2009年4月21日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Obama open to torture memos probe, prosecution (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 04:40 PM PDT

President Barack Obama presents the Commander in Chief trophy to the U.S. Naval Academy football team, Tuesday, April 21, 2009, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Behind at right is head coach Ken Niumatalolo.  (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Widening an explosive debate on torture, President Barack Obama on Tuesday opened the possibility of prosecution for Bush-era lawyers who authorized brutal interrogation of terror suspects and suggested Congress might order a full investigation.


Obama joins students to lend a hand at park (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 04:22 PM PDT

President Barack Obama lifts his foot to examine his muddy shoe as he and first lady Michelle Obama plant a tree as they participate in a national service project at Kenilworth Aquatic Garden in Washington, Tuesday, April 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama on Tuesday rolled up his sleeves and got his shoes muddy as he, Vice President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton planted trees at a national park site along the Anacostia River in northeast Washington.


3 lawyers face scrutiny for torture advice (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 04:15 PM PDT

AP - Three Bush administration lawyers who worked in an elite Justice Department unit face further scrutiny over their advice on how to conduct tough interrogations of terror suspects, but criminal prosecution remains only an outside possibility.

Cyber hackers breached jet fighter program (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 05:05 PM PDT

AP - Cyber hackers nearly two years ago breached a high-tech jet fighter program developed for the Pentagon by Lockheed Martin Corp., but classified information was not compromised, a senior defense official said Tuesday.

New legislation triples service program (Politico)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 03:29 PM PDT

Politico - President Barack Obama signed legislation Tuesday to triple the size of the national service program, calling the expansion a new opportunity to connect “deeds to needs.”

Geithner tells overseers banks still in distress (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 02:15 PM PDT

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 21, 2009, before the Congressional Oversight Panel of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - America's banks are still broken despite all their bailout billions, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told impatient rescue overseers Tuesday as they pressed him on when things will get better and how much it will cost. A bleak new report estimated U.S. banks and other financial institutions could lose a stunning $2.7 trillion in all.


Divided Senate committee approves Sebelius at HHS (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 05:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 2, 2009 file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary-designate, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sebelius won a divided Senate's approval Tuesday, April 21, 2009, to be confirmed as secretary of health and human services in the Obama administration. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, FILE)AP - Kathleen Sebelius won Senate committee approval as health secretary over Republican opposition Tuesday, putting her on track for a final Senate vote in coming days.


Committee: Bayer engaged in campaign of secrecy (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 04:12 PM PDT

AP - Bayer CropScience withheld information from emergency responders after a deadly explosion at a West Virginia chemical plant last summer, and has since used a terrorism-related law to keep some documents secret, a congressional committee said Tuesday.

Senate confirms new Iraq envoy (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 04:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 25, 2009 file photo, Christopher Hill, President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next ambassador to Iraq, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. So far this year, Congress has done what it does best — spend a lot of money and make a lot of promises. Now as lawmakers return from a two-week spring break, comes the hard part, the actual crafting of legislation that will change how banks are regulated, health care is delivered and the nation consumes energy.   (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, FILE)AP - The Senate on Tuesday confirmed President Barack Obama's choice to be the next U.S. ambassador to Iraq despite fierce opposition from conservatives who complained about the nominee's diplomatic record.


Fear over higher costs looms over climate debate (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 03:39 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 1948, photo the main business district of Donora, Pa., is is cloaked in smog, the sunlight virtually obliterated by thick low hanging pollution. From 1969 to 1980, Congress passed a wide range of environmental bills tackling air and water pollution, garbage, protections for fisheries and marine mammals, and endangered species; in 1990 Congress tackled acid rain by rehauling the Clean Air Act. Now in the week of April 20, 2009, lawmakers begin hearings on an energy and global warming bill that could revolutionize how the country produces and uses energy, and could for the first time reduce the pollution responsible for heating up the planet. (AP Photo/Walter Stein, FILE)AP - As Congress begins to debate climate change in earnest, the science is taking a back seat to economics: How much will it cost to slow the Earth's warming because of man-made pollution — and what's the cost of doing nothing?


Obama official: Chrysler lender proposal unjustified (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 05:19 PM PDT

Reuters - The latest debt reduction offer by Chrysler LLC's lenders is unacceptable because it would yield the lenders an unjustified return, an Obama administration official said on Tuesday.

GOP still using disputed data (Politico)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 04:15 PM PDT

Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., left, looks on as House Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Va. arrives for news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 25, 2009, to discuss the budget. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)Politico - GOP Conference Chairman Mike Pence is defending Republican use of a widely disputed cost estimate on a Democratic global warming proposal, even after an outcry from media, environmentalists, and climate change experts.


Sources: Feds may drop classified leak case (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 04:07 PM PDT

AP - The Justice Department is considering dropping its case against two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of illegally disclosing national defense secrets, government officials said Tuesday.

Obama urges citizens to undertake national service (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 04:40 PM PDT

President Barack Obama digs a hole before planting a tree as they participate in a national service project at Kenilworth Aquatic Garden in Washington, Tuesday, April 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Calling on Americans to volunteer, President Barack Obama signed a $5.7 billion national service bill Tuesday that triples the size of the AmeriCorps service program over the next eight years and expands ways for students to earn money for college. "What this legislation does, then, is to help harness this patriotism and connect deeds to needs," said Obama, a former community organizer in Chicago.


Obama doesn't rule out charges over interrogations (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 03:16 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama left the door open on Tuesday to prosecuting some U.S. officials who laid the legal groundwork for harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects during the Bush administration.

Justices hear arguments over school strip search (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 03:11 PM PDT

Savana Redding, left, and her mother April Redding stand outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, April 21, 2009 in Washington, after the court heard the case of Redding who was strip searched when she was 13 years old by school officials looking for prescription-strength ibuprofen pills.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - The Supreme Court seemed worried Tuesday about tying the hands of school officials looking for drugs and weapons on campus as they wrestled with the appropriateness of a strip-search of a 13-year-old girl accused of having prescription-strength ibuprofen.


Unresolved debate in DOJ memos: Does torture work? (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 02:50 PM PDT

President Barack Obama gestures during his meeting with King Abdullah of Jordan, not shown, Tuesday, April 21, 2009, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. The president said Tuesday, inflammatory anti-Israel rhetoric by the Iranian president 'hurts Iran's position in the world.'  (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Interrogators have centuries of experience extracting information from the unwilling. Medieval inquisitors hanged heretics from ceilings. Salem magistrates used fire to elicit witchcraft confessions. And CIA officers waterboarded terrorism suspects in clandestine prisons.


Top bailed-out firms continue lobbying (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 02:41 PM PDT

The General Motors logo hangs at the entrance to a Chevrolet dealership in Park Ridge, Illinois, United States, February 2009. The US Treasury will lend a further five billion dollars to General Motors and 500 million dollars to Chrysler as the troubled automakers work on their viability plans, officials said Tuesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Olson)AP - The top 10 recipients of the government's $700 billion financial bailout spent about $9.5 million on federal lobbying during the first three months of the year.


Obama invites Mideast leaders for separate talks (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 02:34 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama will invite the Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian leaders to the White House in the coming weeks for separate talks on moving forward with the Middle East peace process, the White House said Tuesday.

USDA will review civil rights complaints (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 02:14 PM PDT

AP - The Agriculture Department plans to review more than 14,000 civil rights complaints that have been filed against the agency since 2000.

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