Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1688 Most Emailed - Politics en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:36:43 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1688 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_us/us_palin_resigning ap/20090704/us_palin_resigning AP us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:33:01 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_us/us_palin_resigning"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090704/capt.02ca8b9102b040229bbefb8ddc40a53a.palin_resigning_akwtf101.jpg?x=130&y=126&q=85&sig=jq8Vf2rrOAbADlqcfXfUTw--" align="left" height="126" width="130" alt="Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announces that she is stepping down from her position as Governor in Wasilla, Alaska on Friday July 3, 2009. The former Republican vice presidential candidate made the surprise announcement, saying she would step down July 26 but didn't announce her plans. (AP Photo/The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, Robert DeBerry)" border="0" /></a>AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin abruptly announced Friday she is resigning from office at the end of the month, a shocking move that rattled the Republican party but left open the possibility she would seek a run for the White House in 2012.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_us/us_palin_resigning"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090704/capt.02ca8b9102b040229bbefb8ddc40a53a.palin_resigning_akwtf101.jpg?x=130&y=126&q=85&sig=jq8Vf2rrOAbADlqcfXfUTw--" align="left" height="126" width="130" alt="photo" title="Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announces that she is stepping down from her position as Governor in Wasilla, Alaska on Friday July 3, 2009. The former Republican vice presidential candidate made the surprise announcement, saying she would step down July 26 but didn't announce her plans. (AP Photo/The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, Robert DeBerry)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090703/pl_politico/24466 politico/20090703/24466 Politico politics Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:54:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090703/pl_politico/24466"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090703/i/ra2177617380.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=eTKD_lR1Jc8SVpvRKOkEFw--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about innovation and job creation at the White House in Washington July 2, 2009. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque" border="0" /></a>Politico - Bill Clinton. George Bush. Jimmy Carter. They&rsquo;re all pretty easy to pronounce.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090703/pl_politico/24466"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090703/i/ra2177617380.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=eTKD_lR1Jc8SVpvRKOkEFw--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="photo" title="U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about innovation and job creation at the White House in Washington July 2, 2009. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Politico) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_go_ot/us_mountain_of_debt ap/20090704/us_mountain_of_debt AP politics Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:36:43 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_go_ot/us_mountain_of_debt"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.ac44a14df2e84475a1913130e91e44d2.mountain_of_debt_nyr103.jpg?x=130&y=66&q=85&sig=OqIAhmleLIZ_orOCt3BH0A--" align="left" height="66" width="130" alt="The soaring national debt is recorded on the National Debt Clock in New York, Friday, July 3, 2009. Already complicating efforts by President Barack Obama and Congress to cope with the worst recession in decades, economists warn that the mountain of debt easily could become the next full-fledged economic crisis without firm action from Washington. (AP Photo/Yanina Manolova)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Founding Fathers left one legacy not celebrated on Independence Day but which affects us all. It's the national debt.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_go_ot/us_mountain_of_debt"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.ac44a14df2e84475a1913130e91e44d2.mountain_of_debt_nyr103.jpg?x=130&y=66&q=85&sig=OqIAhmleLIZ_orOCt3BH0A--" align="left" height="66" width="130" alt="photo" title="The soaring national debt is recorded on the National Debt Clock in New York, Friday, July 3, 2009. Already complicating efforts by President Barack Obama and Congress to cope with the worst recession in decades, economists warn that the mountain of debt easily could become the next full-fledged economic crisis without firm action from Washington. (AP Photo/Yanina Manolova)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_go_su_co/us_sotomayor_documents ap/20090704/us_sotomayor_documents AP politics Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:19:01 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_go_su_co/us_sotomayor_documents"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090704/capt.64c152e7546b45c5a057f8af0166ee6c.sotomayor_documents_dccd102.jpg?x=130&y=100&q=85&sig=j829E.BmPdxKKMx0UNKAVQ--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="In this Monday, June 1, 2009 file photo, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor meets with members of the White House Counsel's office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House Complex in Washington. A civil rights group advised by Sotomayor in the 1980's brought several discrimination lawsuits that sought to scrap the results of job tests because too few Hispanics scored highly enough, according to new documents that are fueling GOP criticism of the judge. