Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama stand on oil spill is tough and temperate (AP)
• Calif. gov candidates come from different worlds (AP)
• Obama tells Britain no hard feelings over spill (AP)
• Obama faces rare defeat on health help for jobless (AP)
• Kagan had role in Clinton White House's big fights (AP)
• Obama and GOP bicker over doctors' Medicare pay (AP)
• Big soccer game, US-UK beer bet on the line (AP)
• Indiana GOP picks state senator to replace Souder (AP)
• Paul reaches out to gun advocates in Senate race (AP)
• Iran crushing freedom, opposition says on poll anniversary (AFP)
• Ruby Ridge: Kagan focus as 1996 re-election loomed (AP)
• Obama, UK's Cameron wager beer over World Cup game (Reuters)
• Obama, British PM Cameron discuss BP oil spill (AP)
• South Carolina head scratcher: More curiosities in election of Alvin Greene (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Obama takes aim at Republicans again on healthcare (Reuters)
• Advice to college graduates from Obama, McCain, and Souter (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Iran's Guards warn opposition on vote anniversary (Reuters)

Obama stand on oil spill is tough and temperate (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 01:54 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama took a fist-and-olive-branch approach to the Gulf oil spill Saturday, giving BP a deadline to accelerate cleanup efforts while also reassuring Britons he's not pointing a finger at them or their national institutions.

Calif. gov candidates come from different worlds (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:15 PM PDT AP - She's chartered jet, he's Southwest. Her mentor was Mitt Romney, he worked for Mother Teresa. She pays her chief campaign consultant $90,000-a-month, his worked for free most of last year.

Obama tells Britain no hard feelings over spill (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:04 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama reassured Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday that his frustration over the mammoth oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not an attack on Britain as the two leaders tried to soothe trans-Atlantic tensions over the disaster.

Obama faces rare defeat on health help for jobless (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 08:19 AM PDT AP - If Chuck Lacasse had gotten his pink slip four days earlier, Uncle Sam would have covered most of his family's health insurance while he looked for a new job.

Kagan had role in Clinton White House's big fights (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 11:32 AM PDT AP - For four years as a White House lawyer and aide, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan had a hand in many of the major issues that drove and vexed the Clinton administration.

Obama and GOP bicker over doctors' Medicare pay (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 08:30 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is asking Republican lawmakers to approve billions of dollars in new spending to avert a scheduled 21 percent cut in payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients.

Big soccer game, US-UK beer bet on the line (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 02:28 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron set sudsy stakes on Saturday's World Cup soccer match between their countries.

Indiana GOP picks state senator to replace Souder (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 03:43 PM PDT AP - Republican officials in northeast Indiana have selected state Sen. Marlin Stutzman to replace former U.S. Rep. Mark Souder on the November ballot.

Paul reaches out to gun advocates in Senate race (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 01:18 PM PDT AP - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul reached out to gun advocates on Saturday, trying to shore up support from a major voting bloc in Kentucky also being courted by his Democratic opponent.

Iran crushing freedom, opposition says on poll anniversary (AFP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:35 PM PDT AFP - Iran's opposition issued fresh calls for freedom on Saturday as the anniversary of a presidential election that sparked deadly street unrest passed off without major anti-government protests.

Ruby Ridge: Kagan focus as 1996 re-election loomed (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:16 PM PDT AP - As an aide in the Clinton White House, Elena Kagan steeped herself in details of the Ruby Ridge controversy, an issue that Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania had zeroed in on as he sought the Republican presidential nomination.

Obama, UK's Cameron wager beer over World Cup game (Reuters) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:16 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron may agree on weighty issues like Iran and Afghanistan but their "special relationship" stops when it comes to soccer.

Obama, British PM Cameron discuss BP oil spill (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 10:49 AM PDT AP - The White House says President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron have discussed BP's need to do all it can to respond effectively to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

South Carolina head scratcher: More curiosities in election of Alvin Greene (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 10:25 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Is he a working class hero, proof that anyone can make it in politics? Or did someone put Alvin Greene up to it, paying his way to sabotage the Democratic statewide primary to take pressure off South Carolina Republican incumbent Sen. Jim DeMint?

Obama takes aim at Republicans again on healthcare (Reuters) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 10:23 AM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama called on Republicans on Saturday to vote for a delay in cutting government Medicare insurance payments to doctors, taking aim at the opposition party in a renewed election-year push for his new healthcare law.

Advice to college graduates from Obama, McCain, and Souter (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 05:46 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - It's the time of year for advice, inspiration, calls to service, and more than a few clichés. At colleges and universities across America, politicians, actors, writers, activists, and scholars have drawn from their experiences as they speak to college graduates. Here are a few of their words of wisdom.

Iran's Guards warn opposition on vote anniversary (Reuters) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 04:57 AM PDT Reuters - Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned the opposition on Saturday, the first anniversary of a disputed presidential election, that they would crack down on any attempts to create a "security crisis."

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