Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Gates: New US intelligence chief the right choice (AP)
• Top US officer: al-Qaida in Iraq "devastated" (AP)
• Crowded agenda awaits Clinton in Latin America (AP)
• Clinton says she expects Iran to 'pull some stunt' (AP)
• Obama's oil spill point man: Gulf held hostage (AP)
• Top US officer: Vets need not suffer alone (AP)
• Obamas to attend Ford's Theatre gala (AP)
• Gates courts put-out Azerbaijan, a key Afghan hub (AP)
• Israel rejects international probe into ship raid (AP)
• Rwanda opposition asks U.S. to help defuse tension (Reuters)
• Fierce struggle for McCain to retain Arizona seat (AP)
• The Obamas to go to the theater (AP)
• Primaries from Calif. to SC measure voter anger (AP)
• Next Japan PM to tap fiscal reformers (Reuters)
• Obama: Oil spill upends life for Gulf residents (AP)
• AP Enterprise: Sub attack was near US-SKorea drill (AP)
• GOP wants Justice probe of White House dealmaking (AP)
• Ill. Senate race: all insults, all the time (AP)
• Documents offer sketchy clues to pragmatic Kagan (AP)

Gates: New US intelligence chief the right choice (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 08:28 AM PDT AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday that his Pentagon intelligence chief, in line to oversee all American spy agencies, has the ability to forge consensus among that sprawling network.

Top US officer: al-Qaida in Iraq "devastated" (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 12:52 PM PDT AP - A string of setbacks for al-Qaida's affiliate in Iraq has left the insurgent group "devastated" and struggling to cope with a double whammy of a leadership vacuum and a money squeeze, the top U.S. military officer said Sunday.

Crowded agenda awaits Clinton in Latin America (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 02:06 PM PDT AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton travels to Latin America and the Caribbean with a crowded agenda awaiting: lingering tensions over last year's coup in Honduras, U.S. immigration policy, security issues and concerns over Iran and the Middle East.

Clinton says she expects Iran to 'pull some stunt' (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 03:29 PM PDT AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she thinks Iran will "pull some stunt" in the next few days because it expects further United Nations sanctions over its nuclear program.

Obama's oil spill point man: Gulf held hostage (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 05:30 AM PDT AP - The government's point man on the Gulf oil spill says there is some progress in containing the leaking well. But Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen says he doesn't think anyone should be pleased as long as there is oil in the water.

Top US officer: Vets need not suffer alone (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 08:50 AM PDT AP - In a stirring tribute to the D-Day sacrifices of American soldiers and their allies, the U.S. military's top officer said Sunday that World War II's defining moment should remind all that returning warriors need not "suffer in quiet desperation."

Obamas to attend Ford's Theatre gala (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 02:51 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama honored Ford's Theatre at a White House reception Sunday.

Gates courts put-out Azerbaijan, a key Afghan hub (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 08:04 AM PDT AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates tried on Sunday to soothe the put-off president of this former Soviet republic that helps move supplies and soldiers to the U.S.-led war in landlocked Afghanistan.

Israel rejects international probe into ship raid (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 08:04 AM PDT AP - Israel rejects the idea of a having an international commission look into the country's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, Israel's ambassador to the U.S. said Sunday.

Rwanda opposition asks U.S. to help defuse tension (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 07:37 AM PDT Reuters - Three Rwandan opposition parties have asked the United States to use its influence to help resolve social and political tension in the country before the presidential election in August.

Fierce struggle for McCain to retain Arizona seat (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 06:29 AM PDT AP - A serious re-election fight wasn't what Republican John McCain expected when he returned to the Senate after losing the presidency.

The Obamas to go to the theater (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 04:03 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama plan a night out at the theater.

Primaries from Calif. to SC measure voter anger (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 12:44 AM PDT AP - How angry are Americans? People primed for change vote in 12 states Tuesday in contests that will decide the fate of two endangered Washington incumbents — a two-term senator in Arkansas and a six-term congressman in South Carolina — while setting the stage for some of the races that could determine the balance of power on Capitol Hill in the fall.

Next Japan PM to tap fiscal reformers (Reuters) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 11:39 PM PDT Reuters - Japan's new leader, Naoto Kan, will pick a fellow fiscal conservative for the key finance minister post and a critic of an unpopular powerbroker as his party No. 2 in a bid for voter support in an election next month.

Obama: Oil spill upends life for Gulf residents (AP) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 07:45 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama said Saturday that he will stand with Gulf Coast residents "until they are made whole" from the oil spill catastrophe.

AP Enterprise: Sub attack was near US-SKorea drill (AP) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 07:43 PM PDT AP - On the night a torpedo-armed North Korean submarine allegedly sank a South Korean patrol ship, the U.S. and South Korea were engaged in joint anti-submarine warfare exercises just 75 miles away, military officials told The Associated Press.

GOP wants Justice probe of White House dealmaking (AP) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 07:40 PM PDT AP - Rebuffed before, Republicans are renewing demands for a Justice Department investigation into White House dealmaking in two Senate races. The Obama administration says it's broken no laws, but Republicans aren't taking its word.

Ill. Senate race: all insults, all the time (AP) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 07:34 PM PDT AP - The candidates in one of the nation's most closely watched Senate races aren't saying much about health care, the Gulf oil spill or even the economy. Instead, they're discussing who's the least trustworthy.

Documents offer sketchy clues to pragmatic Kagan (AP) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 07:31 PM PDT AP - From welfare and assisted suicide to police rights, a few scribbled notes and brief e-mails offer an outline of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan as a pragmatist with sometimes unpredictable views on hot-button topics when she was domestic policy adviser to President Bill Clinton.

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