Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama signs Sept. 11 first responders bill (AP)
• Obama signs health bill for September 11 responders (Reuters)
• GOP agenda: Major impact may be on 2012 election (AP)
• AP News in Brief (AP)
• Pakistan's main government coalition partner quits (Reuters)
• Obama aide: Debt limit fight could be "catastrophic" (Reuters)
• No challenge to Obama in 2012 race: party leader (AFP)
• Refusal to up debt ceiling 'catastrophic': Obama aide (AFP)
• GOP-led House plans to fight Obama pollution plan (AP)
• Issa pledges to take on White House over spending (AP)
• Christine O'Donnell Thinks Joe Biden, Not Witchcraft, Is After Her (Time.com)
• Kaine: No serious 2012 primary challenge to Obama (AP)
• Ambassador to China 'hints at presidential bid' (AFP)
• Obama spends quiet New Year's Day with family (AP)
• What Obama Can Learn From Truman (The Daily Beast)

Obama signs Sept. 11 first responders bill (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 04:44 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama said Sunday he was honored to sign a bill to provide aid to survivors of the Sept. 11 attacks and first responders who became ill working in the ruins at the World Trade Center.

Obama signs health bill for September 11 responders (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 04:33 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama on Sunday signed into law a bill that funds medical care for firefighters and other responders to the September 11 attacks in 2001.

GOP agenda: Major impact may be on 2012 election (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 04:25 PM PST AP - The Republican agenda for the new Congress that convenes Wednesday may have a greater impact on the 2012 elections than on the lives of Americans in the next two years.

AP News in Brief (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 03:28 PM PST AP - GOP congressional agenda may have greater impact on 2012 election than on lives of Americans

Pakistan's main government coalition partner quits (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 01:21 PM PST Reuters - The second largest party in Pakistan's coalition said on Sunday it would go into opposition, depriving the government, a strategic U.S. ally, of its majority and raising the prospect of an early election.

Obama aide: Debt limit fight could be "catastrophic" (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 01:09 PM PST Reuters - A fight over the budget loomed on Sunday as a top aide to President Barack Obama warned of catastrophic consequences if Republicans follow through on threats to reject an increase in the nation's borrowing limit.

No challenge to Obama in 2012 race: party leader (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 12:37 PM PST AFP - US President Barack Obama is unlikely to face a serious challenge in the 2012 White House race from within his party, the Democratic Party leader said Sunday.

Refusal to up debt ceiling 'catastrophic': Obama aide (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 12:26 PM PST AFP - A top Obama economic advisor warned Sunday it would be "insanity" if Congress fails to raise the US debt ceiling, and cause America to default on its obligations for the first time in its history.

GOP-led House plans to fight Obama pollution plan (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 07:42 AM PST AP - The incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is promising a fight over the Obama administration's new approach on limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

Issa pledges to take on White House over spending (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 06:40 AM PST AP - The GOP's top House investigator in the new Congress is putting the White House on notice that he's going to be aggressive in going after what he considers wasteful spending by the Obama administration.

Christine O'Donnell Thinks Joe Biden, Not Witchcraft, Is After Her (Time.com) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 06:30 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.

Kaine: No serious 2012 primary challenge to Obama (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 06:12 AM PST AP - The national Democratic Party chairman says he thinks the chances that President Barack Obama will face a serious primary challenger in 2012 are "virtually nil."

Ambassador to China 'hints at presidential bid' (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 01:59 AM PST AFP - Jon Huntsman, the US ambassador to China, has hinted he is considering running for the Republican presidential nomination in comments made to Newsweek.

Obama spends quiet New Year's Day with family (AP) Posted: 01 Jan 2011 06:32 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama spent the first day of 2011 with his family, enjoying the sunny, warm Hawaiian weather.

What Obama Can Learn From Truman (The Daily Beast) Posted: 01 Jan 2011 06:16 PM PST The Daily Beast - With the president plotting how to recover from the midterm elections in 2011, bestselling historian David McCullough spoke to The Daily Beast about what Obama should learn from Harry Truman’s 1946 midterm defeat.

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