Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Record gains for US poverty with elections looming (AP)
• In first for Afghan war, award goes to living vet (AP)
• Establishment, Palin join forces in NH Senate race (AP)
• Obama: Feds ready to help after Calif. explosion (AP)
• Obama commemorates 9/11 with appeal for tolerance (AP)
• Obama remarks on 9/11 as provided by White House (AP)
• President to mark 9th anniversary of 9/11 attacks (AP)
• FACT CHECK: Obama's tone shifts on health care (AP)
• Daley: Passion for being Chicago mayor remains (AP)
• Musharraf eyes Pakistan presidency in political comeback (AFP)
• NRA, DeMint nods cited for Delaware's O'Donnell (AP)
• Recession has left huge hole: Obama (AFP)
• Write-in option poses challenge for AK senator (AP)

Record gains for US poverty with elections looming (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2010 05:40 PM PDT AP - The number of people in the U.S. who are in poverty is on track for a record increase on President Barack Obama's watch, with the ranks of working-age poor approaching 1960s levels that led to the national war on poverty.

In first for Afghan war, award goes to living vet (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2010 02:48 PM PDT AP - The first living service member from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to receive the Medal of Honor said Saturday the award honors more than a dozen fellow soldiers who were part of a deadly ambush three years ago.

Establishment, Palin join forces in NH Senate race (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2010 01:44 PM PDT AP - Can the Republican establishment and Sarah Palin find happiness in New Hampshire?

Obama: Feds ready to help after Calif. explosion (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2010 01:13 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama has called California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to offer the federal government's help in the wake of the pipeline explosion that killed at least four people.

Obama commemorates 9/11 with appeal for tolerance (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2010 11:13 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama appealed to an unsettled nation Saturday to honor the memory of the Sept. 11 attacks by hewing to the values of diversity and tolerance. "We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust," the president declared.

Obama remarks on 9/11 as provided by White House (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2010 08:38 AM PDT AP - Remarks by President Barack Obama on anniversary of Sept. 11 at the Pentagon memorial, as provided by the White House.

President to mark 9th anniversary of 9/11 attacks (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2010 12:37 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is marking the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with a speech at the Pentagon, one of the targets of the terrorists.

FACT CHECK: Obama's tone shifts on health care (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2010 12:20 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama told voters repeatedly during the health care debate that the overhaul legislation would bring down fast-rising health care costs and save them money. Now, he's hemming and hawing on that.

Daley: Passion for being Chicago mayor remains (AP) Posted: 10 Sep 2010 08:22 PM PDT AP - It wasn't his wife's cancer. It wasn't the tough economy that battered Chicago's finances. It wasn't the prospect of a re-election campaign amid falling poll numbers, or the city's embarrassing loss of the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Musharraf eyes Pakistan presidency in political comeback (AFP) Posted: 10 Sep 2010 08:21 PM PDT AFP - Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf vowed to return to politics in a bid to restore the country's self-confidence and thinks he could become president again.

NRA, DeMint nods cited for Delaware's O'Donnell (AP) Posted: 10 Sep 2010 08:12 PM PDT AP - Christine O'Donnell has picked up key endorsements from the National Rifle Association and conservative Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina in Delaware's Republican U.S. Senate primary.

Recession has left huge hole: Obama (AFP) Posted: 10 Sep 2010 06:21 PM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama said Friday the "hole" left by the worst recession in decades was "huge" and admitted the recovery had been "painfully slow," but vowed his policies were working.

Write-in option poses challenge for AK senator (AP) Posted: 10 Sep 2010 06:08 PM PDT AP - For Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the odds of winning a write-in campaign to keep her job would be exceedingly long and the personal political stakes just as high.

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