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Yahoo! News: Elections

AP Exclusive: Obama wants $33 billion more for war (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 05:22 PM PST

President Barack Obama arrives in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, where he spoke about the economy. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - The Obama administration plans to ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on top of a record request for $708 billion for the Defense Department next year, The Associated Press has learned.

STIMULUS WATCH: White House changes job-count rule (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 05:31 PM PST

A $19.2 million widening project along SR-373 in Lewisburg, Tenn., is seen on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010. Ten months into President Barack Obama's first economic stimulus plan, a surge in spending on roads and bridges has had no effect on local unemployment and only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry, an Associated Press analysis has found. (AP Photo/Josh Anderson)AP - The White House has abandoned its controversial method of counting jobs under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus, making it impossible to track the number of jobs saved or created with the $787 billion in recovery money.

Obama says thoughts, prayers to Haiti, offers aid (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 05:07 PM PST

Map locates a strong earthquake that struck Haiti TuesdayAP - President Barack Obama said his thoughts and prayers were with the people of Haiti, where a powerful earthquake hit on Tuesday, and that the U.S. stood ready to help the impoverished Caribbean nation.

AP sources: Employer health mandate may be dropped (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 05:17 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2010, file photo House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, seen with House Ways and Means Chairman Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., left, and House Education and Labor Chairman Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., right, speaks to media outside the West Wing of the White House after meeting with President Barack Obama in Washington. Several officials said Pelosi and other senior Democrats told Obama in recent meetings they want the legislation to strip the insurance industry of a longstanding exemption from federal antitrust laws, a provision that is in the House-passed measure, but was omitted from the Senate bill cleared before Christmas. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)AP - House and Senate negotiators working on President Barack Obama's health overhaul bill appear likely to drop a proposed income tax increase on high-wage earners and possibly jettison a requirement for large businesses to offer coverage to their employees, Democratic officials said Tuesday.

Tea partiers shell out big bucks for Palin (Politico)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:56 AM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2008 file photo, Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, pumps her fist during her speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. Palin believed that Sen. John McCain chose her to be his running mate in 2008 because of 'God's plan,' according to a top political strategist in the Arizona Republican's campaign. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, file)Politico - Sarah Palin's appearance early next month at the first tea party movement's convention in Nashville, Tenn., has stirred controversy in conservative circles over her reported decision to charge a substantial fee.

Bird-plane collisions may pass 10,000, a first (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 02:22 PM PST

This undated handout photo provided by the city of Show Low, Ariz., shows the windshield of this twin-engine Beechcraft C-99 turboprop was heavily splattered with blood and guts after striking a Western Grebe, a two-foot long water bird, at 11,000 feet over eastern Arizona on Nov. 4, 2009. Reports of airplanes hitting birds and other wildlife have soared since a stricken US Airways jet ditched last year in the Hudson River, and the government's tally for the year could reach or even exceed 10,000 for the first time. (AP Photo/City of Show Low, Ariz.)AP - Reports of airplanes hitting birds and other wildlife surged last year, including serious accidents such as birds crashing through cockpits and crippling engines in flight, according to an Associated Press analysis of new government data. More than a dozen states across two migration routes from Minnesota to Texas have seen the highest increases.

Justices hear case on releasing sex offenders (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 02:35 PM PST

AP - Several Supreme Court justices on Tuesday seemed open to the idea of continuing to let the federal government indefinitely hold inmates considered "sexually dangerous" after their federal prison terms are complete.

Poll: Black optimism rises; Hispanics wary on race (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 12:08 PM PST

Chart shows percentage of U.S. blacks who say blacks are better or worse off than 5 years ago.AP - One year after the election of President Barack Obama, black optimism about America has surged, while Hispanics have become more skeptical about race relations, according to a Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday.

Clinton accepts Japan's delay on US base decision (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 04:58 PM PST

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pauses at the State Department in Washington, Friday, Jan. 8, 2010. Clinton is kicking off her 2010 diplomacy agenda as she did a year ago, with a trip to Asia meant to strengthen U.S. relations with key partner nations. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday the Obama administration feels assured of Japan's commitment to a continuing security alliance with the United States, even as Tokyo weighs abandoning a 2006 deal on a U.S. Marine air base.

Mass. election has Democrats on edge (Politico)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 04:34 PM PST

Politico - It's hard for some Democrats to believe that the candidate running to replace Ted Kennedy is being attacked over health care reform — in one of the bluest states in the union, no less.

Obama says ready to help Haiti after earthquake (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 03:38 PM PST

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that his "thoughts and prayers" were with the people of Haiti after it was struck by a major earthquake and pledged to come to their aid if needed.

Americans split on Obama first year : poll (AFP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 02:45 PM PST

US President Barack Obama walks to the Oval Office after disembarking from Marine One upon returning to the White House in Washington, DC. Americans are deeply divided on Obama's first year in the White House, and the president's ratings on priority issues health care and the economy have hit new lows, polls showed Tuesday.(AFP/Nicholas Kamm)AFP - Americans are deeply divided on Barack Obama's first year in the White House, and the president's ratings on priority issues health care and the economy have hit new lows, polls showed Tuesday.

Will Republican Scott Brown take Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 02:45 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - A Senate race in Massachusetts should be an easy election to call: Democrats outnumber Republicans 3 to 1 in the state, and Massachusetts hasn’t sent a Republican to the Senate since it reelected Sen. Edward Brooke in 1972.

Ex-Rep. Ford 'strongly considering' NY Senate run (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 02:41 PM PST

AP - Former U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. began crafting his argument Tuesday for a potential bid to unseat Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, reinventing himself as an independent thinker battling "Washington insiders."

AP sources: Denver mayor running for Colorado gov (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 02:32 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2010 file photo, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper speaks in Denver. Mayor Hickenlooper will run for governor of Colorado, Democratic and Republican officials tell The Associated Press Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, file)AP - Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, will run for governor of Colorado, Democratic and Republican officials told The Associated Press Tuesday.

2 hairstylists testify in the Salahi probe (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 02:18 PM PST

Hairstylist Erwin Gomez, left, and Peggy Ioakim, speak to reporters outside federal court in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010, after appearing before a grand jury investigation into Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the couple who got into a White House state dinner without an invitation. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - Two upscale hair stylists testified Tuesday before a federal grand jury investigating the attention-hungry couple who got into a White House state dinner without an invitation.

PETA pulls ads featuring Michelle Obama (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 01:50 PM PST

This image released by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals shows a new PETA ad that features Carrie Underwood, first lady Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey and Tyra Banks. The animal-rights group says it is pulling an ad campaign that used the likeness of First Lady Michelle Obama without her permission. (AP Photo/PETA)AP - The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said Tuesday it is pulling an ad campaign that used the likeness of first lady Michelle Obama without her permission.

Obama to meet with House Republicans (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 01:32 PM PST

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama, who failed to attract much bipartisan support in his first year in office, has agreed to meet with U.S. Republican lawmakers as he starts his second year, a party leader said on Tuesday.

Obama, cabinet at Biden matriarch's funeral (AFP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 12:49 PM PST

US Vice President Joe Biden (L) and his wife Jill Biden attend the funeral Mass for his mother, Jean Biden, at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Wilmington, Delaware. In a poignant eulogy, Biden, who lost his first wife and a 13-month-old daughter in a car crash in 1972, said his mother had injected her whole family with emotional steel.(AFP/POOL/Susan Walsh)AFP - US President Barack Obama led a high-level delegation Tuesday to the funeral of Vice President Joe Biden's beloved mother, who died last week at age 92.

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