.

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