Sunday, April 24, 2011

Yahoo! News: Politics News

Yahoo! News: Politics News

Costly gasoline clouds Obama re-election prospects (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 01:26 AM PDT

President Barack Obama waves upon his arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, April 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)AP - With gas prices climbing and little relief in sight, President Barack Obama is scrambling to get ahead of the latest potential obstacle to his re-election bid, even as Republicans are making plans to exploit the issue.

Spring brings fundraising frenzy for GOP hopefuls (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 05:33 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2011 file photo, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. speaks in Des Moines, Iowa. Now this is a fundraising frenzy. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s presidential exploratory campaign is organizing a big phone bank fundraiser in Las Vegas next month. Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has been holding “friendraising” meetings in places like Florida, Puerto Rico, Nevada and California. And Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has been meeting finance and political operatives in California, Florida and New York while also making more traditional campaign stops in early voting states. GOP presidential hopefuls are scurrying behind the scenes in a cut-throat dash to raise cash and assemble influential backers during the key April-June fundraising period. With the 2012 primary campaign off to a relatively late start, the candidates are under intense pressure to demonstrate their credibility this quarter before a slower summer fundraising season kicks in. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)AP - Mitt Romney is organizing a phone bank fundraiser in Las Vegas next month. Tim Pawlenty is holding regular "friendraising" meetings in big-money California and elsewhere. Haley Barbour hunkers down soon with finance operatives in cash-rich New York and other lucrative places.

US default could be disastrous choice for economy (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 08:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2009 file photo, James Dimon, chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase & Co., speaks in New York. The United States has never defaulted on its debt and leaders from both parties say they don’t want it to happen now. But with partisan acrimony running at fever pitch, and Democrats and Republicans far apart on how to tame the deficit, anything could happen. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)AP - The United States has never defaulted on its debt and Democrats and Republicans say they don't want it to happen now. But with partisan acrimony running at fever pitch, and Democrats and Republicans so far apart on how to tame the deficit, the unthinkable is suddenly being pondered.

Pro-defense senators push fight against Gaddafi (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 08:32 AM PDT

U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) (C) and Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) (R) appear at a news conference after the passage of a procedure hurdle to lead to the probable repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy against homosexuals serving in the military, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, December 18, 2010. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstReuters - Pro-defense senators on Sunday said the United States should raise military pressure on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to leave, and one said NATO should end the crisis quickly with an attack aimed at Gaddafi and his inner circle in Tripoli.

Giffords standing on own, trying to improve gait (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 12:23 PM PDT

FILE - Dr. Gerard Francisco, chief medical officer of TIRR Memorial Hermann rehabilitation center, speaks at a press conference regarding the treatment planned for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords at the hospital in this Jan. 26, 2011 file photo taken in Houston. Francisco says the Arizona congresswoman is able to make limited use of her right arm and leg. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)AP - Doctors say Rep. Gabrielle Giffords can walk a little and is even trying to improve her gait. But the report Sunday in The Arizona Republic adds the congresswoman herself is planning to "walk a mountain."

The muddle at the middle of NATO's Libya efforts (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 02:45 PM PDT

Time.com - If a regime is so monstrous that it warrants a fighting, then how can that fight end with the regime still in power?

Giffords showing 'independence' (Politico)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 04:30 AM PDT

Politico - Doctors place her in the top 5 percent of patients recovering from her type of brain injury.  

In '12 spotlight, some spouses glare (Politico)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 03:20 PM PDT

Politico - As several wives express qualms, have the expectations changed for the presidential spouse?

Graham: Bomb Gadhafi's inner circle, end stalemate (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 08:57 AM PDT

Migrants load trucks with their belongins after they arrived by ship in the port of Benghazi, Libya, Sunday, April 24, 2011. Up to 510 people arrived from the battered city of Misrata on a ship organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross, most of the evacuees were from Niger. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)AP - Fearing a stalemate in Libya, three members of the Senate Armed Services Committee want immediate military aid for the rebels fighting Moammar Gadhafi's forces, stepped up NATO airstrikes and more direct U.S. involvement.

Bloomberg noncommittal on Trump presidential talk (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 08:02 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 9, 2011 file photo, Donald Trump arrives at a Comedy Central Roast in New York. The New York City Board of Elections says Donald Trump didn't vote in any primary elections for 21 years, The Associated Press reports Saturday, April 23, 2011. TV station NY1 was the first to report the information. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)AP - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg calls real estate tycoon Donald Trump a friend and says "anybody can run for president if you're 35 and an American citizen."

Dutch statesman Max van der Stoel dies at age 86 (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 03:59 AM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 20, 2001 file photo former Dutch Foreign Minister Max van der Stoel smiles prior to the awarding ceremony of the Peace Prize of the German federal state of Hesse in Wiesbaden. Max van der Stoel, a former Dutch Foreign Minister and diplomat who championed human rights around the world, has died at the age of 86. The Dutch government information service said Sunday April 24, 2011 Van der Stoel died Saturday night at his home in The Hague. (AP Photo/Frank Rumpenhorst)AP - After the first Gulf War, Max van der Stoel was the expression of the world's conscience and a thorn in the side of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Every year for eight years, the former Dutch foreign minister and special U.N. human rights representative wrote stinging denunciations of Saddam's abuses of his people.

Easter Sunday: Where did Obama go to church? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 12:11 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - On a bright Easter morning in Washington, President Obama and his family attended the Shiloh Baptist Church. Greeted by applause and a choir singing “Total Praise,” the first family couldn’t help but stand out in the second row pew no matter how much they might have wanted their worship to be intimate and without the trappings of the presidency.

SERIOUS ENERGY POLICY STALLED BY POLITICAL DYSFUNCTION (Cynthia Tucker)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 05:03 PM PDT

Cynthia Tucker - WASHINGTON -- As gas prices soar, Republicans and oil company executives have revived a rallying cry that echoed around the country the last time gas prices spiked: "Drill, baby, drill!" Republicans in Congress, especially, have berated President Barack Obama for his policies, which limit drilling in environmentally sensitive areas and attempt to reduce our reliance on climate-changing fossil fuels.

Kate Middleton will not ‘obey’ Prince William (Daily Caller)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 11:14 AM PDT

Daily Caller - Following in the footsteps of Princess Diana, bride-to-be Kate Middleton will exclude "obey" from her wedding vows to Prince William.
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