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Yahoo! News: Elections


Gates: New US intelligence chief the right choice (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 08:28 AM PDT

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates address media aboard a U.S. Military aircraft, en route to Baku, Azerbaijan, from Singapore, Sunday, June 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday that his Pentagon intelligence chief, in line to oversee all American spy agencies, has the ability to forge consensus among that sprawling network.


Top US officer: al-Qaida in Iraq "devastated" (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 12:52 PM PDT

Admiral Michael G. Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, addresses a room of soldiers during a visit Wednesday, June 2, 2010, at the Soldier's Support Center Memorial Hall on Fort Bragg, N.C. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Ashley Cross) MANDATORY CREDITAP - A string of setbacks for al-Qaida's affiliate in Iraq has left the insurgent group "devastated" and struggling to cope with a double whammy of a leadership vacuum and a money squeeze, the top U.S. military officer said Sunday.


Crowded agenda awaits Clinton in Latin America (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 02:06 PM PDT

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks with reporters following her meeting with Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna, not shown, Thursday, June 3, 2010, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton travels to Latin America and the Caribbean with a crowded agenda awaiting: lingering tensions over last year's coup in Honduras, U.S. immigration policy, security issues and concerns over Iran and the Middle East.


Clinton says she expects Iran to 'pull some stunt' (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 03:29 PM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was set to leave Sunday on a tour for stronger security and trade ties with Latin America despite US friction with powerful Brazil over Cuba, Honduras and Iran.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she thinks Iran will "pull some stunt" in the next few days because it expects further United Nations sanctions over its nuclear program.


Obama's oil spill point man: Gulf held hostage (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 05:30 AM PDT

Plaquemines Parish coastal zone director P.J. Hahn lifts an oil-covered pelican which was stuck in oil at Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay, just off the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La., Saturday, June 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - The government's point man on the Gulf oil spill says there is some progress in containing the leaking well. But Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen says he doesn't think anyone should be pleased as long as there is oil in the water.


Top US officer: Vets need not suffer alone (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 08:50 AM PDT

A wreath is laid on the tomb of US soldier Edward M. Withers, from Wisconsin, who died on July 12, 1944, at the Colleville US cemetary, western France, Sunday June 6, 2010, on the 66th anniversary of the D-Day. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)AP - In a stirring tribute to the D-Day sacrifices of American soldiers and their allies, the U.S. military's top officer said Sunday that World War II's defining moment should remind all that returning warriors need not "suffer in quiet desperation."


Obamas to attend Ford's Theatre gala (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 02:51 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama honored Ford's Theatre at a White House reception Sunday.

Gates courts put-out Azerbaijan, a key Afghan hub (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 08:04 AM PDT

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates address media aboard a U.S. Military aircraft, en route to Baku, Azerbaijan, from Singapore, Sunday, June 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates tried on Sunday to soothe the put-off president of this former Soviet republic that helps move supplies and soldiers to the U.S.-led war in landlocked Afghanistan.


Israel rejects international probe into ship raid (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 08:04 AM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem offices, Sunday June, 6, 2010. An Israeli official said Sunday that U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon is moving ahead with plans for an international commission to investigate Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. (AP Photos/Jim Hollander, Pool)AP - Israel rejects the idea of a having an international commission look into the country's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, Israel's ambassador to the U.S. said Sunday.


Rwanda opposition asks U.S. to help defuse tension (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 07:37 AM PDT

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame attends a political rally by the the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) in the capital Kigali, May 15, 2010. REUTERS/Hereward HollandReuters - Three Rwandan opposition parties have asked the United States to use its influence to help resolve social and political tension in the country before the presidential election in August.


Fierce struggle for McCain to retain Arizona seat (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 06:29 AM PDT

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., smiles while on stage as he was joined by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at a town hall meeting Friday, June 4, 2010, in Mesa, Ariz.  McCain is facing a primary challenge from former Republican Rep. J.D. Hayworth in August. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - A serious re-election fight wasn't what Republican John McCain expected when he returned to the Senate after losing the presidency.


The Obamas to go to the theater (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 04:03 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama plan a night out at the theater.

Primaries from Calif. to SC measure voter anger (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 12:44 AM PDT

Meg Whitman, Republican gubernatorial candidate hopeful, spoke to a crowd of mostly senior citizens during an appearance in Roseville, Calif. on Thursday, June 3, 2010.  Whitman, who is challenged by Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, discussed her support for Proposition 13 regarding property taxes. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - How angry are Americans? People primed for change vote in 12 states Tuesday in contests that will decide the fate of two endangered Washington incumbents — a two-term senator in Arkansas and a six-term congressman in South Carolina — while setting the stage for some of the races that could determine the balance of power on Capitol Hill in the fall.


Next Japan PM to tap fiscal reformers (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 11:39 PM PDT

Japan's Prime Minister-to-be Naoto Kan speaks to journalists during a news conference at the Democratic Party of Japan's headquarters in Tokyo June 4, 2010. REUTERS/Issei KatoReuters - Japan's new leader, Naoto Kan, will pick a fellow fiscal conservative for the key finance minister post and a critic of an unpopular powerbroker as his party No. 2 in a bid for voter support in an election next month.


Obama: Oil spill upends life for Gulf residents (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 07:45 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama (2nd L) walks with fisherman Chris Camardelle (L), National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen (2nd R) and Grand Isle mayor David Camardelle alongside a fishing boat in Grand Isle, Louisiana, June 4, 2010. Obama travelled to the Louisiana gulf coast to further assess damage from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.     REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS DISASTER)AP - President Barack Obama said Saturday that he will stand with Gulf Coast residents "until they are made whole" from the oil spill catastrophe.


AP Enterprise: Sub attack was near US-SKorea drill (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 07:43 PM PDT

Members of a right-wing association of former special military commandos who were trained for espionage missions in North Korea, pay their respects to their fallen comrades during a rally held on the eve of South Korea's Memorial Day in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, June 5, 2010. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Saturday ruled out going to war with North Korea, hours after his government asked the United Nations to punish the communist nation over the sinking of a warship. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - On the night a torpedo-armed North Korean submarine allegedly sank a South Korean patrol ship, the U.S. and South Korea were engaged in joint anti-submarine warfare exercises just 75 miles away, military officials told The Associated Press.


GOP wants Justice probe of White House dealmaking (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 07:40 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 4, 2010, file photo, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele walks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Steele.  (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)AP - Rebuffed before, Republicans are renewing demands for a Justice Department investigation into White House dealmaking in two Senate races. The Obama administration says it's broken no laws, but Republicans aren't taking its word.


Ill. Senate race: all insults, all the time (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 07:34 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 19, 2010 file photo, Illinois Republican Senate candidate, Rep. Mark Kirk, responds to a question during a news conference in Chicago. Kirk apologized Thursday for making inaccurate statements about his service in the Navy Reserves, while acknowledging more discrepancies. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - The candidates in one of the nation's most closely watched Senate races aren't saying much about health care, the Gulf oil spill or even the economy. Instead, they're discussing who's the least trustworthy.


Documents offer sketchy clues to pragmatic Kagan (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 07:31 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 26, 2010 file photo, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan meets with Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M. on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - From welfare and assisted suicide to police rights, a few scribbled notes and brief e-mails offer an outline of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan as a pragmatist with sometimes unpredictable views on hot-button topics when she was domestic policy adviser to President Bill Clinton.


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