Yahoo! News: Elections

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• FBI sees little chance of copycat militia plots (AP)
• Recharging debate, Obama expands offshore drilling (AP)
• DHS official: Napolitano to tour flood-damaged RI (AP)
• State says Kansas jobless rate fell last month (AP)
• Hill resists new Obama push (Politico)
• Major powers agree to pursue new Iran sanctions (AP)
• No formal reprimand for general who pushed gay ban (AP)
• Pentagon extends deadline for tanker bids (AP)
• Hutchison ends back and forth on her career plans (AP)
• GOP hopes repeal-the-bill fire won't burn them (AP)
• Mo. lawmaker has election challenger: her husband (AP)
• Obama to South Korea: U.S. able to help on sunken ship (Reuters)
• Obama tries triangulation lite (Politico)
• NKorean defector visits Washington (AP)
• Seniors fear health care remake will hurt Medicare (AP)
• Fuel efficiency rules to spur advanced vehicles (AP)
• Security Council backs Iraq election results (AP)
• Gov't set to ban texting by truck, bus drivers (AP)
• Panel urges long-term planning to care for vets (AP)
• Who is the father of healthcare reform: Obama or Mitt Romney? (The Christian Science Monitor)

FBI sees little chance of copycat militia plots (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2010 10:38 AM PDT AP - There's a lot of anger out there. But the alleged plot by Midwestern militants and violent outbursts by scattered individuals don't signal any coming wave of extremist violence, federal investigators say.

Recharging debate, Obama expands offshore drilling (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2010 06:30 PM PDT AP - Shaking up years of energy policy and his own environmental backers, President Barack Obama threw open a huge swath of East Coast waters and other protected areas in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico to drilling Wednesday, widening the politically explosive hunt for more homegrown oil and gas.

DHS official: Napolitano to tour flood-damaged RI (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2010 05:38 PM PDT AP - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is planning to travel to Rhode Island on Friday to assess damage caused by the worst flooding there in 200 years.

State says Kansas jobless rate fell last month (AP) Posted: 26 Mar 2010 08:45 AM PDT AP - Kansas saw modest but atypical growth in manufacturing jobs from January to February, a sign that its economy may be improving, the state Department of Labor reported Friday.

Hill resists new Obama push (Politico) Posted: 31 Mar 2010 02:47 AM PDT Politico - The president's push to turn health care reform into a catalyst for the rest of his agenda is getting mixed early reactions on Capitol Hill, where Democratic leaders' desire to take advantage of healthy majorities before the November elections must contend with lawmakers' survival instincts.

Major powers agree to pursue new Iran sanctions (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2010 05:39 PM PDT AP - Six major world powers agreed Wednesday to begin putting together proposed new sanctions on Iran over its suspect nuclear program after China dropped its opposition.

No formal reprimand for general who pushed gay ban (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2010 10:56 AM PDT AP - A high-ranking Army general won't be formally reprimanded after urging troops to lobby to keep the ban on openly gay military service.

Pentagon extends deadline for tanker bids (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2010 02:55 PM PDT AP - The deadline for bids on a $35 billion contract for refueling jets will be extended by 60 days so the European maker of Airbus can compete, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

Hutchison ends back and forth on her career plans (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2010 11:59 AM PDT AP - Texas Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison said Wednesday she is staying in the U.S. Senate, ending a series of back and forth announcements during the last year about her career plans.

GOP hopes repeal-the-bill fire won't burn them (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2010 02:05 PM PDT AP - Top Republicans are starting to worry about their health care rallying cry "Repeal the bill." It just might singe GOP candidates in November's elections, they fear, if voters begin to see benefits from the new law.

Mo. lawmaker has election challenger: her husband (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2010 06:31 PM PDT AP - An eastern Missouri lawmaker is facing an election challenge from her own husband, whom she accuses him of physical violence. He denies the allegations.

Obama to South Korea: U.S. able to help on sunken ship (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2010 05:18 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama told South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Wednesday that the U.S. Navy is prepared to offer further help to South Korea in its search for sailors believed trapped on a sunken ship.

Obama tries triangulation lite (Politico) Posted: 31 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PDT Politico - Just days after Republicans fumed that passage of the health care bill tolled the death knell for bipartisanship, there was a very different message coming from some GOP quarters Wednesday: praise for President Barack Obama's decision to lift the ban on some offshore oil drilling.

NKorean defector visits Washington (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2010 03:14 PM PDT AP - The highest-ranking North Korean official ever to have defected to South Korea is making a rare visit to Washington this week.

Seniors fear health care remake will hurt Medicare (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2010 02:29 PM PDT AP - Seniors aren't breaking out the champagne for President Barack Obama's health care law, and for good reason. While Democrats hail the overhaul as their greatest health care achievement since Medicare, seniors fear it's a raid on that same giant health care program — a bedrock of retirement security — in order to pay for covering younger, uninsured workers and their families.

Fuel efficiency rules to spur advanced vehicles (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2010 01:32 PM PDT AP - Automakers are being pushed to build a more fuel-efficient generation of gas-electric hybrids, turbocharged engines and advanced vehicles powered by electricity under tough new standards from the Obama administration.

Security Council backs Iraq election results (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2010 01:20 PM PDT AP - The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday called on all political parties to respect Iraq's election results and the choices of the Iraqi people.

Gov't set to ban texting by truck, bus drivers (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2010 01:04 PM PDT AP - The Transportation Department on Wednesday proposed a ban on text messaging at the wheel by interstate truck and bus drivers, following up on its call to reduce distractions that lead to crashes.

Panel urges long-term planning to care for vets (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2010 12:48 PM PDT AP - Too little is known about how to care long-term for veterans with a traumatic brain injury, the most common injury among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, the Institute of Medicine said Wednesday.

Who is the father of healthcare reform: Obama or Mitt Romney? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 31 Mar 2010 11:11 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The next presidential election is more than two years away, but healthcare reform is already causing problems for one presumed candidate â€" and it's not President Obama.

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