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Yahoo! News: Elections

Struggling states seeking more aid from Washington (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 04:46 PM PDT

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley speaks during a committee session at the annual meeting of the National Governors Association, Saturday, July 10, 2010, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)AP - Governors hamstrung by the sluggish economic rebound in their states and bound to balance their own budgets are pressing anew for Washington to step up with more help, some say even if it means adding to the nation's red ink.

In spy swap, agents were pawns in a practiced game (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 03:06 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2009, file photo Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta speaks in Dearborn, Mich. Less than two weeks after the FBI broke the spy ring in a counterintelligence operation cultivated for a decade, 10 Russian secret agents caught in the U.S. are back in Russia in a rapid-fire spy swap which the U.S. and Russia worked out together as only old enemies could. Four convicted of spying for the West have been pardoned and released by Moscow, and bilateral relations appear on track again. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)AP - In the rapid-fire spy swap, the United States and Russia worked together as only old enemies could.

Obama: More post-traumatic stress help for vets (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 04:46 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2009, file photo President Barack Obama with Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, left, makes a statement in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington. Obama in his weekly radio and online address Saturday, July 10, 2010, said the government is taking 'a long overdue step' to make it easier for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder to receive federal benefits. The changes, which will be announced Monday, July 11, by Shinseki, will fulfill 'a solemn responsibility to provide our veterans and wounded warriors with the care and benefits they've earned when they come home,' he said. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The government is taking what President Barack Obama calls "a long overdue step" to aid veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, making it easier for them receive federal benefits.

New rules, big changes coming for financial world (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 03:40 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 16, 2010 file photo, Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass. is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. Senate Democrat leaders will work this week to secure the last votes needed to pass legislation imposing the most sweeping new rules on banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression. Republican Brown said he wanted to study the bill over last week's congressional recess, and has indicated the bill is more to his liking after House and Senate negotiators dropped a plan to impose a $19 billion tax on large banks and hedge funds to pay for the bill. (AP Photo/Drew Angerer, File)AP - Big changes are in store for the financial world from a government crackdown more than a year in the making.

W.H. works to flip anti-business rep (Politico)

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 10:51 AM PDT

Politico - The White House has launched a coordinated campaign to push back against the perception taking hold in corporate America and on Wall Street that President Barack Obama is promoting an anti-business agenda.

Democrats look to shift delegate balance (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 04:43 PM PDT

AP - Democrats have taken an initial step toward limiting the influence of so-called independent superdelegates in choosing the party's presidential nominee in 2012.

Dems hope voters remain in Empire State of mind (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 04:45 PM PDT

Rep. Michael Arcuri, D-N.Y., chats with a constituent while canvassing door-to-door in Utica, N.Y., in this photo taken June 26, 2010. The meanest words you can throw at Arcuri is that he's gone Washington. The 51-year-old sleeps in his Capitol Hill office during the week and returns home every weekend to Utica, where his wife, Sabrina, and their three children live. Arcuri identifies with his hometown, a former textile manufacturing hub in this sprawling, central New York congressional district. (AP Photo/Heather Ainsworth)AP - Here are the meanest words you can throw at two-term New York Rep. Michael Arcuri: He's gone Washington.

Democrat Bill White charms West Texas for votes (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 03:45 PM PDT

AP - Bill White's got the monogrammed cowboy boots, the worn jeans and the ability to appear at ease connecting with Texans he doesn't know but dearly needs in his race to be governor.

GOP candidate Angle to rally GOP against Reid (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 03:50 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 8, 2010 file photo, Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle shakes hands of supporters in Las Vegas. Tea party darling Angle engineered a come-from-behind victory in Nevada over an establishment-preferred candidate and will challenge Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in November. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, File)AP - U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle on Friday denounced Majority Leader Harry Reid as a "desperate man" who was distorting her conservative record while ignoring a state that leads the nation in joblessness, foreclosures and bankruptcies.

Biden tells Leno US did fine in Russian spy swap (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 04:52 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 7, 2010 file photo, Jay Leno arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in West Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)AP - Vice President Joe Biden had to convince a skeptical Jay Leno that the United States didn't get a raw deal from Russia in the biggest spy swap since the Cold War.