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A civil rights group advised by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor in the 1980s brought several discrimination lawsuits that sought to scrap the results of job tests because too few Hispanics scored well, according to new documents that are fueling GOP criticism of the judge.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_go_su_co/us_sotomayor_documents"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090704/capt.64c152e7546b45c5a057f8af0166ee6c.sotomayor_documents_dccd102.jpg?x=130&y=100&q=85&sig=j829E.BmPdxKKMx0UNKAVQ--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this Monday, June 1, 2009 file photo, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor meets with members of the White House Counsel's office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House Complex in Washington. A civil rights group advised by Sotomayor in the 1980's brought several discrimination lawsuits that sought to scrap the results of job tests because too few Hispanics scored highly enough, according to new documents that are fueling GOP criticism of the judge. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul ap/20090703/us_health_care_overhaul AP politics Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:25:42 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.756b2ba0bcd94e20ad7cda6caf260014.aptopix_obama_dcpm107.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=dE2jEB_PCjBILIcZWWuBrw--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="President Barack Obama gestures as he answers questions during a discussion on health care, Wednesday, July 1, 2009, at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale , Va. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)" border="0" /></a>AP - First you paid to insure your car. Soon you may have to add health insurance premiums to that stack of monthly bills as well.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.756b2ba0bcd94e20ad7cda6caf260014.aptopix_obama_dcpm107.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=dE2jEB_PCjBILIcZWWuBrw--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="President Barack Obama gestures as he answers questions during a discussion on health care, Wednesday, July 1, 2009, at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale , Va. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20090702/pl_ynews/ynews_pl420 ynews/20090702/ynews_pl420 The Yahoo! Newsroom politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:40:21 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20090702/pl_ynews/ynews_pl420"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090704/i/ra2303386762.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=IKMf_l9Xr94H7YvEFXmvdg--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) speaks during a Plenary Session at the 2008 Republican Governors Association Annual Conference in Miami in this November 13, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Hans Deryk" border="0" /></a>The Yahoo! Newsroom - The latest issue of Vanity Fair isn't even on newsstands yet and it's already making headlines for a not-so-politely titled article, "It Came from Wasilla," about Gov. Sarah Palin.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20090702/pl_ynews/ynews_pl420"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090704/i/ra2303386762.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=IKMf_l9Xr94H7YvEFXmvdg--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) speaks during a Plenary Session at the 2008 Republican Governors Association Annual Conference in Miami in this November 13, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Hans Deryk" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (The Yahoo! Newsroom) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20090702/pl_ynews/ynews_pl425 ynews/20090702/ynews_pl425 The Yahoo! Newsroom politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:50:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20090702/pl_ynews/ynews_pl425"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090624/capt.ac9fc29650a14e63937ef792086fa3a1.obama_whre102.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=b5Mo2pi3gKVSL1t9AU4yBA--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs speaks to reporters, Wednesday, June 24, 2009, during his daily press briefing in the White House Pressroom at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)" border="0" /></a>The Yahoo! Newsroom - In the spirit of transparency, the Obama Administration posted on its White House blog a detailed list of who makes what at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20090702/pl_ynews/ynews_pl425"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090624/capt.ac9fc29650a14e63937ef792086fa3a1.obama_whre102.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=b5Mo2pi3gKVSL1t9AU4yBA--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs speaks to reporters, Wednesday, June 24, 2009, during his daily press briefing in the White House Pressroom at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (The Yahoo! Newsroom) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090704/pl_nm/us_usa_politics_palin nm/20090704/us_usa_politics_palin Reuters politics Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:01:33 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090704/pl_nm/us_usa_politics_palin"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090703/i/r1751661420.jpg?x=130&y=106&q=85&sig=epqgKaMERaFgnCzllrMo0g--" align="left" height="106" width="130" alt="U.S. Republican vice- presidential nominee Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin waves to the crowd after U.S. Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain delivered his concession speech in Phoenix, November 4, 2008. REUTERS/Mike Blake" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Sarah Palin, the brash, deeply conservative governor of Alaska who crashed onto the U.S. national political scene last year as the Republican candidate for U.S. vice president, announced abruptly on Friday she was resigning as governor.