Monday, July 23, 2012

Yahoo! News: Politics News

Yahoo! News: Politics News


THE RACE: Non-vets Obama and Romney court US vets

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 11:34 AM PDT

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, speaks at a campaign event in Bow, N.H., Friday, July 20, 2012. Romney auditions on the international stage next week as he travels to England, Israel and Poland looking to establish credibility as a potential commander in chief in his challenge to President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)The race between President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney marks the first time since World War II that neither major-party candidate has had any military experience.


At VFW, Obama defends foreign policy record

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:08 PM PDT

President Barack Obama leads a round of applause for veterans of the Vietnam war during his speech at the 113th National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Reno, Nev. Monday, July 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)Plunging back into divisive politics, President Barack Obama on Monday declared he has kept the United States safe while suggesting that Republican Mitt Romney has offered little to show he is ready to be commander in chief. Mere days after a massacre in Colorado silenced the campaign in deference to the grieving, the bruising fight was on again.


Biden says 'we weep' for families of Colo. victims

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 09:48 AM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the annual convention of the National Association of Police Organizations, Monday, July 23, 2012, in Manalapan, Fla. Biden spoke about the recent Colorado movie theater shooting which killed twelve people and injured dozens more. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)Vice President Joe Biden said Monday the country weeps for the victims of the Colorado movie theater shooting, but that the stories of heroism that have emerged from the rampage "remind us of the goodness" of the American people.


Feinstein suggests some in White House leaked info

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 03:10 PM PDT

The Democratic leader of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Monday that the White House appears to be responsible for some leaks of classified information.

Romney says new gun laws would not "make a difference"

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 03:07 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) shake hands with supporters who formed a receiving line at Coastal Forest Products in BowRENO, Nevada (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who has backed gun control measures in the past, said on Monday that additional laws would not have stopped last week's massacre in a Colorado movie theater. "I still believe that the Second Amendment is the right course to preserve and defend and don't believe that new laws are going to make a difference in this type of tragedy," Romney told CNBC's Lawrence Kudlow in an interview. ...


A Gun Control Reboot?, Star of Romney Ad Got Govt. Help, Rubio to Campaign for Romney in Nevada (PM Note)

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 03:02 PM PDT

Watch This – Ice T – America's Gun Rights Ambassador to England - http://abcn.ws/LJl4Wr More Signs Democrats Have Lost Their Stomach for Gun Control - The guy who as a presidential candidate bragged of being the author of the lapsed assault weapons ban – Joe...

Witnesses: US general opposed hospital abuse probe

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 03:15 PM PDT

Two retired U.S. military officers say the U.S. general who headed the NATO training mission in Afghanistan tried to stop an investigation into corruption and "Auschwitz-like conditions" at the country's main military hospital.

AdWatch: Obama emphasizes election's high stakes

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:55 PM PDT

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Clinton Says U.S. is Committed to an AIDS-Free Generation

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:49 PM PDT

Hillary Clinton's only public event of the day was a speech to the 2012 International AIDS Conference being held today in Washington.  It's the first time in  two decades that the conference is being held in the U.S.. The conference had stayed away from the...

Spain slump deepens as bailout fears grow

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:49 PM PDT

A woman walks past sales banners on a shop window in BarcelonaMADRID (Reuters) - Spain's economy sank deeper into recession in the second quarter, its central bank said on Monday, as investors spooked by a funding crisis in its regions pushed the country ever closer to a full bailout. Economic output shrank by 0.4 percent in the three months from April to June having slumped by 0.3 percent in the first quarter, the Bank of Spain said in its monthly report. ...


Made in America: U.S. Olympic Committee and Senators Announce a Deal for New Policy for 2014 Olympians Uniforms

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:46 PM PDT

The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and a group of U.S. Senators today announced a deal that requires U.S. Olympians opening and closing ceremony uniforms to be made in America starting in 2014. The announcement, made from the office of Sen. Robert Menendez, D-NJ. today, comes...

Worker charged in Maine nuclear submarine fire

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:45 PM PDT

US Navy handout of the USS Miami submarine docked in PortsmouthBOSTON (Reuters) - A 24-year-old civilian worker was arrested and charged on Monday with setting the fire on a U.S. nuclear submarine at Maine's Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in May that caused an estimated $400 million in damage. Casey James Fury started the blaze on the USS Miami "to get out of work," a Navy investigator said. Fury, a painter and sandblaster, was charged in federal court in Portland, Maine, with arson for the May 23 blaze. The Miami was in the shipyard in Kittery, Maine, for repairs and retrofitting. ...


