Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/703 politics Politics News en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:14:18 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/703 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_ap_interview ap/20090702/us_obama_ap_interview AP politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:43:42 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_ap_interview"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.bc36e76f5f73429c8fd4906e711790c0.obama_ap_interview_dcpm101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=FivDK8oHkKzJDTwG_xNU4Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" 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 - Days from his first Moscow summit, President Barack Obama declared Thursday that former Russian President Vladimir Putin "still has a lot of sway" in his nation and needs an in-person reminder the Cold War is over.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_ap_interview"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.bc36e76f5f73429c8fd4906e711790c0.obama_ap_interview_dcpm101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=FivDK8oHkKzJDTwG_xNU4Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" 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/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_go_co/us_honduras_demint ap/20090703/us_honduras_demint AP politics Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:48:49 GMT AP - South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint is defending the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and says the rule of law is working in Honduras. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_go_ot/us_us_guantanamo_documents ap/20090703/us_us_guantanamo_documents AP politics Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:17:55 GMT AP - Newly released Defense Department documents and memos about the first years of operation of the jail at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, portray a chaotic and sometimes violent operation that its own commanders described as dysfunctional. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/politico_rss/rss_politico_mostpop/http___www_politico_com_news_stories0709_24479_html/32577978/SIG=11mdmao60/*http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24479.html politico_rss/20090703/http___www_politico_com_news_stories0709_24479_html Politico Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:22:58 GMT Politico - The president tells top Democrats he'll put his political capital behind health care reform. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/politico_rss/rss_politico_mostpop/http___www_politico_com_news_stories0709_24470_html/32577335/SIG=11mcnunim/*http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24470.html politico_rss/20090702/http___www_politico_com_news_stories0709_24470_html Politico Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:09:01 GMT Politico - Serving as chief executive can be an unenviable task -- especially in these five states. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_cyber_einstein ap/20090703/us_cyber_einstein AP politics Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:55:58 GMT AP - The Obama administration is moving cautiously on a new pilot program that would both detect and stop cyber attacks against government computers, while trying to ensure citizen privacy protections. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_us_honduras_analysis ap/20090703/us_us_honduras_analysis AP politics Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:20:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_us_honduras_analysis"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.2147cf61adc048f39dba9164cade4e39.honduras_coup_tgdl122.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=RljUfcKFwGyUg72SIpRfEQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Thousands march against the return of ousted Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya in downtown San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Thursday, July 2, 2009. The Organization of American States, OAS, said it will suspend Honduras if Zelaya isn't back in office by next Saturday while Micheletti said he will not back down under international pressure, arguing that Zelaya was legally removed on orders from the nation's Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Diario La Prensa de San Pedro Sula)" border="0" /></a>AP - The coup that deposed the president of Honduras exposed the small leverage that even millions of dollars in aid and longtime military cooperation will buy.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_us_honduras_analysis"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.2147cf61adc048f39dba9164cade4e39.honduras_coup_tgdl122.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=RljUfcKFwGyUg72SIpRfEQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Thousands march against the return of ousted Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya in downtown San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Thursday, July 2, 2009. The Organization of American States, OAS, said it will suspend Honduras if Zelaya isn't back in office by next Saturday while Micheletti said he will not back down under international pressure, arguing that Zelaya was legally removed on orders from the nation's Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Diario La Prensa de San Pedro Sula)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*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 02:02:46 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090617/capt.f0d7662016b54cf785e1de572b331e7f.us_health_overhaul_dccd108.jpg?x=105&y=130&q=85&sig=bMikm3z.8bIZU2DKx48qhQ--" align="left" height="130" width="105" alt="Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., right, and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee