2009年8月15日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Obama invokes grandmother's death in health debate (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 05:08 PM PDT

President Barack Obama talks about health care during a town hall meeting in Grand Junction, Colo., Saturday, Aug. 15,  2009. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - Now, it's personal.


Campaign tactics back as Obama presses health care (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 03:59 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama speaks during a town hall meeting on health care at Central High School in Grand Junction, Colorado. Obama stepped up his defense of his controversial health care plan Saturday on a tour mixing hardball politics with the natural majesty of America's national parks.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)AP - President Barack Obama is using political tactics and rhetorical devices honed in his White House campaign to regain the upper hand in the health care debate over increasingly vocal critics.


Gun law complaints trail Obama during park tours (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 02:42 PM PDT

President Barack Obama walks with Park Ranger Katy Duffy as he and his family tour the Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park, Wy., Saturday, Aug. 15, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Family in tow for a tour of national treasures far from Washington, President Barack Obama is trailed by criticism from gun opponents and parks advocates for allowing firearms into such majestic places as this.


Tax dodgers scramble to come clean amid crackdown (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 10:57 AM PDT

FILE -  In this March 12, 2008 file photo, dark clouds hang above the Logo of the UBS (Union Bank of Switzerland) in Zurich, Switzerland.  A deal with Switzerland settling U.S. demands for the names of more than 50,000 suspected tax dodgers has a lot of wealthy Americans with offshore accounts nervously running to their tax advisers — and to the IRS. The agency's long-standing policy holds out the prospect of no jail time for certain tax evaders if they come forward before the IRS contacts them and agree to pay back taxes, interest and hefty penalties. (AP Photo/Keystone, Alessandro Della Bella, file)AP - A deal with Switzerland settling U.S. demands for the names of suspected tax dodgers from a Swiss bank has a lot of wealthy Americans with offshore accounts nervously running to their tax advisers — and the Internal Revenue Service.


Kenneth Bacon dies at 64 (Politico)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 01:08 PM PDT

Politico - Kenneth H. Bacon, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who became chief Pentagon spokesman under President Bill Clinton, died Saturday at age 64.

Controller bantering about dead cat before crash (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 11:01 AM PDT

FILE -- In this Aug. 10, 2009 file photo, the wreckage of a helicopter that was hit by an airplane and crashed in the Hudson River is repositioned by a crane on a pier in Hoboken, NJ,   (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, file)AP - The air traffic controller handling the small plane involved in a deadly crash with a helicopter over the Hudson River was chatting on the telephone about a dead cat at the airport and initially failed to warn the pilot of other aircraft in his path, officials say.


Refugee advocate, former Pentagon spokesman dies (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 12:17 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 13, 1999, file photo, Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon speaks to reporters at the Pentagon in Washington. Bacon who became a voice for millions of refugees uprooted by violence and conflict around the world, died Saturday, Aug. 15, 2009, of an aggressive melanoma that spread to his brain. He was 64. (AP Photo/Joel Rennich)AP - Kenneth Bacon, a Pentagon spokesman in the Clinton administration who became a voice for millions of refugees uprooted by violence and conflict, died Saturday of skin cancer that had spread to his brain. He was 64.


US renews calls on Iran to release Americans (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 09:30 AM PDT

Detained French lecturer Clotilde Reiss attends a second hearing at a revolutionary court in Tehran on on August 8. Reiss's trial has finished, although she remains in custody. Securing her release has been a diplomatic priority for Paris, with President Nicolas Sarkozy raising the case with other leaders.(AFP/Fars News/File/Ali Rafiei)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is pressing Iran to release Americans who are detained or have gone missing there.


Obama visits Mountain West, knowing vulnerability (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 06:09 AM PDT

FILE -- In this July 29, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama holds a town hall on health care reform at Broughton High School in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)AP - Perhaps no region of the country better illustrates President Barack Obama's political vulnerabilities than the mountain West.


