Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama backs mosque near ground zero (AP)
• Obama signs $600M border security bill into law (AP)
• Obama looks to boost Gulf tourism with family trip (AP)
• Like father, like son? Quayle stumbles in Arizona (AP)
• Gates likes military's plans to reinvest savings (AP)
• Waters releases documents in ethics case defense (AP)
• Trend continues with second hottest July on record (AP)
• White House against ending birthright citizenship (AP)
• Laborers' union to rejoin AFL-CIO (AP)
• Longshot US Senate candidate from SC indicted (AP)
• Obama backs controversial New York mosque project (Reuters)
• Sec'y Clinton tries dialing diplomacy for Mideast (AP)
• New Mexico's 2010 gubernatorial election: Denish and Martinez in a dead heat (The Newsroom)
• Social Security back in campaign spotlight (Reuters)
• Obama signs $600 million border security bill (Reuters)
• Democratic ad targets Toomey in Pa. Senate race (AP)
• Angle on private Social Security: Chile's done it (AP)
• McCain says he doesn't back 14th Amendment change (AP)
• Obama signs border security bill (AFP)

Obama backs mosque near ground zero (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 05:48 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed building a mosque near ground zero, saying the country's founding principles demanded no less.

Obama signs $600M border security bill into law (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:11 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama on Friday signed a bill directing $600 million more to securing the U.S.-Mexico border, a modest election-year victory that underscores his failure so far to deliver an overhaul of immigration law.

Obama looks to boost Gulf tourism with family trip (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 03:13 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is heeding his own advice to American vacationers, taking his family to the Gulf Coast this weekend to help the sagging tourism industry.

Like father, like son? Quayle stumbles in Arizona (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 12:45 PM PDT AP - Seems like old times — Jay Leno cracking Quayle jokes on late night. But now the rising target of comics is Ben Quayle, son of the gaffe-prone former vice president, who is committing doozies of his own in his campaign for Congress.

Gates likes military's plans to reinvest savings (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:24 PM PDT AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday he is pleased with the military services' initial recommendations for cutting their budgets and spending the savings on weapons modernization.

Waters releases documents in ethics case defense (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 01:01 PM PDT AP - A defiant Maxine Waters disputed charges that she violated House ethics rules and released documents Friday that could undercut the complaint that the 10-term California Democrat sought federal money to bail out a bank where her husband owns stock.

Trend continues with second hottest July on record (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:33 PM PDT AP - The Earth continues to feel the heat.

White House against ending birthright citizenship (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:13 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration says it's wrong to try to change the constitutional amendment that grants automatic citizenship to babies born in the United States.

Laborers' union to rejoin AFL-CIO (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:21 PM PDT AP - The Laborers' International Union has agreed to rejoin the AFL-CIO, sparking hopes that a once-splintered labor movement is moving closer to reuniting under a single umbrella.

Longshot US Senate candidate from SC indicted (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 05:42 PM PDT AP - Longshot Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene was indicted Friday on two charges, including a felony charge of showing pornography to a teenage student in a South Carolina college computer lab.

Obama backs controversial New York mosque project (Reuters) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 05:38 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama on Friday backed construction of a proposed mosque and Muslim cultural center near the site of the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York -- a project opposed by U.S. conservatives and many New Yorkers.

Sec'y Clinton tries dialing diplomacy for Mideast (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:28 PM PDT AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is working the phones to prod Israel and the Palestinians into direct peace talks.

New Mexico's 2010 gubernatorial election: Denish and Martinez in a dead heat (The Newsroom) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:10 PM PDT The Newsroom - Brad Sylvester, Associated Content

Social Security back in campaign spotlight (Reuters) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 02:56 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. Democrats renewed a traditional election-year battle over Social Security on Friday, launching a campaign to warn seniors that Republican proposals would undermine the popular retirement program.

Obama signs $600 million border security bill (Reuters) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 02:50 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a $600 million bill to beef up security on the U.S. border with Mexico, and his aides pressed lawmakers to set aside election-year politics and work toward broader immigration reform.

Democratic ad targets Toomey in Pa. Senate race (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 02:29 PM PDT AP - The first negative TV ad against the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Pennsylvania's general-election campaign for Sen. Arlen Specter's seat began running Friday in the highly competitive race.

Angle on private Social Security: Chile's done it (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 03:36 PM PDT AP - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle says the nation's Social Security system needs to be privatized, and that it was done before in the South American country of Chile.

McCain says he doesn't back 14th Amendment change (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 11:38 AM PDT AP - Breaking with Republican leaders in the Senate, U.S. Sen. John McCain says he is not requesting hearings into the constitutional amendment that grants automatic citizenship to babies born in the United States, and doesn't support changing the Constitution.

Obama signs border security bill (AFP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 11:34 AM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama Friday signed a bill that tightens security at the Mexico border, hoping to address the hot issue of illegal immigration in the run-up to November congressional elections.

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