Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama presents plan to disarm Uganda's LRA rebels (AFP)
• California Democrat McNerney retains House seat (AP)
• Obama says he doesn't think about race vs. Palin (AP)
• Stark choice for Haiti as election battle heats up (AFP)
• Obama spares turkeys 'shellacking' he got at polls (AP)
• Meghan McCain: Sarah Palin's Presidential Run 'Genius' or 'Ultimate Insanity' (ContributorNetwork)
• Obama family volunteers at Washington food pantry (AP)
• Indiana: Obama Touts Successes of His Economic Policies (Time.com)
• Obama orders review of 'human subjects' safety (AP)
• After election stuffing, Obama pardons turkey (Reuters)
• Pelosi's new mission: Limit Obama deals with GOP (AP)
• Murkowski seeks voice in Alaska election lawsuit (AP)
• US warns of likely harm from WikiLeaks release (AP)
• Coleman urges Miller to 'move on' (AP)
• Bipartisanship elusive in post-election Washington (Reuters)
• Protests, complaints greet "final" Afghan poll results (Reuters)
• Afghanistan unveils results from fraud-marred vote (AFP)
• Thanksgiving events, NKorea dominate Obama's day (AP)
• FLOTUS's White House 'not Camelot' (Politico)
• China turns up heat on Taiwan to talk politics (Reuters)

Obama presents plan to disarm Uganda's LRA rebels (AFP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 04:27 PM PST AFP - President Barack Obama presented Congress Wednesday with a plan to disarm Uganda's Lord?s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in Africa, said the White House.

California Democrat McNerney retains House seat (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 04:22 PM PST AP - Democratic Rep. Jerry McNerney has been re-elected to a third term in a Northern California congressional district, fending off a challenge from Republican David Harmer.

Obama says he doesn't think about race vs. Palin (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 04:09 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama says he respects Sarah Palin's political skills but hasn't thought about the possibility of facing her in the 2012 presidential election.

Stark choice for Haiti as election battle heats up (AFP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 03:28 PM PST AFP - Gripped by cholera, Haiti geared up Wednesday for its first presidential elections since January's devastating earthquake with three vastly different candidates emerging as front-runners.

Obama spares turkeys 'shellacking' he got at polls (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 03:16 PM PST AP - Barack Obama performed an annual rite of presidents on Wednesday, pardoning a pair of turkeys on Thanksgiving Eve and cracking jokes about the competition that brought them to his famous doorstep.

Meghan McCain: Sarah Palin's Presidential Run 'Genius' or 'Ultimate Insanity' (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:59 PM PST ContributorNetwork - Everybody seems to be trying to figure out Sarah Palin these days: who she is, what she's doing, what she might be doing in the next few months or years, what she meant, what the hell it was she just said. Meghan McCain has figured out just what in world Palin might be doing -- for the most part.

Obama family volunteers at Washington food pantry (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:39 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama and his family have delivered turkeys that didn't receive a presidential pardon to a food pantry for the poor.

Indiana: Obama Touts Successes of His Economic Policies (Time.com) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:15 PM PST Time.com - Two years after Obama became the first Democrat in four decades to capture the Hoosier State's electoral votes, Indiana was at the heart of the Republican landslide in the midterm elections

Obama orders review of 'human subjects' safety (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:02 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama on Wednesday ordered a vast review to ensure that those who take part in U.S.-backed research are treated ethically, a response to the revelation that American scientists intentionally infected people at a Guatemalan mental hospital with syphilis in the 1940s.

After election stuffing, Obama pardons turkey (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:00 PM PST Reuters - He couldn't preserve the political lives of fellow Democrats this month, but he can still save a turkey.

Pelosi's new mission: Limit Obama deals with GOP (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 01:50 PM PST AP - Hers was the face on the grainy negative TV ads that helped defeat scores of Democrats. His agenda, re-election chances and legacy are on the line. Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, chosen after a messy family feud among Democrats to remain as their leader in the new Congress, and President Barack Obama share a keen interest in repairing their injured party after this month's staggering losses.

Murkowski seeks voice in Alaska election lawsuit (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 01:16 PM PST AP - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Wednesday called for a rapid resolution to a lawsuit brought by election rival Joe Miller, claiming Alaska will be harmed if she isn't sworn in Jan. 3.

US warns of likely harm from WikiLeaks release (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 01:03 PM PST AP - The Obama administration said Wednesday it has alerted Congress and begun notifying foreign governments that the WikiLeaks website is preparing to release sensitive U.S. diplomatic files that could damage U.S. relations with friends and allies.

Coleman urges Miller to 'move on' (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 11:40 AM PST AP - The Republican who lost the 2008 U.S. Senate race in Minnesota after a prolonged recount says Alaska's Senate race is over and GOP candidate Joe Miller should move on.

Bipartisanship elusive in post-election Washington (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 09:34 AM PST Reuters - Polls show Americans want bipartisanship from the new balance of power in Washington, but so far there is little indication that President Barack Obama and resurgent Republicans will work much together.

Protests, complaints greet "final" Afghan poll results (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 06:51 AM PST Reuters - Afghan officials announced most of the long-delayed results from a September parliamentary election on Wednesday, but more disqualifications and protests and the emergence of a potential new opposition bloc clouded the poll.

Afghanistan unveils results from fraud-marred vote (AFP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 06:18 AM PST AFP - Afghanistan on Wednesday released almost all the final results from its controversial parliamentary election after massive fraud saw nearly a quarter of votes cancelled and 24 winners disqualified.

Thanksgiving events, NKorea dominate Obama's day (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:25 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama's day will focus publicly on Thanksgiving, although North Korea is bound to occupy some of his time.

FLOTUS's White House 'not Camelot' (Politico) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 01:28 AM PST Politico - She has glamorized kitchen gardening, spotlighted childhood obesity and invited thousands of students, many of them minorities, to official White House events.

China turns up heat on Taiwan to talk politics (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 12:53 AM PST Reuters - Chinese officials are mounting pressure on Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou to move toward political agreements as he shrugs them off despite a recent easing of tension after decades of hostility, analysts say.

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