2009年1月20日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Obama to step into history as 1st black president (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 02:18 AM CST

The U.S. Capitol is illuminated the night before the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama in Washington January 19, 2009. REUTERS/Scott Andrews/PoolAP - Stepping into history, Barack Hussein Obama grasps the reins of power as America's first black president in a high-noon inauguration amid grave economic worries and high expectations.


European Central Bank cuts rates to 2 percent (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2009 10:40 AM CST

AP - The European Central Bank slashed its main interest rate by a half percentage point to 2 percent on Thursday — but signaled it would slow the pace of future cuts — as it sought to protect the 330 million people in the 16 countries that use the euro against a deepening recession.

Bush commutes sentences of former US border agents (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2009 11:13 PM CST

In this Jan. 17, 2007 file photo former U.S. Border Patrol agent Jose Alonso Compean, center, walks hand-in-had with his wife, Patty, right, and lawyer, Mary Stillinger, as he arrives to surrender to federal authorities at the federal courthouse in El Paso, Texas. President George W. Bush on Monday, Jan. 19, 2008 commuted Compean's prison sentence, whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer ignited fierce debate about illegal immigration. (AP Photo/The El Paso Times, Ruben R. Ramirez)AP - In his final acts of clemency, President George W. Bush on Monday granted early prison releases to two former U.S. Border Patrol agents whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer fueled the national debate over illegal immigration.


Obama cool and calm on eve of his presidency (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2009 04:23 PM CST

President-elect Barack Obama holds one-year-old Charles Rollins of Chevy Chase, Md., as he visits a community service project for troops at Calvin Coolidge High School in Washington , Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - If Barack Obama felt nervous about becoming president in a few hours, he didn't show it Monday, as he cracked jokes and breezed through a series of volunteerism events and bipartisan dinners. "I don't sweat," said the 47-year-old man about to inherit responsibility for two wars, an economy in crisis and the helm of the world's lone superpower. "You ever see me sweat?"


Obama vs. the First Black President (Politico)

Posted: 19 Jan 2009 03:26 AM CST

Politico - Barack Obama will have a rival for the spotlight at Tuesday’s Inauguration: the nation’s First Black President.

Stars, regular folks heed Obama's call to service (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2009 05:53 PM CST

Anna Cabrera dresses her son Bryan Garcia for the trip home after classes at a Chicago shelter for teen mothers called New Moms. Inc. where many first-time volunteers, heeded a call by President-elect Barack Obama for Americans to serve others as a way to honor slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, in Chicago. The volunteers built shelves, painted walls and a mural at the shelter. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Usher helped build a school library. Superman and Spider-Man rolled up their sleeves. And thousands of volunteers around the country marked the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday by heeding President-elect Barack Obama's call to service.


Biden tries to shush wife after state-VP slip (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2009 11:19 PM CST

This image provided by Harpo Productions shows, from left: Dr. Jill Biden, Vice President-elect Joe Biden, and Oprah Winfrey on the set of the 'Oprah Winfrey Show' at Washington's Kennedy Center Opera House Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Harpo Productions, Inc. George Burns)AP - Joe Biden's wife said Monday that he had his pick of being Barack Obama's running mate or the secretary of state nomination that eventually went to Hillary Rodham Clinton, a slip that the vice president-elect immediately tried to shush.


Records show plane suffered previous malfunction (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 02:25 AM CST

NTSB inspectors examine the wreckage of US Airways Flight 1549 as it sits on a barge at Weeks Marina in Jersey City, N.J. on Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. The jet was moved Sunday night from a seawall at the southern tip of Manhattan where it was lifted out of the icy Hudson River.  (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)AP - The US Airways jet that made a dramatic emergency landing on New York's Hudson River last week experienced an engine compressor failure two days earlier, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.


