Friday, December 31, 2010

Yahoo! News: Politics News

Yahoo! News: Politics News

US helps Ukraine send enriched uranium to Russia (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 10:35 AM PST

This undated handout photo provided by the National Nuclear Safety Administration shows fuels pins loaded into a container, in Sevastopol, Ukraine. In a secret operation to secure nuclear material, the United States has helped Ukraine send to Russia enough uranium to build two atomic bombs. This week's removal of more than 110 pounds of highly enriched uranium followed a pledge by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to get rid of all of his country's highly enriched uranium by April 2012. The material will be blended down in Russia, rendering it useless for bomb making. (AP Photo/National Nuclear Safety Administration)AP - In a secret operation to secure nuclear material, the United States has helped Ukraine send to Russia enough uranium to build two atomic bombs.

Obama craves familiarity on Hawaiian vacation (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 10:32 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 27, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama, right, his daughter Malia, second from right, and family and friends eat Shave Ice at Island Snow at Kailua Beach Center while on vacation with the first family in Kailua, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)AP - There are those who crave adventure and spontaneity during their vacations. Then, there's President Barack Obama.

Your Medicare taxes won't cover what you'll cost (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 12:59 AM PST

AP - What you paid in Medicare taxes shows up on your W-2 income tax form every year. So when you retire, you want your money's worth.

US Homeland Security chief arrives in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 08:49 PM PST

AP - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (neh-pahl-ih-TAN'-oh) has arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan, to spend New Year's Eve with U.S. troops and the Homeland Security officers who have been working with the Afghan government to try to secure that country's porous borders from militants, as well as weapons and drug smugglers.

Obama marks anniversary of deadly attack on CIA (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 03:18 PM PST

US soldiers play a game as they celebrate New Year's eve at the US base of Camp Phoenix in Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)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.

Murkowski certified winner of Alaska Senate race (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 06:32 PM PST

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell, center, signs the certificate of election for U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski,R-Alaska, as the Director of the Division of Elections Gail Fenumiai, left, and Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell watch, in Juneau, Alaska, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. The certificate will be hand delivered by Mrs. Fenumiai to the President of the Senate. (AP Photo/Chris Miller)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.

US charges filed in Sen. Levin pie-in-face case (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 05:50 PM PST

AP - An anti-war protester who hit Michigan Sen. Carl Levin in the face with an apple pie has been charged with assault.

Karzai keeps minister considered corrupt by US (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 01:50 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2009 file photo, Afghanistan's Energy Minister Ismail Khan speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan. U.S. officials pressured Afghan President Hamid Karzai to remove a former warlord from the helm of Afghanistan's energy and water ministry a year ago because of his corruption and ineffectiveness, threatening that aid might end unless he went. But the Afghan president rebuffed America, according to secret diplomatic records, leaving the minister — privately termed 'the worst' by U.S. officials — still atop an agency that controls $2 billion in U.S. and allied projects. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)AP - U.S. officials pressured Afghan President Hamid Karzai to remove a former warlord from atop the energy and water ministry a year ago because they considered him corrupt and ineffective, and threatened to end aid unless he went.

After outcry over Clinton, Obama unlikely to campaign for Rahm (Politico)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 10:24 AM PST

Politico - Emanuel's path to the Chicago mayor’s office leads straight through a political minefield.

The president's progress (Politico)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 01:36 AM PST

Politico - Opinion: Today's big story is the many historic changes that Barack Obama has enacted.

Khodorkovsky's lawyer appeals his new sentence (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 03:45 AM PST

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, right, reacts after being sentenced as he seen from behind bars at a court room in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was sentenced to six more years in prison Thursday following a trial seen as payback for his defiance of Vladimir Putin's power. Judge Viktor Danilkin sentenced Khodorkovsky to fourteen years after convicting him of stealing oil from his own company and laundering the proceeds, but the judge said the new sentence is counted from his 2003 arrest and includes his previous term in jail. Khodorkovsky is in the final year of an eight-year prison sentence. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - A lawyer for jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Friday appealed his sentence of six more years in prison, a punishment seen as payback for challenging Vladimir Putin's power and which was widely condemned in the West.

Obama's High-Speed-Rail Projects in California and Florida (Time.com)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 02:45 PM PST

Time.com - The Obama Administration has shifted most of the money to California and Florida, hoping to build short-term momentum toward its long-term vision of a new way to move around the country

Morning Vid: Ezra Klein on the GOP's Constitution 'Gimmick' (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 05:13 AM PST

The Atlantic Wire - As a guest on MSNBC, The Washington Post's Ezra Klein comments on the new Republican Congress's plan to start off the next session with a full reading of the Constitution. "It's a gimmick," Klein says, arguing that the text of the Constitution is old and complicated and its meaning is subject to varying interpretations. He also references a new congressional rule requiring all subsequent bills to include a statement of their constitutional authority, pointing out that the one bill to do this before the rule was made was the health care bill--specifically in the constitutionally contested individual mandate. See more on the debate this video has started here.

Gay Republican and possible 2012 presidential candidate Fred Karger talks to theDC (Daily Caller)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 09:42 PM PST

Daily Caller - “I don't know about the next election, but I think in the near future," said former President Jimmy Carter recently when asked about the possibility of America electing a gay president. Carter argued that because the country voted for an African-American president two years ago before coming close to nominating the first woman candidate, the country could be open to a gay one.

The next RNC chairwoman? Amb. Ann Wagner wary of transatlantic creep of socialism — and Michael Steele (Daily Caller)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 08:57 PM PST

Daily Caller - When Ann Wagner, the former United States ambassador to Luxembourg, returned from abroad in 2009, she felt that she has not entirely left Europe behind.

Christine O'Donnell Thinks Joe Biden, Not Witchcraft, Is After Her (Time.com)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 02:45 PM 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.

Former Tea Party Hopeful Christine O'Donnell Under 'Phony' Federal Investigation (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 01:23 PM PST

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Christine O'Donnell just won't go away.
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