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090704/pl_nm/us_usa_politics_palin"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090703/i/r1751661420.jpg?x=130&y=106&q=85&sig=epqgKaMERaFgnCzllrMo0g--" align="left" height="106" width="130" alt="photo" title="U.S. Republican vice- presidential nominee Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin waves to the crowd after U.S. Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain delivered his concession speech in Phoenix, November 4, 2008. REUTERS/Mike Blake" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090702/pl_politico/24441 politico/20090702/24441 Politico politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:04:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090702/pl_politico/24441"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246557660332-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=_ECIBXBJLQCVCNEkl3d8uQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Amid an outcry from its own newsroom, The Washington Post on Thursday canceled plans to host events offering lobbyists access to US government officials, members of Congress and Post reporters.(Washington Post)" border="0" /></a>Politico - Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth said today she was canceling plans for an exclusive "salon" at her home where for as much as $250,000, the Post offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record access to "those powerful few" &mdash; Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and even the paper&rsquo;s own reporters and editors.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090702/pl_politico/24441"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246557660332-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=_ECIBXBJLQCVCNEkl3d8uQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Amid an outcry from its own newsroom, The Washington Post on Thursday canceled plans to host events offering lobbyists access to US government officials, members of Congress and Post reporters.(Washington Post)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Politico) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_affirmative_action ap/20090702/us_obama_affirmative_action AP politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:39:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_affirmative_action"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.a309aa9947f243c4afe899a101d09e88.obama_ap_interview_dcpm106.jpg?x=127&y=130&q=85&sig=W7YGdNWOB6smpiQgpjCMfg--" align="left" height="130" width="127" alt="President Barack Obama gestures during his interview with The Associated Press, Thursday, July 2, 2009, in the West Wing of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)" border="0" /></a>AP - President Barack Obama said Thursday the Supreme Court is "moving the ball" to limit affirmative action, but he stressed that its ruling in favor of white firefighters still allows employers and educators to take race into account in hiring, promotions and admissions.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_affirmative_action"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.a309aa9947f243c4afe899a101d09e88.obama_ap_interview_dcpm106.jpg?x=127&y=130&q=85&sig=W7YGdNWOB6smpiQgpjCMfg--" align="left" height="130" width="127" alt="photo" title="President Barack Obama gestures during his interview with The Associated Press, Thursday, July 2, 2009, in the West Wing of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/ts_nm/us_russia_putin_obama nm/20090703/us_russia_putin_obama Reuters topstories Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:49:49 GMT Reuters - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday rejected U.S. President Barack Obama's charge that he was mired in Cold War thinking, setting the scene for a stormy first meeting at a Moscow summit next week. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090702/pl_politico/24435 politico/20090702/24435 Politico politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:37:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090702/pl_politico/24435"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090630/capt.e2da6973aa75488eb36f800b1163302f.aptopix_sc_governor_scmc110.jpg?x=102&y=130&q=85&sig=Nosfp_GOLyaPxd2jvLR7RQ--" align="left" height="130" width="102" alt="South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford talks during an interview with The Associated Press about his relationship with an Argentine mistress, in his Columbia, S.C., Statehouse office on Tuesday, June 30, 2009. During the interview Sanford said that he 'crossed lines' with a handful of women other than his mistress but never had sex with them. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)" border="0" /></a>Politico - The sex scandals that have tarnished Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) and Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) don’t appear to have much in common. Yet there is one thread that binds them together: Both Ensign and Sanford were members of the famed Republican House class of 1994, as well as its latest casualties.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedpl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090702/pl_politico/24435"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090630/capt.e2da6973aa75488eb36f800b1163302f.aptopix_sc_governor_scmc110.jpg?x=102&y=130&q=85&sig=Nosfp_GOLyaPxd2jvLR7RQ--" align="left" height="130" width="102" alt="photo" title="South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford talks during an interview with The Associated Press about his relationship with an Argentine mistress, in his Columbia, S.C., Statehouse office on Tuesday, June 30, 2009. During the interview Sanford said that he 'crossed lines' with a handful of women other than his mistress but never had sex with them. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Politico)