Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Paul rides tea party support, takes GOP nod in Ky. (AP)
• US officials huddle ahead of SKorean announcement (AP)
• Blumenthal denies trying to mislead on Vietnam (AP)
• Congress: US repeated 9/11 slips in Christmas plot (AP)
• What to watch in Tuesday's primaries (Politico)
• Gates, Clinton press Senate to ratify nukes treaty (AP)
• US gets China, Russia on board for Iran sanctions (AP)
• Kagan papers emerge amid questions on abortion (AP)
• Interior secretary acknowledges lax oil regulation (AP)
• Immigration at forefront of Obama-Calderon meeting (AP)
• Obama meets with Jewish members of Congress (AP)
• Paul wins Ky. Sen. primary in test of tea party (AP)
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• Burning odor reported hours before cockpit fire (AP)
• Effort to create new NC political party fizzles (AP)
• Obama disappointed Senate oil spill measure stalled (Reuters)
• Democrats, Republicans Face Voter Backlash in Primaries (Time.com)
• Conn. official loses election lawsuit, ends AG bid (AP)
• McMahon claims credit for report on rival's record (AP)
• Rendell, Specter Still Confident of Pulling Out Win (CQPolitics.com)

Paul rides tea party support, takes GOP nod in Ky. (AP) Posted: 18 May 2010 05:27 PM PDT AP - Political novice Rand Paul rode support from tea party activists to a rout in Kentucky's Republican Senate primary Tuesday night, jolting the GOP establishment and providing fresh evidence of voter discontent in a turbulent midterm election season.

US officials huddle ahead of SKorean announcement (AP) Posted: 18 May 2010 04:18 PM PDT AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was meeting with the Obama administration's envoys to North Korea amid reports that an investigation will blame Pyongyang for the sinking of South Korean navy ship that killed 46 sailors.

Blumenthal denies trying to mislead on Vietnam (AP) Posted: 18 May 2010 05:25 PM PDT AP - Trying to defuse a crisis that could give the GOP a powerful opening, Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal said Tuesday that he "misspoke" in claiming more than once that he served in Vietnam, and he dismissed the furor as a matter of "a few misplaced words."

Congress: US repeated 9/11 slips in Christmas plot (AP) Posted: 18 May 2010 05:25 PM PDT AP - Despite a top-to-bottom overhaul of the intelligence community after the 2001 terrorist attacks, the nation's security system showed some of the same failures when it allowed a would-be bomber to slip aboard an airliner, congressional investigators said Tuesday.

What to watch in Tuesday's primaries (Politico) Posted: 18 May 2010 03:04 AM PDT Politico - Just four states go to the polls Tuesday, but together they cast a long shadow.

Gates, Clinton press Senate to ratify nukes treaty (AP) Posted: 18 May 2010 12:21 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration on Tuesday pressed the Senate to ratify a landmark treaty with Russia, that would shrink both nations' massive nuclear arsenals. Top officials said that passage is vital to U.S. efforts to persuade other countries not to build atomic weapons.

US gets China, Russia on board for Iran sanctions (AP) Posted: 18 May 2010 04:41 PM PDT AP - The United States introduced a United Nations resolution aimed at Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program on Tuesday, having won long-sought and pivotal support from China and Russia for new sanctions against its powerful Revolutionary Guard and new measures to try to curtail Iran's military, financial and shipping activities.

Kagan papers emerge amid questions on abortion (AP) Posted: 18 May 2010 05:25 PM PDT AP - A senior House Democrat said Tuesday that senators should fully question Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan to make sure she supports abortion rights, in light of her previous backing for limiting late-term abortions.

Interior secretary acknowledges lax oil regulation (AP) Posted: 18 May 2010 05:16 PM PDT AP - Grilled by skeptical lawmakers, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday acknowledged his agency had been lax in overseeing offshore drilling activities and that contributed to the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Immigration at forefront of Obama-Calderon meeting (AP) Posted: 18 May 2010 12:47 PM PDT AP - With the immigration debate raging in both their countries, President Barack Obama and Mexico's Felipe Calderon will reaffirm their commitment to comprehensive immigration reform during the Mexican leader's state visit here Wednesday.

Obama meets with Jewish members of Congress (AP) Posted: 18 May 2010 05:15 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama has convened a meeting of Jewish Democratic lawmakers to discuss U.S.-Israeli relations at a delicate time for the countries and Obama's own image among American and Israeli Jews.

Paul wins Ky. Sen. primary in test of tea party (AP) Posted: 18 May 2010 05:14 PM PDT AP - Rand Paul defeated Republican establishment favorite Trey Grayson in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, a closely watched race that was a test of the tea party movement's strength.

(AP) Posted: 18 May 2010 04:43 PM PDT AP - Tea party-backed Rand Paul wins Republican Senate nomination in Kentucky.

Burning odor reported hours before cockpit fire (AP) Posted: 18 May 2010 04:37 PM PDT AP - A burning or heating odor was reported in the cockpit of a United Airlines plane less than 24 hours before an in-flight fire erupted, forcing an emergency landing, a federal safety panel said Tuesday.

Effort to create new NC political party fizzles (AP) Posted: 18 May 2010 04:25 PM PDT AP - A union-backed effort to create a new political party in North Carolina to challenge a Democratic congressman has fizzled because organizers didn't have the 85,000 signatures to qualify.

Obama disappointed Senate oil spill measure stalled (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2010 03:52 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he was disappointed that a measure to lift limits on oil firm liability for spills had stalled in the U.S. Senate, and blasted Republicans he said had stopped it.

Democrats, Republicans Face Voter Backlash in Primaries (Time.com) Posted: 18 May 2010 03:25 PM PDT Time.com - The Tea Party may be wreaking havoc with the best-laid plans of the Republican leadership, but many Democrat incumbents are also under fire from challengers angry at Obama

Conn. official loses election lawsuit, ends AG bid (AP) Posted: 18 May 2010 02:53 PM PDT AP - Connecticut's secretary of state ended her bid for attorney general Tuesday, hours after losing a lawsuit she filed against her own office in an effort to prove that she is qualified to be the state's top prosecutor.

McMahon claims credit for report on rival's record (AP) Posted: 18 May 2010 02:39 PM PDT AP - Republican Linda McMahon's campaign trumpeted its role in The New York Times report about a Democratic rival's misleading claim he served in Vietnam. Hours later, her Senate campaign stripped the chest thumping from its website.

Rendell, Specter Still Confident of Pulling Out Win (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 18 May 2010 02:21 PM PDT CQPolitics.com - PHILADELPHIA -- Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell predicted Sen. Arlen Specter would prevail over Rep. Joe Sestak in Tuesday's Democratic Senate primary, but he conceded that voter turnout, suppressed by a steady rainfall, and a palpable anger at Washington could hurt the incumbent.

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