Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Kagan memos on abortion limits, religious rights (AP)
• Tea party shaping Republican Party, fall faceoffs (AP)
• Health overhaul to force changes in employer plans (AP)
• Pelosi: Eliminate liability limit for oil spills (AP)
• Lincoln's lessons: Behind her win (Politico)
• Interview: Bill Clinton to Dems, 'Never give up' (AP)
• Allen: Reliable spill numbers hard to nail down (AP)
• Coast Guard Adm. Allen in hot seat over oil spill (AP)
• Conspiracy theories no surprise in SC Senate race (AP)
• State Department assessing damage from cables leak (AP)
• First couple catch performance of 'Thurgood' (AP)
• For Nevada voters, `none' is 2nd to Harry Reid (AP)
• Reno GOP mayor backs Sen. Reid for re-election (AP)
• Kagan role in Clinton sex harassment suit withheld (AP)
• Volkswagen recalls minivans over fire concerns (AP)
• Obama, Russian President Medvedev to meet June 24 (AP)
• Polling trends suggest Meek may not inherit Florida Senate nod (The Newsroom)
• Ex-congressman: DOJ has closed case against him (AP)
• Jerry Brown compares Meg Whitman to a Nazi propagandist (The Newsroom)
• Iowa poll measures 2012 likability (not much else) (The Newsroom)

Kagan memos on abortion limits, religious rights (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 03:51 PM PDT AP - Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, as a Clinton White House counsel, drafted legal language designed to narrow a proposed ban on a procedure that critics call "partial-birth" abortion.

Tea party shaping Republican Party, fall faceoffs (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 08:29 AM PDT AP - The tea party movement shows some growing pains, but it still wields remarkable powers to shape the Republican Party and set up a fall election with unconventional candidates and stark choices for voters.

Health overhaul to force changes in employer plans (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 02:20 PM PDT AP - Over and over in the health care debate, President Barack Obama said people who like their current coverage would be able to keep it.

Pelosi: Eliminate liability limit for oil spills (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 09:18 AM PDT AP - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says oil companies that cause major spills like the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico should face unlimited liability for economic damages.

Lincoln's lessons: Behind her win (Politico) Posted: 10 Jun 2010 02:47 AM PDT Politico - Blanche Lincoln's comeback win Tuesday night served up a rich slice of humble pie for a political class that had prematurely written her off.

Interview: Bill Clinton to Dems, 'Never give up' (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 03:54 PM PDT AP - Bill Clinton says Democratic incumbents can't run away from their records, so they might as well embrace them. "Tell your story," the former president advised Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other embattled Democrats.

Allen: Reliable spill numbers hard to nail down (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 02:10 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration's point man for the Gulf Coast oil spill said Friday that it will be at least July before BP has the tankers in place to capture the latest estimates for crude flowing from the blown well.

Coast Guard Adm. Allen in hot seat over oil spill (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 08:16 AM PDT AP - The oil spoiling the teeming marshes and white-sand beaches of the Gulf Coast is also threatening the pristine image of the burly, take-charge leader who has become the federal government's go-to guy in a disaster.

Conspiracy theories no surprise in SC Senate race (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 04:26 PM PDT AP - With South Carolina's sordid history of dirty politics, it's no wonder conspiracy theories abound about an unknown, unemployed military veteran winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate.

State Department assessing damage from cables leak (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 05:11 PM PDT AP - The State Department says it is studying the computer hard drives used by an Army intelligence analyst in Iraq, trying to assess the potential damage if allegations are true that the analyst leaked tens of thousands of classified diplomatic documents to a whistle-blower website.

First couple catch performance of 'Thurgood' (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 05:07 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama and the first lady are watching a sold-out play about a former Supreme Court justice at the Kennedy Center.

For Nevada voters, `none' is 2nd to Harry Reid (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 04:11 PM PDT AP - Harry Reid faces one wild-card factor in November's election: None of the above.

Reno GOP mayor backs Sen. Reid for re-election (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 04:06 PM PDT AP - The Republican mayor of Reno says the U.S. Senate candidate chosen this week by the Nevada GOP to take on Democrat Harry Reid is an "ultra right-winger" whom he cannot support.

Kagan role in Clinton sex harassment suit withheld (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 02:29 PM PDT AP - Bill Clinton's presidential library won't publicly release memos and notes Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan wrote about the sexual harassment lawsuit that triggered Clinton's impeachment.

Volkswagen recalls minivans over fire concerns (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 01:58 PM PDT AP - Volkswagen AG is recalling nearly 16,000 Routan minivans to address fire concerns involving latches on the sliding doors.

Obama, Russian President Medvedev to meet June 24 (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 01:03 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama plans to meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (dih-MEE'-tree med-VYEH'-dyev) at the White House on June 24.

Polling trends suggest Meek may not inherit Florida Senate nod (The Newsroom) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 12:49 PM PDT The Newsroom - Kendrick Meek has a lot more to worry about this election season than party-switching Florida Gov. Charlie Crist. The four-term Democratic congressman has long been running a distant third in polls in Florida's U.S. Senate race behind Crist and GOP nominee Marco Rubio. And now Meek is facing a tougher-than-expected primary challenge from Jeff Greene, a Palm Beach financier who may be best known for being pals with Mike Tyson and Heidi Fleiss.

Ex-congressman: DOJ has closed case against him (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 12:06 PM PDT AP - Former California Rep. John Doolittle, who retired from Congress while under investigation in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, said Friday that the Justice Department has closed its case against him and will not pursue charges.

Jerry Brown compares Meg Whitman to a Nazi propagandist (The Newsroom) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 11:02 AM PDT The Newsroom - Three days into California's general election, and it's already kind of crazy.

Iowa poll measures 2012 likability (not much else) (The Newsroom) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 10:51 AM PDT The Newsroom - With only 879 days to go before Election Day 2012, it's never too early to consider who will be the GOP nominee against President Obama. A new Des Moines Register poll of likely Republican voters finds that so far, people like Mitt Romney. But "liking" is still some distance from "planning to vote for."

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