2009年2月26日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Obama tells lawmakers troops to leave Iraq by 2010 (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 05:35 PM PST

A US soldier in Baghdad. The US military has insisted it will be out of Iraqi cities by the end of June and indicated that President Barack Obama would announce AP - Congressional officials say President Barack Obama has told lawmakers he plans to pull troops out of Iraq by August 2010. His plan would leave behind 35,000 to 40,000 troops — possibly as many as 50,000 — to advise Iraqi troops and protect U.S. interests.


Obama budget: Mammoth deficits but headed lower (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 04:47 PM PST

US President Barack Obama (L) announces his administration's proposed Financial Year 2010 federal budget outline with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (C) and Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag (R) in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC.(AFP/Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)AP - President Barack Obama charted a dramatic new course for the nation Thursday with a bold but contentious budget proposing higher taxes for the wealthy and the first steps toward guaranteed health care for all — accompanied by an astonishing $1.75 trillion federal deficit that would be nearly four times the highest in history.


Sources: Feds moving enemy combatant to Ill. court (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 03:18 PM PST

AP - An accused al-Qaida sleeper agent held for 5-1/2 years at a Navy brig in South Carolina will soon be sent to Illinois for trial in civilian court, a move the government has fought for years saying terror suspects caught in the U.S. could be held indefinitely without charges.

FACT CHECK: GOP adrift on small business claim (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 03:14 PM PST

AP - Claims that President Barack Obama's tax plans are an assault on small business skirt the likelihood that most job-producing small businesses wouldn't feel that pinch at all.

Obama pledge could hamper Dems (Politico)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 03:14 PM PST

Politico - As if the economy wasn’t causing enough fundraising problems, Democrats may face another impediment: President Barack Obama’s campaign pledge not to accept money from lobbyists and political action committees.

Obama budget has new $750B bank rescue contingency (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 03:05 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama is budgeting for a new $750 billion bank bailout this year, raising the prospect of a dramatic increase in the stake taxpayers already hold in the beleaguered financial sector.

Stevens: No White House oath needed for justices (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 03:54 PM PST

In this June 15, 2006 file photo, Associate Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, center, smiles as he chats with Chief Justice John G. Roberts, right, at the Supreme Court in Washington. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is at left. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - Justice John Paul Stevens said Thursday Supreme Court justices shouldn't take their judicial oaths at the White House, calling it "inappropriate symbolism" for an independent branch of government.


AP: Mexico president wants to win drug war by 2012 (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 05:51 PM PST

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Mexico City, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009. During the interview, Calderon rejected U.S. government reports that questioned whether the Mexican government is losing control of its territory to drug cartels. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)AP - President Felipe Calderon said Thursday he wants to win the war against the world's most powerful drug gangs before his term ends in 2012, and disputed U.S. fears that Mexico is losing control of its territory.


Analysis: Obama plan brings cries of class warfare (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 02:39 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks about his fiscal 2010 federal budget, Thursday, Feb, 26, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington. He is joined by Budget Director Peter Orszag, right, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - He's not being timid, that's for sure.


Senate votes to give DC citizens vote in Congress (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 04:39 PM PST

District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, smiles after the Senate passed the District of Columbia House Voting Right Acts, 61-37, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009. The bill now moves to the House of Representatives. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - WASHINGTON(AP — The right to a vote in Congress denied the District of Columbia when it became the nation's capital two centuries ago would be granted under legislation the Senate passed Thursday.


Poll: Southern blacks have high hopes for country (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 05:31 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - COLUMBIA, S.C. — President Barack Obama will help America rid itself of racial prejudice, nearly 75 percent of African-American Southerners surveyed said, an indicator of the high hopes black America has invested in Obama's ability to improve race relations.

Obama budget plan forecasts soaring deficits (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 05:24 PM PST

With Vice President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi looking on, U.S. President Barack Obama addresses a joint session of Congress in Washington, February 24, 2009. REUTERS/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/PoolReuters - President Barack Obama forecast the biggest U.S. deficit since World War Two in a budget on Thursday that urges a costly overhaul of the healthcare system and would spend billions to arrest the economy's freefall.


Obama swings axe at private student lenders (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 03:44 PM PST

Reuters - The U.S. college student loan business was reeling on Thursday from an unexpected proposal in President Barack Obama's 2010 federal budget to axe the giant federally guaranteed student loan program.

Class warfare returns to Washington (Politico)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 03:34 PM PST

US President Barack Obama (L) makes comments on the Fiscal Year 2010 budget with US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in Washinton DC. Obama unveiled a 3.552 trillion dollar budget Thursday that outlines aggressive plans to boost the recession-stricken US economy and overhaul its health care system.(AFP/Jim Watson)Politico - President Barack Obama has spent months recasting Democratic goals on climate change and health care reform from liberal-leaning moral imperatives to hard-core economic necessities.


Under Obama plan, tax burden shifts to the wealthy (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 03:27 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama's budget proposal would shift much of the tax burden from middle- and low-income families to the wealthy, while increasing taxes on many businesses.

Obama seeks $130 billion for wars next year (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 03:20 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks about his fiscal 2010 federal budget, Thursday, Feb, 26, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington.  From left are, Vice President Joe Biden, the president, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner Budget Director Peter Orszag. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama proposed war spending Thursday that nears $11 billion a month for the next year and a half despite the planned drawdown of U.S. forces in Iraq.


Black caucus presses Obama on priorities (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 03:20 PM PST

Congressional Black Caucus chair Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., at microphone,  talks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009, following a meeting with President Obama. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - President Barack Obama reassured members of the Congressional Black Caucus that he's on their side and will do what he can to support the group's left-leaning agenda, lawmakers said Thursday after an hour-long session at the White House.


Budget buzz words: "new," "billion," "health" (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 03:10 PM PST

AP - Certain key words pop up repeatedly in President Barack Obama's initial budget proposal and they are telling: "new," "billion," "health," "increase," and "million." He used versions of those words more than one thousand times in just 134 pages.

Obama would spend more to make college affordable (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 03:08 PM PST

AP - President Obama on Thursday proposed a huge expansion of the government's role in making college more affordable and putting it within reach of more students.

Gates: Media photos of war dead need families' OK (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 03:07 PM PST

In this undated photo released by the U.S. Department of Defense and obtained by thememoryhole.org shows flag-draped coffins of U.S. war casualties aboard a cargo plane in Dover, Del. News organizations will be allowed to photograph the homecomings of America's war dead under a new Pentagon policy, defense and congressional officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Department of Defense via thememoryhole.org, File)AP - The Obama administration is reversing an 18-year ban on news coverage of the return of war dead, allowing photographs of flag-covered caskets when families of the fallen troops agree, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.


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