Yahoo! News: Elections

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• US officials: Al-Qaida operative tied to NY plot (AP)
• Obama takes on election-year fears over big debt (AP)
• Dems offer to scale back climate bill (Politico)
• Brown cuts backroom deals he campaigned against (AP)
• House panel denies aid to Afghanistan (AP)
• Gun rights, campaign spending top high court term (AP)
• House panel votes to lift Cuba travel ban (AP)
• Obama: Attacking debt will be 'our project' (AP)
• Obama: Pressing China on currency to make trade fair (Reuters)
• Terror chief defends targeting rebel US cleric (AP)
• Blago says on tape Obama is 'all take and no give' (AP)
• Biden: Voters will turn to Democrats in the fall (AP)
• Obama orders flags lowered for Byrd (AP)
• GOP's false talking point: Jones Act blocks Gulf help (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Obama: Republicans "out of touch" over bank reform (Reuters)
• 'Humiliated' Merkel's pick for president finally approved (AFP)
• Scientific panel reviewing unintended acceleration (AP)

US officials: Al-Qaida operative tied to NY plot (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2010 04:20 PM PDT AP - U.S. counterterrorism officials have linked one of the nation's most wanted terrorists to last year's thwarted plot to bomb the New York City subway system, authorities said Wednesday.

Obama takes on election-year fears over big debt (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2010 04:38 PM PDT AP - Sensitive to election-year resentment over big government, President Barack Obama declared Wednesday he intends to get "our debt and our deficits under control." With fears alive of a double-dip recession, Obama warned that he won't slash spending at the expense of the economic rebound.

Dems offer to scale back climate bill (Politico) Posted: 29 Jun 2010 11:20 AM PDT Politico - Key Senate Democrats offered, during a White House meeting with President Barack Obama and skeptical Republicans on Tuesday, to scale back their ambitious plans to cap greenhouse gases across multiple sectors of the economy.

Brown cuts backroom deals he campaigned against (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2010 04:37 PM PDT AP - Republican Scott Brown owes his election in part to the public furor over the so-called Cornhusker Kickback, the backroom deal that Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska struck for his vote to pass the health care bill. Now he is following Nelson's example, winning concessions in the financial overhaul bill on behalf of Massachusetts banks.

House panel denies aid to Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2010 04:18 PM PDT AP - A key House panel voted Wednesday to cut off almost $4 billion in aid to the government of Afghanistan pending an investigation into charges that Afghan officials are blocking corruption probes and huge amounts of foreign aid is being stolen.

Gun rights, campaign spending top high court term (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2010 12:30 PM PDT AP - Two conservative-driven decisions with potentially broad consequences will likely define the just-completed Supreme Court term: freeing corporations and unions to spend as much as they like in campaigns for Congress and president, and ruling that Americans have a right to a gun for self-defense wherever they live.

House panel votes to lift Cuba travel ban (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2010 02:40 PM PDT AP - A House committee voted Wednesday to lift the ban on American travel to Cuba, the latest in a string of attempts to ease restrictions on the island.

Obama: Attacking debt will be 'our project' (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2010 12:41 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says the United States has to wean itself from its habit of using the national "credit card" and leaving future generations to pay the bill.

Obama: Pressing China on currency to make trade fair (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jun 2010 04:17 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday maintained pressure on China to ensure its currency policy did not give it an unfair export advantage.

Terror chief defends targeting rebel US cleric (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2010 03:39 PM PDT AP - A top counterterrorism official on Wednesday defended the government's right to target U.S. citizens perceived as terror threats for capture or killing, citing the example of the renegade al-Qaida-linked cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.

Blago says on tape Obama is 'all take and no give' (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2010 02:51 PM PDT AP - An angry Rod Blagojevich is heard grumbling on FBI wiretap tapes played at his corruption trial Wednesday that he is willing to appoint a favorite of Barack Obama to the U.S. Senate, but the newly elected president is "all take and no give."

Biden: Voters will turn to Democrats in the fall (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2010 02:40 PM PDT AP - In a campaign stop for a nominee for U.S. Senate, Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Democrats may be vulnerable in the summer but voters will look at contrasts in the fall.

Obama orders flags lowered for Byrd (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2010 02:31 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama has ordered flags at the White House and other federal buildings to be flown at half-staff in honor of the late Sen. Robert Byrd.

GOP's false talking point: Jones Act blocks Gulf help (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 30 Jun 2010 01:50 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — From former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to Arizona Sen. John McCain to junior members of the House of Representatives, conservative Republicans have accused President Barack Obama of failing to do all he can to help clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill because he hasn't waived a U.S. maritime law called the Jones Act.

Obama: Republicans "out of touch" over bank reform (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jun 2010 01:40 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama launched a broad attack against Republican lawmakers on Wednesday, calling them out of touch with ordinary Americans for opposing Wall Street reform and siding with Big Oil.

'Humiliated' Merkel's pick for president finally approved (AFP) Posted: 30 Jun 2010 01:25 PM PDT AFP - Embattled German Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered a blow to her authority Wednesday as her pick for president needed three voting rounds to win election after a rebellion in her ruling coalition.

Scientific panel reviewing unintended acceleration (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2010 01:07 PM PDT AP - The government said Wednesday it had not uncovered any electronic problems in runaway Toyotas as a scientific panel started work on an extensive study to determine what prompts some vehicles to suddenly accelerate.

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