ranking Republican Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., preside over the markup of the health care reform bill and its amendments, seen on documents before them, Wednesday, June 17, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)" border="0" /></a>AP - Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a health care overhaul bill unveiled Thursday by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090617/capt.f0d7662016b54cf785e1de572b331e7f.us_health_overhaul_dccd108.jpg?x=105&y=130&q=85&sig=bMikm3z.8bIZU2DKx48qhQ--" align="left" height="130" width="105" alt="photo" title="Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., right, and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee ranking Republican Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., preside over the markup of the health care reform bill and its amendments, seen on documents before them, Wednesday, June 17, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_go_ot/us_saddam_fbi_interviews ap/20090702/us_saddam_fbi_interviews AP politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:31:31 GMT AP - The farm where Saddam Hussein hid from U.S. forces before he was captured in December 2003 was familiar ground for the Iraqi dictator: It was the same place, he told an FBI agent, where he sought refuge 44 years earlier after taking part in a failed attempt to kill Iraq's president. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_go_co/us_sotomayor_documents ap/20090703/us_sotomayor_documents AP politics Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:13:14 GMT AP - A top Republican pressed for more information Thursday about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's ties to a Puerto Rican civil rights group he said took extreme positions on race, as the White House argued that the material was irrelevant to the judge's nomination. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_michael_jackson_dea ap/20090702/us_michael_jackson_dea AP politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:43:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_michael_jackson_dea"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090702/i/r3835693516.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=I7kaAFE5Ccy4eU4CKK.58Q--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Flowers are placed on the star of Michael Jackson on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California July 1, 2009. REUTERS/Joshua Lott" border="0" /></a>AP - A law enforcement official in Washington says the Drug Enforcement Administration is joining the investigation of Michael Jackson's death.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_michael_jackson_dea"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090702/i/r3835693516.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=I7kaAFE5Ccy4eU4CKK.58Q--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="Flowers are placed on the star of Michael Jackson on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California July 1, 2009. REUTERS/Joshua Lott" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_declaration_of_independence ap/20090702/eu_britain_declaration_of_independence AP world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:31:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_declaration_of_independence"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.1110c2717dda4c798c8915a90c4fdd7b.britain_declaration_of_independence_lon804.jpg?x=103&y=130&q=85&sig=Z3LLWkExzgLErPBgF0lwiQ--" align="left" height="130" width="103" alt="This undated image released by Britain's National Archives Thursday, July 2, 2009, shows a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, which has been discovered at the National Archives in Kew, England. The rare copy of the American Declaration of Independence has been found hidden in a file at the British National Archives. The Archives say that the print, known as the Dunlap print after the printer who commissioned it, is the 26th copy of the document to be found. The last Dunlap print found was sold at an auction for $8.14 million in 2000. Archives spokeswoman Katrina McClintock said Thursday that the file was found by a researcher looking through late 18th Century files for something unrelated. McClintock said it was discovered months ago but not revealed to the public until it could be extracted and catalogued. (AP Photo/National Archives)" border="0" /></a>AP - British researchers have announced the discovery of a rare original copy of America's Declaration of Independence — just in time for the Fourth of July.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_declaration_of_independence"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.1110c2717dda4c798c8915a90c4fdd7b.britain_declaration_of_independence_lon804.jpg?x=103&y=130&q=85&sig=Z3LLWkExzgLErPBgF0lwiQ--" align="left" height="130" width="103" alt="photo" title="This undated image released by Britain's National Archives Thursday, July 2, 2009, shows a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, which has been discovered at the National Archives in Kew, England. The rare copy of the American Declaration of Independence has been found hidden in a file at the British National Archives. The Archives say that the print, known as the Dunlap print after the printer who commissioned it, is the 26th copy of the document to be found. The last Dunlap print found was sold at an auction for $8.14 million in 2000. Archives spokeswoman Katrina McClintock said Thursday that the file was found by a researcher looking through late 18th Century files for something unrelated. McClintock said it was discovered months ago but not revealed to the public until it could be extracted and catalogued. (AP Photo/National Archives)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_eu/eu_italy_train_derailment ap/20090702/eu_italy_train_derailment AP world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:14:13 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_eu/eu_italy_train_derailment"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.040e9cdb24634ec2bcbed236da77e415.italy_train_derailed_via107.