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http://news.yahoo.com/business/ Get the latest Business news headlines from Yahoo! News. Find breaking business news, including analysis and opinion on top business stories.en-USCopyright (c) 2012 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reservedSat, 11 Aug 2012 02:33:00 -04005http://news.yahoo.com/business/ http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gifGov. Mitt Romney is expected to announce Saturday morning that he's chosen 42-year-old Paul Ryan to be his running mate. Since 2008, the well-spoken Republican Congressman from Janesville, Wisconsin has emerged as a leading figure on the right and a champion of reduced government spending. Ryan has earned the admiration of conservatives for the tough, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/paul-ryan-063300661.htmlSat, 11 Aug 2012 02:33:00 -0400blogs/ticket/paul-ryan-063300661NORFOLK, Va.--Mitt Romney will name his vice presidential running mate on Saturday. According to a statement the campaign released late Friday, the presumptive Republican nominee will announce his running mate at an 8:45am rally here on the USS Wisconsin--the first stop of his four-day bus tour of key battleground states. The campaign offered no further [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-announce-vp-pick-saturday-032140054.htmlFri, 10 Aug 2012 23:21:40 -0400blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-announce-vp-pick-saturday-032140054President Barack Obama forcefully defended trusted Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin on Friday, praising her as "an American patriot" in the face of charges from Republicans like Representative Michele Bachmann that she is secretly tied to Muslim extremists. Speaking at a White House Iftar dinner to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-defends-american-patriot-huma-abedin-amid-republican-022358433.htmlFri, 10 Aug 2012 22:23:58 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-defends-american-patriot-huma-abedin-amid-republican-022358433White House spokesman Jay Carney declined Friday to repudiate an independent ad that ties Mitt Romney to the cancer death of a laid-off steelworker's wife, as the controversy over that misleading commercial dragged into another day. "We do not control third-party ads," Carney told reporters at his daily briefing. He had been asked whether President [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-spokesman-declines-repudiate-cancer-ad-215105038.htmlFri, 10 Aug 2012 17:51:05 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-spokesman-declines-repudiate-cancer-ad-215105038President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney remain locked in a tight race in the key swing states of Colorado, Wisconsin, and Virginia, according to a Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News poll released early Wednesday. Obama leads by 49-45 percent in Virginia and 51-45 percent in Wisconsin, while Romney has a 50-45 percent advantage in [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/poll-race-white-house-remains-tight-3-key-085301291.htmlWed, 08 Aug 2012 04:53:01 -0400blogs/ticket/poll-race-white-house-remains-tight-3-key-085301291DES MOINES?Former President Bill Clinton is pushing back against Mitt Romney's claim that President Barack Obama is trying to reverse bipartisan welfare reforms he signed into law in 1996. In a television ad released Tuesday and later at an event outside Chicago, Romney criticized a recent Department of Human Services directive that relaxed federal work [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/bill-clinton-calls-romney-welfare-claims-not-true-033013524.htmlTue, 07 Aug 2012 23:30:13 -0400blogs/ticket/bill-clinton-calls-romney-welfare-claims-not-true-033013524Rep. Todd Akin emerged victorious Tuesday from the highly competitive Republican Senate primary in Missouri, easily defeating his top competitors, wealthy businessman John Brunner and former state treasurer Sarah Steelman. He will now head into a general election race against Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, who has been marked as a top takeover target by Republicans. [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/rep-akin-wins-republican-nomination-sen-mccaskill-missouri-031237109.htmlTue, 07 Aug 2012 23:12:37 -0400blogs/ticket/rep-akin-wins-republican-nomination-sen-mccaskill-missouri-031237109President Barack Obama's re-election campaign warned supporters in an email plea for cash on Monday that Mitt Romney's vast fundraising edge means "we're in trouble" with scarcely three months to go before Election