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Yahoo! News: Elections

Government health insurance option appears doomed (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 02:43 PM PST

President Barack Obama makes a statement to reporters about green jobs and manufacturing, Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, in the East Room of the White House in Washington .President Barack Obama, eager to sign a health care overhaul bill into law, is highlighting some of the changes that would come in the first year and would forever ban 'the worst practices of the insurance industry.' (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Senior House Democrats have largely abandoned hopes of including a government-run insurance option in the final compromise health care bill taking shape, according to several officials, and are pushing for other measures to rein in private insurers.

Report: Slight cost increase in Senate health bill (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 10:15 AM PST

President Barack Obama makes a statement to reporters about green jobs and manufacturing, Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, in the East Room of the White House in Washington .President Barack Obama, eager to sign a health care overhaul bill into law, is highlighting some of the changes that would come in the first year and would forever ban 'the worst practices of the insurance industry.' (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - The Senate's plan to expand health coverage to 34 million more Americans would raise costs slightly, government economic experts said in a report Saturday.

Reid to Obama: Sorry for 'no Negro dialect' remark (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 05:01 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2006, file photo Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nev., center, joined by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, prepares to outline the Democrat agenda for reform in the wake of the scandal involving former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, at the Library of Congress in Washington. Reid apologized Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010, to President Barack Obama for comments he made about Obama's race during the 2008 presidential bid, which are quoted in a yet-to-be-released book about the campaign titled 'Game Change'. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid apologized on Saturday for saying Barack Obama should seek — and could win — the White House because Obama was a "light skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."

Schwarzenegger says health care bill a 'rip-off' (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 04:57 PM PST

AP - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says concessions made to Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson to win his vote on the health care overhaul bill were a "rip-off" for his state and is urging California lawmakers to vote against it.

Reid apologizes for 'Negro' remark (Politico)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 11:21 AM PST

Politico - Majority Leader Harry Reid, seeking to quell the uproar from a report in a new book that he called Barack Obama a "light-skinned" African-American who lacked a "Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one," is mounting a full-fledged damage control effort to save both his job and his political career.

Governors facing troubles as economy hits home (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 01:00 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2010 file photo, Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter speaks at the State Capitol in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)AP - Like many Democratic governors today, Iowa's Chet Culver won in 2006 on the strength of ambitious and expensive promises such as universal preschool and a plan to bolster the state's alternative energy industry.

Xe Services aiming for Afghan police training deal (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 12:46 PM PST

FILE - In a July, 21, 2008 file photo, founder and CEO of Blackwater Worldwide Erik Prince is seen at Blackwater's offices in Moyock, N.C. Blackwater Worldwide's legal woes haven't dimmed the company's prospects in Afghanistan, where the firm is a contender to be a key part of President Barack Obama's strategy for stabilizing the country. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)AP - Blackwater Worldwide's legal woes haven't dimmed the company's prospects in Afghanistan, where it's a contender for an important role in the U.S. strategy for stabilizing the country.

Hurricane propels Jackson's justice quest at EPA (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 01:07 PM PST

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson visits her childhood home in the 9th Ward of New Orleans in this photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - More than four years after Hurricane Katrina, the single-story brick rancher in Pontchartrain Park where Lisa Perez Jackson grew up stands empty.

GOP lawmaker: WH sends mixed signals on terrorism (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 02:17 PM PST

An unmarked vehicle leaves federal court in Detroit, Friday, Jan. 8, 2010 with a police escort. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian suspect who allegedly tried to set off an explosive device aboard Northwest 253, pleaded not guilty to charges of trying to ignite a chemical-laden explosive on the U.S. airliner on Christmas Day. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - A senior House Republican says the Christmas day attempt to attack a Northwest Airlines plane reinforces his party's stand that terrorists should be treated as war criminals and tried in military courts.

Justices asked to bar taping of gay marriage trial (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 02:19 PM PST

In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010 Steven Goldstein, right, of Garden State Equality, talks with partners Louise Walpin, second right, and Marsha Shapiro, and David Smith, left, in the state Senate chambers of the New Jersey Statehouse, in Trenton, N.J., moments before the state Senate voted against legalizing gay marriage. The gay rights group Garden State Equality says it intends to file a lawsuit on the issue, hoping to get the state's courts to legalize gay nuptials. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - Gay marriage opponents are asking the Supreme Court to block the broadcast of the upcoming trial on California's same-sex marriage ban.

