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Yahoo! News: Elections

2 Pentagon police officers shot (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 06:35 PM PST

In this image from video provided by WJLA-TV, a person on a stretcher is loaded into an ambulance outside the Pentagon Metro Station Thursday, March 4, 2010, in Washington. A gunman opened fire at the subway entrance to Pentagon complex Thursday evening, wounding two Pentagon police officers, a spokesman said. (AP Photo/WJLA-TV) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALESAP - A gunman coolly drew a weapon from his pocket and opened fire at the teeming subway entrance to the Pentagon complex Thursday evening, wounding two police officers before being shot and critically wounded, officials said.

Democrats mired in swamp they vowed to drain (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:35 PM PST

Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. carries food as he leaves the House floor and returning to the Ways and Means Committee office, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 4, 2010. Rangel stepped aside Wednesday as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee while the House ethics committee investigates his fundraising and finances. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - A rash of ethics lapses has given Democrats an election-year headache: how to convince skeptical voters that they're any cleaner than Republicans they accused of fostering a "culture of corruption" in 2006.

Levin is acting chair of Ways and Means panel (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 03:20 PM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2007 file photo, Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., left, listens as Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. , speaks in Lima, Peru. Levin will take over as acting chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee replacing Rangel. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro, File)AP - Rep. Sander Levin of Michigan took over Thursday as chairman of the powerful tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee Thursday after Democrats decided they wanted a consensus builder rather than a firebrand going into the midterm elections.

GAO: What does the US export to Iran? Who knows? (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 01:34 PM PST

AP - Sloppy records make it hard to tell exactly what the United States is exporting to Iran, despite sanctions meant to ensure only humanitarian goods and no military items go there, congressional investigators say.

Michelle: No longer a 'caricature' (Politico)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 01:53 AM PST

Politico - Michelle Obama said Wednesday that her year as first lady has allowed people to finally get to know her after the combat of a bruising campaign turned her into a “caricature” to some voters.

Rep. Delahunt says he won't run for re-election (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 06:51 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2010 file photo, U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., speaks during a news conference in Quincy, Mass. The seven-term congressman told The Boston Globe Thursday, March 4, 2010 that he will not seek re-election. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)AP - Massachusetts Rep. William Delahunt has decided not to run for re-election.

RNC document caricatures Obama, appeals to fear (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 05:47 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks about health care in the East Room of the White House in Washington Wednesday, March 3, 2010. The throw-the-bums-out mentality is so strong in American politics that even the ultimate insider — the president of the United States — is running against Washington. Casting yourself as an outsider from inside the White House is no easy trick, especially when your party controls both houses of Congress. But that doesn't stop Barack Obama from trying. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Barack Obama is "The Joker." Nancy Pelosi is portrayed as Cruella De Vil, and Harry Reid as Scooby Doo — all part of a Republican Party pitch to top fundraisers.

House passes jobs bill despite doubts (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 05:46 PM PST

Donna Norton of Moms Rising speaks at a jobs news conference with Senate Finance Committee Chairman, Max Baucus, D-Mont., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 4, 2010.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - Despite doubts among many lawmakers that it will create many jobs, the House on Thursday passed legislation giving companies that hire the jobless a temporary payroll tax break. The measure passed 217-201 on a mostly party-line vote. The bill also extends federal highway programs through the end of the year.

House panel approves Armenian genocide resolution (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 03:20 PM PST

Armenian activists rally outside the Turkish Consulate General on the 94th anniversary commemoration of the Armenian Genocide in 2009 in Los Angeles, California. Turkey warned US lawmakers Monday against passing a bill that brands World War One-era massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks AP - Turkey, a key Muslim ally of the United States, angrily withdrew its U.S. ambassador Thursday after a congressional committee approved a resolution branding the World War I-era killing of Armenians a genocide.

