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Yahoo! News: Elections

Obama cites apparent al-Qaida link in bomb plot (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 03:31 PM PST

Yemeni Information Minister Hassan al-Louzi talks during an interview with the Associated Press at his office in San'a, Yemen, Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010. Yemen deployed several hundred extra troops for two mountainous eastern provinces that are considered al-Qaida's main strongholds in the country and where the suspected would-be Christmas airplane bomber may have visited, security officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen apparently ordered the Christmas Day plot against a U.S. airliner, training and arming the 23-year-old Nigerian man accused in the failed bombing, President Barack Obama said Saturday.

US: No reason for Iran to oppose nuclear proposal (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 03:29 PM PST

An Iranian technician looks at a camera installed by the International Atomic Energy Agency, at the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facilities in 2005. The White House Saturday said Iran was AP - A U.S. official says Iran "is standing in its own way" by issuing a one-month deadline for the West to accept Iran's response to a U.N.-drafted nuclear plan.

2010 situation grows more difficult for Democrats (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 04:06 PM PST

This Dec. 22, 2009 file photo shows Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., right, accompanied by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., left, during a Democratic health care rallyl on Capitol Hill in Washington. An already difficult situation for Democrats in Congress is worsening as the 2010 political season opens. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - An already difficult situation for Democrats in Congress is worsening as the 2010 political season opens.

GOP leader says US leaders can overcome problems (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 04:07 PM PST

FILE — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. at his weekly news conference, on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this Dec. 22, 2009 file photo. During the GOP's weekly radio address McConnell said Saturday Jan. 2, 2010 the United States ultimately will overcome the daunting problems of war, recession and double-digit unemployment. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)AP - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says the United States will overcome war, recession and double-digit unemployment.

25 politicians to watch in 2010 (Politico)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 04:29 AM PST

Politico - Nearly everything that occurs in Washington this year will take place against an important and unavoidable backdrop—the combined total of more than 500 House, Senate and gubernatorial races on the 2010 ballot.

US official: Extremists seek new ways to attack US (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 04:23 PM PST

A TSA agent directs passengers towards the security line at the McNamara Terminal, Friday, Jan. 1, 2010, at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Mich. Travel was light on New Years Day at Detroit a week after the terror attempt over the city in Christmas day. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, Steve Perez)AP - A top counterterrorism official is warning that al-Qaida and other extremists are working to test U.S. defenses and launch an attack on American soil.

California faces more budget pain, cuts in 2010 (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 04:27 PM PST

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (pictured in 2009) says he is planning to undertake a budget and tax reform this year to give the state a more solid and reliable source of revenue.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AP - During last summer's fiscal crisis, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger borrowed the title of a film classic to describe California's budget, saying it contained "the good, the bad and the ugly."

Yemen sends more troops to al-Qaida strongholds (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 04:25 PM PST

An undated handout picture from the Yemeni army shows a soldier manning a machinegun in Saada province, around 250 kms north of the capital Sanaa. Shiite rebels battling government forces in north Yemen told AFP on Saturday they are ready for talks with Sanaa once the government declares a AP - Yemen deployed several hundred extra troops to two mountainous eastern provinces that are al-Qaida's main strongholds in the country and where the suspected would-be Christmas airplane bomber may have visited, security officials said Saturday.

Britain, US to fund Yemen anti-terror police unit (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 04:19 PM PST

A yemeni Girl passes the Sana'a Institute for Arabic Language in San'a, Yemen Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010. Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the suspect in the Christmas Day airline attack, was an Arabic student at the institute in August. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - The British government said Sunday that Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Barack Obama had agreed to fund a counterterrorism police unit in Yemen to tackle the rising terrorist threat from the country.

Poster child for recession shows signs of recovery (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 04:31 PM PST

In this photo taken Nov. 18, 2009, recreational vehicles are ready sales at International RV World in Elkhart, Ind. There's a ray of hope in Elkhart, the Indiana city that was turned into a poster child for the recession. Heartland Recreational Vehicles of Elkhart announced recently that it would immediately begin hiring 200 production workers. (AP Photo/Joe Raymond)AP - When Ed Neufeldt introduced Barack Obama at a speech in Elkhart County in February, the new president promised the laid off RV worker would find a job.