Obama launches new push for healthcare overhaul (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 04:24 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2006 file photo, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nev., center, is joined by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., as he prepares to outline the Democrat agenda for reform in the wake of the scandal involving former lobbyist Jack Abramoff in Washington. In a White House statement released Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010, President Barack Obama said he accepted Reid's apology Saturday for comments he made about Obama's race during the 2008 presidential bid because '... I know what's in his heart.' (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Reuters - President Barack Obama on Saturday renewed his pitch for final congressional passage of a U.S. healthcare overhaul and promised Americans they will begin reaping the benefits soon after he signs a bill into law.

Reid Apologizes for Racially Charged Remarks in 2008 (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 03:41 PM PST

CQPolitics.com - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) apologized Saturday for calling President Barack Obama "light skinned" and remarking that he has "no Negro dialect" during a private conversation in 2008.

Book: Obama, Biden clashed in '08 (Politico)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 03:11 PM PST

Politico - The relationship between Barack Obama and Joe Biden grew so strained during the 2008 campaign, according to a new book, that the two rarely spoke and aides not only kept Biden off internal conference calls but refused to even tell him they existed.

For the unemployed, new job often means a pay cut (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 02:59 PM PST

In this Jan. 5, 2010 photo, Jessica Moore, 34, editor and publisher of Teen Voices Magazine, poses at her desk in Boston. Moore had been steadily employed since graduating from college more than 10 years ago. But last March, she found herself unemployed for the first time after her job was cut as Web site designer in New York. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - Unemployed for nearly a year, David Becker was relieved to land a new job in information technology last summer.

Hawaii can't afford Congressional election (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 02:25 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2008 file photo, Hawaii residents wait in line at the McKinley High School polling station to cast their votes on election day in Honolulu. Hawaii can't afford to hold a 2010 election to replace one of its two representatives in the U.S. House, raising the possibility that more than 600,000 residents could go without representation. The state election office has only $5,000 left to last the rest of the year, far short of the $1 million a special election would cost. (AP Photo/Ronen Zilberman, File)AP - Cash-strapped Hawaii can't afford to pay for an election to replace a congressman who is planning to step down next month to run for governor, potentially leaving 600,000 urban Honolulu residents without representation in Washington.

Analysis: Obama's buck-stopping goes only so far (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 02:23 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks about the economy, Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - He says "the buck stops with me," but nearly a year into office, President Barack Obama is still blaming a lot of the nation's troubles — the economy, terrorism, health care — on George W. Bush.

Senate's Reid tells Obama he regrets racial remarks (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 02:02 PM PST

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) listens to remarks after the U.S. Senate approved President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this December 24, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Jim YoungReuters - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid apologized to President Barack Obama on Saturday for comments he made during the 2008 presidential campaign that critics find racially offensive.

Top Obama ally says sorry after 'negro' remarks (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 01:47 PM PST

Top US senator Harry Reid, pictured in December 2009, apologized Saturday for racially loaded comments about President Barack Obama's appeal to voters during the 2008 presidential campaign.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Win Mcnamee)AFP - Top US senator Harry Reid apologized Saturday for racially loaded comments about President Barack Obama's appeal to voters during the 2008 presidential campaign.

Obama-love, joblessness, old folk drive down US crime (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 01:05 PM PST

A crest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is seen inside the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, DC. Violent crime fell sharply in the United States last year, and experts are pinning the falling numbers on a greying population, high unemployment -- even Barack Obama's election.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AFP - Violent crime fell sharply in the United States last year, and experts are pinning the falling numbers on a greying population, high unemployment -- even Barack Obama's election.

Obama promises changes in US health care this year (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 11:28 AM PST

A nurse watches a broadcast of US President Barack Obama. The US president has promised that Americans will see the effects of health reform this year, saying Congress is AFP - US President Barack Obama promised Saturday that Americans will see the effects of health reform this year, saying Congress is "on the verge" of approving the overhaul the nation's health care system.

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