Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama seeks court nominee who backs women's rights (AP)
• Hoyer, Pelosi aides questioned in ethics case (AP)
• Dems, GOP compete for title of bank bailout foe (AP)
• Obama suggests value-added tax may be an option (AP)
• Hoyer interviewed as Massa probe gains steam (Politico)
• Millions face tax increases under Dems budget plan (AP)
• Intel chief: Small terror groups are key challenge (AP)
• Lawmakers defend Day of Prayer after court ruling (AP)
• Problems plague new air traffic control computers (AP)
• Boneheaded idea: Giving Fido a bone (AP)
• Specter challenger criticizes 'Swift-Boat' ad (AP)
• Ariz. House votes to check candidates' citizenship (AP)
• Obama backers show signs of disappointment (Reuters)
• Lincoln cancels Goldman fundraiser (Politico)
• AP-GfK Poll: Americans shifting to US cars (AP)
• Bill would shun Obama birth certificate requests (AP)
• New EPA rule requires more care around lead paint (AP)
• US: Syria missile reports deeply troubling (AP)
• US confident it could intercept an Iranian missile (AP)
• Source: Pirate suspects to be brought to Norfolk (AP)

Obama seeks court nominee who backs women's rights (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 05:03 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama, treading carefully in the explosive arena of abortion and the Supreme Court, said Wednesday he will choose a nominee who pays heed to the rights of women and the privacy of their bodies. Yet he said he won't enforce any abortion rights "litmus tests."

Hoyer, Pelosi aides questioned in ethics case (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 05:03 PM PDT AP - Congressional investigators have questioned House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and aides to Speaker Nancy Pelosi as part of a probe into whether top Democrats covered up information that ex-Rep. Eric Massa sexually harassed male employees.

Dems, GOP compete for title of bank bailout foe (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 03:38 PM PDT AP - If there's any election-year support in the Senate for future bailouts of the big banks on Wall Street, it isn't immediately apparent.

Obama suggests value-added tax may be an option (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 05:03 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama suggested Wednesday that a new value-added tax on Americans is still on the table, seeming to show more openness to the idea than his aides have expressed in recent days.

Hoyer interviewed as Massa probe gains steam (Politico) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 12:03 PM PDT Politico - The House ethics committee has ramped up its investigation into the sexual-harassment scandal surrounding former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.), launching a special investigative subcommittee and interviewing Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) regarding his role in the case.

Millions face tax increases under Dems budget plan (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 04:06 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in the Senate promise to cut the deficit by almost two-thirds over the next five years, but their budget plan could threaten about 30 million people with tax increases averaging $3,700 in 2012 and after because of the alternative minimum tax.

Intel chief: Small terror groups are key challenge (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 02:35 PM PDT AP - Small and disparate groups of terrorists and individuals radicalized by militants over the Internet will be major challenges for the U.S. intelligence community in coming years, the nation's top intelligence adviser said Wednesday.

Lawmakers defend Day of Prayer after court ruling (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 01:34 PM PDT AP - About two dozen members of Congress on Wednesday condemned a federal judge's ruling that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional, saying prayer has long been part of the country's history.

Problems plague new air traffic control computers (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 04:04 PM PDT AP - New computers crucial to modernizing the U.S. air traffic control system have run into serious problems and may not be fully operational by the end of this year when the current system is supposed to be replaced, a government watchdog said Wednesday.

Boneheaded idea: Giving Fido a bone (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 02:49 PM PDT AP - If they only knew, dogs from coast to coast might be howling over this advice from the government.

Specter challenger criticizes 'Swift-Boat' ad (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 03:50 PM PDT AP - A congressman and retired Navy vice admiral who is challenging Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania's May 18 Democratic primary election is accusing the fifth-term senator of using "Swift Boat"-style attack tactics in an ad that suggests the Navy fired him.

Ariz. House votes to check candidates' citizenship (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 03:28 PM PDT AP - The Arizona House has approved a bill that would require President Barack Obama to show his birth certificate if he hopes to be on the state's ballot for a re-election bid.

Obama backers show signs of disappointment (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 03:10 PM PDT Reuters - Gay rights activists heckled President Barack Obama this week at a Democratic event that exposed signs of disenchantment threatening the party in November's congressional elections.

Lincoln cancels Goldman fundraiser (Politico) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 03:10 PM PDT Politico - Sen. Blanche Lincoln, under fire for keeping a $4,500 contribution from Goldman Sachs’s political action committee, has canceled a fundraising lunch with Goldman executives that was scheduled for Monday and would have netted many times that amount for the Arkansas Senator’s reelection campaign.

AP-GfK Poll: Americans shifting to US cars (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 03:22 PM PDT AP - Buy American? That's suddenly a good idea again to more car buyers. Toyota's safety problems and a buffed-up lineup of offerings from Detroit's Big 3 are rubbing the tarnish off car buyers' perceptions of U.S. models. An Associated Press-GfK Poll shows that 38 percent favor U.S. vehicles while 33 percent prefer Asian brands, a significant improvement for U.S. automakers compared to four years ago.

Bill would shun Obama birth certificate requests (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 01:49 PM PDT AP - Hawaii lawmakers are moving closer to passing a measure allowing the state to ignore repeated requests for President Barack Obama's birth certificate.

New EPA rule requires more care around lead paint (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 02:37 PM PDT AP - Contractors across the country must take additional precautions when renovating houses where children could be exposed to lead dust from old paint, a safety measure that could add thousands of dollars to projects just as the remodeling industry tries to recover from the recession.

US: Syria missile reports deeply troubling (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 01:38 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration said Wednesday it has warned Syria numerous times in recent weeks that transferring ballistic missiles to Lebanon's Hezbollah militia could lead to a new war in the Middle East.

US confident it could intercept an Iranian missile (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 01:33 PM PDT AP - The Pentagon is "very confident" that it could defend the U.S. against the threat of an Iranian ballistic missile strike, the Defense Department's chief spokesman said Wednesday.

Source: Pirate suspects to be brought to Norfolk (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 01:31 PM PDT AP - At least five pirate suspects will be brought to Norfolk, Va., by the end of the week to stand trial in the United States, a federal law enforcement official said Wednesday.

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