2009年6月11日星期四

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No smoking: Historic vote could bring new limits (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:53 PM PDT

Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn, second from left, speaks on the passage of legislation that gives the government control over the production and marketing of tobacco products, Thursday, June 11, 2009,  during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. From left are, Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., Dodd,  Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The Senate struck a historic blow against smoking in America Thursday, voting overwhelmingly to give regulators new power to limit nicotine in the cigarettes that kill nearly a half-million people a year, to drastically curtail ads that glorify tobacco and to ban flavored products aimed at spreading the habit to young people.


Obama confronts critics on health care overhaul (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 03:37 PM PDT

President Barack Obama conducts a town hall meeting on health care reform, Thursday, June 11, 2009, at Southwest High School in Green Bay, Wis.(AP Photo/Morry Gash)AP - President Barack Obama challenged Republican critics Thursday to offer alternative plans for overhauling U.S. health care, declaring he's "happy to steal people's ideas" but that doing nothing about out-of-reach costs and uninsured Americans is not an option.


Deal provides $534M in stop-loss bonuses (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:54 PM PDT

AP - The House and Senate have worked out a compromise to give a $500 retroactive bonus to soldiers for every month they were forced to stay in the military beyond their enlistment term since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

AP source: NKorea may be prepping new nuclear test (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:43 PM PDT

President Barack Obama's special envoy on North Korea, Stephen Bosworth testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 11, 2009, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - North Korea may be preparing for its third nuclear test, a show of defiance as the United Nations considers new sanctions on the dictatorship for conducting an underground nuclear explosion in May, according to a U.S. government official.


Feds pressured BofA CEO (Politico)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 11:09 AM PDT

Politico - A House chairman is calling on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to testify about whether government regulators used excessive force to push through Bank of America's “shotgun wedding” to Merrill Lynch last fall. 

No. 2 House Republican compares Obama to Putin (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 05:04 PM PDT

President Barack Obama waves from the stairs of Air Force One upon his arrival at Austin Straubel International Airport in Green Bay, Wis.,Thursday, June 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)AP - The No. 2 Republican in the House on Thursday compared President Barack Obama's plans for the auto industry to the policies of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, saying the White House has stripped credit holders of rights and given them to Democratic allies.


War-funding bill back on track for passage (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:58 PM PDT

AP - Briefly held up in a battle over detainee abuse photos, a crucial war-funding bill appeared back on track for passage Thursday evening, coincidentally aided by a federal appeals court in New York.

House ethics panel reviewing campaign money (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:47 PM PDT

AP - Lawmakers who steer money and contracts to favored companies and receive campaign contributions in return could face a House ethics committee investigation.

Sotomayor's stance on gun rights prompts questions (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:00 PM PDT

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor meets with Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., Tuesday, June 9, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor told a senator Thursday that she would follow a historic ruling affirming Americans' right to own guns for self-defense, but pro-gun activists said they still believe she'd work to limit gun rights if confirmed for the high court.


Marines will come out of Iraq by spring 2010 (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:11 PM PDT

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Conway talks about the fight in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the current state of readiness of the Marines, Thursday, June 11, 2009, at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/J.  Scott Applewhite)AP - All but a few dozen of the 16,000 Marines now in Iraq will be out by next spring, the Marine Corps commandant said Thursday, putting a solid end date on a long-anticipated exit. Gen. James T. Conway said his Marine commanders are already moving equipment out of Anbar Province, where his forces have largely been concentrated. But the larger exodus will begin shortly after the Iraqi elections.


Obama aide who quit after plane flap gets new job (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:57 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama's former aide Louis Caldera, who resigned after authorizing a costly and frightening Air Force One photo-op over New York City, is flying higher today.

Obama aides traveled with freed Gitmo detainees (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:48 PM PDT

AP - Senior aides to President Barack Obama accompanied four Chinese Muslims and their lawyers on a flight from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to Bermuda.

Wright says 'Jews' keeping him from Obama (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:17 PM PDT

FILE - In a Wednesday, March 5, 2009 file photo, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright leaves the Selma Performing Arts Center, in Selma, Ala. Wright, the former pastor of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, and former pastor to President Barack Obama, said he hasn't spoken to President Obama since he became president.  (AP Photo/Jamie Martin, File)AP - President Barack Obama's controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, blamed "them Jews" in an interview this week for keeping him from speaking to the president, but later apologized.


Bermuda takes 4 Uighur detainees from Gitmo (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:58 PM PDT

In this pool photo, reviewed by the US military, a Guantanamo guard stands inside a doorway at Camp 6 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, on May 31, 2009. Two Guantanamo detainees, a young man with dual Chadian and Saudi nationalities and an Iraqi, were transferred to Chad and to Iraq respectively, the US Justice Department said Thursday.(AFP/Pool/File/Brennan Linsley)AP - Four Chinese Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay prison were freed Thursday and resettled in Bermuda, sparking complaints from China and Britain even as the Obama administration tried to iron out details for sending more detainees to the Pacific island of Palau.


Lawmakers want federal rules to cover home workers (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 03:58 PM PDT

AP - A group of Democratic senators on Thursday urged the Labor Department to reverse a Bush administration policy by extending federal wage and hour laws to home health care workers.

New estimate trims Obama plan to increase taxes (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 03:51 PM PDT

President Barack Obama arrives on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 11, 2009, after a day trip to Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - President Barack Obama's efforts to increase taxes on multinational corporations took a hit Thursday when a new congressional estimate showed his plan would raise only three-fourths of the money the administration projected.


McCain urges Obama to classify detainee photos (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 03:43 PM PDT

Reuters - Republican Senator John McCain and three allies urged President Barack Obama on Thursday to classify photographs said to depict the abuse of terrorism suspects to ensure they do not become public.

US moving to appeal Bagram detention ruling (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 03:24 PM PDT

AP - The Obama administration is moving to appeal a ruling that some detainees at a military air base in Afghanistan can use U.S. civilian courts to challenge their detention.

Ahmadinejad faces election challenge from moderate (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 03:16 PM PDT

A woman holds a picture of Iranian President and candidate for the upcoming presidential election Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as he addresses supporters in front of the Sharif University in Tehran June 10, 2009. REUTERS/Damir SagoljReuters - Iranians vote on Friday in a presidential election which pits hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against a former prime minister who sharply criticizes his economic record and seeks detente with the West.


Obama girls, with mom and grandmother, back home (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 03:13 PM PDT

AP - The rest of the First Family is home after some fun in Europe.

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