» Biden says Palestinians deserve 'viable' state (AP)
10/03/10 13:18 from Yahoo! News: Presidential Election
AP - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has told the Palestinians that they deserve a "viable" independent state with contiguous territory.

» Obama pushing on health care end game (AP)
10/03/10 12:40 from Yahoo! News: Presidential Election
AP - President Barack Obama has chosen a suburban St. Louis high school to make his closing argument for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti-fraud plan as he cranks up the pressure on skittish Democratic lawmakers to act fast.

» AP-GfK Poll: Obama more popular than Congress (AP)
10/03/10 12:40 from Yahoo! News: Presidential Election
AP - Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care. But more than half still back President Barack Obama, a bright spot for a Democratic Party counting on its leader to help s..

» Gates: Some troops could leave Afghanistan early (AP)
10/03/10 12:13 from Yahoo! News: Presidential Election
AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates raised the possibility Wednesday that some of the U.S. forces involved in the Afghanistan surge could leave the country before President Barack Obama's announced July 2011 date to begin withdra..

» Obama to meet Haiti's president, fly to Missouri (AP)
10/03/10 10:06 from Yahoo! News: Presidential Election
AP - President Barack Obama meets with the president of Haiti Wednesday morning and later flies to Missouri for another gathering on health care reform.

» How the AP-GfK poll on Obama was conducted (AP)
10/03/10 08:18 from Yahoo! News: Presidential Election
AP - The Associated Press-GfK Poll on President Obama, the direction of the country and health care was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media from March 3-8. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationa..

» Reconciliation bill will be hard for GOP to derail (AP)
10/03/10 08:15 from Yahoo! News: Presidential Election
AP - Democrats are tying the fate of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul to a fast-track process that will make the bill tough for Republicans to derail in the Senate. But GOP lawmakers will still be able to force votes and m..

» Lawmakers insist shower run-ins like the one Massa alleges are far from norm
10/03/10 05:00 from washingtonpost.com - Politics
It's no secret that members of Congress broker deals on the treadmill or in the weight room of the House and Senate gyms. But former congressman Eric Massa's accusation that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel once berated him in the gy..

» Obama's plans for NASA changes met with harsh criticism
10/03/10 05:00 from washingtonpost.com - Politics
Harrison Schmitt's credentials as a space policy analyst include several days of walking on the moon. The Apollo 17 astronaut, who is also a former U.S. senator, is aghast at what President Obama is doing to the space program.

» On health-care reform, Republicans target Democrats' division over reconciliation
10/03/10 05:00 from washingtonpost.com - Politics
As Republicans work to prevent a health-care bill from reaching President Obama, they are scrambling to exploit divisions between Democrats in the House and the Senate.

» Roberts: Scene at State of Union 'very troubling' (AP)
10/03/10 03:09 from Yahoo! News: Presidential Election
AP - U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address was "very troubling" and that the annual speech to Congress has "degenerated into a political pep rally."

» Obama: Greece, facing bad days, has US as ally (AP)
10/03/10 02:19 from Yahoo! News: Presidential Election
AP - President Barack Obama stood with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Tuesday and pledged that the United States would work with its ally, even as Greece's enormous debts sparked frenzied trading.

» A policy change on abortion, but how radical? (AP)
10/03/10 01:01 from Yahoo! News: Presidential Election
AP - President Barack Obama's health care bill would change federal policy on abortion, but it would not open the spigot of taxpayer dollars as some abortion opponents fear.

» Republicans work to split Democrats, block health-care bill
09/03/10 23:11 from washingtonpost.com - Politics
As Republicans work to prevent a health-care bill from reaching President Obama, they are scrambling to exploit divisions between Democrats in the House and Senate.

» Examining Rahm Emanuel's Role
09/03/10 20:00 from NPR Topics: Politics
Recent news articles about White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel have portrayed him alternately as someone whose advice President Obama should take more or as the man responsible for recent missteps on health care and Guantanamo Bay. Joh..