Obama sees sea life at Hawaii park, goes to beach (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 05:15 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama, family and friends visited sea animals and the beach during their weekend Hawaii vacation activities.

US commander in Iraq says troop drawdown on track (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 04:12 PM PST

Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, talks to the Associated Press during a visit to soldiers at Forward Operating Base Cobra in the Diyala province, north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010. The top U.S. general in Iraq says the delay in holding Iraq's elections will not keep American combat forces from leaving Iraq as scheduled by the end of August. Gen. Ray Odierno said Saturday during an interview with The Associated Press that he expects the U.S. to have about 100,000 troops in the country during the March 7 elections.(AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)AP - The nearly two-month delay in holding Iraq's nationwide elections will not keep American combat troops from leaving the country as scheduled by the end of August, the top U.S. commander in Iraq told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday.

Obama blames al Qaeda for plane attack (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 03:59 PM PST

US President Barack Obama makes a statement at the Marine Base in Kaneohe, Hawaii, on December 29. Obama Saturday for the first time accused an Al-Qaeda affiliate of arming and training a young Nigerian man for a thwarted suicide mission to blow up a US airliner.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)Reuters - The Obama administration on Saturday zeroed in on al Qaeda as the driving force behind an attempt to bomb a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas and promised again to hold accountable those involved in the failed attack.

Low favorables: Dems rip Rasmussen (Politico)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 02:53 PM PST

Politico - Democrats are turning their fire on Scott Rasmussen, the prolific independent pollster whose surveys on elections, President Obama’s popularity and a host of other issues are surfacing in the media with increasing frequency.

Ecuador prez: US extremists plot to destabilize (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 01:15 PM PST

AP - Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa says right-wing extremists in the United States are conspiring against his government by attempting to destabilize the poor Andean nation.

Clinton foundation draws eclectic donor list (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:40 AM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2006 file photo, former President Bill Clinton, right, listens as Microsoft chairman Bill Gates speaks during their conversation session at the 16th World Aids Conference in Toronto. A donor list released on New Year's Day by the William J. Clinton Foundation shows that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave to the former president's charity. (AP Photo/Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)AP - Former President Bill Clinton's charity drew an international roster of donors last year, ranging from Norway and Oman to foreign lotteries, businessmen and celebrities, a contributor list released under an ethics promise by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton showed.

Afghan parliament vote confirmed for May (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 06:03 AM PST

Reuters - Afghanistan will hold parliamentary elections on May 22, just 10 months after a presidential vote marred by fraud and violence that dismayed the country's Western backers.

Iraqis outraged as Blackwater case thrown out (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 01:02 AM PST

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 25, 2007 file photo, an Iraqi traffic policeman inspects a car destroyed by a Blackwater security detail in al-Nisoor Square in Baghdad, Iraq. A federal judge dismissed all charges Thursday Dec. 31, 2009 against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in a crowded Baghdad intersection in 2007. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)AP - Iraqis seeking justice for 17 people shot dead at a Baghdad intersection responded with bitterness and outrage Friday at a U.S. judge's decision to throw out a case against a Blackwater security team accused in the killings.

Obama takes daughters for shave ice treat (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 08:04 PM PST

President Barack Obama, with daughter Sasha Obama, 8, center, and other family friends, enjoy shave ice at Island Snow in Kailua, Hawaii Friday, Jan. 1, 2010. The Obamas are in Hawaii for the holidays.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama took his daughters and friends Friday to sample a Hawaiian delicacy of ice shavings and flavored syrup, joshing with his group about winning college football teams on New Year's Day.

White House defends its TSA nominee (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 05:42 PM PST

President Barack Obama gets in the car after going to the movies in Kaneohe, Hawaii Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. The Obamas are in Hawaii for the holidays. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Acknowledging he has given inconsistent answers to Congress, President Barack Obama's pick to lead the Transportation Security Administration wrote to lawmakers to explain a reprimand he received for running background checks on his then-estranged wife's boyfriend two decades ago.

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