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Yahoo! News: Elections


Not us: Goldman execs deny wrongdoing in crisis (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 06:27 PM PDT

Goldman Sachs chairman and chief executive officer Lloyd Blankfein is sworn in before he testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on Wall Street investment banks and the financial crisis on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Defending his company under blistering criticism, the CEO of Goldman Sachs testily told skeptical senators Tuesday that customers who bought securities from the Wall Street giant in the run-up to a national financial crisis came looking for risk "and that's what they got."


Reid: Senate to act on climate before immigration (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 06:16 PM PDT

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 22, 2010.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday he is willing to bring up climate change legislation ahead of an immigration bill, a possible first step toward resolving a dispute with Senate Republicans that threatens to derail a bipartisan effort months in the making.


Obama pleads for bipartisan immigration reform (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:49 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks during his town hall meeting at Indian Hills Community College in Ottumwa, Iowa, Tuesday, April, 27, 2010.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama on Tuesday warned of harassment against Hispanics under Arizona's tough new immigration law, saying such "poorly conceived" measures can be halted if the federal government fixes the nation's broken immigration system for good.


Source: Man cites explosives, jet diverts to Maine (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 06:15 PM PDT

** RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATE CROP **People walk out of this Delta Air Lines Flight from Paris to Atlanta which was diverted to Bangor International Airport in Bangor, Maine Tuesday April 27, 2010. U. S. officials say an American citizen on the flight claimed to have a fake passport and explosives in his luggage. According to Delta spokeswoman Susan Elliott there were 235 passengers and eight crew aboard the Airbus 330. Aftet the plane landed safely at 3:37 p.m.,  the passengers deplaned onto the tarmac at BIA and boarded buses to BIA's international arrivals building.  (AP Photo/Bangor Daily News, John Clarke Russ)AP - The former Air Force member who was detained Tuesday on a trans-Atlantic flight after allegedly claiming he had explosives in his luggage and a fake passport lives a "squeaky clean" life and has never been in trouble before, his father told The Associated Press.


GOP circulates alternative regulatory plan (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 01:31 PM PDT

AP - Republicans are circulating an alternative plan for financial regulation that would provide more limited consumer protections than Democrats and would impose new regulations on mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

AG: Drug maker AstraZeneca to pay $520 million (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 01:38 PM PDT

AP - The federal government on Tuesday reached a $520 million settlement with pharmaceutical manufacturer AstraZeneca, resolving allegations of illegal marketing of the company's antipsychotic drug Seroquel.

AG: Court challenge possible on immigration law (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 06:15 PM PDT

Thousands of protesters rally at the Arizona Capitol on Sunday, April, 25, 2010. Activists called on President Barack Obama to fight a tough new Arizona law targeting illegal immigrants, promising Sunday to march in the streets and invite arrest by refusing to comply if the measure goes into effect. U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona told about 3,500 protesters gathered at the state Capitol that the Obama administration can help defeat the law by refusing to cooperate. The law requires Arizona police officers to question people about their immigration status if there is reasonable suspicion they're in the country illegally, saying it would undoubtedly lead to racial profiling. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that the federal government may go to court to challenge Arizona's new law which makes it a state crime to be in the United States illegally.


GOP blocks financial bill again, float alternative (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 06:15 PM PDT

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., listens as  the committee's ranking Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., not pictured, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April 26, 2010, after their meeting ahead of a crucial test vote for the financial reform bill. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Senate Republicans, attacked for twice blocking legislation to rein in Wall Street, floated a partial alternative proposal Tuesday and said it could lead to election-year compromise on an issue that commands strong public support.


Contrition not an option in financial blame game (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:24 PM PDT

Goldman Sachs CFO David A. Viniar is on a television monitor on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, April 27, 2010, in New York. Viniar is testifying before a Senate panel investigating Goldman's role in the financial crisis and the Securities and Exchange Commission fraud suit against it. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Two deeply unpopular U.S. institutions — Congress and Wall Street — slung blame for the shaky economy around a Senate hearing room Tuesday, none of it landing among the dark suits at the witness table or the politicians behind the dais.


