2009年7月8日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Elections


US officials eye North Korea in cyber attack (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:43 PM PDT

Shawn White, Director of External Operations for mobile and Web site monitoring company Keynote Systems, points to a graph of the Department of Defense Web site performance, top graph, and availability, lower graph, at the company's headquarters in San Mateo, Calif., Wedesday, July 8, 2009.  This graph shows very poor availability and performance of the DOD Web site on July 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - U.S. authorities on Wednesday eyed North Korea as the origin of the widespread cyber attack that overwhelmed government Web sites in the United States and South Korea, although they warned it would be difficult to definitively identify the attackers quickly.


US, other wealthy nations vow global warming cuts (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 03:09 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama, greets the  European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, left, while Prime Minister Taro Aso from Japan second left, and German chancellor Angela Merkel second right, look at Silvio Berlusconi from Italy, right, at their arrival to the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy,  Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Michael Gottschalk/Pool)AP - Targeting global warming, President Barack Obama and other leaders of the world's richest industrial countries pledged Wednesday to seek dramatic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to slow dangerous climate change. Setting a marker for success, they agreed for the first time that worldwide temperatures must not rise more than a few degrees.


Schumer: Immigration bill to be ready by Labor Day (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:21 PM PDT

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., answers questions during his interview with the Associated Press in Washington, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - The lead Democrat steering an immigration overhaul through the Senate said Wednesday he expects to have a bill ready by Labor Day that is more generous to highly skilled immigrant workers than those who are lower skilled and is tough on future waves of illegal immigration.


Generals: More forces needed for Afghan offensive. (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:10 PM PDT

U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 1st Battalion 5th Marines are seen shortly after waking up inside a compound where they stayed for the night, in the Nawa district of Afghanistan's Helmand province, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - Senior U.S. generals said Wednesday that more Afghan and NATO soldiers are needed to expand the fight against a Taliban-led insurgency in southern Afghanistan, although current military plans make such increases unlikely.


G-8 climate deal elusive for Obama (Politico)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 01:07 PM PDT

Politico - L’AQUILA, Italy—President Barack Obama is likely to come home from a series of back-to-back international summits here without agreement on the crux of a global deal to limit climate change, after developing countries balked at setting numerical targets to reduce their carbon emissions, U.S. officials said.

PROMISES, PROMISES: Politics shadow Obama's pledge (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:55 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, left, and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi tour the destruction of a recent earthquake, Wednesday, July 8, 2009, in L'Aquila, Italy. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - President Barack Obama made the world his boldest promise yet Wednesday in the battle to slow the heating of the planet, committing the U.S. to reduce greenhouse gases by 80 percent by mid-century.


Obama names gene guru Francis Collins NIH chief (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 03:10 PM PDT

FILE -- In this Oct. 26, 2005 file photo, Francis Collins holds a copy of 'Nature' as he speaks during a news conference announcing a new way to search through human DNA for specific genes  in Salt Lake City.  (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)AP - President Barack Obama is choosing an influential scientist who helped unravel the human genetic code — and is known for finding common ground between belief in God and science — to head the National Institutes of Health.


PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama tax pledge unrealistic (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 03:16 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks to members of the United States armed services and their guests while hosting a Fourth of July party on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington Saturday, July 4, 2009. Behind him are members of the armed services.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama promised to fix health care and trim the federal budget deficit, all without raising taxes on anyone but the wealthiest Americans. It's a promise he's already broken and will likely have to break again. Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress have already increased tobacco taxes — which disproportionately hit the poor — to pay for extending health coverage to 4 million children in working low-income families.


Stimulus money targeted to help the homeless (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 03:58 PM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, June 18, 2009, one of three homeless encampments, known as tent city is seen in Fresno, Calif.  Fresno, which has one of the highest concentrations of poverty in the nation, is planning to take an anticipated $3 million in federal stimulus dollars to place homeless in apartments leased from private landlords. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - The U.S. expects to send $1.5 billion in stimulus money Thursday to hundreds of communities around the country to prevent homelessness, including $1 million for Fresno to dismantle tent cities and move residents into privately owned apartments.


