Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama cites 'obsession' on Afghanistan timeline (AP)
• GOP senators: Can Kagan be impartial judge? (AP)
• Obama: Attacks on Kagan 'pretty thin gruel' (AP)
• Obama: US looking for Chinese currency to rise (AP)
• World leaders walk economic tightrope in Canada (AP)
• SUMMIT NOTEBOOK: Sarkozy left in the dark (AP)
• Obama: North Korea's behavior is unacceptable (AP)
• Longtime Sen. Byrd in hospital, seriously ill (AP)
• Obama looks foward to India visit later this year (AP)
• CIA chief Panetta: US has driven back al-Qaida (AP)
• Martin Ginsburg, justice's husband, dies (AP)
• Obama: Global recovery requires level playing field (Reuters)
• Guinea votes in first democratic election since independence (AFP)
• McCain disagrees with AZ gov's drug 'mule' comment (AP)
• Kyrgyz vote wins 62 pct support: preliminary data (Reuters)
• Primer on senators judging would-be Justice Kagan (AP)
• Daughter says Cheney likely to leave hospital soon (AP)
• CIA's Panetta: North Korea to back away from brink (AP)
• CIA's Panetta: Iran has enough uranium for 2 bombs (AP)

Obama cites 'obsession' on Afghanistan timeline (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2010 05:49 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama said Sunday that there's "a lot of obsession" about the withdrawal date for U.S. troops from Afghanistan. He said his focus is on making sure the mission there is successful.

GOP senators: Can Kagan be impartial judge? (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2010 04:34 PM PDT AP - Leading Republican senators on Sunday questioned whether Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan could be an impartial judge as they tried to inject some drama into her upcoming confirmation hearing.

Obama: Attacks on Kagan 'pretty thin gruel' (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2010 03:35 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says that attacks on his Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, have been "pretty thin gruel."

Obama: US looking for Chinese currency to rise (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2010 03:32 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says the U.S. anticipates China's currency will rise significantly as market forces come to bear.

World leaders walk economic tightrope in Canada (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2010 05:14 PM PDT AP - Wary of slamming on the stimulus brakes too quickly but shaken by the European debt crisis, world leaders pledged Sunday to reduce government deficits in richer countries in half by 2013, with wiggle room to meet the goal.

SUMMIT NOTEBOOK: Sarkozy left in the dark (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2010 05:39 PM PDT AP - Was it a nefarious Canadian plot that left French President Nicolas Sarkozy standing silently at a microphone in the dark?

Obama: North Korea's behavior is unacceptable (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2010 03:24 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says that North Korea "engaged in belligerent behavior that is unacceptable to the international community" in sinking a South Korean ship.

Longtime Sen. Byrd in hospital, seriously ill (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2010 04:36 PM PDT AP - Sen. Robert C. Byrd, who holds the record as the longest-serving member of Congress, is seriously ill in a Washington-area hospital, his office said Sunday.

Obama looks foward to India visit later this year (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2010 01:55 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says he looks forward to visiting India, an important ally of the United States.

CIA chief Panetta: US has driven back al-Qaida (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2010 04:34 PM PDT AP - The U.S. has driven al-Qaida into hiding and undermined its leadership, but is struggling to oust its primary sympathizer, the Taliban, from Afghanistan, the nation's spymaster said Sunday.

Martin Ginsburg, justice's husband, dies (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2010 04:39 PM PDT AP - Martin Ginsburg, the husband of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a prominent lawyer in his own right, died Sunday from complications of metastatic cancer. He was 78.

Obama: Global recovery requires level playing field (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jun 2010 03:14 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Sunday it was important for global growth that there be a level playing field, and that involves market-driven currency policies.

Guinea votes in first democratic election since independence (AFP) Posted: 27 Jun 2010 02:53 PM PDT AFP - Guineans voted in droves on Sunday in the west African nation's first democratic election since independence in 1958, hoping to end half a century of military and civilian dictatorships.

McCain disagrees with AZ gov's drug 'mule' comment (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2010 11:13 AM PDT AP - U.S. Sen. John McCain says he disagrees with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's statements that most people crossing the U.S. southern border illegally are smuggling drugs, but he thinks she is doing a good job of standing up for her state.

Kyrgyz vote wins 62 pct support: preliminary data (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jun 2010 10:48 AM PDT Reuters - Kyrgyzstan's central election commission said that 62 percent of the electorate voted on Sunday in favor of a new constitution to create a parliamentary democracy, according to partial results. The commission published the preliminary results on its website, www.shailoo.gov.kg, citing data from 24 percent of polling stations.

Primer on senators judging would-be Justice Kagan (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2010 09:58 AM PDT AP - A cast of graybeards, rising stars and a lame duck once in charge convenes Monday as the Senate Judiciary Committee to consider giving President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, a lifetime appointment as a justice.

Daughter says Cheney likely to leave hospital soon (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2010 08:12 AM PDT AP - One of Dick Cheney's daughters says the hospitalized former vice president could go home on Monday after receiving medication to treat a fluid buildup related to his aggressive form of heart disease.

CIA's Panetta: North Korea to back away from brink (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2010 08:01 AM PDT AP - CIA director Leon Panetta says he doesn't think the skirmishes involving North Korea will lead to a military confrontation on the Korean peninsula.

CIA's Panetta: Iran has enough uranium for 2 bombs (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2010 07:44 AM PDT AP - CIA Director Leon Panetta says Iran probably has enough low-enriched uranium for two nuclear weapons, but that it likely would take two years to build the bombs.

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