WellPoint says to stop dropping patients after May 1 (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 05:19 PM PDT

Beds lie empty in the emergency room of Tulane University Hospital in New Orleans February 14, 2006. REUTERS/Lee CelanoReuters - WellPoint Inc said that as of May 1 it would expedite healthcare reforms and stop dropping healthcare coverage for customers after they get sick, responding to pressure from Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.


Poll shows Utah senator lagging in re-election bid (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:57 PM PDT

In this May 13, 2009, photo, Sen. Bob Bennett R-Utah, walks to the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington. Bennett, darling of the National Rifle Association and grandson of a Mormon Church president, suddenly may not be conservative enough for ultraconservative Utah. He could become the first 2010 election casualty among incumbent U.S. senators if he fails to win at least 40 percent of the 3,500 delegates at the state GOP's convention May 8. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - Republican Sen. Bob Bennett, struggling against anti-incumbency sentiment and strong challenges from more conservative GOP candidates, is running a disappointing third place in a survey of delegates to next month's state convention.


Obama Ahead of Election 2010: The Secrets of His Success (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:50 PM PDT

President Barack Obama delivers his much-anticipated message to the Muslim world from the auditorium in the Cairo University campus during a one-day visit to Egypt on June 2009. Obama is to lay a key plank of his strategy to mend ties with the Islamic world when he hosts a summit to boost economic development in Muslim nations.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)Time.com - Critics on both the left and right yammer on. But by Election Day 2010, President Obama will have achieved many of his campaign promises while running a competent, scandal-free government


Correction: Palin Hacked story (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:26 PM PDT

AP - In an April 22 story about the trial of a man charged with hacking into Sarah Palin's e-mail, The Associated Press erroneously reported testimony about when the account was created. Former Palin aide Frank Bailey testified that he set up the e-mail account in April 2008, not in August 2008 after Palin was picked to be Republican presidential nominee John McCain's running mate.

Mayor Emanuel? No time soon, ex-congressman says (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:16 PM PDT

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel laughs as he takes some good natured ribbing about his recent comment about someday wanting to be mayor of Chicago while participating in the sixth annual Richard J. Daley Global Cities Forum, Tuesday, April 27, 2010, in Chicago. Chicago's current Mayor Richard M. Daley was in the audience at the time.  Emanuel says he can't wait to move back to Chicago some day but he cautioned reporters not to misinterpret that. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who says he wants to be Chicago mayor someday, was back in the city on Tuesday, but he wasn't looking for votes.


Ohio sheriff pulls gun permit of man in NC arrest (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 03:57 PM PDT

In this police mug shot provided by the Buncombe County Sheriff's Office on Sunday, April 25, 2010, Joseph Sean McVey is shown. McVey has been charged after authorities spotted him with a gun in a North Carolina airport parking lot as Air Force One was departing Sunday afternoon. (AP Photo/Buncombe County Sheriff's Office)AP - An Ohio sheriff suspended the concealed weapons permit of an armed man who authorities say told them he wanted to see the president in North Carolina, and a report given to The Associated Press said the sheriff's office recently lectured the man about proper gun handling.


Congressman accuses VA of 'noncompliance' (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 03:42 PM PDT

AP - The chairman of a House panel that oversees the Veterans Affairs Department has asked VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to explain an apparent "emerging pattern" of noncompliance with congressional requests for information about veteran suicide and other issues.

Gov't to step up mine enforcement, seek reforms (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 03:37 PM PDT

Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 27, 2010, during a Senate Health, Education Labor and Pension Committee hearing on mine safety. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - The government will start going directly to federal court to shut down mines that make a habit of ignoring safety, the nation's top mine safety official told lawmakers Tuesday.


USDA moves to ban additives from organic formula (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 03:25 PM PDT

AP - The Agriculture Department says it may ban two synthetic additives from organic baby formula, overturning a Bush administration decision to allow them.

Israel warns against giving Iran too much time (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 02:42 PM PDT

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, right, gestures as Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, looks on during a news conference at the Pentagon, Tuesday, April 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)AP - The United States is "doing the right thing" by pursuing a diplomatic solution to the threat that Iran may soon gain a nuclear weapon, but the world cannot afford to wait too long, Israel's defense minister said Tuesday.


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