2009年3月20日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Elections

WH: Agenda on track despite worsening deficits (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 03:27 PM PDT

President Barack Obama makes remarks to representatives of the National Conference of State Legislatures, Friday, March 20, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - President Barack Obama's budget would produce $9.3 trillion in deficits over the next decade, more than four times the deficits of Republican George W. Bush's presidency, congressional auditors said Friday.


Senate Republicans brake rush to tax AIG bonuses (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 02:11 PM PDT

A car speeds past the AIG sign, Thursday, March 19, 2009, at AIG's financial products offices in Wilton, CT. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday called for banking supervisors to pay 'close attention' to compensation practices as they examine the soundness of financial institutions. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)AP - Senate Republicans are drawing out a flap that has made the Obama administration squirm, applying the brakes to Democratic attempts to quickly tax away most of the bonuses at troubled insurance giant AIG and other bailed-out companies.


Obama urges states to use recovery money carefully (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 03:44 PM PDT

President Barack Obama walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington as he returns from a trip to California early Friday, March 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - With states eager to spend, President Barack Obama announced guidelines Friday aimed at preventing waste and fraud and limiting the influence lobbyists will have in carrying out the $787 billion economic stimulus program.


Ground is broken for White House 'kitchen garden' (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 01:09 PM PDT

First lady Michelle Obama takes part in the groundbreaking of the White House Kitchen Garden on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 20, 2009, with students from Washington's Bancroft Elementary School. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - Twenty-six elementary schoolchildren wielded shovels, rakes, pitchforks and wheelbarrows to help first lady Michelle Obama break ground for a produce and herb garden on the White House grounds.


Palin whacks Obama on Special Olympics (Politico)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 02:10 PM PDT

Politico - Time differences tend to slow these things down, but here's Palin:

Post office offering early out, cutting managers (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 02:52 PM PDT

A mail carrier who identified himself as Manuel makes his rounds in the Cow Hollow neighborhood in San Francisco, California March 20, 2009. The U.S. Postal Service said on Friday it is closing six of its 80 district offices. In addition, administrative staff positions at district level nationwide are being reduced by 15 percent and nearly 150,000 employees nationwide being given opportunity to take an early retirement.   REUTERS/Robert Galbraith  (UNITED STATES BUSINESS POLITICS)AP - Battered by the economy, the post office is offering early retirement to 150,000 workers, cutting management and closing offices, the agency said Friday.


Bernanke says exec compensation must be monitored (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 01:49 PM PDT

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks at a conference of Independent Community Bankers of America Friday, March 20, 2009, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday called for banking supervisors to pay "close attention" to compensation practices as they examine the soundness of financial institutions.


Obama reaches out to Iranians with video message (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 11:02 AM PDT

President Barack Obama makes remarks to representatives of the National Conference of State Legislatures, Friday, March 20, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - President Barack Obama is reaching out to the Iranian people in a new video with Farsi subtitles, saying the U.S. is prepared to end years of strained relations if Tehran tones down its bellicose rhetoric.


Obama could make top high court lawyer a justice (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 01:18 PM PDT

This April 2003 photo provided by Harvard University shows Elena Kagan, Harvard University law school dean.  The Senate has confirmed Kagan as the first female solicitor general to represent the United States before the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Harvard University, Kathleen Dooher)AP - Elena Kagan on Friday became the nation's first female Solicitor General, a position informally regarded as the 10th Supreme Court justice and, for her, a possible audition for a spot in the starting nine.


Former AIG head denies he started exec bonuses (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 08:37 AM PDT

In this May 12, 2005 file photo, Maurice Greenberg, former CEO of American International Group, exits the ceremony after he received an award from the Police Athletic League in New York. Greenberg  is asserting that the company under his leadership did not have the type of executive bonus system that has come under harsh criticism across the country Friday, March 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin, file)AP - Former AIG chief executive officer Hank Greenberg said the company under his leadership never had the kind of retention bonus system that has subjected it to withering criticism.


DNC raises only $3.2 million in February (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 03:38 PM PDT

AP - The Democratic National Committee raised $3.2 million in February, a strikingly low take for a financial juggernaut led by President Barack Obama and his legions of grass-roots supporters who helped him shatter campaign fundraising records.

How I botched the bonus story (Politico)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 03:13 PM PDT

Politico - The Washington ritual of the boiling scandal, with howls of outrage and frantic demands for a high-ranking scalp, is now in full swing over $165 million in bonuses for employees at failed insurance giant AIG.

8 plead not guilty in Ky. election-rigging case (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 03:07 PM PDT

AP - An eastern Kentucky judge, school superintendent and county clerk have pleaded not guilty in federal court a day after being indicted on charges they bribed voters in a scheme to rig several elections.

Michelle Obama starts White House vegetable garden (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 03:06 PM PDT

Reuters - First Lady Michelle Obama broke ground on a new White House vegetable garden on Friday, digging a plot on the mansion's south lawn to help provide her children and visitors with fresh, healthy food.

Obama budget deficit seen at record 1.845 trillion dlrs (AFP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 02:39 PM PDT

The US budget deficit could hit 1.845 trillion dollars this year under the budget proposed by President Barack Obama, quadrupling the 2008 record shortfall, a new forecast showed Friday.(Congressional Budget Office)AFP - The US budget deficit could hit 1.845 trillion dollars this year under the budget proposed by President Barack Obama, quadrupling the 2008 record shortfall, a new forecast showed Friday.


FACT CHECK: Obama's gas-mileage claim sputters (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 02:20 PM PDT

AP - What's more fuel-efficient, a Ford Model T or a modern-day sport utility vehicle? President Barack Obama says the Model T, but his comparison is a stretch.

NRA appeals ruling blocking guns in national parks (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 02:12 PM PDT

AP - The National Rifle Association has appealed a federal court ruling that blocked a Bush administration policy allowing people to carry concealed, loaded guns in national parks.

Official: US strategy will move soldiers out front (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 01:43 PM PDT

Canadian soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) walk during a patrol in Panjwayi, in Afghanistan, on March 28, 2008. Four Canadian soldiers were killed and eight were injured Friday in two separate explosions in Afghanistan, the Canadian military said.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AP - The United States will change the way its forces are arrayed in Afghanistan as part of an overhaul of U.S. strategy in the flagging war, a senior defense official said Friday.


Obama offers new start with Iran (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 01:22 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the Iranian people, in this frame grab of videotaped speech released by the White House just after midnight, early March 20, 2009. REUTERS/The White House/HandoutReuters - U.S. President Barack Obama made his warmest offer yet of a fresh start in relations with Iran, which cautiously welcomed the overture but said on Friday it was waiting for "practical steps," not talk.


Who is the next AIG? (Politico)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 01:17 PM PDT

Politico - If AIG’s bonus checks make you mad, keep your pitchfork handy. Here’s the secret behind the government’s bailouts: Any bank big enough to get billions in bailout cash is almost certainly giving out bonus checks too.

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