Yahoo! News: Elections

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• US demands Toyota turn over recall documents (AP)
• Bayh the latest exit as moderates leave Congress (AP)
• Obama announces ambassador nominee to Damascus (AP)
• Obama's latest bipartisan outreach: nuclear energy (AP)
• W.H. happy to face off with Cheney (Politico)
• Clinton warns of Mideast nuclear arms race (AP)
• Admin. official: Obama to appoint deficit panel (AP)
• White House defends year-old stimulus (AP)
• US spokesman passes on question of Taliban capture (AP)
• Millions wasted on census as head count approaches (AP)
• U.S. to return envoy to Syria after five-year absence (Reuters)
• Obama sidesteps Congress to create new deficit panel (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Bayh cites strident partisanship in leaving Senate (AP)
• McCain race catnip to talk show titans (Politico)
• Obama: No weeknight television for Malia, Sasha (AP)
• Obama ups nuclear investment for climate fight (Reuters)
• Fed loan guarantees may boost nuclear power return (AP)
• US says Iraqi politicians linked to Iran (AP)
• Movie shot during Iran election debuts in Berlin (AP)

US demands Toyota turn over recall documents (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:57 PM PST AP - The government ordered Toyota to turn over documents related to its massive recalls Tuesday, pressing to see how long the automaker knew of safety defects before taking action. Toyota, concerned about unsold cars, said it would temporarily idle some production in three states.

Bayh the latest exit as moderates leave Congress (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:57 PM PST AP - The moderate middle is disappearing from Congress. Evan Bayh is just the latest senator to forgo a re-election bid, joining a growing line of pragmatic, find-a-way politicians who are abandoning Washington. Still here: ever-more-polarized colleagues locked in gridlock — exactly what voters say they don't like about politics in the nation's capital.

Obama announces ambassador nominee to Damascus (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:55 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama said Tuesday he would nominate career diplomat Robert Ford to become the United States' first ambassador to Damascus since 2005, a sign that U.S.-Syrian relations are thawing as Obama enters his second year in power.

Obama's latest bipartisan outreach: nuclear energy (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:57 PM PST AP - Prodding Republicans, President Barack Obama on Tuesday championed nuclear energy expansion as the latest way that feuding parties can move beyond the "broken politics" of Washington that have imperiled his agenda and soured voters.

W.H. happy to face off with Cheney (Politico) Posted: 14 Feb 2010 04:41 PM PST Politico - Any day spent talking terrorism isn't automatically a good one for the Obama administration, given the Republicans' traditional edge on the issue among voters.

Clinton warns of Mideast nuclear arms race (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:50 PM PST AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told an audience of Saudi college women on Tuesday that it is the shared responsibility of Iran's neighbors to ensure it does not get nuclear weapons.

Admin. official: Obama to appoint deficit panel (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 03:22 PM PST AP - Determined to have a deficit commission with or without Congress' backing, President Barack Obama plans to announce on Thursday that he is establishing a panel similar to — although weaker than_ the one lawmakers rejected.

White House defends year-old stimulus (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 05:04 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama, defending his economic stimulus plan on its first anniversary, is dispatching his Cabinet across the country to try to calm an anxious public as Democrats head into potentially devastating midterm elections.

US spokesman passes on question of Taliban capture (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:37 PM PST AP - The White House's lead spokesman is declining to confirm the capture of the Taliban's top military commander.

Millions wasted on census as head count approaches (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:38 PM PST AP - Were those pricey Super Bowl ads a waste? Maybe not, but paying $3 million to census employees who didn't do any work surely was.

U.S. to return envoy to Syria after five-year absence (Reuters) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:23 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama took a major step toward improving strained ties with Syria on Tuesday, announcing his intention to reappoint a U.S. ambassador to Damascus after a five-year absence.

Obama sidesteps Congress to create new deficit panel (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:23 PM PST McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — University of North Carolina President Erskine Bowles, a Democrat, and former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, a Republican, will lead a bipartisan commission to recommend ways to rein in the nation's escalating federal debt under an executive order that President Barack Obama plans to sign on Thursday.

Bayh cites strident partisanship in leaving Senate (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:08 PM PST AP - Two-term Sen. Evan Bayh says ever-shriller partisanship and the frustrations of gridlock made it time for him to leave Congress. Republicans aren't buying it, saying he and fellow Democrats sense that voters will be after their heads this fall.

McCain race catnip to talk show titans (Politico) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:01 PM PST Politico - Early polls suggest Arizona Sen. John McCain leads former Rep. J.D. Hayworth by a healthy margin in the GOP primary. Among conservative radio talk show hosts, however, McCain is losing by a landslide.

Obama: No weeknight television for Malia, Sasha (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 02:48 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama, who is spending billions of dollars to overhaul the U.S. public education system, says there's one sure thing parents can do to help their kids learn, regardless of financial means: Forbid them from watching television on school nights.

Obama ups nuclear investment for climate fight (Reuters) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 02:32 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama announced $8.3 billion in loan guarantees Tuesday to build the first U.S. nuclear power plant in nearly three decades, a move designed to help advance climate legislation in Congress.

Fed loan guarantees may boost nuclear power return (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 01:48 PM PST AP - More than $8 billion in new federal loan guarantees to build two nuclear reactors in Georgia could be the first step toward a nuclear renaissance in the United States, three decades after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident halted all new reactor orders.

US says Iraqi politicians linked to Iran (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 01:17 PM PST AP - The top American commander in Iraq said Tuesday that the U.S. has "direct intelligence" that two senior Iraqi officials in charge of keeping Saddam Hussein loyalists out of the Baghdad government have ties to Iran.

Movie shot during Iran election debuts in Berlin (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 01:05 PM PST AP - An Iranian movie made against the backdrop of last year's election campaign and centering on a man whose wife is killed in a shootout between police and demonstrators made its debut Tuesday at the Berlin film festival.

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