Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Essay: For Obama, race means repeated distractions (AP)
• Medical marijuana to be OK in some VA clinics (AP)
• Obama and oil spill: Lessons from corporate world (AP)
• In Ariz. Senate race, Hayworth hopes to slay giant (AP)
• Obama, GOP spar over how to revive ailing economy (AP)
• Gen. McChrystal retires in military ceremony (AP)
• Ex-mayor makes Memphis, Tenn. primary about race (AP)
• Ousted ag official unsure about returning to work (AP)
• Rangel ethics charges create headache for allies (AP)
• Possible deal explored in Rangel ethics case: aides (Reuters)
• GOP's Kirk on defensive after latest discrepancy (AP)
• Obama criticizes Republicans on economy (Reuters)
• Democrats face unsavory choices in Rangel case (AP)
• McCain spending tops $10 million in second quarter (AP)
• Va. senator calls for ending diversity programs (AP)
• Despite Sherrod spotlight, black farmers denied (AP)
• Some insurers stop writing new coverage for kids (AP)

Essay: For Obama, race means repeated distractions (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 02:37 PM PDT AP - Right when President Barack Obama should have been making political hay over big-deal legislative triumphs, race once again blew in with a storm of distraction.

Medical marijuana to be OK in some VA clinics (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 02:13 PM PDT AP - Patients treated at Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics will be able to use medical marijuana in the 14 states where it's legal, according to new federal guidelines.

Obama and oil spill: Lessons from corporate world (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 02:33 PM PDT AP - As chief executive officer of America Inc., Barack Obama has walked the factory floor when it comes to managing the federal response to the Gulf oil spill, going directly to front-line workers.

In Ariz. Senate race, Hayworth hopes to slay giant (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 02:23 PM PDT AP - J.D. Hayworth has a busy resume for his 52 years — college football player, sportscaster, congressman, talk-radio host, even an infomercial pitchman. He's hoping to add two more titles — giant-slayer and U.S. senator.

Obama, GOP spar over how to revive ailing economy (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 02:50 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama derided an economic plan from the top House Republican as repeating job-killing policies of the past that help drive the country into recession.

Gen. McChrystal retires in military ceremony (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 02:20 PM PDT AP - After 34 years in the Army, Gen. Stanley McChrystal left behind legions of admirers and the prospect his reputation as a ferocious fighter would one day eclipse the costly comments that appeared in Rolling Stone.

Ex-mayor makes Memphis, Tenn. primary about race (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 02:25 PM PDT AP - In the city where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, a once-unbeatable former mayor wants the Democratic congressional primary to be a referendum on race.

Ousted ag official unsure about returning to work (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 02:31 PM PDT AP - Former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, who was forced to resign after a blogger posted comments she made to an NAACP audience about race, is unsure about returning to a government job, she says.

Rangel ethics charges create headache for allies (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 02:27 PM PDT AP - Friends and political allies of embattled Rep. Charlie Rangel are noticeably quiet after the disclosure that the 40-year House veteran and dean of the New York congressional delegation may face serious charges from a House ethics panel.

Possible deal explored in Rangel ethics case: aides (Reuters) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 02:04 PM PDT Reuters - Representative Charles Rangel's lawyers are trying to determine if a deal can be reached to settle ethics charges against him and avoid a trial that could hurt his Democratic Party just before the November election, party aides said on Saturday.

GOP's Kirk on defensive after latest discrepancy (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 11:57 AM PDT AP - Since Republican Senate candidate Mark Kirk acknowledged embellishing his military record, the slightest discrepancy in his life story prompts another round of news coverage questioning his honesty as he makes a bid for President Barack Obama's old Senate seat.

Obama criticizes Republicans on economy (Reuters) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 10:19 AM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama criticized Republicans on Saturday for supporting economic policies that "created this mess in the first place" as he tried to raise election-year doubts about his opponents.

Democrats face unsavory choices in Rangel case (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2010 10:37 PM PDT AP - Democrats nervously anticipating Rep. Charles Rangel's ethics trial know all about the media frenzy and negative ads accompanying election-season scandals. They generated it themselves in 2006, when Republican Rep. Mark Foley was forced to resign in disgrace.

McCain spending tops $10 million in second quarter (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2010 08:58 PM PDT AP - Arizona Sen. John McCain has been beating up on his main Republican primary challenger, but it's come at a price.

Va. senator calls for ending diversity programs (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2010 08:32 PM PDT AP - Virginia Sen. Jim Webb called for ending government-run diversity programs in a newspaper column Friday, saying they have disadvantaged struggling whites and hurt the cause of racial harmony.

Despite Sherrod spotlight, black farmers denied (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2010 05:44 PM PDT AP - Black farmers, due $1.2 billion for a legacy of discrimination by the Agriculture Department, suffered a new and disheartening setback this week, despite the national spotlight provided by the quickly disavowed firing of a black department worker.

Some insurers stop writing new coverage for kids (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2010 05:03 PM PDT AP - Some major health insurance companies will no longer issue certain types of policies for children, an unintended consequence of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law, state officials said Friday.

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