Day. "We got beat three months in a row," the campaign said in the unsigned message. "If we don't step it up, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-campaign-romney-fundraising-edge-means-trouble-011851533.htmlMon, 06 Aug 2012 21:18:51 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-campaign-romney-fundraising-edge-means-trouble-011851533Mitt Romney and his staff are accusing President Barack Obama of threatening the ability of military personnel to vote early in Ohio following the administration's decision to sue the state over new early voting laws. The Democratic lawsuit aims to restore early voting rights for all Ohio voters, but Republicans are crying foul. "We disagree [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-obama-campaigns-battle-over-ohio-early-voting-173202620.htmlMon, 06 Aug 2012 13:32:02 -0400blogs/ticket/romney-obama-campaigns-battle-over-ohio-early-voting-173202620Sen. John McCain, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee are among the first speakers named for this month's Republican National Convention in Tampa. The list, which was first reported by the Tampa Bay Times and later confirmed by the?Associated Press, also includes four current GOP governors: Florida's Rick Scott, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/first-gop-convention-speakers-announced-041500296.htmlMon, 06 Aug 2012 00:15:00 -0400blogs/ticket/first-gop-convention-speakers-announced-041500296LOS ANGELES?When Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gavels the 2012 Democratic National Convention into session in Charlotte, N.C., this September, his role as prominent cheerleader for President Barack Obama will be clear. It is less clear, for now, if Villaraigosa has designs on the ultimate convention role in 2016?taking center stage to accept his party's [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/antonio-villaraigosa-poised-america-first-latino-president-142427177.htmlTue, 31 Jul 2012 10:24:27 -0400blogs/ticket/antonio-villaraigosa-poised-america-first-latino-president-142427177GDANSK, Poland--Lech Walesa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of Poland, effectively endorsed Mitt Romney during a meeting with the GOP presidential candidate Monday. Walesa, a co-founder of the Solidarity movement in Poland which challenged Communist rule during the 1980s, urged Romney to "get your success" in the upcoming election. "I wish you [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/lech-walesa-effectively-backs-romney-171407303.htmlMon, 30 Jul 2012 13:14:07 -0400blogs/ticket/lech-walesa-effectively-backs-romney-171407303JERUSALEM?Mitt Romney arrived in Israel Saturday looking to reset an overseas trip that was aimed at proving him to be a capable leader on the world stage. But his overseas debut was undermined almost from the very moment he arrived in London, the first stop of his seven-day tour, when he admitted he found the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-arrives-israel-looking-reset-foreign-trip-200740694.htmlSat, 28 Jul 2012 16:07:40 -0400blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-arrives-israel-looking-reset-foreign-trip-200740694LONDON?On day three of his overseas tour, Mitt Romney woke up to unfriendly headlines from the British media, which continue to trash him for telling NBC News that he found preparations for the Olympics here "disconcerting." "Mitt the Twit," declared The Sun tabloid, condemning Romney as a "wannabe president." The Independent headlined its take on [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/british-media-hammer-romney-olympic-comments-103800909.htmlFri, 27 Jul 2012 06:38:00 -0400blogs/ticket/british-media-hammer-romney-olympic-comments-103800909President Barack Obama is signing a new U.S.-Israel security pact on Friday -- a move that could steal some of the headlines there even as Republican challenger Mitt Romney opens a visit to the close U.S. ally a day later. Obama signs the?United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act -- a bill that clears the way [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-welcomes-romney-israel-security-bill-024555979.htmlThu, 26 Jul 2012 22:45:55 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-welcomes-romney-israel-security-bill-024555979LONDON?For the second day in a row, Mitt Romney's visit to London was marred by controversy, as the British media seized on comments the GOP candidate made suggesting he found London's preparations for the 2012 Summer Olympics "disconcerting." In an interview with NBC News on Wednesday, Romney, who has campaigned on his experience running