Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Health bill gains ground with weekend vote likely (AP)
• Idaho first to sign law aimed at health care plan (AP)
• FACT CHECK: Obama plan only slows premiums rise (AP)
• Senate votes to change cocaine sentencing rules (AP)
• Homestretch scramble for votes (Politico)
• Senior official: Al-Qaida leader believed killed (AP)
• Homegrown U.S. terrorists: 'predictions coming true' (AP)
• More pet owners report injuries from skin products (AP)
• Obama argues for health care effort on Fox News (AP)
• Clinton to attend Mideast session amid crisis (AP)
• Obama says U.S. to pursue aggressive Iran sanctions (Reuters)
• Obama says Israel home plans not helpful for peace (Reuters)
• Indictment says Ky. man threatened Obama in poem (AP)
• Obama predicts Congress will pass health overhaul (AFP)
• Obama says US-Israeli relationship not in crisis (AP)
• Senate OKs jobs bill for Obama's signature (AP)
• White House rips business lobby over financial reform (Reuters)
• Episcopal church approves 2nd gay bishop (AP)
• State Dept.: No deal to stop genocide resolution (AP)
• Fed boss makes case to keep all banking duties (AP)

Health bill gains ground with weekend vote likely (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2010 05:44 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's sweeping health care legislation won precious support from a longtime liberal holdout in the House on Wednesday and from Catholic nuns representing dozens of religious orders, gaining fresh traction in the run-up to a climactic weekend vote.

Idaho first to sign law aimed at health care plan (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2010 05:42 PM PDT AP - Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health care overhaul Wednesday when its governor became the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insurance.

FACT CHECK: Obama plan only slows premiums rise (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2010 02:23 PM PDT AP - Buyers, beware: President Barack Obama says his health care overhaul will lower premiums by double digits, but check the fine print.

Senate votes to change cocaine sentencing rules (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2010 05:51 PM PDT AP - Legislation approved by the Senate on Wednesday would significantly reduce the disparity in sentences handed out to those convicted of crack and powder cocaine.

Homestretch scramble for votes (Politico) Posted: 15 Mar 2010 02:58 AM PDT Politico - Barack Obama faces the stiffest test of his first-term agenda — and a defining moment in his presidency — as Democratic Party leaders mount a fevered campaign this week to round up votes for a historic health care bill.

Senior official: Al-Qaida leader believed killed (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2010 05:34 PM PDT AP - An al-Qaida leader believed to have played a key role in the bombing of a CIA post in Afghanistan last December was apparently killed by an American missile strike last week, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday.

Homegrown U.S. terrorists: 'predictions coming true' (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2010 05:57 PM PDT AP - The growing front in the war on terrorism may be no farther than Main Street. The terror cases that have emerged in the past week have one common characteristic: The suspects are all Americans.

More pet owners report injuries from skin products (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2010 03:22 PM PDT AP - Products intended to treat cats and dogs for fleas and ticks kill hundreds of pets each year and injure tens of thousands, the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday as it outlined plans to make the products safer.

Obama argues for health care effort on Fox News (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2010 05:56 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama on Wednesday took to the Fox News Channel, derided by his White House as a wing of the Republican Party, to sell his embattled health care overhaul in an interview punctuated with interruptions from the host and chiding from the guest.

Clinton to attend Mideast session amid crisis (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2010 05:31 PM PDT AP - With the Mideast peace process stalled and U.S.-Israeli relations in crisis, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton headed Wednesday to a Mideast strategy meeting of top international diplomats.

Obama says U.S. to pursue aggressive Iran sanctions (Reuters) Posted: 17 Mar 2010 04:44 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday the United States would pursue "aggressive sanctions" to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon that could potentially spark a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.

Obama says Israel home plans not helpful for peace (Reuters) Posted: 17 Mar 2010 04:17 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday Israeli plans to build more homes near East Jerusalem were not helpful for the Middle East peace process, but he said the issue had not led to a crisis with one of the United States' closest allies.

Indictment says Ky. man threatened Obama in poem (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2010 04:06 PM PDT AP - A Louisville man has been indicted on a charge of threatening to kill President Barack Obama in a poem posted on a white supremacist Web site.

Obama predicts Congress will pass health overhaul (AFP) Posted: 17 Mar 2010 03:57 PM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama confidently declared Wednesday that his historic health care overhaul legislation would pass, as the bill faced a cliffhanger weekend vote likely to define his legacy.

Obama says US-Israeli relationship not in crisis (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2010 03:42 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says the U.S.-Israeli relationship is not in crisis.

Senate OKs jobs bill for Obama's signature (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2010 03:33 PM PDT AP - Companies that hire unemployed workers will get a temporary payroll tax holiday under a bill that easily won congressional approval Wednesday in what Democrats hope is just the first of several election-year measures aimed at boosting hiring.

White House rips business lobby over financial reform (Reuters) Posted: 17 Mar 2010 03:32 PM PDT Reuters - The White House lashed out at a major U.S. business lobbying organization on Wednesday for spending millions of dollars to fight legislation that would overhaul regulation of Wall Street firms.

Episcopal church approves 2nd gay bishop (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2010 03:08 PM PDT AP - The Episcopal Church has approved the election of a lesbian assistant bishop in the Diocese of Los Angeles, making her the second openly gay bishop in the Anglican global fellowship, diocese officials said Wednesday.

State Dept.: No deal to stop genocide resolution (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2010 02:56 PM PDT AP - A congressional resolution that would recognize World War I-era killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide could go forward despite opposition from the Obama administration.

Fed boss makes case to keep all banking duties (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2010 02:35 PM PDT AP - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday urged Congress not to scale back the Fed's regulatory authority over banks. He said the Fed needs the information it gleans from its bank oversight to set interest rates and gauge the health of the banking system.

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