Yahoo Politics Newsfeed This is a display of the Yahoo Politics Newsfeed expanded from http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/politics at 11:00 am Pacific Time Wednesday July 23, 2008.
AP - From the solemnity of a Holocaust museum to a dusty village battered by Hamas rockets, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Wednesday professed "an unshakable commitment to the security"of Israel, whether the threat comes from terrorists, Iran or elsewhere.
AP - Republican John McCain on Wednesday credited the recent $10-a-barrel drop in the price of oil to President Bush's lifting of a presidential ban on offshore drilling, an action he has been advocating in his presidential campaign.
Stretch of NY highway named for Russert (AP) AP - President Bush has signed a bill honoring the late NBC newsman Tim Russert by naming a stretch of highway in New York after him.
Louisiana asks court to reopen child rape case (AP) AP - Louisiana prosecutors asked the Supreme Court on Monday to revisit its recent decision outlawing the death penalty for people convicted of raping children.
AP - The European Union proposed an import ban Wednesday on products derived from seals that are killed in a cruel way, a move that could hurt the annual seal hunt in Canada —the largest in the world.