the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-under-fire-comments-london-olympics-160305180.htmlThu, 26 Jul 2012 12:03:05 -0400blogs/ticket/romney-under-fire-comments-london-olympics-160305180With President Barack Obama in the fight of his political life against Republican challenger Mitt Romney, top White House aides are increasingly shuttling to the Democrat's campaign headquarters in Chicago, the Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday. Those making the trip from Washington to the Windy City includes senior advisor David Plouffe, who managed Obama's [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/white-house-obama-campaign-tighten-ties-wall-street-030825217.htmlWed, 25 Jul 2012 23:08:25 -0400blogs/ticket/white-house-obama-campaign-tighten-ties-wall-street-030825217Democrats and Republicans conducted an exercise in political theater Wednesday by holding Senate votes on their competing tax proposals, even though both appeared destined for failure. The Democratic bill--which would extend tax cuts through 2013 for all individuals except those who jointly earn over $250,000, passed in the Democrat-controlled Senate by a vote of 51 [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/senate-passes-democratic-tax-proposal-bill-destined-failure-212501649.htmlWed, 25 Jul 2012 17:25:01 -0400blogs/ticket/senate-passes-democratic-tax-proposal-bill-destined-failure-212501649As the debate over gun laws rages anew in the wake of last Friday's horrific?shooting in Aurora, Co., advocates for stricter legislation say there's one major question mark in the debate: No one knows exactly how many firearms are sold in America. While the ATF compiles detailed statistics on gun sales, the information is delayed [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/firearm-sales-rise-probably-gun-control-advocates-data-184446035.htmlTue, 24 Jul 2012 14:44:46 -0400blogs/ticket/firearm-sales-rise-probably-gun-control-advocates-data-184446035Two new polls reveal different findings about whether the Obama campaign's attacks on Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital are hurting the Republican challenger. A? USA Today/Gallup poll released Monday night suggests that "Democratic attacks on Romney seem to have had little effect on voters' assessments of him. In February, 53 percent said the former [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/attacks-romney-business-record-working-polls-split-074727500.htmlTue, 24 Jul 2012 03:47:27 -0400blogs/ticket/attacks-romney-business-record-working-polls-split-074727500States could dodge a key part of the health care reform law because of a little-noticed mistake in the lengthy bill, according to a white paper by conservative health care experts Michael Cannon and Jonathan Adler. A missing word in the law's definition of a health insurance exchange could prevent the federal government from [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/experts-argue-obamacare-mistake-could-doom-key-part-212811734.htmlThu, 19 Jul 2012 17:28:11 -0400blogs/ticket/experts-argue-obamacare-mistake-could-doom-key-part-212811734A Sept. 5, 1972, file photo shows a member of the Palestinian terrorist group who seized members of the Israeli Olympic team. (Kurt Strumpf/AP) President Barack Obama strongly supports holding a formal moment of silence at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in tribute to 11 Israeli athletes and coaches killed by Palestinian extremists [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-backs-olympics-moment-silence-israelis-killed-munich-181734859.htmlThu, 19 Jul 2012 14:17:34 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-backs-olympics-moment-silence-israelis-killed-munich-181734859The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) on Thursday reported $18.1 million raised from April through June?a total it says was bolstered by the Supreme Court's June 28 decision to uphold the president's health care law. "On the Thursday of the ruling, the committee shattered the previous record for number of online contributions in one day," [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/democratic-senatorial-campaign-committee-raises-18-1-million-133342220.htmlThu, 19 Jul 2012 09:33:42 -0400blogs/ticket/democratic-senatorial-campaign-committee-raises-18-1-million-133342220The race for the White House remains a dead heat, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll, despite several weeks of tough attacks by Democrats on Republican Mitt Romney's tenure at the private equity firm Bain Capital and his refusal to release more of his tax returns. The poll shows Romney at 47 [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/poll-white-house-race-still-even-despite-bain-070136501.htmlThu, 19 Jul 2012 03:01:36 -0400blogs/ticket/poll-white-house-race-still-even-despite-bain-070136501Republicans have a much lower opinion of Chief Justice John Roberts and the Supreme Court in general following the court's June 28 decision that upheld President Barack Obama's health care reform law. Only 27 percent of Republicans surveyed by Gallup last week said they had a favorable opinion of Roberts, down from 67 percent after [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/conservatives-turn-roberts-supreme-court-health-care-ruling-184226194.htmlMon, 16 Jul 2012 14:42:26 -0400blogs/ticket/conservatives-turn-roberts-supreme-court-health-care-ruling-184226194Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama of running a campaign based on "falsehood and dishonesty" and brushed aside suggestions?including from some Republicans?that he should release more years of tax returns. In a Monday interview with "Fox & Friends," the presumptive Republican nominee rejected a claim from Rahm Emanuel, Chicago mayor and former White House chief [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-slams-obama-dishonest-attacks-rejects-calls-release-131117324.htmlMon, 16 Jul 2012 09:11:17 -0400blogs/ticket/romney-slams-obama-dishonest-attacks-rejects-calls-release-131117324Mitt Romney currently has no plans to give Sarah Palin a role at the 2012 Republican National Convention. In fact, John McCain's 2008 running mate hasn't even been invited to the GOP soiree in Tampa, reports Newsweek's Peter J.? Boyer. "Palin would certainly light up the base at the convention ? but a jolt of [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/where-palin-convention-invite-083953582.htmlMon, 16 Jul 2012 04:39:53 -0400blogs/ticket/where-palin-convention-invite-083953582Tragedy struck President Barack Obama's campaign on Friday as a young staffer, 29-year-old Alex Okrent, collapsed in the Chicago headquarters and died, according to campaign officials. Obama, campaigning in Virginia, telephoned Okrent's family to express his condolences and later spoke with other campaign aides by conference call. The aide had been with Obama since 2004 [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-staffer-dies-collapsing-campaign-chicago-hq-010637374.htmlFri, 13 Jul 2012 21:06:37 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-staffer-dies-collapsing-campaign-chicago-hq-010637374The popular news aggregator the Drudge Report?posted a story Thursday night claiming that Mitt Romney is considering bringing Condoleezza Rice onto the Republican ticket as his vice presidential candidate. A top aide for the former secretary of state, however, tells Yahoo News that Rice has no plans to consider such an offer. Rice has previously [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/condoleezza-rice-stands-vp-prospects-no-way-181823611.htmlFri, 13 Jul 2012 14:18:23 -0400blogs/ticket/condoleezza-rice-stands-vp-prospects-no-way-181823611Former Vice President Dick Cheney will host a high-priced fundraiser for Mitt Romney at his Wyoming home Thursday night. The $30,000-a-couple dinner at Cheney's home outside of Jackson Hole will follow a reception at the fancy Teton Pines country club nearby. Together, the two events are expected to raise more than $2 million for the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/cheney-host-major-romney-fundraiser-074237528.htmlThu, 12 Jul 2012 03:42:37 -0400blogs/ticket/cheney-host-major-romney-fundraiser-074237528Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s doctor announced Wednesday that the Illinois Democrat has been absent from Congress in order to receive treatment for a mood disorder. "The Congressman is receiving intensive medical treatment at a residential treatment facility for a mood disorder," Jackson's physician said in a statement provided to Yahoo News via the congressman's congressional [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/nbc-jesse-jackson-jr-rehab-alcoholism-addiction-221954580.htmlWed, 11 Jul 2012 18:19:54 -0400blogs/ticket/nbc-jesse-jackson-jr-rehab-alcoholism-addiction-221954580Mitt Romney offered a direct appeal to African-American voters on Wednesday, arguing in a speech at the NAACP's annual meeting that the black community has been hardest hit by the bad economy and that if elected, he'll seek to improve the quality of life for all Americans, regardless of color. "I believe that if you [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-appeals-black-voters-naacp-speech-141523941.htmlWed, 11 Jul 2012 10:15:23 -0400blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-appeals-black-voters-naacp-speech-141523941Mitt Romney will speak at the NAACP's annual meeting Wednesday in Houston. His focus, advisers said, will be the economy, especially the 14.4 percent unemployment rate among blacks. He's also expected to talk about education, which he has called the "civil rights issue of our era." President Barack Obama carried 95 percent of the black [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-speaks-naacp-convention-house-votes-obamacare-plus-110423504.htmlWed, 11 Jul 2012 07:04:23 -0400blogs/ticket/romney-speaks-naacp-convention-house-votes-obamacare-plus-110423504Click image to view more photos. (Chris Graythen/Getty Images) Speaking before the NAACP, Attorney General Eric Holder departed from his prepared speech on Tuesday, decrying voter ID laws that have been proposed in 10 states so far. Talking Points Memo reports: "Under the proposed law, concealed handgun licenses would be acceptable forms of photo ID, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/eric-holder-voter-id-laws-call-those-poll-193012336.htmlTue, 10 Jul 2012 15:30:12 -0400blogs/ticket/eric-holder-voter-id-laws-call-those-poll-193012336President Barack Obama said Monday that Mitt Romney should disclose more of his personal financial information. Obama's appeal, delivered in an interview with New Hampshire's WMUR, came after weeks of Democratic attacks on the Republican standard-bearer for parking money overseas, including in a Swiss bank account. "What's important, if you are running for president, is [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-says-romney-open-book-personal-finances-011644571.htmlMon, 09 Jul 2012 21:16:44 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-says-romney-open-book-personal-finances-011644571In his first interview since the House of Representatives voted to hold him in contempt of Congress on Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder told the Washington Post that Republicans have made him a "proxy" to attack President Barack Obama. "I've become a symbol of what they don't like about the positions this Justice Department has [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/holder-gop-made-proxy-attack-obama-013110048.htmlMon, 02 Jul 2012 21:31:10 -0400blogs/ticket/holder-gop-made-proxy-attack-obama-013110048While the Supreme Court narrowly upheld the core of President Obama's health care law Thursday, the justices came down hard against a provision that would have expanded Medicaid to millions more low-income Americans. As passed by Congress, the legislation expanded Medicaid to nearly everyone making up to 133 percent of the federal poverty line, which [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/map-where-obamacare-expand-medicaid-most-175400889.htmlFri, 29 Jun 2012 13:54:00 -0400blogs/ticket/map-where-obamacare-expand-medicaid-most-175400889WASHINGTON?If you wanted to be the last to learn how the Supreme Court ruled on the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, the steps of the court were a pretty good place to be. While many Americans were glued to their television screens, or watching the live updates on SCOTUSblog when the decision to uphold the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/outside-supreme-court-mass-confusion-over-ruling-sweaty-155124963.htmlThu, 28 Jun 2012 11:51:24 -0400blogs/ticket/outside-supreme-court-mass-confusion-over-ruling-sweaty-155124963The critical decision by a majority on the Supreme Court to treat the individual mandate included in President Barack Obama's health care law as a constitutionally justified tax is at direct odds with how the president defended the legislation in 2009 as he was working to wrangle sufficient votes to get it passed. Shortly after [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-rejected-characterizing-insurance-mandate-tax-2009-150602242.htmlThu, 28 Jun 2012 11:06:02 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-rejected-characterizing-insurance-mandate-tax-2009-150602242President Barack Obama called the Supreme Court's decision to uphold his historic health care overhaul a victory for sick and struggling Americans and vowed a renewed focus on the worry atop voters' minds: the sour economy. "Whatever the politics, today's decision was a victory for people all over this country whose lives will be more [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-speak-supreme-court-health-care-ruling-143142642.htmlThu, 28 Jun 2012 10:31:42 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-speak-supreme-court-health-care-ruling-143142642

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