Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Yahoo! News: Politics News

Yahoo! News: Politics News

First Democrat in Congress demands Weiner resign (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 03:27 PM PDT

U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., addresses a news conference in New York, Monday, June 6, 2011. After days of denials, a choked-up New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner confessed Monday that he tweeted a bulging-underpants photo of himself to a young woman and admitted to 'inappropriate' exchanges with six women before and after getting married. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - A Pennsylvania congresswoman became the first Democratic House colleague to call for Rep. Anthony Weiner's resignation on Wednesday, and the White House pointedly passed up a chance to defend him, ominous signs for a lawmaker struggling to survive a sex scandal in the age of social media.

Why Obama’s top economist is leaving? (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 08:37 AM PDT

White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Austan Goolsbee gestures as he addresses the 2010 meeting of Wall Street Journal CEO Council in Washington, November 16, 2010. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstExclusive to Yahoo! News - By Michael Hirsh National Journal The oddest thing about the timing is this: Austan Goolsbee, Obama's top economist, had so clearly won the power struggle. Marginalized by Larry Summers in the first two years of the Obama administration, Goolsbee had …

Merchants beat bankers in Senate debit card vote (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 03:27 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2009 file photo, a customer swipes a MasterCard debit card through a machine while checking-out at a shop in Seattle. Consumers are wedged in the middle of a fight between bankers and merchants as the Senate plans a showdown vote Wednesday June 8, 2011 over whether to limit fees that stores pay financial institutions every time a debit card is swiped. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, file)AP - Merchants triumphed over bankers in a battle for billions Wednesday as the Senate voted to let the Federal Reserve curb the fees that stores pay financial institutions when a customer swipes a debit card. It was murkier, however, whether the nation's consumers were winners or losers.

Timothy Geithner has survived with influence (Washington Post)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:17 PM PDT

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner speaks at the International Monetary Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, June 6, 2011. Geithner stated Washington Post - During the dark days that began Timothy F. Geithner’s tenure as Treasury secretary, he was constantly under fire, accused of bailing out Wall Street instead of helping ordinary Americans. With lawmakers from both parties calling for him to resign, it was an open question whether he’d last the year.

Pawlenty's Plan: Big Cuts, Big Assumptions and a Big Dodge (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:50 PM PDT

Time.com - Tim Pawlenty took the next step towards fleshing out his presidential candidacy Tuesday morning with a speech in Chicago laying out his economic vision for the country

Tuna, strudel at al fresco feast for Angela Merkel (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 02:59 AM PDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, reacts as President Barack Obama remembers to share a toast in her honor at a State Dinner, Tuesday, June 7, 2011, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - The White House went all out to underscore the theme of friendship at Tuesday's state dinner for German Chancellor Angela Merkel: It even did a little social engineering with James Taylor's playlist for the al fresco gathering in the Rose Garden.

China warns U.S. debt-default idea is "playing with fire" (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 04:55 AM PDT

The National Debt Clock, which displays the current United States gross national debt and each American family's share, hangs on a wall next to an office for the Internal Revenue Service near Times Square, in New York, May 16, 2011. REUTERS/Chip EastReuters - Republican lawmakers are "playing with fire" by contemplating even a brief debt default as a means to force deeper government spending cuts, an adviser to China's central bank said on Wednesday.

Sources: Weiner's wife is pregnant (Politico)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 02:39 PM PDT

Politico - Abedin is nearing the end of her first trimester.

Panel weighs nixing individual mandate (Politico)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 01:09 PM PDT

Politico - The judge’s questions are mixed enough to give encouragement to both sides in the oral arguments.

Delta bag fees for soldiers ignites backlash (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 02:27 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2010 file photo, passengers walk past a Delta Airlines 747 aircraft in McNamara Terminal at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Mich. Reacting to public outcry, Delta said Wednesday, June 8, 2011, it will allow members of the military to check four bags for free. The news came after two Army soldiers returning from Afghanistan complained in an online video that Delta charged their unit a total of $2,800 when some of them checked a fourth bag.(AP Photo/Paul Sancya, file)AP - Delta Air Lines hastily changed its baggage fees for troops Wednesday after a YouTube video showed soldiers complaining that they had to pay $200 apiece to check extra bags as they made their way home from Afghanistan.

Gates presses US allies to do more against Libya (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 03:02 PM PDT

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrives for a round table meeting of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, June 8, 2011. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will use the two-day meeting of defense ministers to demand more allies step up in the fight against Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)AP - The Obama administration challenged five key military allies Wednesday to take on a greater share of the NATO-led air campaign against Moammar Gadhafi's forces, illustrating the strains of a three-month intervention in Libya that has no time frame for an exit.

APNewsBreak: HHS rejects Indiana Medicaid changes (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 03:44 PM PDT

AP - The Health and Human Services Department rejected changes in Indiana's Medicaid plan Wednesday, saying it illegally bans funding for Planned Parenthood, and sought to make clear that a similar fate awaits other states that pass legislation barring any qualified health care provider.

US backs Syria resolution as people flee protest hub (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 01:33 PM PDT

Young Syrian refugees who fled from Syria to Turkey leave the Yayladagi Turkish Red Crescent refugee camp by bus, near the Turkish city of Hatay. The US on Wednesday threw its weight behind a UN resolution condemning Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime over a bloody crackdown on demonstrations, as refugees fled a protest hub fearing reprisals.(AFP/Mustafa Ozer)AFP - The US on Wednesday threw its weight behind a UN resolution condemning Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime over a bloody crackdown on demonstrations, as refugees fled a protest hub fearing reprisals.

Healthcare battle unfolds in Atlanta court (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 03:24 PM PDT

Mike Griffith, of Canton, Ga., holds a sign during a protest against President Barack Obama's health care reform plan outside the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals was hearing arguments on whether to reverse a Florida judge's ruling that struck down the law. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)Reuters - Lawyers for President Barack Obama on Wednesday sought to stave off the biggest legal challenge yet to his landmark healthcare reform, telling a court that its key provision is grounded in Congress' right to regulate commerce.

Francis Fukuyama: Democracy still rules. But will US catch up in a changing world? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:24 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Francis Fukuyama has just published a new book, “The Origins of Political Order,” which looks at the development of political institutions from ancient China to the French Revolution. He spoke with Global Viewpoint Network contributing editor Michael Skafidas in New York.

Gambling company taking bets on Weiner’s political, marital survival (Daily Caller)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 02:48 PM PDT

Daily Caller - All y’all gamblers out there, heads up! Odds are set for Anthony Weiner’s resignation and divorce.

Atlanta court hears oral arguments in health care lawsuit (Daily Caller)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 02:21 PM PDT

Daily Caller - Oral arguments were heard Wednesday in the lawsuit brought by Florida and 25 other states challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the health care law.

Palin Eyes England Trip, Gets Bum Rush from Thatcher Aides (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 02:48 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | "Nuts" and "an embarrassment" is what England's former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's aides have to say about Sarah Palin, the Daily Mail reported today.

Palin’s camp returns fire for Ed Rollins’ comments (Daily Caller)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 01:07 PM PDT

Daily Caller - The tension between former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and Minnesota Rep. –  and potential presidential candidate – Michele Bachmann is heating up.
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