Polls open in Japan upper house election (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 05:07 PM PDT

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan waves to well-wishers during a final campaign tour for the upcoming upper house elections. Polls opened on Sunday for Japan's upper house election, a crucial test for new Prime Minister Naoto Kan and the 10-month-old centre-left coalition government.(AFP/Toru Yamanaka)AFP - Polls opened on Sunday for Japan's upper house election, a crucial test for new Prime Minister Naoto Kan and the 10-month-old centre-left coalition government.

Duncan: Congress needs to act now on school money (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 04:50 PM PDT

AP - U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is urging Congress to act soon to increase education funding because cash-strapped states can't wait until the fall to determine if they must lay off thousands of teachers.

2 planes enter no-fly zone during Obama Nev. visit (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 04:39 PM PDT

AP - Authorities say two planes were chased by military fighter jets from Colorado Springs and briefly detained because they violated a no-fly zone while President Barack Obama was in Nevada campaigning for Sen. Harry Reid.

Iowa will again have lead political role in 2012 (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 10:38 AM PDT

Reuters - Iowa and New Hampshire should keep their lead roles in the Democratic presidential nominating process in 2012, say party officials preparing for President Barack Obama's expected re-election bid.

FAA tells airlines to fix cockpit window heaters (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 01:59 AM PDT

FILE - In this file image released by the NTSB, heat from electrical arcing in the windshield heater of this American Airlines Boeing 757 shattered the windshield, spraying the flight's first officer with glass while the plane was over the Atlantic Ocean en route to Philadelphia from San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Jan. 30, 2008. Airlines will have to inspect the cockpit window heaters on 1,212 Boeing airliners and perhaps replace the windows under a safety order the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday July 9, 2010 it plans to issue next week. (AP Photo/NTSB, FILE)AP - Airlines will have to inspect the cockpit window heaters on 1,212 Boeing airliners and perhaps replace the windows under a safety order the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it plans to issue next week.

Obama says he beat 'vicious' economic downturn (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 07:45 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama speaks on the economy at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. Obama said Friday his policies had pulled America out of the most vicious economic dive since the 1930s, setting battle lines for mid-term elections in November.(AFP/Saul Loeb)AFP - US President Barack Obama said Friday his policies had pulled America out of the most vicious economic dive since the 1930s, setting battle lines for mid-term elections in November.

SC nominee to face no state charge for filing fee (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 04:58 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 9, 2010 file photo, South Carolina Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, Alvin M Greene, holds his own personal copy of his campaign flyer he used to show people he campaigned in Manning, S.C. Alvin Greene earned the nickname 'turtle' in high school — a quiet, withdrawn boy who was smart when he applied himself but rarely took a chance and tried to put himself in comfortable situations. Nearly four weeks ago, the 32-year-old unemployed military veteran turned South Carolina's political scene upside down when he won the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat. And unlike that high school student, he's taking a big chance: running against powerhouse Republican Sen. Jim DeMint. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)AP - An unemployed military veteran will face no state charges over the $10,440 filing fee for his successful bid to win South Carolina's Democratic nomination to run for U.S. Senate, the state's top police official said Friday.

AP Interview: GOP Sen. Bennett predicts Reid win (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 04:53 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks with Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, right, as he greets members of Congress in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 1, 2010, after signing the Iran Sanctions Bill imposing tough new sanctions against Iran as further punishment for the country's continuing ambitions to become a nuclear power. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Warning that tea party "mischief" may be aiding Democrats this election season, defeated Utah Republican U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett says that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid likely will keep his seat and that the GOP may not win hotly contested Senate races in Colorado or Kentucky either.

Ill. Senate candidate clams up over Navy record (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 04:48 PM PDT

AP - Republican Senate candidate Mark Kirk's military record was once such a political asset that he'd mention it at every turn.

First family to vacation in Maine (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 04:09 PM PDT

AP - The first family's summer vacation plans will include a trip to Maine.

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