2009年5月4日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Congress leery about Obama's plan on tax loopholes (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 04:56 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about tax reform in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama promised sternly on Monday to crack down on companies "that ship jobs overseas" and duck U.S. taxes with offshore havens. It won't be easy. Democrats have been fighting — and losing — this battle since John F. Kennedy made a similar proposal in 1961. Obama's proposal to close tax loopholes was a reliable applause line during the presidential campaign, but it got a lukewarm response Monday from Capitol Hill.


Obama seeks assurances from Pakistan's leader (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 04:28 PM PDT

Adm. Mike Mullen of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, left, Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, center, and U.S. Charge d'Affaires in India Peter Burleigh look on during a press briefing in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, April 8, 2009. Holbrooke met with senior Indian officials in New Delhi on Wednesday to discuss regional security issues and the 'common challenges' that India, Pakistan and the United States face. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)AP - President Barack Obama will seek assurances this week from Pakistani President Asif Ali Zadari that his country's nuclear arsenal is safe and that Pakistan's military intends to face down Taliban extremists in coordination with Afghanistan and the United States, U.S. officials said Monday.


Swine flu could shine glaring light on uninsured (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 05:06 PM PDT

AP - Swine flu could shine a glaring light on the best and worst about American-style health care.

FDA moves against swine flu fraud (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 05:38 PM PDT

AP - The Food and Drug Administration has found at least 20 Web sites that may be fraudulently marketing products with claims that they guard against or cure swine flu, an agency official said Monday.

Hatch: W.H. may reveal name this week (Politico)

Posted: 04 May 2009 05:07 PM PDT

Politico - After talking to President Barack Obama on the phone today, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch says he believes the White House will move swiftly on its Supreme Court nominee, perhaps making an announcement by the end of this week.

Rice takes tough question from fourth grader (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 05:38 PM PDT

In this photograph provided by Rabinowitz-Dorf, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks to grade school students at the Jewish Primary Day School in Washington, on Sunday, May 3, 2009.  (AP Photo/Rainowitz-Dorf, Ron Sachs)AP - Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Jewish elementary school students that the Bush administration did not use illegal interrogation tactics.


AP IMPACT: Empty neighborhoods fill Rust Belt (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 05:36 PM PDT

Painted murals spruce up a boarded-up building on Race St. in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, Thursday, April 9, 2009.  The neighborhood, which took its name from early German immigrants, is highlighted by its 19th century Italianate architecture. Now, roughly two of every three homes there are vacant or used by squatters in some streches. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)AP - Meet the forgotten housing crisis. While most attention has focused on the wave of foreclosures sweeping mostly middle-class, suburban Sunbelt neighborhoods from California to Florida, the nation's emptiest neighborhoods have remained concentrated in the same place for nearly a generation: the mostly minority, poor, urban neighborhoods of the American Rust Belt.


Is the recession suffocating American innovation? (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 05:25 PM PDT

FILE - This is an undated  photo from the 1940's of William Hewlett, left, and David Packard, who co-founded Silicon Valley electronics company Hewlett-Packard Co. in 1938, running it out of their Palo Alto, Calif., garage at the end of the Great Depression.  (AP Photo/HO/Hewlett Packard, File)AP - Got a bright business idea? Take a number.


'El no habla': Obama jumbles Cinco de Mayo salute (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 05:03 PM PDT

President Barack Obama reacts to a guest during a Cinco de Mayo celebration in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 4, 2009. Left are first lady Michelle Obama and Arturo Sarukhan, Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - President Barack Obama's joke wasn't lost in translation — even though he referred to a Cinco de Mayo celebration as "Cinco de Cuatro."


Court puts limits on liability in toxic spill (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 05:46 PM PDT

AP - The Supreme Court says Shell Oil Co. cannot be held responsible for cleanup of a contaminated Superfund site owned by a defunct company simply because it delivered chemicals to the site.

Pentagon auditor cites heavy fraud by contractor (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 05:32 PM PDT

AP - A massive contract to support U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan received a withering review Monday, as a special panel investigating waste and fraud in wartime spending was told of numerous deficiencies in the arrangement that has paid KBR Inc. nearly $32 billion since 2001.

Israeli president: Iran threatens US, Europe (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 05:16 PM PDT

Israeli President Shimon Peres pauses during a speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee 2009 policy conference on Monday, May 4, 2009 in Washington.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - Israel's president charged Monday that Iran's nuclear program threatens the United States, Europe and Arab nations, as well as Israel.


Obama's tax plans raises high-tech hackles (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 05:16 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama's plan to impose U.S. taxes on corporate America's overseas profits threatens to open a big crater in the financial statements of technology companies.

After Specter switch: buyer's remorse? (Politico)

Posted: 04 May 2009 05:11 PM PDT

Politico - Nearly a week after Democrats welcomed Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter into the fold and Republicans got acquainted with Specter's prospective challenger, Pat Toomey, both sides are showing signs of buyer's remorse.

Obama Urged to Look Beyond Federal Appeals Courts in Replacing Souter (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 04 May 2009 04:42 PM PDT

CQPolitics.com - During a breakfast meeting at the White House in 2005, Vermont Democratic Sen. Patrick J. Leahy urged President George W. Bush to consider nominating an elected official to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court.

Nevada files voter fraud charges against ACORN (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 04 May 2009 04:39 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Nevada's attorney general on Monday filed criminal charges accusing liberal community activist group ACORN and two of its employees of facilitating voter registration fraud in November's election by requiring canvassers to submit 20 applications each day or face termination.

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Lobbyists eye Iraq measure (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 04:38 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 20, 2009, file photo headlight trails are seen from cars streaking past  the Rock N Roll McDonald's restaurant in Chicago. Firms, including huge employers like McDonald's, Sears, and Coca-Cola tried and failed to get relief as part of the economic recovery bill enacted in February 2009, and backers now see the Iraq spending measure as a second chance.  (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - From car companies to big retailers, firms looking for shelter in the recession are swarming around a promising opportunity: a multibillion emergency spending bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.


Court considers sentencing of young offenders (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 04:33 PM PDT

A view of the US Supreme Court in Washington DC. The US Supreme Court said Monday that it would examine whether life imprisonment terms without parole handed down on two teenagers in Florida were constitutional.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AP - Though it may be decades, Joe Harris Sullivan is waiting to die in prison for a crime he committed at age 13, one of thousands of children who have been sentenced to life terms without parole in the United States.


Obama calls senators about high court pick (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 04:05 PM PDT

In this photograph provided by ABC News, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, appears on 'This Week' at the ABC Studios in Washington Sunday, May 3, 2009. (AP Photo/ABC News, Freddie Lee)   MANDATORY CREDIT:  FREDDIE LEE, ABC NEWSAP - President Barack Obama, eager to have his Supreme Court nominee seated by early October, has begun calling senators who will play key roles in the confirmation process.


Obama to meet Afghan, Pakistani leaders on strategy (Reuters)

Posted: 04 May 2009 04:03 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the Chrysler Chapter 11 filing and its partnership with Fiat from the White House in Washington April 30, 2009. REUTERS/Jim YoungReuters - President Barack Obama presents his strategy for defeating al Qaeda to the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan on Wednesday amid growing U.S. concern that it is losing the war and neither is a reliable ally.


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