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=JFgj3V7kFX8.Eh0wyIne2w--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="Italian Firefighters stand near liquefied petroleum gas-filled tankers of a wrecked freight train, in Viareggio, northern Italy, Wednesday, July 1, 2009, the day after two of them derailed and exploded collapsing at least two nearby buildings. . (AP Photo/Lorenzo Galassi)" border="0" /></a>AP - Italian officials say the death toll from a train explosion in Tuscany has risen to 19, with 25 people injured.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_eu/eu_italy_train_derailment"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.040e9cdb24634ec2bcbed236da77e415.italy_train_derailed_via107.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=JFgj3V7kFX8.Eh0wyIne2w--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="photo" title="Italian Firefighters stand near liquefied petroleum gas-filled tankers of a wrecked freight train, in Viareggio, northern Italy, Wednesday, July 1, 2009, the day after two of them derailed and exploded collapsing at least two nearby buildings. . (AP Photo/Lorenzo Galassi)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/ts_alt_afp/useconomyunemploymentobama afp/20090703/useconomyunemploymentobama AFP us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:14:18 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/ts_alt_afp/useconomyunemploymentobama"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246585326260-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=eumof562cysJkPGyUdzLYg--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="A job seeker sits near an employment bulletin board at the New York State Labor Department's Division of Employment Services in New York City. President Barack Obama said he was confident the US economy would recover, despite new data showing unemployment at a 26-year-high of 9.5 percent, which dampened hopes of a quick rebound.(AFP/Getty Images/Chris Hondros)" border="0" /></a>AFP - President Barack Obama said he was confident the US economy would recover, despite new data showing unemployment at a 26-year-high of 9.5 percent, which dampened hopes of a quick rebound.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/ts_alt_afp/useconomyunemploymentobama"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246585326260-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=eumof562cysJkPGyUdzLYg--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="A job seeker sits near an employment bulletin board at the New York State Labor Department's Division of Employment Services in New York City. President Barack Obama said he was confident the US economy would recover, despite new data showing unemployment at a 26-year-high of 9.5 percent, which dampened hopes of a quick rebound.(AFP/Getty Images/Chris Hondros)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090702/pl_mcclatchy/3265012 mcclatchy/20090702/3265012 McClatchy Newspapers politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:24:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090702/pl_mcclatchy/3265012"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090630/capt.0d7ad075d166434c99a90873b05105b7.sc_governor_scmc104.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=eGIbzdgxuE_qyfwFIsaM7w--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in his office in Columbia, S. C. Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Sanford admitted that there were more encounters with his Argentine mistress than he previously has disclosed.(AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)" border="0" /></a>McClatchy Newspapers - RIO DE JANEIRO — A television anchor who's the only journalist known to have spoken with South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's Argentine lover since news of their affair broke last week said the couple received an e-mail threat from the person who hacked into her Hotmail account.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090702/pl_mcclatchy/3265012"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090630/capt.0d7ad075d166434c99a90873b05105b7.sc_governor_scmc104.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=eGIbzdgxuE_qyfwFIsaM7w--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="photo" title="South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in his office in Columbia, S. C. Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Sanford admitted that there were more encounters with his Argentine mistress than he previously has disclosed.(AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090702/pl_cq_politics/politics3158254 cq/20090702/politics3158254 CQPolitics.com politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:56:16 GMT CQPolitics.com - Senate Democratic leaders are inching closer to seating Democrat Al Franken as the junior senator from Minnesota and clinching control, at least on paper, of 60 votes. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20090702/pl_bloomberg/awxynp4hzyri bloomberg/20090702/awxynp4hzyri Bloomberg politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT Bloomberg - July 2 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Senator Mark Warner expressed concern that President Barack Obama’s proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, centerpiece of a rules overhaul, is “divorced” from markets and would be a “gotcha” enforcer.