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Yahoo! News: Elections

Dodd accepts ban on bank derivatives business (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 03:57 PM PDT

AP - A Democratic official familiar with Senate banking negotiations says a provision that would force banks to spin off their derivatives operations will be incorporated into sweeping regulatory legislation despite Obama administration misgivings.

Obama: W.Va. miners died in pursuit of better life (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 04:08 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, left center, and vice president Joe Biden, left, watch as West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin III walks with relatives of a miner as they place a helmet on a cross during a memorial service for the miners killed in the Upper Big Branch Mine, in Beckley, W.Va., Sunday, April 25, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - They lived and they died pursuing the American Dream, working in dangerous conditions underground to help keep the lights on across the country, a somber President Barack Obama said Sunday in a eulogy to the workers who died in the worst mine accident in a generation.

Greece confident of landing billions in new loans (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 01:27 PM PDT

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn appears at a press conference at the end of the second day of the G-20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, Saturday, April 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - A key Greek economic official expressed confidence Sunday that his country will be able to secure billions of dollars in emergency loans from European countries and the International Monetary Fund to avoid a crippling debt default.

China gains influence in World Bank's practices (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 02:11 PM PDT

The Development Committee meets on the final day of the G-20 summit of finance ministers and central bank governors at World Bank headquarters in Washington Sunday, April 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - The World Bank recognized China's growing economic influence and agreed Sunday to elevate Beijing's voting power to behind only the U.S. and Japan in the 186-nation lending organization.

Obama and evangelist Billy Graham share a prayer (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 02:01 PM PDT

In this image released by the White House, President Barack Obama meets with Billy Graham, 91, at his mountainside home in Montreat, N.C., Sunday, April 25, 2010. Obama concluded his North Carolina vacation with his first meeting of the ailing evangelist, who has counseled commanders in chief since Dwight Eisenhower. (AP Photo/The White House, Pete Souza)AP - President Barack Obama made a pilgrimage Sunday to Billy Graham's mountainside home, concluding his North Carolina vacation with his first meeting with the ailing evangelist who has counseled commanders in chief since Dwight Eisenhower.

Health care law's unfinished business: cost curbs (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:05 PM PDT

A doctor and a nurse checking an elderly patient at a US community hospital. A US doctor vehemently opposed to President Barack Obama's health care reform has suggested any patients who disagree with him find care AP - What's it going to cost me?

No deal yet on financial rules as test vote looms (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 02:56 PM PDT

In this provided by NBC Sunday, April 25, 2010, Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., appears on 'Meet the Press' in Washington, Sunday, April 25, 2010. Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, who drafted the financial overhaul bill, said he hoped at least one or two Republicans would vote Monday with Democrats on beginning debate on the bill. He said he held out hope a deal could be struck in the coming days. (AP Photo/Meet the Press, William B. Plowman) MANDATORY CREDIT: MEET THE PRESS. NO SALES. NO ARCHIVESAP - Democrats are showing little willingness to alter financial overhaul legislation any further and are ready for a showdown vote Monday, hoping to splinter solid Republican opposition or to cast the minority party as an ally of Wall Street.

Pentagon Wounded Warrior care official forced out (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 01:26 PM PDT

AP - The Pentagon official in charge of the wounded warrior program said Sunday he has been forced to resign, as the military continues to struggle with how best to care for troops injured in combat.

Lieberman encouraged energy bill will be on track (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 11:58 AM PDT

AP - A day after bipartisan support for an energy and climate change bill appeared to crumble, a Senate sponsor said Sunday he was optimistic the coalition would regroup and lawmakers would consider the measure this year.

Congressman: US should fight Ariz. immigrant law (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 04:41 PM PDT

Thousands of protesters, carrying various signs, attend a rally at the Arizona Capitol voicing their displeasure on Sunday, April, 25, 2010, over the Friday bill signing of SB1070 by the Arizona governor, in Phoenix. The sweeping measure makes it a crime under state law to be in the country illegally, and would require local law enforcement to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are in the country illegally. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - An Arizona congressman urged the Obama administration on Sunday not to cooperate when illegal immigrants are picked up by local police if a tough new state immigration law survives legal challenges.

Obama honors fallen miners, stresses mine safety (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 03:20 PM PDT

President Barack Obama (R) and Vice President Joe Biden (2nd R) take part in a memorial service for the 29 coal miners who recently died at Upper Big Branch Mine in Beckley, West Virginia, April 25, 2010. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - President Barack Obama stressed the need for greater mine safety at a somber memorial service on Sunday for 29 coal miners killed this month in the worst U.S. mining disaster since 1970.

Republicans suffering for 2008 bank bailout vote (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 10:56 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken March 8, 2010, State Sen. Gilbert Baker, R-Conway, carries a $4.88 plastic tarp at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. Some of Congress' staunchest conservatives voted two years ago to prop up the nation's banking industry. At the time, they saw a threat to American business. Now the emergency is their own political survival. In dozens of races around the country, challengers are hammering away at the bank bailout and deriding Republican lawmakers they claim spent billions to rescue Wall Street, not Main Street. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)AP - Some of Congress' staunchest conservatives voted two years ago to prop up the nation's banking industry. At the time, they saw a threat to American business. Now the emergency is their own political survival.

World Bank gives China greater voting power (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 10:32 AM PDT

AP - The World Bank has agreed to dramatically increase the voting power of China, lifting Beijing to the No. 3 spot in the 186-nation lending organization.

Despite Kennedy loss, Coakley has no GOP opponent (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 09:27 AM PDT

**HOLD FOR STORY MOVING SUNDAY APRIL 25 BY GLEN JOHNSON** FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2010 file photo, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley approaches the Judiciary Committee before testifying at the Statehouse, in Boston. Though she lost a race for the U.S. Senate to Scott Brown in January, Coakley lacks a Republican challenger for re-election in November 2010. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)AP - The January weekend after Democrat Martha Coakley lost a supposedly can't-miss election for U.S. Senate, "Saturday Night Live" underscored the graveness of her political future with a skit where a Barack Obama impersonator labeled her "the single most incompetent candidate ever to seek public office in this nation's history."

Debt panel leaders say everything is on the table (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 08:57 AM PDT

AP - The leaders of President Barack Obama's bipartisan debt commission say everything is on the table, from tax increases to spending cuts, as they prepare this week to begin meeting.

Former Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz dies at 98 (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 01:02 PM PDT

AP - W. Willard Wirtz, a lawyer and labor arbitrator who was labor secretary in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations but broke publicly with Lyndon Johnson over Vietnam, has died.

Granholm: High court nominee not have to be judge (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 07:42 AM PDT

AP - Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a potential candidate for the Supreme Court, thinks it's a smart idea for President Barack Obama to consider someone who isn't a judge now.

Obama leads memorial for US mining dead (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 03:11 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama speaks during a memorial service for the 29 men, killed on April 5 in the worst US mining disaster in decades, at the Beckley-Raleigh Country Convention Center in Backley, West Virginia.(AFP/Jewel Samad)AFP - US President Barack Obama on Sunday paid tribute to 29 men killed in the worst US mine accident in decades, and pledged "to do what we must do" to ensure mine safety.

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