2009年6月15日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Analysis: Doctors' boos show Obama's tough road (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 02:24 PM PDT

President Barack Obama address the American Medical Association during their annual meeting in Chicago, Monday, June 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Barack Obama isn't used to hearing boos.


Obama: Iranian voters' voices should be heard (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 04:33 PM PDT

Iranian Americans protest against Iran's election results near the Washington Monument in Washington June 14, 2009. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas (UNITED STATES POLITICS ELECTIONS)AP - President Barack Obama on Monday said Iranian voters have a right to feel that their ballots matter and urged the investigation into vote-rigging allegations to go forward without additional violence.


Grassley wants more details on fired AmeriCorps IG (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 04:05 PM PDT

AP - A Senate Republican is asking for information on any role first lady Michelle Obama's office may have played in her husband's decision to fire the watchdog for the federal AmeriCorps program over his investigation of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson.

CBO: Senate bill $1 trillion over 10 years (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 03:52 PM PDT

AP - A leading health care bill under consideration in Congress would cost the government an estimated $1 trillion over the next decade and reduce the ranks of the uninsured by about one-third, or 16 million individuals, congressional budget officials said Monday in a preliminary estimate.

Obama touts Virginia hopeful (Politico)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 01:46 PM PDT

Politico - President Barack Obama sent an e-mail to hundreds of thousands of Virginia supporters Monday urging them to support Creigh Deeds, the Virginia state senator who last week became the commonwealth's Democratic nominee for governor.

Administration calls for financial system overhaul (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 03:27 PM PDT

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner speaks at Time Warner headquarters in New York, Monday, June 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Aiming for greater limits and more clarity in the nation's financial system, the Obama administration on Monday proposed adding muscle to the Federal Reserve and new restrictions on complex securities whose collapse choked lending and hit millions of American households.


Obama presses doctors to back health care overhaul (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 04:05 PM PDT

President Barack Obama address the American Medical Association during their annual meeting in Chicago, Monday, June 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - President Barack Obama bluntly told doctors Monday he is against their highest legislative priority — limiting malpractice awards — and earned a smattering of boos from an audience he was here to court for his health care overhaul plans.


US reveals new pieces of Gitmo hearings (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 05:02 PM PDT

AP - Accused al-Qaida mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed complained that interrogators tortured lies out of him, though he proudly took credit for more than two dozen other terror plots, according to sections of government transcripts released Monday.

Judge says museum suspect can't appear in court (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 04:34 PM PDT

A Security Officer directs people as  they line up for the opening of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington Friday, June 12, 2009. The museum was closed Thursday, for a day, after a shooting on Wednesday left a security officer dead and the gunman wounded. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - A white supremacist accused of fatally shooting a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is in no condition to appear in court, a federal judge ruled Monday. James von Brunn, 88, was shot in the face by guards who returned his fire last week and is still hospitalized. FBI officials have said he is likely to survive.


Obama says Italy will take 3 Guantanamo detainees (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 04:50 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, right, meets with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in the White House Oval Office, Monday, June 15, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Italy has agreed to accept three detainees from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, President Barack Obama said Monday after an Oval Office meeting with Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi. As he looks to close the prison by early next year, Obama has been banking on foreign countries and some communities in the United States to take in some detainees who cannot go to their own countries for fear of ill-treatment.


Obama 'deeply troubled' by Iran violence (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 04:50 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama speaks in the Oval office at the White House in Washington, DC. Obama said Monday that he was AFP - US President Barack Obama said Monday that he was "deeply troubled" by violence in Iran, but warned he did not want the United States to become a "political football" in the post-election crisis.


Unrest in Iran forces Obama's hand (Politico)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 04:48 PM PDT

Politico - The images of massive protests and beaten students in the streets of Tehran, Iran, forced an initially reluctant President Barack Obama to speak out sharply against the crackdown and to raise doubts about the election's outcome.

Protester 'shot dead' at mass anti-Ahmadinejad rally (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 04:44 PM PDT

Iranians react as a protestor is wounded after gunmen opened fire during an opposition rally in Tehran. A protester was reportedly shot dead and several people were wounded during clashes in Tehran on Monday as massive crowds defied a ban to stage a rally against the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.(AFP)AFP - A protester was reportedly shot dead and several people were wounded during clashes in Tehran on Monday as massive crowds defied a ban to stage a rally against the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


Obama puts his name behind Dems' pick for Va. gov. (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 04:35 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama plugged his party's candidate for Virginia governor into his fundraising and organizational pipeline by e-mailing hundreds of thousands of Democrats on Monday.

Obama welcomes Israeli prime minister's speech (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 04:09 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama on Monday welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's endorsement of Palestinian independence, saying the development shows the "possibility we can restart serious talks."

Protesters plan more mass rallies in Iran (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 04:07 PM PDT

A supporter, who lives in India, of Iran's moderate presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi attends a protest against the election results at the Consulate General of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad June 15, 2009. REUTERS/Krishnendu HalderReuters - Iranian demonstrators called for more mass protests on Tuesday, a day after hardline Islamic militiamen killed a man during a march by tens of thousands against a presidential election they say was rigged.


Obama welcome's Israeli prime minister's speech (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 03:32 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama (R) shakes hands with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during a meeting in the Oval office at the White House in Washington, DC. Obama said Monday Italy had agreed to accept three detainees from the Guantanamo Bay AP - President Barack Obama says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's endorsement of Palestinian independence shows the "possibility we can restart serious talks."


Senate offers new plan to secure driver's licenses (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 03:26 PM PDT

AP - The Senate wants to replace a Bush administration program to secure driver's licenses with a plan that would cost states less money — a plan that some say is a relaxation of the post-9/11 rules.

(AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 03:18 PM PDT

AP - Obama says any investigation into Iranian election results must not result in bloodshed.

Obama officials lobby lawmakers to approve IMF money (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 03:04 PM PDT

Reuters - Senior Obama administration officials are lobbying Congress hard to approve $108 billion for the International Monetary Fund ahead of a vote expected this week, according to documents that emerged on Monday.

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