2009年8月13日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Consumers get more flexibility on clunkers program (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 02:22 PM PDT

AP - Car shoppers running into shortages of certain vehicles at dealerships will still be able to use the Cash for Clunkers program to reserve the car of their choice, the Obama administration said Thursday.

Boeing pays $25 million to settle US probe (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 02:37 PM PDT

AP - Boeing Co. agreed Thursday to pay the U.S. government $25 million to settle claims the company did defective work on critical military refueling planes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Analysis: Critics co-opt Obama organizing playbook (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 11:02 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at town hall meeting about health care, at Portsmouth High School in Portsmouth, N.H. There's a certain irony in what's taking place across the country this summer. A president who was a 20th Century community organizer and who used 21st Century tools for his successful people-powered political movement now finds himself under fire from citizens airing their grievances at 19th Century-inspired town hall style meetings. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, FILE)AP - There's a certain irony here.


Palin stands by 'death panel' claim on health bill (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 02:56 PM PDT

Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks to a large crowd during a town meeting on health care reform Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009 in Adel, Iowa. (AP Photo/Steve Pope)AP - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin refused to retreat from her debunked claim that a proposed health care overhaul would create "death panels," as the growing furor over end-of-life consultations forced a key group of senators to abandon the idea in their bill.


Palin doubles down on 'death panels' (Politico)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 05:05 AM PDT

File photo of the former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. On Tuesday, US President Barack Obama himself addressed a remark posted on Facebook by Palin, that his healthcare plans would include a Politico - Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin defended her claim that the Democratic health care proposal would create “death panels” in a statement Wednesday night slamming President Barack Obama.


US detains Pakistani reporter for unknown reason (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 03:46 PM PDT

AP - U.S. officials are holding for undisclosed reasons a Pakistani journalist who works for an American media outlet.

E-mails from public overload House Web site (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 04:31 PM PDT

AP - Amid a boisterous debate on health care reform, people flooded members of Congress on Thursday with so many e-mails that they overloaded the House's primary Web site.

SPIN METER: $3 billion buys not-so-green vehicles (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 12:00 PM PDT

Benito 'Beny' Ledesma, Jr., general sales manager at the Williamson Cadillac-Hummer in Miami, walks past a Cadillac SRX 6-cylinder, right,  Thursday Aug. 13, 2009.  The dealership has sold three of these models, has deals for two more, and hopes to sell 14 others through the government's Cash for Clunkers rebate program. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)AP - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the nation's top car salesman in recent weeks, has cited the Obama administration's best-seller list of mostly smaller, fuel-saving cars like the Ford Focus to describe the success of the Cash for Clunkers rebate program.


Clinton stays mum on tart response to questioner (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 04:49 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, meets Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Monrovia, Liberia, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009. Clinton offered strong support Thursday for embattled President Sirleaf. Liberia is the sixth leg of Clinton's seven-nation tour of Africa aimed at promoting democracy and development.(AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)AP - A close aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton dismissed as "psychobabble" the fuss over the secretary of state's barbed response to a questioner asking for her famous husband's opinion instead of her own. Clinton ignored questions about the episode as she wound down a marathon African trip Thursday.


Gates: 'A few years' of combat in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 04:49 PM PDT

A US Marine on patrol in Helmand Province on August 1, 2009. US and Afghan troops have launched an operation in Afghanistan's troubled south, in a fresh bid to safeguard imminent elections overshadowed by Taliban threats and mounting violence.(AFP/File/Manpreet Romana)AP - The Pentagon presented a grim portrait of the Afghanistan war Thursday, offering no assurances about how long Americans will be fighting there or how many U.S. combat troops it will take to win.


White House uses e-mail to counter health critics (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 04:49 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2009 file photo, Brett Wian, of Boone, Iowa, asks Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa a question during a town hall meeting in Adel, Iowa. There's a certain irony in what's taking place across the country this summer. A president who was a 20th Century community organizer and who used 21st Century tools for his successful people-powered political movement now finds himself under fire from citizens airing their grievances at 19th Century-inspired town hall style meetings. (AP Photo/Steve Pope, FILE)AP - President Barack Obama's push to revamp health care got a boost Thursday as a new coalition of drug makers, unions, hospitals and others launched a $12 million pro-overhaul ad campaign. Meanwhile, the administration sought to regain control of the health care debate by asking supporters to forward a chain e-mail to counter criticism that's circulating on the Internet.


Are Dems losing August? (Politico)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 03:25 PM PDT

Politico - After an intimate White House lunch last week, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley said he was confident President Barack Obama was working toward a truly bipartisan health care reform bill.

Biden to attend service for Eunice Kennedy Shriver (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 01:13 PM PDT

AP - Vice President Joe Biden plans to attend funeral services for Eunice Kennedy Shriver on Friday.

Mont. restaurant has beef for Obama, not with him (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 12:45 PM PDT

AP - A Bozeman, Mont., restaurant is saluting the president's fondness for cheeseburgers by offering a "Barack Obama Burger" Friday to honor his visit to the area.

US says Asian banks are scrutinizing NKorea (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 12:39 PM PDT

AP - A senior U.S. diplomat said Thursday that the Obama administration's efforts to derail North Korea's nuclear weapons program are causing Asian banks to examine more closely their financial dealings with Pyongyang.

New lead limits take effect for small businesses (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 12:16 PM PDT

AP - Tighter limits on the amount of lead the government allows in children's products and a requirement for new tracking labels are stirring fear among small business owners, already hurting in a tough economy.

Iran candidate says prisoners tortured to death (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 12:11 PM PDT

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani responds to journalists' questions after his meeting with Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algiers June 29, 2009. REUTERS/Louafi LarbiReuters - Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karoubi said on his website Thursday that some of those arrested after the June presidential election were tortured to death, but other inmates defended their treatment.


Pentagon, governors face off over military reserve (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 11:10 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2007, file photo released by U.S. Navy Visual News Service, a firefighter watches a CH-53 Sea Stallion drop water on a fire that broke out on the southeast side of the Camp Pendleton, Calif., Marine base.  The Pentagon was able to direct active duty Marine helicopter units to respond to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's request for aid during the California wildfires in 2008,  but officials could not order the nearby Marine Corps Reserve units to do the same, says Paul Stockton, the Pentagon's assistant secretary for homeland defense. (AP Photo/U.S. Marine Corps Photo, Cpl. Nathaniel Sapp)AP - The Pentagon is upsetting the nation's governors by pushing for authority to call up military reservists for natural disasters — and to control how the troops would be used in any state.


Clinton shows US support in Liberia visit (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 10:58 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton waves as she boards her plane in Abuja, Nigeria Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009. Clinton departed Nigeria for Liberia Thursday to show the Obama administration's support for Africa's first democratically elected female leader, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Liberia is the sixth leg of Clinton's seven-nation tour of Africa aimed at promoting democracy and development.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, Pool)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton offered strong support Thursday for embattled Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, and held up herself and President Barack Obama as models of political fence-mending.


Obama to attend APEC conference in Singapore (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 10:43 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama will attend a meeting of Asian and Pacific leaders in Singapore in November.

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