Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Federal law may limit BP liability in oil spill (AP)
• Overhaul: Taxpayers still front bank liquidation (AP)
• Gates suggests big changes coming for Navy (AP)
• Establishment choices vs. upstarts in 3 primaries (AP)
• The man in the middle (Politico)
• Union: Ads chiding Ark. Senate candidate 'racist' (AP)
• Obama honors Navy football team's 7th trophy win (AP)
• New device zaps airways to help asthmatics breathe (AP)
• Arizona poll find half undecided in GOP gov's race (AP)
• US says it has 5,113 nuclear warheads (AP)
• Near collision of airliner and helicopter probed (AP)
• Obama extends U.S. sanctions against Syria (Reuters)
• Book: Obama dressed down Pentagon brass (AP)
• Report: Philadelphia VA hospital lacked review (AP)
• Congress, where 44 percent are millionaires, freezes pay (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Ex-Ill. lt. gov. candidate to run for governor (AP)
• First lady: Math, science important to nation (AP)
• Ex-con Traficant to run for Ohio US House seat (AP)
• Congress turns up heat on BP (Politico)
• Obama declares disaster in Mass. water main break (AP)

Federal law may limit BP liability in oil spill (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 04:50 PM PDT AP - A federal law may limit how much BP has to pay for damages such as lost wages and economic suffering in the Gulf Coast oil spill, despite President Barack Obama's assurances that taxpayers will not be on the hook.

Overhaul: Taxpayers still front bank liquidation (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 03:46 PM PDT AP - A Senate measure advertised as protecting taxpayers from another Wall Street bailout would still leave them fronting the money if the government moves to liquidate a big failing company like insurance giant AIG.

Gates suggests big changes coming for Navy (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 12:41 PM PDT AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday called into question the Navy's heavy and expensive arsenal of ships and subs.

Establishment choices vs. upstarts in 3 primaries (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 02:12 PM PDT AP - Candidates backed by Washington are facing upstart challengers looking to capitalize on antiestablishment sentiment in primary contests Tuesday in Indiana, North Carolina and Ohio.

The man in the middle (Politico) Posted: 30 Apr 2010 02:50 AM PDT Politico - Back in 1987, the man hired to crack wise at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner had a case of jagged nerves.

Union: Ads chiding Ark. Senate candidate 'racist' (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 04:03 PM PDT AP - A Virginia-based advocacy group began airing television ads in Arkansas on Monday in which Indian actors "thank" Democratic Senate candidate Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, claiming he outsourced jobs overseas.

Obama honors Navy football team's 7th trophy win (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 03:12 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama has congratulated the 2009 U.S. Naval Academy football team for winning its seventh consecutive Commander in Chief trophy.

New device zaps airways to help asthmatics breathe (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 06:32 PM PDT AP - People with severe asthma are getting a radically different treatment option: A way to snake a wire inside their lungs and melt off some of the tissue that squeezes their airways shut. Bronchial thermoplasty isn't for everyone, just a subset who wheeze despite today's best medications. It's neither a cure nor without risk.

Arizona poll find half undecided in GOP gov's race (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 03:28 PM PDT AP - Republican Gov. Jan Brewer holds a slight lead but the race for the GOP nomination for Arizona governor remains wide open, with roughly half of voters surveyed for a new poll undecided about their choice.

US says it has 5,113 nuclear warheads (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 06:32 PM PDT AP - The United States has 5,113 nuclear warheads in its stockpile and "several thousand" more retired warheads awaiting the junkpile, the Pentagon said Monday in an unprecedented accounting of a secretive arsenal born in the Cold War and now shrinking rapidly.

Near collision of airliner and helicopter probed (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 04:51 PM PDT AP - A federal safety investigation has been opened into the near collision of a Southwest Airlines jet with a news helicopter over a Houston airport runway.

Obama extends U.S. sanctions against Syria (Reuters) Posted: 03 May 2010 04:26 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama extended U.S. sanctions against Syria, saying on Monday it supported terrorist organizations and pursued weapons of mass destruction and missile programs.

Book: Obama dressed down Pentagon brass (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 03:50 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama reprimanded top Pentagon officials last year for pressing publicly for a troop increase in Afghanistan.

Report: Philadelphia VA hospital lacked review (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 02:13 PM PDT AP - The prostate cancer program at the Veterans Affairs Department's medical center in Philadelphia, where 97 patients were given an incorrect radiation dose, went four years without a peer review or quality assessment, the agency's internal watchdog said Monday.

Congress, where 44 percent are millionaires, freezes pay (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 03 May 2010 02:10 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Facing election-year pressure to keep a lid on their salaries, lawmakers in Congress have agreed quietly not to increase their pay next year.

Ex-Ill. lt. gov. candidate to run for governor (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 02:08 PM PDT AP - A pawnbroker who won Illinois' Democratic primary for lieutenant governor only to withdraw amid scandal allegations announced Monday he would run for governor as an independent.

First lady: Math, science important to nation (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 02:01 PM PDT AP - First lady Michelle Obama told middle and high school science teams Monday that the nation will need their skills and enthusiasm to prosper.

Ex-con Traficant to run for Ohio US House seat (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 01:00 PM PDT AP - James A. Traficant Jr., who served nearly two decades in Congress and seven years in prison for corruption, filed petitions Monday to run as an independent in his northeast Ohio home turf.

Congress turns up heat on BP (Politico) Posted: 03 May 2010 12:48 PM PDT Politico - British Petroleum will get the full Washington treatment over the next few weeks, with a series of congressional hearings, demands for documents and calls for punitive legislation in wake of a devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Obama declares disaster in Mass. water main break (AP) Posted: 03 May 2010 12:04 PM PDT AP - President Obama has signed an emergency disaster declaration offering federal help as Massachusetts grapples with the effects of a major water main break.

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