Yahoo! News: Elections

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• In campaign mode, Obama makes Texas dash for cash (AP)
• Critics rain on Spain getaway for first lady (AP)
• Pentagon belt-tightening will cut jobs (AP)
• Honda recalling nearly 400K vehicles (AP)
• Obama overtures to business fall flat (AP)
• First woman to head major US intelligence agency (AP)
• US military aid to Lebanon put on hold (AP)
• Cheney out of hospital a month after heart surgery (AP)
• House ethics panel outlines charges against Waters (AP)
• Dallas officer hurt while leading Obama motorcade (AP)
• Conn. candidate's husband arrested in sign flap (AP)
• Obama attacks Bush policies in Bush's home state (Reuters)
• US voters could deal new blows to establishment candidates (AFP)
• Obama goes on the offensive deep in Republican territory (AFP)
• Democrat fundraising support for Crist grows (AP)
• US Mideast envoy to press direct peace talks (AP)
• Sorting when early memory loss signals big threat (AP)
• Palin: Ga.'s Handel to 'fight like a mama grizzly' (AP)
• Michelle Obama's Spain vacation gives heartburn to critics (Reuters)

In campaign mode, Obama makes Texas dash for cash (AP) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 03:09 PM PDT AP - Deep in the land of George W. Bush, President Barack Obama swept through Texas on Monday to gather Democratic cash and votes, pounding home education as not just an economic imperative but also a political wedge.

Critics rain on Spain getaway for first lady (AP) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 04:53 PM PDT AP - It sounded simple enough: a mother-daughter getaway during the dogs days of August. But it's not so simple when Mom is the first lady of the United States. And the trip is to a luxury resort on Spain's Costa del Sol. During tough economic times at home.

Pentagon belt-tightening will cut jobs (AP) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 03:38 PM PDT AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday that tough economic times require that he shutter a major command that employs some 5,000 people around Norfolk, Va., and begin to eliminate other jobs throughout the military.

Honda recalling nearly 400K vehicles (AP) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 03:20 PM PDT AP - Honda Motor Co. is recalling the popular Accord and Civic passenger cars to address problems with an ignition switch that could allow the key to be removed without the transmission being shifted into park, its third recall over the problem since 2003.

Obama overtures to business fall flat (AP) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 04:54 PM PDT AP - Labeled antibusiness by Republicans and some corporate chiefs, President Barack Obama mounted a campaign to show he wasn't. But his charm offensive has hit a rocky patch.

First woman to head major US intelligence agency (AP) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 11:38 AM PDT AP - Letitia A. Long became the first woman director of a major U.S. intelligence agency Monday, taking her post as chief of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency at a ceremony at the agency's half-built, high-tech campus in Springfield, Va.

US military aid to Lebanon put on hold (AP) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 04:13 PM PDT AP - The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Monday he has suspended U.S. military aid to Lebanon's army amid growing concern in Congress that American-supplied weapons could threaten Israel.

Cheney out of hospital a month after heart surgery (AP) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 02:53 PM PDT AP - Former Vice President Dick Cheney was released from a suburban Washington hospital on Monday following surgery last month to install a pump that helps his failing heart work.

House ethics panel outlines charges against Waters (AP) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 03:55 PM PDT AP - The House ethics committee on Monday announced three counts of alleged ethics violations against California Democrat Maxine Waters, including a charge that she requested federal help for a bank where her husband owned stock and had served on its board.

Dallas officer hurt while leading Obama motorcade (AP) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 04:38 PM PDT AP - Police say a Dallas officer suffered minor injuries when his motorcycle crashed as he led President Barack Obama's motorcade.

Conn. candidate's husband arrested in sign flap (AP) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 04:07 PM PDT AP - Police say the husband of a Republican candidate for Connecticut attorney general has been arrested following an altercation with a woman he saw removing campaign signs.

Obama attacks Bush policies in Bush's home state (Reuters) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 03:20 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama attacked the economic policies of his Republican predecessor George W. Bush in Bush's home state on Monday as evidence of the way Republicans would operate if given power in November 2 U.S. congressional elections.

US voters could deal new blows to establishment candidates (AFP) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 02:48 PM PDT AFP - Embattled establishment candidates -- the latest but not the last in an election year defined by an anti-Washington mood -- await the verdict of US voters in Colorado's party primaries Tuesday.

Obama goes on the offensive deep in Republican territory (AFP) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 02:01 PM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama on Monday took a swing at opposition Republicans on a campaign fund-raising trip to the state capital of Texas, accusing them of not being serious about governing.

Democrat fundraising support for Crist grows (AP) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 01:40 PM PDT AP - The share of Democratic supporters donating to Charlie Crist's U.S. Senate campaign has multiplied since the Florida governor left the GOP in April to run as an independent, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.

US Mideast envoy to press direct peace talks (AP) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 12:45 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration's special Mideast envoy is returning to the region for a lightning-fast visit this week in a bid to get Israel and the Palestinians to agree to direct peace talks by Sept. 1, U.S. officials said Monday.

Sorting when early memory loss signals big threat (AP) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 11:24 AM PDT AP - Doctors can't tell if Leif Utoft Bollesen's mild memory loss will remain an annoyance or worsen, but experimental checks of the Minnesota man's aging brain may offer clues.

Palin: Ga.'s Handel to 'fight like a mama grizzly' (AP) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 11:21 AM PDT AP - Sarah Palin handed Georgia gubernatorial hopeful Karen Handel her conservative seal of approval on Monday in a tight Republican runoff, saying Handel would "fight like a mama grizzly" and help usher out the state's "good ol' boy network."

Michelle Obama's Spain vacation gives heartburn to critics (Reuters) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 11:17 AM PDT Reuters - First lady Michelle Obama caused a stir among the chattering class for a trip to Spain, but some Washington analysts called it a tempest in an August teapot, with no impact on her popularity or her husband's political standing.

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