Yahoo! News: Elections

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• US largely ruling out NKorea in 2009 cyberattacks (AP)
• Clinton juggles diplomacy, wedding prep demands (AP)
• Essay: Spy arrests offer bit of Cold War nostalgia (AP)
• Tea party's next wave rising in Alaska to Colorado (AP)
• Bipartisan Boehner beat down (Politico)
• Clinton: `Steel vise' crushing global activists (AP)
• Gates wants military interviews with press cleared (AP)
• Obama awards $2B for solar power, hails new jobs (AP)
• GOP chairman: Afghan 'war of Obama's choosing' (AP)
• Supreme Court lets Green Party on ballot — for now (AP)
• Biden visits Iraq amid election deadlock (Reuters)
• Obama commits nearly $2 billion to solar companies (Reuters)
• Biden 'extremely optimistic' about Iraq's democracy (AFP)
• Obama relaxing at Camp David retreat (AP)
• Driving while blind? Maybe, with new high-tech car (AP)
• Obama to expand broadband Internet across U.S. (McClatchy Newspapers)
• West Virginia, political elite say goodbye to Byrd (AP)
• Correction: Democratic convention (AP)

US largely ruling out NKorea in 2009 cyberattacks (AP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 02:49 PM PDT AP - U.S. officials have largely ruled out North Korea as the origin of a computer attack last July that took down U.S. and South Korean government websites, according to cybersecurity experts.

Clinton juggles diplomacy, wedding prep demands (AP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 02:47 PM PDT AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton says she's not letting the demands of global diplomacy stop her from planning daughter Chelsea's wedding.

Essay: Spy arrests offer bit of Cold War nostalgia (AP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 01:51 PM PDT AP - The capture of those alleged deep-cover Russian agents has — for a moment of nostalgia — taken Americans back to a day when their enemy was sneaky but familiar, ensconced right there behind the crenelated red-brick Kremlin walls.

Tea party's next wave rising in Alaska to Colorado (AP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 12:34 PM PDT AP - Rifle through a stack of tea party candidate resumes, and Joe Miller's will stand out.

Bipartisan Boehner beat down (Politico) Posted: 01 Jul 2010 03:49 AM PDT Politico - Minority Leader John Boehner is two days into a bipartisan beat-down — a small taste of what he can expect should he become speaker of the House and a test of his resilience as a leader.

Clinton: `Steel vise' crushing global activists (AP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 11:42 AM PDT AP - Intolerant governments across the globe are "slowly crushing" activist and advocacy groups that play an essential role in the development of democracy, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday.

Gates wants military interviews with press cleared (AP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 12:27 PM PDT AP - Military officials will need Pentagon clearance for interviews and other dealings with reporters, according to an order from Defense Secretary Robert Gates not long after the top general in Afghanistan was fired for his comments in a magazine article.

Obama awards $2B for solar power, hails new jobs (AP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 02:43 PM PDT AP - The government is handing out nearly $2 billion for new solar plants that President Barack Obama says will create thousands of jobs and increase the use of renewable energy sources.

GOP chairman: Afghan 'war of Obama's choosing' (AP) Posted: 02 Jul 2010 10:28 PM PDT AP - Republican chairman Michael Steele drew criticism from within his own party Friday, including calls to resign, after saying the 9-year-old commitment of U.S. troops to Afghanistan was a mistaken "war of Obama's choosing."

Supreme Court lets Green Party on ballot — for now (AP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 12:31 PM PDT AP - The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that the Green Party can put its candidates on the November statewide ballot while it considers whether the party took improper donations to fund its petition drive.

Biden visits Iraq amid election deadlock (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 12:58 PM PDT Reuters - Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq on Saturday amid dangerous tensions following an election in March that produced no clear winner and as yet no new government.

Obama commits nearly $2 billion to solar companies (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 12:54 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama, under pressure to spur job growth, said on Saturday two solar energy companies will get nearly $2 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to create as many as 5,000 green jobs.

Biden 'extremely optimistic' about Iraq's democracy (AFP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 01:36 PM PDT AFP - US Vice President Joe Biden said on a surprise visit to Baghdad on Saturday he was optimistic Iraqi politicians could end the squabbles that have deadlocked the conflict-torn nation's democracy for months.

Obama relaxing at Camp David retreat (AP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 12:10 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is at Camp David but will return in the evening to get ready for July Fourth celebrations at the White House.

Driving while blind? Maybe, with new high-tech car (AP) Posted: 02 Jul 2010 08:00 PM PDT AP - Could a blind person drive a car? Researchers are trying to make that far-fetched notion a reality.

Obama to expand broadband Internet across U.S. (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 02 Jul 2010 03:06 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — More than a year after Congress passed the economic stimulus package, President Barack Obama announced that $795 million of that money will go toward expanding Internet access across the country to provide jobs and improve communication.

West Virginia, political elite say goodbye to Byrd (AP) Posted: 02 Jul 2010 02:29 PM PDT AP - Craning their necks and clapping to Appalachian music, West Virginians bid farewell Friday to Robert C. Byrd, their beloved senator who rose from childhood poverty in a coal mining town to become the nation's longest-serving member of Congress.

Correction: Democratic convention (AP) Posted: 02 Jul 2010 01:09 PM PDT AP - In a June 30 story about the Democrats' 2012 presidential convention, The Associated Press wrongly attributed comments about President Barack Obama's re-election prospects to Democratic National Committee chairman Tim Kaine.

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