Monday, August 2, 2010

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Yahoo! News: Politics News

Obama: U.S. combat mission in Iraq to end this month (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 10:21 AM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama vowed on Monday to make good on his promise to end U.S. combat operations in Iraq by the end of August, despite a dangerous political deadlock in Baghdad and a recent surge in militant violence.

Obama: Patchwork immigration policy unacceptable (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 04:09 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 28, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama delivers remarks following his meeting with small business owners, at the Tastee Sub Shop in Edison, N.J, Congress is at work on a new program that would send $30 billion to struggling community banks, in a process similar to the huge government bailouts of big banks during the financial crisis. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - President Barack Obama says he agrees that more control must be exerted over illegal immigration, but he won't accept "a patchwork of 50 different states" acting on their own.

Fox News gets front-row White House seat (The Upshot)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 01:39 PM PDT

The Upshot - The White House Correspondents Association is moving Fox News up to the front row in the briefing room, according to sources familiar with the process. The WHCA board's decision was unanimous. [It's now confirmed; see update below.] Since the retirement of veteran journalist Helen Thomas, three news organizations รข€" Fox News, Bloomberg News and NPR [...]

Cheney remains hospitalized after heart surgery (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 09:30 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 8, 2001, file photo released by The White House Vice President Dick Cheney smiles while fly-fishing on the Snake River with his family in his home state of Wyoming. The former vice president is still in the hospital after heart surgery in early July 2010, but his daughter Liz Cheney says Cheney, 69, is out of intensive care, and already planning trips for fly fishing and hunting later this year. (AP Photo/The White House, David Bohrer)AP - Former Vice President Dick Cheney is still in the hospital after heart surgery in early July.

Obama in Detroit: Honing His Economic Message (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 11:25 PM PDT

Time.com - The 'savior' of the automakers still has to convince the rest of the country that his economic policies worked

Gates, Pelosi split on Afghan troop drawdown (The Upshot)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 10:10 AM PDT

The Upshot - Defense Secretary Robert Gates and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered dueling forecasts of how next year's planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan will proceed. In separate interviews with ABC's "This Week," Gates predicted only a minimal drawdown next July, while Pelosi said she expects "a few thousand" will leave. "My personal opinion is that [...]

Wikileaks 'guilty' on moral grounds: Gates (AFP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 08:57 AM PDT

The homepage of the WikiLeaks website is seen on a computer after leaked classified military documents were posted to it July 26, 2010 in Miami, Florida. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has pronounced the website AFP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday pronounced the Wikileaks website "guilty" on moral grounds for releasing secret US documents on the Afghan war, saying the move was reckless.

Meacham out; Harman buys Newsweek (Politico)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 01:14 PM PDT

Politico - The Newseek editor will not remain at the magazine under its new ownership, WaPo confirms.

Judge greenlights health reform suit (Politico)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 10:21 AM PDT

Politico - The ruling rejects a request from DoJ to dismiss Virginia's challenge to the individual mandate.

Ethics panel: Charges filed against Rep. Waters (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 01:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2009 file photo, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. A House investigative panel has charged California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters with violating ethics rules. Waters, a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, would face a trial in the fall unless she negotiates a settlement. The specific charges against Waters were not made public in the announcement Monday from the House ethics committee. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - A House panel announced Monday that Rep. Maxine Waters has been charged with violating ethics rules, setting the stage for a second election-season trial for a longtime Democratic lawmaker and adding to the party's political woes.

Mullen says US has Iran strike plan, just in case (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 08:26 PM PDT

In this Sunday Aug. 1, 2010, photo released by CBS, Adm. Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, discusses the war in Afghanistan on CBS's 'Face The Nation' in Washington. Mullen said the Pentagon is trying to protect Afghans who may be at risk from Taliban retaliation following the publication of tens of thousands of secret war documents, posted on the website WikiLeaks a week ago. He said the U.S. is duty-bound to try to shield informants who were named in the documents. (AP Photo/CBS, Chris Usher) NO ARCHIVES. NO SALES.AP - The U.S. military has a plan to attack Iran, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Sunday, although he thinks a military strike is probably a bad idea.

Obese mom dies in Romania, 5 months after birth (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 07:20 AM PDT

In this Feb. 17, 2010 file picture Victoria Lacatus, a 25-year-old pregnant woman weighing 528 pounds (240 kilograms), is lifted by fire fighters out of an ambulance in Bucharest, Romania. A 25-year-old Romanian woman weighing 528 pounds (240 kilograms) who gave birth to a baby girl more than 5 months ago has died.Relatives of Victoria Lacatus say she has died Sunday of a heart attack after developing a high fever and breathing problems.(AP Photo/ Florin Ardelean/ Adevarul Daily) **ROMANIA OUT**AP - A 25-year-old Romanian woman who weighed 528 pounds (240 kilograms) when she gave birth to a baby girl more than 5 months ago has died, media reported Monday.

Another Obama ally in US House faces ethics woes (AFP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 03:02 PM PDT

Representative Maxine Waters, pictured in 2009, on Monday became the second veteran House Democrat in days to face charges of ethics violations, another burden for the party three months from key elections.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AFP - Representative Maxine Waters on Monday became the second veteran House Democrat in days to face charges of ethics violations, another burden for the party three months from key elections.

Democrat Maxine Waters Faces Ethic Investigation (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 09:59 AM PDT

The Atlantic Wire - The House ethics committee has announced charges against Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Water, who is from California. Waters used her congressional authority to meet with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on behalf of the Massachusetts-based OneUnited bank, in which her husband, as a former director, owned $250,000 of stock. OneUnited eventually received $12 million in federal bailout funds Here's what people are saying so far about the case, which comes as fellow Democratic Congressman Charlie Rangel is mired in his own ethics investigation.

McCain Holds Up Pick for Director of National Intelligence (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 10:42 AM PDT

CQPolitics.com - Sen. John McCain is blocking President Obama's nominee for director of national intelligence, threatening to delay Senate confirmation of James R. Clapper Jr. until after the August recess.

For voters this year, economy overshadows Iraq, Afghan wars (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 12:52 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - GALESBURG, Ill. — The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have drifted far off this year's political radar, and are likely to stay there.

Spending Bills Are at the Mercy of Election Politics and Pace (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 10:40 AM PDT

CQPolitics.com - After a late start to the election year budget cycle, a July appropriations blitz has improved chances that the fiscal 2011 spending bills can be wrapped up in December.

Obama takes credit for ending U.S. combat mission in Iraq (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 11:03 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday declared that at month's end the U.S. will end its combat mission in Iraq "as promised and on schedule," and he pledged to veterans, "Your country is going to take care of you when you come home."
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