2009年8月4日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Elections


AP sources: Russian subs patrolling off East Coast (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 05:47 PM PDT

AP - Two nuclear-powered Russian attack submarines have been patrolling in international waters off the East Coast for several days, in activity reminiscent of the Cold War, defense officials said Tuesday.

'Clunkers' rebates look likely for another month (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 05:43 PM PDT

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., second from left, accompanied by fellow Democratic senators talk to reporters about their lunch with President Obama, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009, outside the White House in Washington. From left are: Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.; Reid; Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Roadblocks disappearing, the Senate cleared the way Tuesday for a vote giving eager car buyers until Labor Day to cash in on rebates up to $4,500 for trading in their gas-guzzlers for new, higher-mileage models.


Analysis: Obama lets NKorea's Kim save face (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 05:32 PM PDT

In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, right, meets with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il, left, front,  in Pyonggyang, North Korea,Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009. At Clinton's right is former White House chief of staff John Podesta, others are unidentified. Former US resident Bill Clinton met Tuesday with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on the first day of a surprise visit to Pyongyang, holding 'exhaustive' talks that covered a wide range of topics, state-run media said.(AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service) JAPAN OUTAP - The Obama administration let North Korean leader Kim Jong Il save face by releasing two jailed Americans to former President Bill Clinton. The payoff — maybe not right away — is likely to be renewed dialogue with Pyongyang about its nuclear weapons program.


The Clinton tag team is in motion once more (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 04:33 PM PDT

In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, right, meets with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il, left, front,  in Pyonggyang, North Korea,Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009. At Clinton's right is former White House chief of staff John Podesta, others are unidentified. Former US resident Bill Clinton met Tuesday with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on the first day of a surprise visit to Pyongyang, holding 'exhaustive' talks that covered a wide range of topics, state-run media said.(AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service) JAPAN OUTAP - Bill Clinton's North Korean negotiations cast fresh light on a Byzantine, mysterious power that Americans may never fully understand.


Dems' break looking like a bad trip (Politico)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 02:26 AM PDT

Politico - Angry protesters shouted down Democrats at public events from Texas to Pennsylvania over the weekend, leaving the party only one real hope for getting its message out over recess: a backlash.

Senate boosts food stamps as unemployment rises (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 03:40 PM PDT

AP - The Senate on Tuesday passed a $124.3 billion agriculture spending bill that pays to add millions of people to the food stamp rolls as rising numbers of the jobless are forced into the program.

Obama and allies brace for health care showdown (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 03:32 PM PDT

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., second from right, talks to reporter after lunch with President Obama and other Democratic senators, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009, outside the White House in Washington. Joining him, from left are, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., Baucus, and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Bracing for an August showdown over health care reform, Senate Democrats and President Barack Obama declared themselves united Tuesday on their determination to enact an historic overhaul this year — ideally with Republican cooperation but without if necessary.


US judge declines to intervene in UAE trial (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 05:46 PM PDT

AP - An American who says he was tortured into confessing to terrorism charges in the United Arab Emirates lost his effort on Tuesday to get a U.S. judge involved in his trial.

Obama administration withholds data on clunkers (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 01:46 PM PDT

Mechanic Nick Vrakas, right, attracts an onlooker as he races the engine of a 1995 Toyota 4-Runner filled with sodium silicate to render it inoperable outside Bay Ridge Toyota in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009. The vehicle, destined for destruction as part of the government's Cash for Clunkers program, was traded for a 2010 Toyota Corolla. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - The Obama administration is refusing to quickly release government records on its "cash-for-clunkers" rebate program that would substantiate — or undercut — White House claims of the program's success, even as the president presses the Senate for a quick vote for $2 billion to boost car sales.


Report: Early costs of climate bill will be modest (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 02:59 PM PDT

AP - Climate change legislation before Congress would boost electricity prices by about 20 percent by 2030, although most of the increases wouldn't begin until after 2020, a government analysis concluded Tuesday.

Biden says economic stimulus meeting its goals (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 05:19 PM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden meets with members of the White House economic team to discuss the economic impact of the Recovery Act, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Christina Romer, head of the president's Council of Economic Advisers is at left. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - Vice President Joe Biden cited more positive economic data on Tuesday, using it to buttress the Obama administration's argument that its $787 billion stimulus program is doing its job and revving up the economy.


Battle lines set, Senate debates Sotomayor (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 04:45 PM PDT

FILE -- In this July 16, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the fourth day of her confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - The Senate held a history-making debate Tuesday on confirming Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic justice, with Republican opponents asserting she would bring bias to the bench and Democratic supporters saying she was a mainstream moderate.


Obama to chair U.N. council meeting on nuclear arms (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 03:56 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about the post - 9/11 GI Bill at George Mason University in Virginia, August 3, 2009. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - U.S. President Barack Obama will chair a special meeting of the U.N. Security Council next month on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said on Tuesday.


Obama visits White House press room on birthday (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 03:46 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, marking his 48th birthday, takes a break from his official duties to bring birthday greetings to veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas, left, who shares the same birthday and turns 89, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009, in the White House Press Briefing Room in Washington. Helen Thomas has covered every president since John F. Kennedy.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - You say it's your birthday. It's my birthday, too. On the day he turned 48, President Barack Obama decided to splash a little celebration on someone with whom he shares the birthday: legendary White House correspondent Helen Thomas, now a columnist with Hearst Newspapers. She turned 89 on Tuesday.


White House struggles to fill cyber czar post (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 03:02 PM PDT

AP - Nearly six months after the Obama administration turned its focus on computer security, the White House is still struggling to name a cyber coordinator, delaying efforts to better organize and manage the nation's increasingly vulnerable digital defense.

Administration to examine distracted driving (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 01:47 PM PDT

AP - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Tuesday he will convene a summit of experts to figure out what to do about driver cell phone use and texting, practices that studies — and a growing number of accidents — show can be deadly.

WH uses Web to fight misleading health care effort (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 01:38 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about the post - 9/11 GI Bill at George Mason University in Virginia, August 3, 2009. REUTERS/Jason ReedAP - The White House is turning to the Internet to hit back at a Web posting that claims to show President Barack Obama explaining how his health care reform plans eventually would eliminate private insurance.


Rep. Sestak will try to unseat Sen. Specter of Pa. (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 12:37 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 6, 2009, file photo, Rep. Joseph Sestak, D-Pa., in seen his office in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill in  Washington. Sestak, a former Navy vice admiral, has scheduled five campaign stops throughout the state on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009. At the first, at a VFW hall in his suburban Philadelphia district, he's expected to announce his candidacy. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, FILE)AP - Three years after he knocked off a veteran House incumbent, Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak will seek a bigger prize and challenge Republican-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter for his long-held U.S. Senate seat.


White House stands by decision to honor Robinson (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 12:15 PM PDT

AP - The White House is standing by its decision to award a Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Irish President Mary Robinson.

Majority back Obama on health care reform: poll (AFP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 11:23 AM PDT

Medical assistants at work at a low-cost clinic in Aurora, Colorado in July 2009. A majority of Americans are in favor of having a public, or government-run, option in the US health care system as proposed by President Barack Obama, a poll showed Tuesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/John Moore)AFP - A majority of Americans are in favor of having a public, or government-run, option in the US health care system as proposed by President Barack Obama, a poll showed Tuesday.


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