Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama secures GOP votes for US-Russia nuclear pact (AP)
• Analysis: A political rebound, but can it hold? (AP)
• Group pushes for nationwide wolf restoration (AP)
• Stopgap spending measure clears Congress (AP)
• US Congress sends Obama food safety bill (AFP)
• Barbour explains remarks about desegregation (AP)
• Obama assures Hispanics immigration reform a top goal (Reuters)
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• Nigerians evacuate Ivory Coast after embassy attack (Reuters)
• White House: Obama won't give up on 'DREAM Act' (AP)
• Census results show power shifting westward (Politico)
• Iraq approves new government with Maliki as PM (Reuters)
• No point resuming 6-party North Korea talks yet: U.S. (Reuters)
• Key US senators denounce Belarus crackdown (AFP)
• Belarus jails 600 for election protests (AFP)
• Obama to meet with Congressional Hispanic Caucus (AP)
• Belarus court jails 600 protesters for up to 15 days (AFP)
• Obama's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year (AP)

Obama secures GOP votes for US-Russia nuclear pact (AP) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 05:48 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama locked up enough Senate Republican votes Tuesday to ratify a new arms control treaty with Russia that would cap nuclear warheads for both former Cold War foes and restart on-site weapons inspections.

Analysis: A political rebound, but can it hold? (AP) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 05:33 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama is rebounding from his party's midterm drubbing with the kind of lame-duck victory list any White House would want: a tax deal, a landmark repeal of the ban on openly gay military service, and the prospect of a major nuclear treaty with Russia.

Group pushes for nationwide wolf restoration (AP) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 05:01 PM PST AP - Environmentalists said Tuesday they intend to sue the Obama administration to force it to restore gray wolves across the lower 48 states — even as Republicans in Congress sought unsuccessfully to strip the animals of protection.

Stopgap spending measure clears Congress (AP) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:55 PM PST AP - Congress cleared a stopgap funding bill Tuesday to keep the federal government open into March, a temporary truce until Republicans and President Barack Obama rejoin the battle over the budget next year.

US Congress sends Obama food safety bill (AFP) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 03:03 PM PST AFP - The US Congress gave final approval Tuesday to a sweeping food safety bill in the wake of mass recalls affecting items from tainted eggs to peanut butter, pistachios, spinach and milk.

Barbour explains remarks about desegregation (AP) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 02:49 PM PST AP - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a potential Republican presidential candidate, said Tuesday he was not trying to downplay the pain that many endured during the South's segregation era when he defended his home town's 1970 public school integration process.

Obama assures Hispanics immigration reform a top goal (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 01:44 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama sought to assure Hispanics on Tuesday that their goal to overhaul U.S. immigration policy would remain a top priority, despite the recent failure of Congress to advance reforms.

(AP) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 12:28 PM PST AP - Senate votes to end debate on arms control treaty, clearing way for approval of Obama priority.

Nigerians evacuate Ivory Coast after embassy attack (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 12:21 PM PST Reuters - Nigeria evacuated all its diplomats from Ivory Coast after its embassy was attacked on Tuesday as the power struggle following a disputed election grew more violent.

White House: Obama won't give up on 'DREAM Act' (AP) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 12:07 PM PST AP - The White House says President Barack Obama is not giving up on legislation that would offer a path to legal status to young illegal immigrants.

Census results show power shifting westward (Politico) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 11:51 AM PST Politico - For Democrats and Republicans alike, the U.S. Census data unveiled Tuesday had an unmistakable and familiar political message: Go West.

Iraq approves new government with Maliki as PM (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 09:52 AM PST Reuters - Iraq's parliament approved Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his new government Tuesday, nine months after an inconclusive election left politics in limbo and delayed investments to rebuild the country after years of war.

No point resuming 6-party North Korea talks yet: U.S. (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 09:45 AM PST Reuters - The White House on Tuesday expressed skepticism about resuming six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program any time soon until Pyongyang stops belligerent actions and lives up to its obligations.

Key US senators denounce Belarus crackdown (AFP) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 07:29 AM PST AFP - Top US senators warned Tuesday that Belarus will pay "a very heavy cost" for a crackdown on post-election protests and said President Alexander Lukashenko's "dictatorship has no place in modern Europe."

Belarus jails 600 for election protests (AFP) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:37 AM PST AFP - Belarus on Tuesday jailed 600 demonstrators detained during a mass rally against the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko, defying fierce Western condemnation of the bloody crackdown.

Obama to meet with Congressional Hispanic Caucus (AP) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:09 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama meets with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on Tuesday.

Belarus court jails 600 protesters for up to 15 days (AFP) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 12:40 AM PST AFP - A Belarus court Tuesday jailed some 600 people for up to 15 days for taking part in protests against the re-election of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, Interfax reported.

Obama's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2010 09:11 PM PST AP - Barack Obama's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year got off to a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad start.

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