Inaugural history: Girls in white greet Lincoln (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2009 08:29 PM CST

This photograph provided by the Library of Congress shows Lawrence A. Gobright, AP's first Washington correspondent, in a photograph from 1865-80 circa, from the Library of Congress's Brady-Handy Collection. A native of Hanover, Pa., Gobright covered both inaugurations of Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War and Lincoln's assassination during a career spanning more than a third of a century in Washington. (AP Photo/Library of Congress)AP - Spectacles resting on his nose, his gold-headed cane holding down the speech in front of him, Abraham Lincoln appealed to "the better angels of our nature" in an inaugural speech history would remember.


Confessions, abuse allegations at Gitmo court (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2009 05:37 PM CST

In this photo, reviewed by the U.S. Military, a woman walks through a tented area at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009. President-elect Barack Obama has said he intends to close the offshore prison on a U.S. Navy base in Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool)AP - Two alleged orchestrators of the 2001 attacks on America casually declared their guilt on Monday in a messy and perhaps final session of the Guantanamo war crimes court.


Schedule of events for Obama's inauguration (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 02:15 AM CST

A parade float depicting a U.S. flag makes its way to the Capitol in preparation for Tuesday's Inaugural Parade, in Washington January 19, 2009. REUTERS/Molly RileyAP - A schedule of official and unofficial activities surrounding President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration on Jan. 20:


Much in Obama stimulus bill won't hit economy soon (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 02:13 AM CST

A selection of the front pages of Kenya's national papers covering  U.S. President elect Barack Obama  is seen in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, Jan, 20 2009. Obama will be inaugurated as America's 44th president later in the day.(AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)AP - It will take years before an infrastructure spending program proposed by President-elect Barack Obama will boost the economy, according to an analysis by congressional economists.


Crowds of 1 million or more to test DC (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 02:10 AM CST

People crowd in front of the West front of the Capitol in Washington Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, before the swearing-in of President-elect Barack Obama Tuesday.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Subway trains are packed. Traffic is bumper-to-bumper. It seems that every dimension of President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration is taking on historic proportions as visitors stream into the nation's capital.


Lobbyists use inauguration to show their influence (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 02:08 AM CST

AP - The sushi was plentiful, the jazz ensemble loud and the guest list included just what the party-givers wanted: members of Congress, incoming Obama administration officials and celebrities.

First inauguration for Roberts as chief justice (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 02:07 AM CST

In this Jan. 14, 2009 file photo, provided by the Obama Transition Team, President-elect Barack Obama left, and Vice President-elect Joe Biden right, talk with U.S. Supreme Court justices during a visit to the Supreme Court in Washington Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009. From left, Obama, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice David Souter and Biden.    (AP Photo/Obama Transition Office, Pete Souza, File)AP - Chief Justice John Roberts is giving the oath of office to President-elect Barack Obama, the first of what could be many inaugurations presided over by the affable, conservative jurist.


Obama poised to become 44th U.S. president (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 12:11 AM CST

Barack Obama speaks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington June 4, 2008. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)Reuters - Barack Obama was poised to make history on Tuesday as America's first black president, riding the optimism of millions of people into power and inheriting a recession and two wars that will test his skills.


Obama toasts former election rival McCain (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2009 10:59 PM CST

US President-elect Barack Obama greets Senator John McCain during bipartisan dinner in McCain?s honour January 19 in Washington, DC. Obama heaped praise on his former electoral rival, toasting the Republican senator as AFP - President-elect Barack Obama heaped praise on his former electoral rival John McCain, toasting the Republican senator as "a rare and courageous public servant."


Obama honors rival McCain on eve of inauguration (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2009 10:51 PM CST

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama attends a bipartisan dinner honoring U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) in Washington, DC January 19, 2009. (Jim Young/Reuters)Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama honored his vanquished Republican rival John McCain on Monday, describing the Arizona senator as an "American hero" while the Democrat prepared to assume the office that both men fought bitterly to attain.


Most of Little Rock 9 headed to inauguration (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2009 10:09 PM CST

AP - President-elect Barack Obama has said the Little Rock Nine's courage in desegregating an Arkansas public school helped make the opportunities in his life possible.

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