Consumer agency is blocked from some import data (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 06:09 AM PDT

AP - Despite the growing number of imports, the government's product safety agency has no access to certain customs information that could help prevent the sale of unsafe products, congressional investigators say.

Good news could spell trouble for GOP (Politico)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 04:25 PM PDT

Politico - Don't expect Republicans to credit President Barack Obama for the recent signs of life in the long-ailing U.S. economy, but don't expect them to applaud more bad news either – at least not publicly.

Obama keeps heat on insurance firms in reform push (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 03:44 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about heath care during a town hall meeting at Central High School in Grand Junction, Colo. Saturday, Aug. 15, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama reignited his criticism of health insurance companies on Saturday, pledging his reforms would prevent firms from capping coverage or charging "outrageous" fees.


Gov. Jim Doyle won't seek re-election (Politico)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 12:11 PM PDT

Politico - Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle has told associates he will announce this week that he won’t seek a third term in 2010, POLITICO has learned.

Obama visit puts focus on senator for rural state (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 11:49 AM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks at a town hall meeting on health care at a hanger at Gallatin Airfield  in Belgrade, Mont. Friday, Aug. 14, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - The president's Friday town hall in a conservative suburb of Bozeman allowed him to speak directly to Baucus' constituents — the same people who are already giving the senator an angry earful during the congressional August recess.


Obama makes good on Montana fly-fishing promise (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 11:46 AM PDT

President Barack Obama rolls up his sleeves as he speaks about health care during a town hall meeting in a hanger at Gallatin Airfield in Belgrade, Mont. Friday, Aug. 14, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama didn't let thunderstorms and unseasonably cool weather stop him from learning how to fish for Montana's famous trout during his weekend trip to the rustic West and its national parks.


Senator meets Suu Kyi, wins American's release (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 11:26 AM PDT

In this image released by the office of U.S. Senator Jim Webb shows Webb meeting  with Myanmar's  detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon Saturday Aug. 15, 2009. Webb  won the release Saturday of an American prisoner  John Yettaw convicted in Myanmar and sentenced to seven years in prison for swimming secretly to the residence of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the senator's office said.(AP Photo/Office of Senator Jim Webb)AP - Stung by international outrage over the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's ruling generals agreed Saturday to hand an American prisoner involved in her case to a visiting U.S. senator.


Iran to put 25 more vote protesters on trial (AFP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 06:34 AM PDT

A photo received on June 23 allegedly shows supporters of Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi standing by a burning vehicle in Tehran on June 19. Iran will put on trial 25 more people arrested after the disputed result of the June presidential election, as fresh claims surfaced on Saturday that several protesters in jail were tortured to death.(AFP/RSF/File)AFP - Iran said on Saturday it will try 25 more people arrested after the disputed result of the June presidential election, as fresh claims surfaced that several protesters in jail were tortured to death.


GOP backs away from end-of-life counseling (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 06:09 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2009 file photo, Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga. speaks in in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis, FILE)AP - Until last week, Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson was among the most enthusiastic backers of end-of-life counseling in government health care programs like Medicare.


Liberal bloggers watch Obama closely, want action (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 06:08 AM PDT

Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa. is projected at left, behind a cardboard cutout of President Barack Obama, as he speaks at Netroots Nation, a gathering of self described progressive bloggers and online activists in Pittsburgh,  Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Specter spoke to the convention before his opponent, Rep. Joseph Sestak, D-Pa., in the upcoming primary election for his U.S. Senate seat. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - They wish he'd done more in his first eight months, but the liberal bloggers who helped propel Barack Obama to the White House are far from giving up on him.


Afghan election an early test of Obama's war plan (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 06:08 AM PDT

Afghan presidential candidate and current President Hamid Karzai waves to his supporters during his election campaign rally in Herat, west of  Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Karzai said Thursday he will win next week's presidential election and will offer government positions to two of his top challengers. (AP Photo/Fradioon Pooya)AP - Barack Obama's new Afghanistan war plan is facing its first major test, and it's not on the battlefield.


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