Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama barbecues with old friends on North Shore (AP)
• Obama marks anniversary of deadly attack on CIA (AP)
• Alaska certifies Murkowski's write-in Senate victory (Reuters)
• Obama craves familiarity on Hawaiian vacation (AP)
• Ivory Coast on brink of "genocide": envoy to U.N. (Reuters)
• Christine O'Donnell Thinks Joe Biden, Not Witchcraft, Is After Her (Time.com)
• Murkowski certified winner of Alaska Senate race (AP)
• Obama, Republicans face new Washington battles (AFP)
• Obama names temporary ambassadors to Syria and Turkey (Reuters)

Obama barbecues with old friends on North Shore (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:47 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama and his family are returning to Oahu's North Shore for a barbecue with a high school friend at his beachfront home.

Obama marks anniversary of deadly attack on CIA (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2010 03:18 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama is marking the anniversary of last year's deadly attack at a remote outpost in Afghanistan, saying the seven CIA employees who were killed showed the true meaning of honor and selfless sacrifice.

Alaska certifies Murkowski's write-in Senate victory (Reuters) Posted: 30 Dec 2010 03:04 PM PST Reuters - The state of Alaska certified Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski's victory over Tea Party favorite Joe Miller on Thursday, nearly three months after the incumbent won the race with an unconventional write-in campaign.

Obama craves familiarity on Hawaiian vacation (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2010 01:01 PM PST AP - More than a week into his Hawaiian holiday, President Barack Obama is proving to be a creature of habit.

Ivory Coast on brink of "genocide": envoy to U.N. (Reuters) Posted: 30 Dec 2010 06:38 AM PST Reuters - Political unrest following Ivory Coast's disputed presidential election has brought the West African country to the "brink of genocide," its new ambassador to the United Nations said.

Christine O'Donnell Thinks Joe Biden, Not Witchcraft, Is After Her (Time.com) Posted: 30 Dec 2010 06:20 AM PST Time.com - She claims the issue was not confusion over the law, but a vindictive Vice President Joe Biden, who beat O'Donnell by nearly 30 percentage points in the 2008 elections.

Murkowski certified winner of Alaska Senate race (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2010 03:24 PM PST AP - Sen. Lisa Murkowski was officially named the winner of Alaska's U.S. Senate race Thursday, following a period of legal fights and limbo that lasted longer than the write-in campaign she waged to keep her job. Gov. Sean Parnell and Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell, who oversees elections, signed the paperwork certifying her win in the hotly contested race.

Obama, Republicans face new Washington battles (AFP) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:15 PM PST AFP - Barack Obama returns to a transformed Washington next week, with empowered Republicans bristling for a defining budget fight and the calendar relentlessly pointing to the 2012 election.

Obama names temporary ambassadors to Syria and Turkey (Reuters) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 06:48 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama took the rare step Wednesday of temporarily appointing U.S. ambassadors to Syria, Turkey and Azerbaijan, restoring a top U.S. envoy to Damascus after an absence of nearly six years.

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