Saturday, November 27, 2010

Yahoo! News: Politics News

Yahoo! News: Politics News

Steele's tenure as GOP chief may be nearing end (AP)

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 01:18 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2010 file photo, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele speaks during an election night gathering in Washington. A significant bloc of RNC members wants Steele to step aside, but the rank and file have failed to settle on a clear alternative to the embattled party leader with balloting in just two months, according to Associated Press interviews with committee members. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)AP - A significant bloc of Republican National Committee members wants embattled chairman Michael Steele to step aside, but the rank and file have failed to settle on a clear alternative, according to Associated Press interviews with committee members.

Marines most resistant to openly gay troops (AP)

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 12:44 AM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 22, 2010 file photo, Gen. James Amos, Assistant Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corp, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on military suicides. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - They are the few, the proud and perhaps the military's biggest opponents of lifting the ban on openly gay troops.

Ex-Clinton nemesis courts tea party (Politico)

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 12:15 PM PST

Politico - The prospect of Gary Aldrich claiming a bigger role in the movement has given its opponents ammo.

START puts Lugar on the spot (Politico)

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 03:01 AM PST

Politico - Obama is turning to the senior Republican to drum up support to pass the new START treaty.

Official: FBI tipped off to investigate teenager (AP)

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 11:18 AM PST

This image released Nov. 27, 2010 by the Mauthnomah County Sheriff's Office shows Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19. Federal agents in a sting operation arrested the Somali-born teenager just as he tried blowing up a van full of what he believed were explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony, federal authorities said. The bomb was a fake supplied by the agents and the public was never in danger, authorities said. (AP Photo/Mauthnomah County Sheriff's Office)AP - The teenager accused of attempting to bomb a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Ore., was acting on his own initiative and not at the direction of any foreign terrorist organization, a law enforcement official said Saturday.

(AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 02:04 PM PST

AP - White House says person who injured Obama works for Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.

Debt turmoil, contagion fears sweep Europe (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 07:44 PM PST

Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates, bottom, looks up as Finance Minister Fernando Teixeira dos Santos, top, addresses to the Portuguese parliament during the final vote of his government's 2011 state budget on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010 in Lisbon. Portugal's Parliament has approved a plan to hike taxes and cut salaries and welfare benefits next year in a bid to reverse waning market confidence in its public finances. (AP Photo/ Francisco Seco)AP - Europe struggled mightily Friday to keep the debt crisis from engulfing country after country. Portugal passed austerity measures to fend off the speculative trades pushing it toward a bailout and Ireland rushed to negotiate its own imminent rescue.

Obama defends airport security measures (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 02:35 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama defended controversial new security measures at U.S. airports in an interview released on Friday, saying the methods were necessary to prevent a potential terrorist attack.

Iran's Best Friends on Capitol Hill (Joe Conason)

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 12:00 AM PST

Joe Conason - Nuclear weapons treaties are like currency exchange rates — always vitally important to the national interest but often stunningly dull, not to say impenetrable. Yet Washington has suddenly been jolted awake by Republican threats to stall if not kill the Obama administration's New START treaty.

What liberals and conservatives can be thankful for this Thanksgiving (Daily Caller)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 05:29 AM PST

Daily Caller - There is no time of year quite like Thanksgiving to reflect on the year’s events, both good and bad. Take for example, the progress made on Capitol Hill (or setbacks, depending on your party) this year. Or consider the way a midterm election can bring people together like well, really nothing else can.
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