Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Ex-congressman won't run again for Hawaii seat (AP)
• Fed chief sees delicate dance ahead (AP)
• Poll finds debt-dogged Americans stressed out (AP)
• Come and take it! Perry fights attacks Texas style (AP)
• Ill. Sen. hopeful questioned about military claim (AP)
• Obama aide: leak is biggest environmental disaster (AP)
• Mullen wishes Congress had waited on gay ban vote (AP)
• Christian conservatives target seated judges (AP)
• BP exec says end point for leak is relief well (AP)
• Colombia presidential vote headed for June runoff (AFP)
• Santos far ahead in Colombia vote with 46 percent (AFP)
• Santos leads Colombia vote, runoff likely (Reuters)
• First family enjoys sleepover in own Chicago home (AP)
• BP, Obama face clamor to halt oil spill "crime" (Reuters)
• Modern meets primeval in Gulf oil spill response (AP)
• Czech centre-right parties start coalition talks (Reuters)
• Voters hate partisan sniping, but fuel its growth (AP)
• Markey: 2 relief wells may be key to plugging leak (AP)
• Mullen says Kandahar campaign will take months (AP)

Ex-congressman won't run again for Hawaii seat (AP) Posted: 30 May 2010 05:35 PM PDT AP - Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Ed Case said Sunday he won't run again for the Hawaii congressional seat won by a Republican candidate in a special election last week.

Fed chief sees delicate dance ahead (AP) Posted: 30 May 2010 05:29 PM PDT AP - The delicate task ahead for the Federal Reserve and other central banks is deciding when to start boosting interest rates and reeling in all the stimulus pumped out during the global financial crisis, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said Sunday.

Poll finds debt-dogged Americans stressed out (AP) Posted: 30 May 2010 12:17 PM PDT AP - The economy trudges ahead yet debt dogs many Americans, stressing them out even as they firm up their own financial foundations.

Come and take it! Perry fights attacks Texas style (AP) Posted: 30 May 2010 12:31 PM PDT AP - Rick Perry is governor of a state with a multibillion-dollar hole in the budget that's getting bigger. The EPA wants to take away the state's power to police the quality of its air. He's the butt of jokes for spending tens of thousands of tax dollars to rent a swanky house.

Ill. Sen. hopeful questioned about military claim (AP) Posted: 30 May 2010 04:13 PM PDT AP - On a weekend dedicated to honoring military service, Illinois Senate candidate Mark Kirk found himself on the defensive over his past claims that he was named the U.S. Navy's intelligence officer of the year, an award he never won.

Obama aide: leak is biggest environmental disaster (AP) Posted: 30 May 2010 10:02 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's top energy adviser says the Gulf oil spill is probably the biggest environmental disaster the country has ever faced.

Mullen wishes Congress had waited on gay ban vote (AP) Posted: 30 May 2010 11:15 AM PDT AP - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Sunday he would have preferred that Congress had waited before voting to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" law that bans gays from serving openly in the military.

Christian conservatives target seated judges (AP) Posted: 30 May 2010 11:18 AM PDT AP - A group of conservative attorneys say they are on a mission from God to unseat four California judges in a rare challenge that is turning a traditionally snooze-button election into what both sides call a battle for the integrity of U.S. courts.

BP exec says end point for leak is relief well (AP) Posted: 30 May 2010 07:56 AM PDT AP - A BP executive says a relief well is the "end point" of efforts to stop the Gulf oil spill — which suggests there's little chance of plugging the leak until the new well is completed in August.

Colombia presidential vote headed for June runoff (AFP) Posted: 30 May 2010 04:54 PM PDT AFP - Colombia's presidential election Sunday was headed for a June 20 runoff after none of the candidates received more than 50 percent of the vote, election officials said with 99 percent of ballots counted.

Santos far ahead in Colombia vote with 46 percent (AFP) Posted: 30 May 2010 03:57 PM PDT AFP - Juan Manuel Santos, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's pick as his successor in Sunday's election, was far ahead of his rival Antanas Mockus but just short of the 50 percent plus one needed for an outright win, partial results showed.

Santos leads Colombia vote, runoff likely (Reuters) Posted: 30 May 2010 03:16 PM PDT Reuters - Former Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos took a big lead in the first round of a presidential election, but looked headed for a June runoff against rival Antanas Mockus, initial results said on Sunday.

First family enjoys sleepover in own Chicago home (AP) Posted: 30 May 2010 02:20 PM PDT AP - Good friends, good food and the comforts of his own home.

BP, Obama face clamor to halt oil spill "crime" (Reuters) Posted: 30 May 2010 03:01 PM PDT Reuters - Lawmakers and local residents clamored on Sunday for BP and the Obama administration to do more to save the Gulf Coast from an out-of-control oil spill that has become the biggest environmental catastrophe in the country's history.

Modern meets primeval in Gulf oil spill response (AP) Posted: 30 May 2010 10:05 AM PDT AP - It's all so last millennium, that filthy business in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico.

Czech centre-right parties start coalition talks (Reuters) Posted: 30 May 2010 09:36 AM PDT Reuters - Czech center-right parties began talks on forming an austerity-minded coalition government on Sunday after their surprisingly decisive election victory over leftists who advocated higher welfare spending.

Voters hate partisan sniping, but fuel its growth (AP) Posted: 30 May 2010 08:26 AM PDT AP - People say they don't like partisan gridlock in Washington. But they're voting in ways almost certain to increase it, by punishing politicians who cooperate with the opposing party and rewarding ideological purity that pushes both sides to the fringes.

Markey: 2 relief wells may be key to plugging leak (AP) Posted: 30 May 2010 08:19 AM PDT AP - The chairman of a House energy committee believes dual relief wells have a good chance of plugging the Gulf oil leak.

Mullen says Kandahar campaign will take months (AP) Posted: 30 May 2010 08:07 AM PDT AP - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is predicting that it'll be clear by year's end whether a NATO-led counterinsurgency effort in the Afghan Taliban stronghold of Kandahar is successful.

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