Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama signs emergency bill to halt teacher layoffs (AP)
• Georgia Republicans splitting primary vote (AP)
• Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens dies in plane crash (AP)
• Gov't: Initial probe finds no new Toyota issues (AP)
• Rangel: 'Don't leave me swinging in the wind' (AP)
• GOP candidate Paul denies kidnapping suggestions (AP)
• Fingerprint sharing led to deportation of 47,000 (AP)
• Clinton urges Iran to release political prisoners (AP)
• White House in dispute with 'professional left' (AP)
• KY church angry at Sen. candidate's picnic remarks (AP)
• House Roll Call: emergency bill to halt layoffs (AP)
• House passes state aid bill; Obama signs into law (Reuters)
• Obama Goes on the Attack as Midterms Approach (CQPolitics.com)
• Clinton stumps for Dem in close Senate race in Pa. (AP)
• Game in 'Jersey Shore' town features Obama target (AP)
• US govt sending ground zero mosque imam to Mideast (AP)
• Obama signs bill protecting US writers abroad (AP)
• US Congress approves aid for struggling states (AFP)
• House approves more agents, drones on border (AP)

Obama signs emergency bill to halt teacher layoffs (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 04:52 PM PDT AP - Summoned back from summer break, the House on Tuesday pushed through an emergency $26 billion jobs bill that Democrats said would save 300,000 teachers, police and others from election-year layoffs. President Barack Obama immediately signed it into law.

Georgia Republicans splitting primary vote (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 05:43 PM PDT AP - Former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel and ex-Rep. Nathan Deal swapped leads in a close gubernatorial primary runoff Tuesday night, and voters in Connecticut, Minnesota and Colorado chose candidates for the fall in a season of peril for establishment politicians of both parties.

Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens dies in plane crash (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 04:52 PM PDT AP - A single-engine plane carrying former Sen. Ted Stevens crashed into a remote Alaska mountainside, killing the state's most beloved political figure and four others and stranding the survivors on brush-and-rock-covered slopes overnight until rescuers could reach them.

Gov't: Initial probe finds no new Toyota issues (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 01:23 PM PDT AP - A government investigation into runaway Toyotas has found no new safety defects beyond problems with accelerator pedals that explain reports of sudden acceleration in the vehicles, according to preliminary findings released Tuesday.

Rangel: 'Don't leave me swinging in the wind' (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 04:52 PM PDT AP - A combative Rep. Charles Rangel told the House on Tuesday he's not resigning despite 13 charges of wrongdoing and demanded the ethics committee not leave him "swinging in the wind."

GOP candidate Paul denies kidnapping suggestions (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 04:52 PM PDT AP - Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul of Kentucky on Tuesday denied suggestions he ever kidnapped anyone or forced them to use drugs, and said he hasn't ruled out a lawsuit against a magazine that ran an article describing events from his college days.

Fingerprint sharing led to deportation of 47,000 (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 03:22 PM PDT AP - A rapidly expanding illegal immigration enforcement program has led to the deportation of 47,000 people over 18 months when the Homeland Security Department was sifting through millions of fingerprints taken at local jail bookings.

Clinton urges Iran to release political prisoners (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 03:14 PM PDT AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday called on Iran to release all political prisoners and expressed alarm about the fate of several specific detainees.

White House in dispute with 'professional left' (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 02:29 PM PDT AP - The White House was on the defensive Tuesday after press secretary Robert Gibbs lashed out at liberals he dubbed the "professional left," saying some of them should be drug-tested.

KY church angry at Sen. candidate's picnic remarks (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 05:33 PM PDT AP - Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul has angered a small-town Kentucky church by saying he and other politicians who attended its fundraising picnic had to worry about having beer thrown on them.

House Roll Call: emergency bill to halt layoffs (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 04:59 PM PDT AP - The 247-161 roll call Tuesday by which the House passed an emergency $26 billion jobs bill that Democrats said would save 300,000 teachers, police and others from election-year layoffs.

House passes state aid bill; Obama signs into law (Reuters) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 04:45 PM PDT Reuters - The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved, and President Barack Obama promptly signed into law, an election-year bill providing $26 billion to struggling states by closing tax loopholes for multinational companies and cutting food aid to the poor.

Obama Goes on the Attack as Midterms Approach (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 02:53 PM PDT CQPolitics.com - President Barack Obama officially turned his attention this week to the midterm elections, unloading on the GOP while defending administration policies and the Democratic Congress at an event a stone's throw away from the home of his predecessor.

Clinton stumps for Dem in close Senate race in Pa. (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 02:36 PM PDT AP - Former President Bill Clinton characterized Pennsylvania's close and competitive U.S. Senate race on Tuesday as a choice between disastrous Reagan-Bush economic policies and the ability of Democrats to fix the damage they inflicted.

Game in 'Jersey Shore' town features Obama target (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 02:12 PM PDT AP - A boardwalk game in the town where the MTV reality show "Jersey Shore" is filmed features a caricature of President Barack Obama as a moving target along with likenesses of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

US govt sending ground zero mosque imam to Mideast (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 02:11 PM PDT AP - The imam behind controversial plans for a mosque near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks is being sent by the State Department on a religious outreach trip to the Middle East, officials said Tuesday, in a move that drew criticism from conservative lawmakers.

Obama signs bill protecting US writers abroad (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 01:47 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill protecting American authors, journalists and publishers from foreign libel judgments that undermine free speech.

US Congress approves aid for struggling states (AFP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 12:49 PM PDT AFP - Spurred on by President Barack Obama, his Democratic allies in the House of Representatives overran Republican objections on Tuesday to approve a 26-billion-dollar measure to help cash-strapped states.

House approves more agents, drones on border (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 12:48 PM PDT AP - In a rare moment of bipartisanship Tuesday, the House approved $600 million to pay for more unmanned surveillance drones and about 1,500 more agents along the troubled Mexican border.

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