Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama taps Kagan to give court historic 3rd female (AP)
• Kagan in '97 urged Clinton to ban late abortions (AP)
• Lettuce recall expands as FDA investigates E. coli (AP)
• Karzai seeking license for wider Taliban talks (AP)
• GOP senators hedge bets on Kagan (Politico)
• Easing bone marrow transplants to widen their use (AP)
• Kagan should have quick path to Supreme Court (AP)
• New coverage for young adults will raise premiums (AP)
• Toyota waited months to issue '05 steering recall (AP)
• Second time's the charm for nominee Kagan (AP)
• Obama resubmits US-Russia nuclear energy deal (AP)
• Ohio Democrats respond to racy GOP ad (AP)
• Ky. GOP Senate hopefuls facing off in final debate (AP)
• UK's two big parties court Lib Dems, Brown to quit (Reuters)
• Obama wants to beef up law on oil spill damage cap (Reuters)
• Obama revives civilian nuclear deal with Russia (Reuters)
• Obama resubmits US-Russia nuclear energy pact to Congress (AFP)
• BP, other companies point fingers in oil rig blast (AP)
• Axelrod: Obama is open to reviewing Miranda issue (AP)
• Top Democrat urges Obama on S.Korea trade deal (Reuters)

Obama taps Kagan to give court historic 3rd female (AP) Posted: 10 May 2010 06:45 PM PDT AP - Introducing his Supreme Court nominee to the nation, President Barack Obama on Monday portrayed Elena Kagan as a guiding force for a fractured court and a champion of typical Americans. She would be the youngest justice on the court and give it three women for the first time in history.

Kagan in '97 urged Clinton to ban late abortions (AP) Posted: 10 May 2010 06:45 PM PDT AP - As a White House adviser in 1997, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan urged then-President Bill Clinton to support a ban on late-term abortions, a political compromise that put the administration at odds with abortion rights groups.

Lettuce recall expands as FDA investigates E. coli (AP) Posted: 10 May 2010 06:22 PM PDT AP - A recall of romaine lettuce that has sickened students with E. coli poisoning is expanding as the government tries to find out where the contamination occurred.

Karzai seeking license for wider Taliban talks (AP) Posted: 10 May 2010 03:40 PM PDT AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai is asking for something he isn't likely to get during a bells-and-whistles state visit that began Monday: U.S. backing for faster negotiations with Taliban leaders who were in power during the Sept. 11 attacks but whose support for a peace deal is considered essential to ending the war.

GOP senators hedge bets on Kagan (Politico) Posted: 10 May 2010 09:11 AM PDT Politico - Key Senate Republicans who already voted to confirm Elena Kagan as solicitor general were quick to point out that their previous support does not guarantee they will back her for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

Easing bone marrow transplants to widen their use (AP) Posted: 10 May 2010 12:08 PM PDT AP - Bone marrow transplants are undergoing a quiet revolution: No longer just for cancer, research is under way to ease the risks so they can target more people with diseases from sickle cell to deadly metabolic disorders.

Kagan should have quick path to Supreme Court (AP) Posted: 10 May 2010 12:47 PM PDT AP - As Democrats pressed Monday for an early August vote to confirm Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the next Supreme Court justice, skeptical Republicans began casting doubt on her qualifications for the job.

New coverage for young adults will raise premiums (AP) Posted: 10 May 2010 06:26 PM PDT AP - Letting young adults stay on their parents' health insurance until they turn 26 will nudge premiums nearly 1 percent higher for employer plans, the government said in an estimate released Monday.

Toyota waited months to issue '05 steering recall (AP) Posted: 10 May 2010 04:07 PM PDT AP - Toyota waited nearly a year in 2005 to recall trucks and SUVs in the United States with defective steering rods, despite issuing a similar recall in Japan and receiving dozens of reports from American motorists about rods that snapped without warning, an Associated Press investigation has found.

Second time's the charm for nominee Kagan (AP) Posted: 10 May 2010 01:55 PM PDT AP - From President Barack Obama's Top 10 list, one nominee emerged — Elena Kagan.

Obama resubmits US-Russia nuclear energy deal (AP) Posted: 10 May 2010 06:29 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama planned to resubmit to Congress on Tuesday a nuclear power pact with Russia that his predecessor angrily canceled two years ago after Russia invaded neighboring Georgia.

Ohio Democrats respond to racy GOP ad (AP) Posted: 10 May 2010 05:31 PM PDT AP - Ohio Democrats have released a political ad full of shirtless workers. It's the party's answer to a sexually suggestive GOP ad that depicted a bare-chested U.S. Senate candidate.

Ky. GOP Senate hopefuls facing off in final debate (AP) Posted: 10 May 2010 05:27 PM PDT AP - Kentucky Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul says he is opposed to congressional earmarks that he blames for running up the national debt.

UK's two big parties court Lib Dems, Brown to quit (Reuters) Posted: 10 May 2010 05:23 PM PDT Reuters - Britain's two big rival political forces planned to resume wooing the smaller Liberal Democrats on Tuesday after Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he would step aside to try to keep his Labour Party in power.

Obama wants to beef up law on oil spill damage cap (Reuters) Posted: 10 May 2010 04:34 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama wants his administration to send legislation to Congress to toughen U.S. law on caps for damages from oil spills, the White House said on Monday.

Obama revives civilian nuclear deal with Russia (Reuters) Posted: 10 May 2010 04:24 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama revived on Monday an agreement with Russia in which the two countries would cooperate on civilian nuclear energy, almost two years after it was shelved over Russia's 2008 war with Georgia.

Obama resubmits US-Russia nuclear energy pact to Congress (AFP) Posted: 10 May 2010 04:19 PM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama on Monday resubmitted a US-Russia nuclear energy cooperation pact to Congress, after the deal fell into limbo following Moscow's conflict with Georgia in 2008.

BP, other companies point fingers in oil rig blast (AP) Posted: 10 May 2010 04:04 PM PDT AP - Early finger-pointing erupted Monday among companies involved in the oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico and unstopped leak of millions of gallons of oil, on the eve of the first congressional hearings into the accident.

Axelrod: Obama is open to reviewing Miranda issue (AP) Posted: 10 May 2010 03:49 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is open to the idea of reviewing Miranda warnings for terrorist suspects, Senior White House adviser David Axelrod said Monday.

Top Democrat urges Obama on S.Korea trade deal (Reuters) Posted: 10 May 2010 03:27 PM PDT Reuters - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry on Monday urged President Barack Obama to quickly press for a vote in Congress on a long-delayed free trade agreement with South Korea.

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