Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1712 Most Viewed - Politics en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:36:43 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1712 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedpl/*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/mostviewedpl/*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/mostviewedpl/*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/mostviewedpl/*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/mostviewedpl/*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/mostviewedpl/*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/mostviewedpl/*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/mostviewedpl/*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/mostviewedpl/*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/mostviewedpl/*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/mostviewedpl/*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/mostviewedpl/*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/mostviewedpl/*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/mostviewedpl/*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/mostviewedpl/*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/mostviewedpl/*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/mostviewedpl/*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/mostviewedpl/*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/mostviewedpl/*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/mostviewedpl/*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/mostviewedpl/*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)