2009年6月23日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Elections


White House solicited question on Iran from writer (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 03:48 PM PDT

President Barack Obama gestures during his news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on Washington, Tuesday, June 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - White House officials phoned a blogger from a popular left-leaning Web site on Monday evening to tell him that President Barack Obama had been impressed with his online reporting about Iran. Could the writer pass along a question from an Iranian during the president's news conference on Tuesday?


Millions ride old, vulnerable rail cars on subways (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:52 PM PDT

National Transportation Safety Board investigators photograph the site of a rush-hour collision between two Metro transit trains in northeast Washington, D.C. Monday, June 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Millions of passengers in cities across the U.S. ride old subway cars like the ones that crumpled in the deadly crash in the nation's capital. The largest transit systems depend on such cars for more than one-third of their fleets, despite safety concerns expressed by federal investigators more than three years ago.


Deal sends global warming bill to House floor (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 05:25 PM PDT

AP - Key Democrats reached a deal Tuesday that its supporters hope will lead to House passage of the biggest environmental bill in decades, one aimed at slowing the gradual, destructive heating of the planet.

Summer forces presser inside (Politico)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 06:59 AM PDT

Politico - President Barack Obama's news conference Tuesday was moved inside because the Rose Garden is too humid.

Obama condemns violence against Iran protesters (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:59 PM PDT

A picture combo shows a screen grab posted on YouTube (L) of Iranian Neda Agha Soltani, who was reportedly killed when hit by a bullet during a protest in Tehran, along with undated pictures of her posted on the Internet on June 22, 2009. A video showing the young woman bleeding to death was put online on June 20 and has since been viewed hundreds of thousands of times around the world.(AFP/Internet)AP - Dramatically hardening the U.S. reaction to Iran's disputed elections and bloody aftermath, President Barack Obama condemned the violence against protesters Tuesday and lent his strongest support yet to their accusations the hardline victory was a fraud.


FACT CHECK: Obama's words about Iran get tougher (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 03:28 PM PDT

MY FELLOW AMERICANS - Well over a million people headed to Washington, D.C. to witness the inauguration of the first African-American U.S. president. President Obama’s solemn speech, at 18 minutes and 33 seconds, was a break from the soaring oratory he’s long been known for, but he ended with these very familiar words: “Thank you. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America.” (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - President Barack Obama described himself on Tuesday as being "entirely consistent" in his expressions of concern about the disputed Iranian election and the government crackdown that followed street protests. But his language clearly has gotten tougher since his first statement that the suppression of dissent was "of concern to me."


Obama: Unemployment to rise, need faster spending (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 01:35 PM PDT

AP - Amid rising public impatience with an economy now under his watch, President Barack Obama on Tuesday said his administration needs to push money out faster to initiate a recovery and conceded that unemployment would rise above 10 percent.

Analysis: Fine line for Obama on Iran (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 01:44 PM PDT

President Barack Obama pauses before answering questions during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on Washington, Tuesday, June 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - So much for studied neutrality. Even as he said he wasn't doing it, President Barack Obama threw his rhetorical might behind the protesters in Iran, a risky move he hopes will force the hardline regime to deal peacefully with its post-election tumult.


Analysis: Obama rebukes insurance critics, GOP (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 02:01 PM PDT

President Barack Obama gestures during his news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on Washington, Tuesday, June 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Even for a Democratic president, Barack Obama's challenge to health insurance companies and free market principles Tuesday were unusually pointed.


Obama: Health reform needs public insurer option (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 05:18 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday his healthcare overhaul needed a public insurance option to enforce market "discipline," but stopped short of saying he would veto legislation without one.

Iran cracks down as reformists call for mourning (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 05:01 PM PDT

Iranian security personnel ride past burning debris on the streets in Tehran June 20, 2009. REUTERS via Your ViewReuters - A security crackdown appears to have quelled street rallies against Iran's disputed poll, but the leadership faced a new challenge on Wednesday from calls by reformist clerics for national mourning for dead protesters.


Sanford risks being odd man out in 2012 (Politico)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:45 PM PDT

Politico - South Carolina GOP Gov. Mark Sanford’s disappearing act is reviving an often-whispered, if rarely written, question about presidential hopefuls: Just how strange is too strange?

Obama to throw out first pitch at All-Star game (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:13 PM PDT

AP - Barack Obama plans to throw out his first pitch as president when he visits St. Louis next month.

New GOP tack: Will Sotomayor uphold Constitution? (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 03:54 PM PDT

AP - Senate Republicans on Tuesday unveiled a new narrative ahead of Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings, questioning her commitment to constitutional guarantees on the right to keep and bear arms and equal treatment under the law regardless of race or gender.

Nixon tapes, papers weigh in on fateful days (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 03:31 PM PDT

Additional White House tape records and textual materials from the Nixon Presidential Library are seen at the National Archives facility in College Park, Md., Tuesday, June 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - With an air of desperation, a hunkered down White House hatched a plan to save Richard Nixon's presidency as the Watergate crisis began to consume it: Demonize the prosecutor in the eyes of lawmakers and the people.


Congress largely ignoring Obama budget cuts (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 03:27 PM PDT

AP - Democrats in Congress crafting spending bills are largely rejecting the roster of program eliminations and budget cuts wanted by President Barack Obama.

NTSB: Train stopped then started before crash (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 03:13 PM PDT

AP - Federal safety officials are investigating a passenger's statement that the Washington Metrorail train that struck another in a deadly accident stopped briefly then started again before the crash.

Obama takes on insurers over gov't plan (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:45 PM PDT

President Barack Obama gestures as he answers a question during a news conference at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, June 23, 2009.   (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - President Barack Obama on Tuesday squared off with the insurance lobby over industry charges that a government health plan he backs would dismantle the employer coverage Americans have relied on for a half-century and overtake the system.


Obama hopeful on Iran but preparing for setback (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 03:08 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama remains publicly hopeful that Iran will emerge from its political crisis more open to international concerns about its nuclear ambitions, but the administration is preparing on several fronts for a darker outcome.

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