2009年3月5日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Obama welcomes allies, skeptics to health summit (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 11:33 AM PST

President Barack Obama delivers remarks to the White House Forum on Health Reform, Thursday, March 5, 2009, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - President Barack Obama summoned allies, skeptics and health care figures of all stripes to the White House Thursday to debate ideas for overhauling the nation's costly system and declared, "The status quo is the one option that is not on the table."


Both parties play the blame game for economic woes (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 12:42 PM PST

Sen. David Vitter speaks during a news conference on the stimulus package in Washington, DC. Senate Republicans say they are alarmed by President Barack Obama's stimulus package worth nearly $900 billion dollars, which will be voted on later in the week.(AFP/Getty Images/Mark Wilson)AP - Sen. John McCain deployed heavy sarcasm. Fellow Republican Marsha Blackburn trotted out a chart. A group of conservative House Republicans mocked: "'Deficit we inherited?' ... Spare us the false outrage." The war between Republicans and Democrats to frame the blame for the economy erupted in earnest this week.


Allies find agreement on ties with Russians (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 10:36 AM PST

Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, left center, shares a word with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, second right, during a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday March 5, 2009. Relations with Russia and Afghanistan will be the key items on the agenda. (AP Photo/Francois Lenoir, Pool)AP - NATO agreed after an intense internal debate Thursday to restore normal relations with Russia seven months after it froze ties in response to Moscow's invasion of Georgia.


Bankruptcy home loan bill heads for House passage (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 12:40 PM PST

Graphic shows percentage of home loans past due or in foreclosure by stateAP - A plan to give debt-strapped homeowners a chance to win lower mortgage payments through bankruptcy courts headed for House approval Thursday as a new report revealed that foreclosures and past-due home loans hit a record 5.4 million last year.


Obama's safety net: the TelePrompter (Politico)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 10:04 AM PST

Politico - President Barack Obama doesn’t go anywhere without his TelePrompter.

Senators sketch health reform bill strategy (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 09:31 AM PST

AP - As President Barack Obama convenes a health care summit at the White House, leaders of a Senate committee have announced plans to shape his goals into a bill and pass it before the end of July.

Clinton seeks international meeting on Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 09:50 AM PST

AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed on Thursday a high-level international conference on Afghanistan to be sponsored by the United Nations and attended by a wide range of countries including Pakistan and possibly Iran.

Piracy attacks drop as nations step up patrols (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 12:37 PM PST

The USS Leyte Gulf is pictutred in January 2009. The US Navy on Thursday handed over seven suspected Somali pirates to Kenyan authorities for trial, a police official said.(AFP/File/Marcello Paternostro)AP - Two months into an international anti-piracy campaign off the Somalia coast, the number of attacks against cargo ships is down sharply, senior military and diplomatic officials said Thursday.


Michelle Obama serves lunch at soup kitchen (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 10:27 AM PST

First lady Michelle Obama, right, hands out meals during her visit to Miriam's Kitchen in Washington, Thursday, March 5, 2009. The center provides meals, case management services and housing support to nearly 250 men and women in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - The mystery server at lunch was ... Michelle Obama.


FACT CHECK: Obama 'tax hikes' a matter of words (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 10:42 AM PST

AP - President Barack Obama says he would lower taxes on 95 percent of Americans now and raise them on the rich in 2011. Republicans say he will increase taxes for all and in the midst of a recession to boot.

Both parties stew over Obama infrastructure changes (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 12:23 PM PST

Reuters - Barely a week after President Barack Obama released his first federal budget, members of both political parties in the U.S. Congress are spoiling for a fight over changes to infrastructure funding.

Obama cabinet members check Gulf Coast recovery (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 12:11 PM PST

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, center, listens to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, left as newly nominated FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, right, looks on at a news conference after touring damage caused  by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Thursday, March 5, 2009.  (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - Two members of President Barack Obama's cabinet said Thursday they are disturbed by the extent of damage that remains 3 1/2 years after Hurricane Katrina and pledged to speed the pace of rebuilding across the Gulf Coast.


Obama to make 1st Europe trip as president in March (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 11:37 AM PST

Reuters - Barack Obama will make his first trip to Europe later this month as U.S. president, visiting Britain, France, Germany and the Czech Republic, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday.

Obama opens healthcare drive with White House forum (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 11:20 AM PST

US President Barack Obama announces his nomination of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services on March 2. Obama will on Thursday step up a perennial crusade that has thwarted previous presidents to make affordable healthcare available to all Americans.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)Reuters - President Barack Obama opened his drive for a healthcare overhaul at a White House forum on Thursday, seeking momentum to change a costly and inefficient system he says is dragging down the U.S. economy.


Recession, tax plans worry donors and nonprofits (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 11:12 AM PST

Chicago businessman and philanthropist Richard Kiphart poses at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in Chicago, Wednesday, March 4, 2009. Kiphart contributed generously to Barack Obama's campaign and is glad he backed a winner. But he's among many donors and recipients in the philanthropic world worrying that Obama's new tax proposals could deter future giving at a time when many nonprofits already are in crisis mode. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Chicago philanthropist Richard Kiphart contributed generously to Barack Obama's campaign and is glad he backed a winner.


Dems sketch ambitious timetable for Obama agenda (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 11:11 AM PST

AP - Congressional Democrats laid out an ambitious timetable for President Barack Obama's agenda, with action on the budget later this month in the House and a vote on health care by late summer.

Earliest domesticated horses dated 5,500 years ago (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 12:35 PM PST

This undated handout photo provided by the journal Science shows a mare being milked in Northern Kazakhstan. 'Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it,' wrote 18th century historian John Moore. That man-and-beast march has been underway for at least 5,500 years, according to an international team of researchers reporting in Friday's edition of the journal Science. New evidence corralled in Kazakhstan indicates these ancient horses found use as beasts of burden as well as a source of food.  (AP Photo/Science, Alan K. Outram)AP - People and horses have trekked together through at least 5,500 years of history, according to an international team of researchers reporting in Friday's edition of the journal Science.


Obama team working hard on GM, auto woes: White House (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 10:38 AM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama's administration is working "around the clock" to form an approach to the challenges facing General Motors Corp and the auto industry, a White House spokeswoman said on Thursday.

Frank pushes for punishment for crisis (Politico)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 10:19 AM PST

Politico - House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is pressing state and federal authorities to seek criminal and civil penalties on financial actors that helped cause the current crisis.

EPA urged to reverse Bush-era auto emission ruling (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 10:03 AM PST

AP - The head of California's air pollution agency on Thursday urged federal regulators to reverse a Bush-era decision that blocks the state's efforts to set its own limits on greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles.

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