Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Iowa GOP announces date for straw poll, debate (AP)
• Obama courts Big Labor after meeting Big Business (Reuters)
• House heads toward anticipated tax bill passage (Reuters)
• McCain says he is open to a government shutdown (Daily Caller)
• Obama: US will back UN on rights of native peoples (AP)
• Government pushes solar power in six western states (Reuters)
• US: Ivory Coast leader told to leave country (AP)
• Obama update on Afghanistan war skirts around difficult question of long-term presence (Daily Caller)
• Obama backs U.N. indigenous rights declaration (Reuters)
• White House: Pass giant year-end spending bill (AP)
• Obama says progress not fast enough in Pakistan (AP)
• Military jury: Prison, dismissal for Army birther (AP)
• Obama to speak about latest Afghan-Pakistan report (AP)
• Sarah Palin's MSM détente (Politico)
• Bill Clinton calls for rebuilding in uncertain Haiti (AFP)
• Rare immigration bills pass Congress (AP)
• White House: Summers exit not until end of year (AP)

Iowa GOP announces date for straw poll, debate (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2010 06:30 PM PST AP - Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Matt Strawn says the party will host its presidential straw poll for presidential contenders in August 2011

Obama courts Big Labor after meeting Big Business (Reuters) Posted: 16 Dec 2010 06:23 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama will seek to shore up support for his economic agenda from Big Labor in White House talks on Friday, just days after he tried to mend fences with Big Business at a similar meeting.

House heads toward anticipated tax bill passage (Reuters) Posted: 16 Dec 2010 05:03 PM PST Reuters - The $858 billion tax-cut package brokered by President Barack Obama and Republicans survived a key test vote in the House of Representatives on Thursday and headed toward passage, likely within hours.

McCain says he is open to a government shutdown (Daily Caller) Posted: 16 Dec 2010 04:47 PM PST Daily Caller - Texas Sen. John Cornyn may have spoken too soon when he said "nobody" is considering a government shutdown over the $1.2 trillion omnibus spending bill that Majority Leader Harry Reid has vowed to push through Congress in the lame-duck session.

Obama: US will back UN on rights of native peoples (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2010 02:43 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama said Thursday that the United States will reverse course and support a United Nations declaration defending the rights of indigenous peoples.

Government pushes solar power in six western states (Reuters) Posted: 16 Dec 2010 02:42 PM PST Reuters - The Obama administration on Thursday proposed special energy zones on public lands in six western states deemed good locations to build utility-scale facilities to produce electricity from solar power.

US: Ivory Coast leader told to leave country (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2010 12:54 PM PST AP - The United States and other nations have given the president of Ivory Coast an ultimatum to step down and leave the country within days or face travel and financial sanctions, a senior Obama administration official said Thursday as deadly postelection violence hit the African nation.

Obama update on Afghanistan war skirts around difficult question of long-term presence (Daily Caller) Posted: 16 Dec 2010 12:00 PM PST Daily Caller - The unspoken reality underlying President Obama’s update for the nation on the war in Afghanistan Thursday was that U.S. troops will likely be fighting for many years to come in a conflict that has already gone on for almost a decade.

Obama backs U.N. indigenous rights declaration (Reuters) Posted: 16 Dec 2010 11:18 AM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Thursday he was giving a belated U.S. endorsement to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, drawing hearty applause from a gathering of Native Americans.

White House: Pass giant year-end spending bill (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2010 09:43 AM PST AP - The White House is pressing for passage of a $1.27 trillion year-end spending bill despite the inclusion of thousands of congressional pet projects that President Barack Obama had vowed to oppose.

Obama says progress not fast enough in Pakistan (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2010 09:08 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama has said that a review of the U.S. war strategy in Afghanistan shows that progress has not come fast enough in Pakistan's efforts to root out terrorists.

Military jury: Prison, dismissal for Army birther (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2010 03:26 PM PST AP - An Army doctor who disobeyed orders to deploy to Afghanistan because he questioned President Barack Obama's eligibility to be commander in chief was sentenced by a jury Thursday to six months in a military prison and dismissal from the Army.

Obama to speak about latest Afghan-Pakistan report (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2010 01:57 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama is making a statement Thursday morning about the latest assessment on Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Sarah Palin's MSM détente (Politico) Posted: 16 Dec 2010 01:41 AM PST Politico - After making attacks on what she memorably labeled “the lamestream media” one of her signature issues, Sarah Palin has started to experiment with a new strategy toward the press — engaging it.

Bill Clinton calls for rebuilding in uncertain Haiti (AFP) Posted: 15 Dec 2010 06:48 PM PST AFP - Former US president Bill Clinton called for reconstruction efforts in Haiti to continue despite post-election uncertainty that has flared into violence and fresh warnings of protests.

Rare immigration bills pass Congress (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2010 08:45 PM PST AP - Congress has taken the unusual step of waiving immigration restrictions for two Japanese citizens fighting to live in the United States.

White House: Summers exit not until end of year (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2010 05:20 PM PST AP - The White House says President Barack Obama has asked one of his key economic advisers, Lawrence Summers, to remain at his post until the end of the year.

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