2009年5月1日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Obama's high court choice could be Hispanic, woman (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 04:46 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, in a unexpected visit to the White House pressroom Friday, May 1, 2009, tells reporters that he just got off the phone with Supreme Court Justice David Souter and they talked about Souter's retirement.  (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - President Barack Obama pledged Friday to name a Supreme Court justice who combines "empathy and understanding" with an impeccable legal background to succeed liberal David Souter, whose abrupt retirement announcement set off speculation the next justice could be a woman, a Hispanic or both.


Analysis: Court opening may animate liberal causes (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 04:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 7, 2005 file photo, U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter talks with friends in Concord, N.H.,  while he visited his native New Hampshire on break from the court. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)AP - President Barack Obama has tried to hold off debate on contentious social issues such as abortion, immigration and gay rights as he focuses on the economy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Supreme Court vacancy will make that harder to do.


Al-Qaida used Hotmail, simple codes in planning (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 04:06 PM PDT

FILE - This March 1, 2003 file picture shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan. In the days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, alleged al-Qaida operations mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed intended to use his free Hotmail account to direct a U.S.-based operative to carry out an attack, according to a guilty plea agreement filed on Thursday, April 30, 2009 by Al Saleh Kahlah al-Marri in federal court. (AP Photo)AP - In the days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, alleged al-Qaida operations mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed intended to use his free Hotmail account to direct a U.S.-based operative to carry out an attack, according to a guilty plea agreement filed by Al Saleh Kahlah al-Marri in federal court.


Now more than 140 swine flu cases in US (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 04:09 PM PDT

Pediatrician and primary physician Dr. Ellen Rothman, left, gives Makhi Hatch, 4, an examination for his cough as his mother Stephanie Correa, center, watches on, at the St. John's Well Child and Family Center in Los Angeles Wednesday, April 29, 2009.  The St. John's Well Child & Family Center, which oversees clinics that treat Los Angeles' poor and uninsured, doctors have seen a surge in patients complaining about flu-like symptoms. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - President Barack Obama voiced hope Friday that the swine flu virus will run its course "like ordinary flus" as officials reported more than two dozen new cases and scores more schools shut down.


Denise Austin: Get in shape, Congress! (Politico)

Posted: 01 May 2009 02:00 PM PDT

Politico - Can we achieve bipartisanship through our biceps? Absolutely, says fitness guru Denise Austin, who spent time on Capitol Hill this week to celebrate 10 years of advances in women's health and prevention.

Game-changing call to college football: Playoff (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 03:27 PM PDT

Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner and Bowl Championship Series coordinator John Swofford, left, testifies before the House Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection Subcommittee hearing on the football Bowl Championship Series on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, May 1, 2009. Also testifying on the panel are, from left, West Mountain Conference Commissioner Craig Thompson, President and CEO of Valero Alamo Bowl Derrick Fox and Boise State Athletic Director Gene Bleymaier. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Tackling an issue sure to rouse sports fans, lawmakers pressed college football officials Friday to switch the Bowl Championship Series to a playoff, with one Texas Republican likening the current system to communism and joking it should be labeled "BS," not "BCS."


A look at potential Obama nominees to high court (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 03:37 PM PDT

This photo taken in June 2008 and provided by the University of Chicago shows Judge Diane Pamela Woods of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Wood is a possible nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.  (AP photo/University of Chicago, Lloyd DeGrane)AP - Court watchers think President Barack Obama will choose a woman for his first nomination to the Supreme Court, where only one of nine seats is held by a female — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.


Clinton wants renewal of ties to Latin America (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 04:23 PM PDT

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the FY2009 war supplemental on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The Obama administration is working to improve deteriorating U.S. relations with a number of Latin American nations to counter growing Iranian, Chinese and Russian influence in the Western Hemisphere, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday.


FDA says dieters should stop using Hydroxycut now (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 04:34 PM PDT

The logo of the US Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA). Dieters who use the weight loss and energy-boosting Hydroxycut supplements should immediately stop, the US drug regulator warned Friday after reports of liver injuries and one death.(US Food and Drug Adminstration)AP - Government health officials warned dieters and body builders Friday to immediately stop using Hydroxycut, a widely sold supplement linked to cases of serious liver damage and at least one death.


Senate Republicans in flux for high-court hearings (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 04:18 PM PDT

Former Republican Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., walks in the halls of the Dirksen Senate office building after attending the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the FY2009 war supplemental on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The likelihood of contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearings comes at a time of transition for Senate Republicans.


Obamas attend daughter's extracurricular event (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 04:44 PM PDT

AP - A Supreme Court announcement, a swearing-in ceremony. And then his daughter's after-school activity.

President welcomes new soldiers-turned-citizens (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 04:06 PM PDT

President Barack Obama smiles as he looks out at the raise hands as members of the military being sworn-in as U. S. citizens during a naturalization ceremony, Friday, May 1, 2009, for active duty service members in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - President Barack Obama told two dozen members of the U.S. military who were sworn in Friday as U.S. citizens that they are "living examples" of America's promise.


Will Congressman Be Allowed to Use Campaign Donations for Home Security? (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 01 May 2009 04:01 PM PDT

CQPolitics.com - Federal Election Commission lawyers are recommending that Republican Rep. Elton Gallegly be permitted to use campaign funds to enhance security at his California residence after a man repeatedly trespassed on his property before and after the 2008 election.

Regular flu shots this fall, maybe swine jab too (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 03:56 PM PDT

In this photo released by the Ohio Department of Health, shipment of Tamiflu vaccine is received and stored by the Ohio National Guard at an undisclosed location Tuesday, April 28, 2009 in Ohio. Laboratory testing shows the new virus is treatable by the anti-flu drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, and the first shipments from a federal stockpile arrived Wednesday in New York City and several other locations in the U.S.. The government was shipping to states enough medication to treat 11 million people as a precaution. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Health)AP - Americans might have to line up twice next winter for flu shots — once for the regular jab and again later for swine flu protection.


US official: North Korean nuclear test likely (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 03:18 PM PDT

North Korean soldiers stand on the banks of the Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong May 1, 2009. In the flurry of diplomatic talk about North Korea, an ominous silence divides China and the United States on what they will do if the isolated nuclear-armed state falls into chaos, even collapse. REUTERS/Stringer (NORTH KOREA MILITARY POLITICS) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINAAP - A senior Obama administration official said he expects that North Korea will test a nuclear weapon before it is forced back to international disarmament negotiations.


Obama to meet with Afghan, Pakistan leaders (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 02:18 PM PDT

AP - The White House says President Barack Obama will meet Wednesday with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to discuss their troubled region.

Politi-quotes: The week in one-liners (Politico)

Posted: 01 May 2009 02:16 PM PDT

Politico - The week's top ten quotes:

Gates grilled over fate of Guantanamo inmates (Reuters)

Posted: 01 May 2009 02:09 PM PDT

Reuters - The Obama administration began internal discussions this week over where to put Guantanamo Bay detainees if they are not tried or sent to other nations, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday.

Quotes from Obama on Supreme Court nominees (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 01:57 PM PDT

AP - A look at what President Barack Obama has said about potential nominees to the Supreme Court:

Anti-abortion activist arrested at Notre Dame (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 01:28 PM PDT

AP - Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry has been arrested while protesting against President Barack Obama's upcoming commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame just hours after he was ordered off school grounds.

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