Yahoo! News: Elections

---

• State dinner chef tweets about 'day of creation' (AP)
• Brazen attacks might signal a new Taliban strategy (AP)
• Big lessons of primaries: What the heck were they? (AP)
• Dems unite for Pa. Senate nominee who beat Specter (AP)
• Rand Paul tapped into 'anger' (Politico)
• Senate fails to end debate on bank regulation bill (AP)
• Salazar: Abolish energy agency, divide in 3 parts (AP)
• Senate Dems: Make oil industry pay for inspections (AP)
• Kerry, Pickens: Odd couple of climate legislation (AP)
• Penn urges help for hospitals in post-quake Haiti (AP)
• Senate fails to end debate on bank reform bill (Reuters)
• US weighs response to SKorean ship sinking (AP)
• Lincoln enlists Clinton help in Ark. runoff fight (AP)
• Election Result: Primary Voters Show Anger at Incumbents (Time.com)
• Speeches and writings show fuller picture of Kagan (AP)
• Immigrant's child steals the show from Mexico's Calderon (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Obama clamors for federal fix to immigration woes (AP)
• Correction: Virginia Drilling story (AP)
• Second-grader asks Michelle Obama about new immigration law (The Newsroom)

State dinner chef tweets about 'day of creation' (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 05:49 PM PDT AP - "Got my fingers crossed there are no hitches."

Brazen attacks might signal a new Taliban strategy (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 04:55 PM PDT AP - Brazen Taliban attacks in and around Afghanistan's capital Kabul this week demonstrate the power of the insurgency to strike directly at foreign forces on Afghan soil.

Big lessons of primaries: What the heck were they? (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 05:58 PM PDT AP - Dazed and confused. The biggest primary night of the season left the two parties struggling Wednesday to figure out their next steps in an increasingly volatile election year.

Dems unite for Pa. Senate nominee who beat Specter (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 04:31 PM PDT AP - Democratic Party leaders and labor unions began lining up Wednesday behind the party nominee whom they had fought to defeat in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate primary as the Republican opponent attacked him as too liberal for the state's voters.

Rand Paul tapped into 'anger' (Politico) Posted: 18 May 2010 06:11 PM PDT Politico - BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Rand Paul, the first-time candidate for elective office who has emerged as a symbol of the national tea party's clout in Republican politics, appears to have clinched the GOP's nomination for this state's open Senate seat — in a victory certain to jolt the political order in Kentucky and across the country.

Senate fails to end debate on bank regulation bill (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 06:02 PM PDT AP - Senate Republicans on Wednesday delayed final action on a sweeping financial regulation bill, raising a last-minute obstacle to the legislation as it approached the home stretch.

Salazar: Abolish energy agency, divide in 3 parts (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 05:45 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration moved on Wednesday to abolish the beleaguered agency that oversees offshore drilling and replace it with three separate entities.

Senate Dems: Make oil industry pay for inspections (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 04:19 PM PDT AP - Senate Democrats are calling for the Obama administration to improve inspections of deepwater oil rigs such as the one that exploded last month in the Gulf of Mexico. The lawmakers said oil companies should pay for the emergency inspections, not taxpayers.

Kerry, Pickens: Odd couple of climate legislation (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 03:57 PM PDT AP - Call them the odd couple of climate change.

Penn urges help for hospitals in post-quake Haiti (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 04:24 PM PDT AP - Actor Sean Penn said Wednesday the biggest challenge facing post-quake Haiti is getting hospitals staffed and supplied during its current rainy season and ahead of the upcoming hurricane season.

Senate fails to end debate on bank reform bill (Reuters) Posted: 19 May 2010 05:46 PM PDT Reuters - In a setback for the Obama administration, Senate Democrats failed to muster enough votes on Wednesday to end debate on the biggest overhaul of financial regulation since the 1930s, delaying a vote on passage.

US weighs response to SKorean ship sinking (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 05:36 PM PDT AP - Deciding how to respond to North Korea's apparent sinking of a South Korean warship will be tricky for U.S. officials.

Lincoln enlists Clinton help in Ark. runoff fight (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 04:29 PM PDT AP - Lt. Gov. Bill Halter wasted no time Wednesday trying to rally voter support in his runoff with Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln, who enlisted the help of former President Bill Clinton in her fight for her political career.

Election Result: Primary Voters Show Anger at Incumbents (Time.com) Posted: 19 May 2010 04:15 PM PDT Time.com - After Tuesday's elections, the Establishment in Washington found three more reasons to worry about their staying power

Speeches and writings show fuller picture of Kagan (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 04:12 PM PDT AP - Not so long ago, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan opined the law sometimes allows things that are "just plain dumb."

Immigrant's child steals the show from Mexico's Calderon (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 19 May 2010 03:58 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon railed Wednesday against Arizona's new immigration law and pressed Congress to pass a national immigration overhaul, but a second-grade girl at a school in the Maryland suburbs unwittingly made a more passionate case.

Obama clamors for federal fix to immigration woes (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 04:36 PM PDT AP - Confronting soaring frustration over illegal immigration, President Barack Obama on Wednesday condemned Arizona's crackdown and pushed instead for a federal fix the nation could embrace. He said that will never happen without Republican support, pleading: "I need some help."

Correction: Virginia Drilling story (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 03:02 PM PDT AP - In a story May 18 about offshore drilling, The Associated Press reported erroneously that President Barack Obama lifted a ban on offshore drilling in the Atlantic Ocean in March. President George W. Bush lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific coasts in 2008 and Congress lifted its moratorium on most coastal drilling later the same year.

Second-grader asks Michelle Obama about new immigration law (The Newsroom) Posted: 19 May 2010 02:55 PM PDT The Newsroom - During a visit to an elementary school in Langley Park, Maryland, to promote her anti-obesity campaign, first lady Michelle Obama faced a tough question from one second-grader.

You are subscribed to email updates from Yahoo! News: Elections To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610