From pythons to fungus, species invading US (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:14 PM PDT

In this photograph provided by the U.S. Senate, Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., during a Wednesday, July 8, 2009 hearing on Capitol Hill, holds the skin of a 16-foot-long, 150 pound Burmese Python captured along a Miami-Dade County, Fla. canal. Nelson, who has introduced a bill to ban import of the snakes, was one of several senators who warned about the threat of invasive species.  The snakes can be found in the Everglades.  A pet Burmese python broke out of a glass cage last week and killed a 2-year-old girl in her Florida bedroom.   (AP Photo/U.S. Senate)AP - A pet Burmese python broke out of a glass cage last week and killed a 2-year-old girl in her Florida bedroom. The tragedy became the latest and most graphic example of a problem that has plagued the state for more than a decade: a nonnative species that is wreaking havoc in the Everglades, threatening people, the environment and native wildlife.


Watchdog: FEMA still lacks housing plan (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:49 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 21, 2009, file photo, temporary housing trailers are seen at the FEMA storage facility in Hope, Ark. Richard Skinner, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's inspector general, said at a House Homeland Security hearing Wednesday, July 8, 2009, that the agency still relies far too heavily on temporary mobile homes and it doesn't have a coordinated plan for more quickly getting people into permanent housing. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)AP - The government could end up repeating mistakes seen after Hurricane Katrina without a better plan for housing people after a catastrophe, the Homeland Security Department's internal watchdog told lawmakers Wednesday.


Coburn knew of Ensign's affair (Politico)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:19 PM PDT

Politico - Sen. Tom Coburn knew more than a year ago that his Republican colleague John Ensign was having an affair with a staffer – and he reportedly urged Ensign to end the relationship and pay a substantial sum of money to the staffer and her husband.

A glance at Obama's overseas itinerary (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:10 PM PDT

AP - A glance at President Barack Obama's itinerary for his overseas trip:

GOP candidates in Va., NJ wary of Palin (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:06 PM PDT

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announces that she is stepping down from her position as Governor in Wasilla, Alaska on Friday July 3, 2009. The former Republican vice presidential candidate made the surprise announcement, saying she would step down July 26 but didn't announce her plans. (AP Photo/The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, Robert DeBerry)AP - Sarah Palin's decision to step down as Alaska governor was driven in part by her wish to help Republican candidates across the country, associates say.


House considers increase for food stamp program (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:03 PM PDT

AP - The House took up a bill on Wednesday that funds a 14 percent increase for food stamps as more people become eligible for the program because of rising unemployment.

G8 unanimously express 'serious concern' on Iran: US (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 03:54 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama waves to the press as he arrives for a workshop on global issues at the G8 summit in L'Aquila, central Italy.(AFP/Pool/Philippe Wojazer)AFP - The Group of Eight leaders meeting here unanimously expressed "serious concern" about Iran's post-election crackdown and its suspect nuclear program, the White House said Wednesday.


Retiring US commander predicts easy Karzai win (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 03:37 PM PDT

AP - The former top U.S. commander in Europe predicted Wednesday that Afghan President Hamid Karzai will easily win re-election in August, but warned that Afghans will quickly lose faith in him, and his U.S. backers, if he does not provide better leadership.

House Dems look at surtax on the wealthy (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:47 PM PDT

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care President Charles Baker arrives at a news conference, in Wellesley, Mass., Wednesday, July 8, 2009, held to announce that he is resigning from his private-sector job to enter the 2010 campaign for Massachusetts governor. Baker and convenience store magnate Christy Mihos are seeking to unseat incumbent Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - A plan to raise taxes on the wealthy is emerging as the leading option among House Democrats looking to finance health care legislation that President Barack Obama wants.


US to host nuclear security summit in March (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 02:42 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama is planning to host a nuclear security summit in Washington next March.

White House threatens to veto intelligence bill (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 02:22 PM PDT

AP - The White House is threatening to veto a bill that would require the president to dramatically increase the number of lawmakers who must be notified about covert CIA activities.

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