Retiring Dem facing complaint by male staffer (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 02:04 PM PST

FILE - This Tuesday Oct. 14, 2008 picture shows Eric Massa, Democratic candidate for New York's 29th Congressional District in Rochester, N.Y. On Wednesday, March 3, 2010, Rep. Eric Massa, a freshman Democrat from New York, said that he will not seek a second term after a recurrence of cancer late last year, dismissing blog reports that he had harassed a staffer. He was elected in 2008. (AP Photo/David Duprey)AP - The House ethics panel is reviewing a complaint against retiring New York Rep. Eric Massa by a male staffer who reportedly felt uncomfortable in a situation with Massa that had sexual overtones.

2nd person scrutinized in Pentagon subway shooting (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 06:41 PM PST

In this image from video provided by WJLA-TV, a person on a stretcher is loaded into an ambulance outside the Pentagon Metro Station Thursday, March 4, 2010, in Washington. A gunman opened fire at the subway entrance to Pentagon complex Thursday evening, wounding two Pentagon police officers, a spokesman said. (AP Photo/WJLA-TV) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALESAP - Law enforcement officials say they've got one person in custody and are investigating whether a second was involved in a shooting at Pentagon subway entrance

Delahunt Won't Run for Re-Election (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 06:14 PM PST

CQPolitics.com - Rep. William Delahunt (D-Mass.) will announce on Friday that he won't run for re-election to an 8th term in November, becoming the 16th House Democrat to announce plans to leave at the end of this Congress.

Attacks kill 12 as Iraqi troops and police vote (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 05:45 PM PST

Iraqi policemen show their ink-stained fingers after voting outside a polling station in Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, March 4, 2010. REUTERS/Ali Abu ShishReuters - Twelve people were killed in Baghdad on Thursday, including seven soldiers and police blown up by suicide bombers, days before a poll that will test Iraq's prospects for stability as U.S. troops prepare to leave.

Clinton urges recognition of Honduras government (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 03:45 PM PST

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, speaks at a news conference as she attends the Third Ministerial Meeting in San Jose, Costa Rica, Thursday, March 4, 2010. Sitting with Clinton is Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias, right. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday the Obama administration will resume aid to Honduras that was suspended after a coup last year and urged Latin American nations to recognize the new Honduran government.

Controller complacency could jeopardize air safety (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 03:20 PM PST

File photo shows a a control tower at Orly airport, outside Paris. European travellers faced more misery as French air traffic controllers launched a five-day strike and British and German airlines sought to head off threats of industrial action.(AFP/File/Bertrand Guay)AP - For the third time in seven months, the judgment of those who operate the nation's air traffic control system has been called into question and concerns have been raised that complacency may be causing controllers and their supervisors to bend rules.

US lawmakers seek military trials for extremists (AFP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 03:06 PM PST

Senator John McCain (L) of Arizona listens as Senator Joe Lieberman (R) of Connecticut speaks during a press conference in Washington, DC. In a direct election-year challenge to US President Barack Obama on national security, lawmakers unveiled legislation Thursday requiring military interrogations and trials for suspected terrorists.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AFP - In a direct election-year challenge to US President Barack Obama on national security, lawmakers unveiled legislation Thursday requiring military interrogations and trials for suspected terrorists.

FACT CHECK: Obama approach at odds with past views (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 03:04 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama is trying to achieve a health care overhaul the way he once said it couldn't, and shouldn't, be done.

House panel approves Armenian genocide measure (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 02:04 PM PST

Armenian orphans are seen in a photo taken by John Elder as he traveled throughout Armenian populated regions between 1917 and 1919. REUTERS/Armenian National Institute/Elder Photo Collection/HandoutReuters - A congressional panel voted on Thursday to label as "genocide" the World War One-era massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces, despite pressure from the Obama administration and Turkey to drop the matter.

More men file workplace sexual harassment claims (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 01:00 PM PST

In a January 23, 2010 photo, Jonathan Pilkington is seen at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission offices in Phoenix, Ariz. During more than two years as a food runner at an upscale steakhouse in Scottsdale, Ariz., Pilkington says his male supervisor repeatedly groped, fondled and otherwise sexually harassed him more than a dozen times. Now Pilkington, a married father of two, is the star witness in a federal lawsuit against Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar and part of a growing number of men claiming they are victims of sexual harassment in the workplace. (AP Photo/Jacques Billeaud)AP - Jonathan Pilkington's boss wouldn't take no for an answer.

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