Romney Says Policy Discussion About Gun Control Should Wait

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:41 PM PDT

Mitt Romney said now is "not a time to be talking about the politics associated with what happened in Aurora" during an interview Monday, but said legislation he signed while governor of Massachusetts to ban weapons like those used in the Friday massacre was a...

Heavily armed Maine man arrested, says attended "Batman" with gun

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:40 PM PDT

(Reuters) - Maine police arrested a heavily armed man driving on the state turnpike who carried clippings about the cinema massacre in Colorado and claimed he attended the new "Batman" film with a loaded gun, authorities said on Monday. Timothy Courtois, 49, was driving 112 mph on the Maine Turnpike with an AK-47 assault weapon, four handguns and several boxes of ammunition in his car when state police pulled him over about 10 am on Sunday, said Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland. ...

British Columbia wants more benefits from new pipelines

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:37 PM PDT

Vancouver (Reuters) - The government of British Columbia said on Monday it cannot support construction of Enbridge Inc's C$6 billion ($5.90 billion) Northern Gateway oil pipeline project unless the province receives more fiscal benefits from the project. In its first official comment on new oil export pipelines planned by Enbridge and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP , the government of Liberal Premier Christy Clark said the province will demand a bigger slice of the about C$81 billion in overall tax revenue Northern Gateway that is expected to generate in its first 30 years of operation. ...

Obama Stars in 60-Second Pitch to Swing State Voters

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:31 PM PDT

President Obama stars in a new 60-second TV ad for his re-election campaign,  laying out what he sees as the fundamentals in the 2012 race. "Over the next four months, you have a choice to make. Not just between two political parties, or even two...

Colorado massacre suspect silent in first court hearing

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:30 PM PDT

Colorado shooting suspect James Eagan Holmes makes his first court appearance in AuroraCENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) - The man accused of killing a dozen people in a Colorado movie theater during a showing of the new "Batman" film made his first court appearance on Monday, looking drowsy and emotionless, his unruly hair dyed shades of orange and red. James Eagan Holmes, 24, who was detained immediately after the massacre, appeared groggy during the brief hearing, looking straight ahead and occasionally closing his eyes as if fighting off sleep. He was shackled at the wrists and ankles. About 40 members of the victims' families were seated on the left side of the courtroom. ...


Judge assails prosecutors in Somali pirate case

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:26 PM PDT

The federal judge overseeing the case of a Somali man accused of negotiating a ransom payment during a 2008 pirate takeover of a Danish merchant ship told prosecutors they had engaged in "inexcusable behavior," and suggested they will have a hard time winning a conviction.

Beckham to Barack: Boxers or Briefs?

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:23 PM PDT

Boxers or briefs for the commander in chief? David Beckham knows the answer. Soccer superstar David Beckham reportedly gifted the president 50 pairs of fitted boxer briefs from his own H&M line, making good on a promise to send Obama a "big box of underwear"...

Romney Tells California Business Roundtable He's No Career Politician

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:22 PM PDT

COSTA MESA, Calif. — Sitting before a newly unveiled campaign sign bearing the slogan, "We did build it!" presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney told a group of 10 local business leaders that as a former business executive, he is more able than a career...

House leader says facts first before any gun bill

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:16 PM PDT

Democratic demands for tougher gun control laws in the wake of the Colorado shooting rampage have run smack into the political reality that Congress hasn't passed strict legislation in more than a decade and has no plans to act this election year.

Marco Rubio to Campaign for Romney at His Las Vegas Elementary School

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:08 PM PDT

Marco Rubio to Campaign for Romney at His Las Vegas Elementary SchoolSen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is set to make some high profile surrogate appearances on behalf of Mitt Romney next week in Colorado and Nevada, campaigning solo for the presumptive GOP nominee for the first time, ABC News has learned. A source with knowledge of the...


At VFW, Obama defends foreign policy record

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:08 PM PDT

President Barack Obama leads a round of applause for veterans of the Vietnam war during his speech at the 113th National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Reno, Nev. Monday, July 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)Plunging back into divisive politics, President Barack Obama on Monday declared he has kept the United States safe while suggesting that Republican Mitt Romney has offered little to show he is ready to be commander in chief. Mere days after a massacre in Colorado silenced the campaign in deference to the grieving, the bruising fight was on again.


Google and Facebook boost federal lobbying in second-quarter

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 01:58 PM PDT

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc and Facebook Inc ramped up federal lobbying spending in the second quarter, as the Internet companies chatted up government officials about everything from online advertising and immigration reform to self-driving cars. Google, the world's No. 1 Web search engine, increased federal lobbying spending by 90 percent year-on-year, spending $3.92 million in the second quarter to lobby officials with the U.S. Congress, the executive office of the president and various federal agencies. ...

