Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama, Harper eye new security plan to ease trade (Reuters)
• Dems to shun corporate, PAC money at convention (AP)
• SPIN METER: Not much savings from stimulus money (AP)
• Obama pushes on job creation, amid din over Egypt (Reuters)
• US, Canada agree to work on border security (AP)
• Obama presses Mubarak to heed call for reform (Reuters)
• Obama: Egyptians must work out power transition (Reuters)
• Obama: 'World is watching' Egypt (AP)
• President Obama to pitch online access in Michigan (AP)
• Obama Interior Department Faces Criticism from Democrats, Republicans (ContributorNetwork)
• White House defends US spies on Egypt (AFP)
• Obama challenges Mubarak: Consider your legacy (AP)
• Mass. church arson suspect wants confession tossed (AP)
• Obama to meet with Canadian PM, reporters (AP)
• Game day at the White House (Politico)
• Big Obama donor quits envoy job amid criticism (AP)

Obama, Harper eye new security plan to ease trade (Reuters) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 03:29 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper agreed on Friday to a new approach to U.S. and Canadian security that they said would help boost trade by reducing logjams at the border.

Dems to shun corporate, PAC money at convention (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 03:06 PM PST AP - The Democratic National Committee plans to pay for its 2012 convention nominating President Barack Obama without donations from political action committees or corporations, a change from past gatherings.

SPIN METER: Not much savings from stimulus money (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 02:34 PM PST AP - Congressional Republicans say they want to cut federal spending by raiding $45 billion from President Barack Obama's politically unpopular economic stimulus program. But they won't be able to get their hands on most of that money.

Obama pushes on job creation, amid din over Egypt (Reuters) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 02:31 PM PST Reuters - The White House released a strategy to promote U.S. innovation on Friday, keeping its focus on the politically important jobs issue as the Labor Department issued a mixed unemployment report.

US, Canada agree to work on border security (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 02:29 PM PST AP - WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling smarter border management pivotal to U.S. competitiveness, President Barack Obama said he and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper agreed Friday on steps to improve border security and expand their economies.

Obama presses Mubarak to heed call for reform (Reuters) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 12:46 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama urged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Friday to heed the call of the Egyptian people for an orderly transition of power, saying the country could not go back to the "old ways."

Obama: Egyptians must work out power transition (Reuters) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 12:41 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Friday that the transition of power in Egypt must begin now but the details of the process have to be worked out by Egyptians.

Obama: 'World is watching' Egypt (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 12:37 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama is renewing his demand for a political transition to begin in Egypt now.

President Obama to pitch online access in Michigan (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 11:22 AM PST AP - The White House says President Barack Obama will visit Marquette, Mich., on Thursday to talk about expanding Internet access.

Obama Interior Department Faces Criticism from Democrats, Republicans (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 11:13 AM PST ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | There were two Gulf deep water drilling bans?

White House defends US spies on Egypt (AFP) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 08:47 AM PST AFP - The White House on Friday defended the US intelligence community following reports, and suggestions from Congress, that it had failed to warn President Barack Obama in advance about unrest in Egypt.

Obama challenges Mubarak: Consider your legacy (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 03:32 PM PST AP - Embracing an Egyptian future without Hosni Mubarak, President Barack Obama on Friday pressed the embattled leader to consider his legacy and exit office in a way that would give his country the best chance for peace and democracy. Obama tried to rally world pressure on Mubarak to make "the right decision" but did not call for his immediate resignation.

Mass. church arson suspect wants confession tossed (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 03:19 AM PST AP - One of three white men accused of burning down a predominantly black church in western Massachusetts just hours after the election of Barack Obama has told a judge he played no role in setting the blaze.

Obama to meet with Canadian PM, reporters (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 02:15 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama will meet with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the White House on Friday afternoon before taking questions from reporters.

Game day at the White House (Politico) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 01:32 AM PST Politico - The first family will be joined by a starting front line of Pa. and Wis. lawmakers ...

Big Obama donor quits envoy job amid criticism (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 01:04 AM PST AP - As a supporter of presidential candidate Barack Obama, Cynthia Stroum was a superstar whose financial backing of the campaign landed her a plum diplomatic posting in Europe.

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