Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Feds didn't call all airlines to warn of suspect (AP)
• Officials predict higher casualties in Kandahar op (AP)
• Tea party comes up short in early primaries (AP)
• White House in P.R. 'panic' over spill (Politico)
• Obama wants work on immigration reform this year (AP)
• Powerful House chairman David Obey to retire (AP)
• Axelrod: Stevens' legacy influencing Obama's pick (AP)
• Private sleuths once pierced nuclear veil (AP)
• Joe the Plumber is elected to party office in Ohio (AP)
• Last push as British poll goes down to wire (AFP)
• US Senate votes to ban big bank 'bailouts' (AFP)
• Senate donors to Fla. Gov. Crist: Return our money (AP)
• Sen. DeMint endorses Paul in US Senate race in Ky. (AP)
• House votes to give Haiti textiles a boost (AP)
• Rep. David Obey to retire after 41 years in Congress (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Top Obama ally Obey won't seek reelection (AFP)
• Woodward book on Obama due out in U.S. in September (Reuters)
• NY weekly shows Obamas as 'Sanford and Son' actors (AP)

Feds didn't call all airlines to warn of suspect (AP) Posted: 05 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT AP - Law enforcement officials decided not to call all airlines directly on Monday to tell them an important name had been added to the government's "no-fly" list, even as investigators pursued the man they suspected was the Times Square bomber.

Officials predict higher casualties in Kandahar op (AP) Posted: 05 May 2010 05:59 PM PDT AP - When record numbers of U.S. troops confront the prized Taliban stronghold of Kandahar this summer, higher casualties will likely result, the chairman of the House Armed Service Committee predicted Wednesday, and top Pentagon officials didn't disagree.

Tea party comes up short in early primaries (AP) Posted: 05 May 2010 02:41 PM PDT AP - Mark the first round down, shakily, for Republican incumbents and party establishment favorites.

White House in P.R. 'panic' over spill (Politico) Posted: 04 May 2010 03:20 AM PDT Politico - The ferocious oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is threatening President Barack Obama’s reputation for competence, just as surely as it endangers the Gulf ecosystem.

Obama wants work on immigration reform this year (AP) Posted: 05 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama said Wednesday he wants to begin work this year on legislation overhauling the nation's immigration system, firming up his commitment on a key priority for Latino voters and lawmakers.

Powerful House chairman David Obey to retire (AP) Posted: 05 May 2010 05:01 PM PDT AP - Rep. David Obey, a leading liberal Democrat and chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, said Wednesday that he will retire at the end of his term this year, dealing Democrats defending their majority another blow in an election season of voter discontent.

Axelrod: Stevens' legacy influencing Obama's pick (AP) Posted: 05 May 2010 02:27 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama will choose a Supreme Court nominee he thinks can provide the "spark and leadership" of retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, the lion of the court's liberals and a respected, persuasive force for decades, one of Obama's chief advisers said Wednesday.

Private sleuths once pierced nuclear veil (AP) Posted: 05 May 2010 02:20 PM PDT AP - Shortly after nuclear weapons sleuths Tom Cochran and Bill Arkin published their unauthorized estimate of the size of the U.S. arsenal in 1984 they got a call from alarmed U.S. officials.

Joe the Plumber is elected to party office in Ohio (AP) Posted: 05 May 2010 05:01 PM PDT AP - Joe the Plumber is plunging into party politics. Samuel "Joe" Wurzelbacher, who was hailed by Republican John McCain's presidential campaign in 2008, won one of nearly 400 seats on the local Republican Party committee in Ohio's Lucas County.

Last push as British poll goes down to wire (AFP) Posted: 05 May 2010 04:29 PM PDT AFP - Party leaders rushed across Britain in a frantic final day of campaigning Wednesday as they battled to win over undecided voters, before what is expected to be the tightest election contest in decades.

US Senate votes to ban big bank 'bailouts' (AFP) Posted: 05 May 2010 03:57 PM PDT AFP - Spurred by deep election-year voter anger, the US Senate voted Wednesday to forbid government-funded bailouts of big banks those like those blamed for the global economic meltdown of 2008.

Senate donors to Fla. Gov. Crist: Return our money (AP) Posted: 05 May 2010 03:41 PM PDT AP - Twenty major Republican donors demanded Wednesday that Gov. Charlie Crist return every penny of the money they gave him for his Senate campaign, saying he broke their trust when he decided to run as an independent candidate.

Sen. DeMint endorses Paul in US Senate race in Ky. (AP) Posted: 05 May 2010 03:25 PM PDT AP - U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint put himself at odds with Kentucky's Sen. Mitch McConnell on Wednesday by endorsing an antiestablishment candidate for U.S. Senate in Kentucky.

House votes to give Haiti textiles a boost (AP) Posted: 05 May 2010 02:38 PM PDT AP - The House on Wednesday approved trade breaks for Haiti's textile industry, the latest of several actions aimed at helping the hemisphere's poorest nation recover from a devastating earthquake.

Rep. David Obey to retire after 41 years in Congress (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 05 May 2010 02:24 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Rep. David Obey, the chairman of the powerful House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, said Wednesday that he wouldn't seek re-election this year because he was "bone tired" after a 41-year congressional career.

Top Obama ally Obey won't seek reelection (AFP) Posted: 05 May 2010 02:05 PM PDT AFP - In a major blow to President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in the US Congress, one of their top leaders in the House announced Wednesday he will not seek reelection in November.

Woodward book on Obama due out in U.S. in September (Reuters) Posted: 05 May 2010 02:00 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. investigative journalist Bob Woodward, who rose to fame reporting on the Watergate scandal in the 1970s, will release a new book on President Barack Obama in September, publisher Simon & Schuster said on Wednesday.

NY weekly shows Obamas as 'Sanford and Son' actors (AP) Posted: 05 May 2010 01:49 PM PDT AP - A weekly newspaper photo depicting President Barack Obama and his wife as characters from the TV sitcom "Sanford and Son" was intended as political satire and not a racist commentary, the publisher said Wednesday.

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