Saturday, July 30, 2011

Yahoo! News: Politics News

Yahoo! News: Politics News

Reid: 'No progress' toward debt deal (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 03:27 PM PDT

AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says there's no deal to break the debt impasse in Congress and no weekend progress has been made as a default deadline approaches.

Late stab at debt-limit deal to avert US default (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 02:49 PM PDT

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., appear at a news conference as the debt crisis goes unresolved on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, July 30, 2011.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - After weeks of intense partisanship, the White House and congressional leaders made a desperate, last-minute stab at compromise Saturday to avoid the government default threatened for early next week. "There is very little time," declared President Barack Obama.

Perry backs a constitutional limit on marriage (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 12:17 PM PDT

AP - Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Saturday he supports a federal limit on gay marriage and thinks a creator put life on Earth.

On tea party bandwagon, DeMint in driver's seat (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 10:19 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 14, 2011, file photo Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., speaks to media on Capitol Hill in Washington. In these nervous days of debt limit warfare and pre-election posturing DeMint, who calls himself Sen. Tea Party, is specific and focused on what change, exactly, he wants: passage â€AP - He calls himself Sen. Tea Party.

Libya and Syria offering US no easy answers (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 10:18 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 10, 2011, file photo Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi gestures to his supporters in Tripoli, Libya. Five months after President Barack Obama told him to leave Libya, Gadhafi is pressing on against NATO-backed rebel forces, flaunting his remaining power in the face of Western nations fearful of combating him with greater force. And four months after Obama offered Syria's leader an ultimatum to lead reform or leave, Bashar Assad's crackdown on dissent rages on. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)AP - Five months after President Barack Obama told him to leave Libya, Moammar Gadhafi is pressing on against NATO-backed rebel forces, flaunting his remaining power in the face of Western nations fearful of combatting him with greater force. And four months after Obama offered Syria's leader an ultimatum to lead reform or leave, Bashar Assad's crackdown on dissent rages on.

Analysis: Debt mess shows Washington's awful side (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 11:19 AM PDT

President Barack Obama talks about the ongoing budget ceiling negotiations, Friday, July 29, 2011, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - There is no changing how Washington works. It doesn't.

Obama urges parties to reach deal to avert default (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 03:57 AM PDT

A sign for the Social Security Administration is seen in Los Angeles, Friday, July 29, 2011. If the debt ceiling currently being debated in Congress does not rise, the government would need to choose what to pay and what not, including benefits like Social Security. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)AP - Claiming that the two parties aren't that far apart, President Barack Obama is urging Democratic and Republican lawmakers to reach a deal quickly to keep the government from defaulting on payments to veterans, Social Security recipients and others.

Fight over debt tests leadership of Obama, Boehner (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 11:30 AM PDT

AP - The fight over the debt ceiling has turned into a dramatic leadership test for President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, opponents in a divided government who've gone from negotiating in secret to facing off in public at a watershed moment for the country and their own political careers.

Boehner looks for a 'majority of the majority' (Politico)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 02:13 PM PDT

Politico - He wants a deal that grabs plenty of GOPers.

GOP leaders 'fully engaged' with W.H. on debt deal (Politico)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 08:58 AM PDT

Politico - Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are joining the president for more strategizing on the debt ceiling.

Budget, debt worries plague troops (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 04:26 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2010 file photo, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs Adm. Mike Mullen, right, and Turkey's Chief of Staff Gen. Isik Kosaner inspect a guard of honour at the Turkish army headquarters in Ankara, Turkey. Gen. Kosaner and top army commanders have resigned Friday, July 29, 2011, in what is seen as tensions with the Islamic-rooted government.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)AP - A half a world away from the Capitol Hill deadlock, the economy and debt crisis are weighing heavily on U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Tim Pawlenty aims for strong showing in Iowa (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 04:24 AM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 27, 2011 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Minnesota Gov, Tim Pawlenty speaks to local residents at a Pizza Ranch restaurant, in Story City, Iowa. Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty has been reading his own political obituary for weeks. But he’s still alive as he campaigns across Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)AP - Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty has been reading his own political obituary for weeks. But he's still alive as he campaigns across Iowa.

Norway massacre survivors tell their stories (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 07:26 AM PDT

Hajian Barzini, left, Dana Barzini, centre and Hana Barzini, speak to the media in Lillestrom near Oslo in this image taken from TV Thursday July 28, 2011. The three siblings who survived a youth camp shooting spree in Norway last week gathered at a memorial service in the Oslo commuter suburb of Lillestrom on Thursday evening to pay tribute to victims of the deadliest assault in the nation during peacetime. Hajin, Hana and Dana Barzingi all survived a shooting rampage last Friday at a Labour Party youth camp on the island of Utoya, northwest of the capital, in which scores of their friends were killed by Anders Behring Breivik, a Norwegian man who confessed to both the youth camp shooting on the island and a bombing in Oslo earlier that day. (AP Photo/APTN)AP - Three survivors of the bombing and shooting spree that left 77 people dead in Norway told their stories to The Associated Press this week.

Top Republicans confident of debt deal with Obama (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 03:08 PM PDT

Reuters - Top congressional Republicans said on Saturday they were in serious talks with President Barack Obama to break a U.S. debt limit deadlock and were confident the risk of default by the world's largest economy could be avoided.

McConnell leads GOP Senators in bashing Reid’s plan, calls for Obama to get in involved (Daily Caller)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 12:57 PM PDT

Daily Caller - Led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, 43 Republican senators declared in a Saturday afternoon letter they wouldn’t vote the debt ceiling plan Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is offering.

Opposition mounts to federal govt’s new university sexual harassment rules (Daily Caller)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 09:29 PM PDT

Daily Caller - A large organization of university professors voiced its opposition yesterday to a new Department of Education policy lowering the standard of guilt for sexual misconduct cases on university campuses.

Tea Party Misses McCain's 'Hobbit' Point: Idiots or Out of Touch? (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 03:02 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Tea party members were quick to counter-attack against Sen. John McCain after his remarks on the Senate floor Wednesday. But it appears that many of them ignored his point -- or didn't understand the gist of it or that he was actually making one.

Tea party role in debt bill raises GOP eyebrows (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 08:25 PM PDT

FILE -- In this July 27, 2011 file photo, people are shown at a Tea Party rally on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - House Republicans rode the tea party tiger to power last fall. Now it's turning on them, forcing party leaders to endure embarrassing delays and unwanted revisions to crucial debt-ceiling legislation.
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