Report: Federal air safety program falling short

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 03:17 PM PDT

A safety program that encourages air traffic controllers to voluntarily disclose their mistakes in exchange for amnesty from punishment needs significant improvement before it can work effectively, according to a report released Monday.

New U.S. unit reviewing trade barriers in at least six nations

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 01:53 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's new trade enforcement unit is initially focusing on obstacles to U.S. exports in at least six countries, including Chinese industrial policies believed to violate world trade rules, a top U.S. trade official said on Monday. "We're looking at problems in at least a half-dozen countries, and that number is going to grow. We've got problems around the world," Tim Reif, general counsel in the U.S. Trade Representative's office, said in a speech. "At the same time, obviously, China presents a special challenge," Reif said. ...

Obama says Congress ought to avert year-end budget cuts

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 01:49 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the 113th VFW National Convention in RenoRENO, Nevada (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Monday that there was no reason billions in across-the-board federal budget cuts should occur at the end of this year, saying lawmakers in Congress ought to agree on a balanced plan to avoid the widely feared pinch. In a speech to veterans, Obama said it was still possible to avert the pending cuts to defense and other areas that stem from a failure to reach a deal last year to reduce the federal deficit. ...


Analysis: Canada has more reasons to approve Nexen deal than block it

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 01:48 PM PDT

The Nexen building is seen in downtown CalgaryOTTAWA (Reuters) - A friendly, $15.1 billion Chinese bid for a big Canadian energy company gels with government pleas for foreign money to develop the costly oil sands of northern Alberta -- a possible sign that the deal could win Ottawa's approval. The Canadian government said only that it would review state oil company CNOOC's bid for Nexen Inc , based on its laws on foreign investment. But lawyers, analysts and insiders say there are good reasons for the deal to go ahead, and few reasons to block it. "It so far appears to be a mutual two-way street. ...


IRS sizes up political groups' tax-exempt status

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 01:44 PM PDT

The National Debt Clock hangs on a wall next to an office for the Internal Revenue Service near Times Square in New YorkWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Internal Revenue Service may be weighing changes to how it polices tax-exempt political groups amid charges the tax agency has been lax on enforcement for a new breed of campaign funding organizations with vast resources. Tax-exempt groups are raising and spending record amounts of money in attempting to sway the November 6 elections, bolstered by the Supreme Court's landmark "Citizens United" ruling in 2010, which lifted some political contribution limits in federal elections. ...


CNOOC to buy Nexen for $15.1 billion in China's largest foreign deal

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 01:42 PM PDT

Handout photos of early evening photos of Nexen's Galaxy III offshore rigs with the newly installed fourth platform in the foreground in the North SeaHONG KONG/CALGARY (Reuters) - State-controlled CNOOC Ltd launched China's richest foreign takeover bid yet on Monday by agreeing to buy Canadian oil producer Nexen Inc for $15.1 billion, forcing Ottawa to decide whether security concerns outweigh its desire for foreign investment in its energy resources. CNOOC, China's third-largest oil company, hopes to sell the deal to shareholders and the government with a hefty 61 percent premium to Nexen's Friday stock price. It promised to retain all employees and to make Canada home base for its Western Hemisphere operations. CNOOC is offering $27. ...


Mike Huckabee Calls for Chick-Fil-A Day

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 01:40 PM PDT

Mike Huckabee Calls for Chick-Fil-A DayMore than 40, 000 people and counting have accepted Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's Facebook invitation to "Chick Fil-A Appreciation Day" on Wednesday, August 1. The Facebook Page for the event, which was created less than 24 hours ago, has attracted an enormous fan base that...


Accused Colorado shooter's mother says comment misconstrued

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 01:39 PM PDT

(Reuters) - An attorney representing the family of James Holmes, the man accused in Friday's mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater, on Monday said his mother's initial comment to ABC News on the morning of the shooting has been misconstrued. Reading a statement she attributed to Arlene Holmes, San Diego-based attorney Lisa Damiani said Arlene Holmes' comment "You have the right person" to an ABC reporter referred to herself, not James Holmes as some media have suggested. ...

Keystone pipeline backer again seeks U.S. Congress approval

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 01:30 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican lawmaker who has tried several times to marshal congressional support to speed approval of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline is taking another crack at it with a new bill, but said the strategy for moving the plan forward was not yet clear. Lee Terry said Monday's announcement that China's state oil company CNOOC plans to buy Nexen Inc, a player in Canada's massive oil sands resource could give political momentum to his latest push. He said the $15. ...

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