Saturday, August 27, 2011

Yahoo! News: Politics News

Yahoo! News: Politics News

Al-Qaida's No. 2 reported killed by US in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 12:39 PM PDT

AP - U.S. and Pakistani officials said Saturday that al-Qaida's second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan, delivering another big blow to a terrorist group that the U.S. believes to be on the verge of defeat.

AP-GfK Poll: Obama faces trouble with key voters (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 07:48 AM PDT

President Barack Obama waves from the door of Air Force One at the Cape Cod Coast Guard Station in Bourne, Mass., after ending his vacation on Martha's Vineyard early, Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)AP - Whites and women are a re-election problem for President Barack Obama. Younger voters and liberals, too, but to a lesser extent.

Obama: Getting through Irene will be 'tough slog' (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 02:49 PM PDT

President Barack Obama gets an update on the status of Hurricane Irene at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Headquarters in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - President Barack Obama offered moral support Saturday to federal emergency management workers hunkered down for Hurricane Irene's weekend march up the East Coast and 14,000 active-duty and National Guard troops were put on standby for post-storm relief work.

Bachmann: Environmentalists blocking US energy (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 11:09 AM PDT

Presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., speaks to supporters as her husband Dr. Marcus Bachmann, right, listens during a campaign stop at Angie's Subs, Friday, Aug. 26, 2011, in Jacksonville Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Rick Wilson)AP - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann claimed Saturday that the United States has more fuel resources than any other country, but blamed what she termed "radical environmentalists" for bottling up American energy policy.

As search intensifies, will Gadhafi pull a Saddam? (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 08:28 AM PDT

Libyan's burn a huge poster showing Moammar Gadhafi making the revolution announcement in 1969, below, which is attached to an apartment building wall in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. Libyan rebel leaders say they have taken control of a strategic border crossing with Tunisia, but are still meeting resistance from regime loyalists along the coastal road between the border and the capital. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - It took a U.S.-led invasion force of 200,000-plus troops nine months to scour Iraq's nearly 170,000 square miles before capturing Saddam Hussein after one of the largest manhunts ever.

Pentagon: 6,500 troops on notice for storm help (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 10:00 AM PDT

AP - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is telling 6,500 active duty troops to be ready in case there's an order for them to help with Hurricane Irene relief work.

Obama, German chancellor discuss global economy (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 10:55 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (AHN'-geh-lah MEHR'-kuhl) have spoken by telephone about the global economy and the crisis facing countries with the euro as their currency.

Obama to the nation: Rekindle post-Sept. 11 unity (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 08:19 AM PDT

President Barack Obama exits Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, MD, Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. The President cut short his Martha's Vineyard vacation by one day to return ahead of of Hurricane Irene. Urging everyone in Hurricane Irene's path to get ready, President Barack Obama decided to cut his vacation short Friday and return to the White House for a storm he described as potentially historic. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - President Barack Obama is calling on Americans to rekindle the spirit of unity that characterized the response to the Sept. 11 attacks. "It can be a lasting virtue," he said. "Not just on one day, but every day."

Ex-AG pushes to alter bribery law (Politico)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 02:01 PM PDT

Politico - The Chamber of Commerce has recruited Michael Mukasey to help soften an anti-bribery law.

Al Qaeda leader reported killed (Politico)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 11:23 AM PDT

Politico - The group's second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan.  

Obama finds refuge among close friends on vacation (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 12:40 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2011, file photo President Barack Obama walks with Eric Whitaker while golfing in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Whitaker is one of the circle of tight-lipped friends, who form a core with Martin Nesbitt and Valerie Jarrett, who’ve sustained Barack Obama through good times and bad since his days in Chicago, from Hawaii to Washington to Martha’s Vineyard and back again. They golf with him, they vacation with him, their kids and his kids hang out. To them, he’s Barack, not Mr. President. He can be teased and tease back. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - They golf with him, they vacation with him, their kids and his kids hang out. To them, he's Barack, not Mr. President. He can be teased and tease back.

Perry bills feds $349M for illegal immigrants (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 07:40 AM PDT

AP - Texas Gov. Rick Perry has asked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for nearly $350 million to cover the costs he says Texas has incurred incarcerating illegal immigrants in state prisons and county jails.

NY Muslims feel targeted despite alliance promise (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 03:27 AM PDT

In this photo made Aug. 18, 2011, people pass below a New York Police security camera, upper left, situated above a mosque on Fulton St., in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in New York. After the attacks of Sept. 11, the New York Police Department has dispatched teams of undercover officers into minority neighborhoods and used informants to monitor sermons at mosques, even when there’s no evidence of wrongdoing. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Even as the New York Police Department sent undercover officers into Muslim neighborhoods to detect possible terrorist activities in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks, government officials there and elsewhere have sought to build relationships in Muslim communities and pledged to ensure that Muslims aren't targeted for discrimination.

AU urges inclusive Libya government, setback to rebels (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Aug 2011 02:16 PM PDT

Reuters - The African Union called on Friday for the formation of an inclusive transitional government in Libya, saying it could not recognize the rebels as sole legitimate representatives of the nation while fighting continued.

Obama visits response center as hurricane threatens (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 02:25 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama on Saturday visited Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters to get an update on preparations for Hurricane Irene as it charged north along the East Coast.

‘Laguna Beach’ reality star headed to Marine Corps Ball (Daily Caller)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 01:19 PM PDT

Daily Caller - "Laguna Beach" cast member Kristin Cavallari has joined "Friends with Benefits" stars Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake in accepting an invitation to a Marine Corps Ball.

Dick Cheney in book: I used the Jonas Brothers to impress my grandkids (Daily Caller)

Posted: 26 Aug 2011 04:55 PM PDT

Daily Caller - Being a grandchild of the vice president of the United States has its perks, Dick Cheney recounts in his soon-to-be released autobiography.

Palin 'The Undecider' Has a GOP Poll Problem -- Unelectability (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 03:12 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - Sarah Palin could very well be unelectable. Try to "refudiate" it all they want, supporters of the one-time governor of Alaska cannot escape her poor polling numbers. And those numbers, as evidenced in a recent Pew Research survey, do not just reflect an electorate that find her unpopular as a presidential candidate, they also show that there are many Republicans who would not vote for her.

Sarah Palin Becomes 'The Undecider' for 2012 (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 03:12 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - Sarah Palin has been called many things over the past three years since the country got to know her a little better -- then a lot better -- with her nomination for the vice presidency in Sen. John McCain's failed 2008 presidential bid. She's been called a "rogue," a "diva" and a "quitter" by political pundits, insiders and the press. She's been described with sycophantic superlatives by her supporters and unprintable derogations by her detractors. "Maverick" and "Mama Grizzly" are terms she has used to describe herself. But -- with a nod to President George W. Bush's self-proclaimed descriptive and apologies to grammarians everywhere -- "undecider" may be the most accurate label that can be applied to former Alaska governor.
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