2009年9月6日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Bottom line on public insurance plan gets blurry (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 04:18 PM PDT

In this photo provided by ABC News, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs is interviewed on ABC's 'This Week' in Washington Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009.  (AP Photo/ABC News, Fred Watkins)AP - The Obama administration's bottom line on a government health insurance option blurred Sunday as White House officials stressed support but stopped short of calling it a must-have part of an overhaul.


Controversy over fiery remarks fells Obama adviser (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 12:42 PM PDT

File - Van Jones, an administration official specializing in environmentally friendly 'green jobs,'  is seen at the National Summit in Detroit, in this June 16, 2009 file photo. The White House issued a statement early Sunday Sept. 6, 2009 saying Jones had quit the administration. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - The White House environmental adviser under fire for inflammatory statements made before he joined the administration resigned after what he called a "vicious smear campaign against me."


Duncan says furor over Obama speech 'silly' (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 03:28 PM PDT

In this photo provided by CBS, Education Secretary Arne Duncan appears on CBS's 'Face the Nation' in Washington, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/CBS Face the Nation, Karin Cooper)AP - The furor surrounding President Barack Obama's upcoming address to the nation's schoolchildren is "just silly," his education chief said Sunday, and a conservative senator who led the Education Department in the first Bush administration suggested teachers make it a civics lesson.


Analysis: More wrangling could doom health care (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 11:48 AM PDT

In this photo provided by ABC News, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs is interviewed on ABC's 'This Week' in Washington Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009.  (AP Photo/ABC News, Fred Watkins)AP - The patient isn't dead yet.


More czars on conservative hit list (Politico)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 10:37 AM PDT

Politico - With the resignation of green jobs adviser Van Jones, the conservative firing squad is setting its sights on other White House czars. 

Arms dealer's arrest exposes Iran's smuggling (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 07:36 AM PDT

This undated photo provided by the Baldwin County, Ala., Sheriff's Department shows Jacques Monsieur, a Belgian long pursued by various governments for shipping military supplies to trouble spots around the world. (AP Photo/Baldwin County Sheriff's Department)AP - The arrest of a reputed arms dealer known as "The Field Marshal" is the latest success in a global cat-and-mouse game between federal agents and a network of shadowy business figures trying to smuggle weapons and equipment to Iran from the country most determined to stop them: the United States.


Mass. lawmakers prep for Kennedy successor hearing (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 12:43 PM PDT

RESEND of a graphic that first moved Aug. 31; graphic shows possible Mass. Senate candidatesAP - Democratic and Republican lawmakers are gearing up for a contentious public hearing over a bill that would allow Gov. Deval Patrick to name a temporary replacement for the late Sen. Kennedy's vacant U.S. Senate seat.


Obama's back-to-school message is responsibility (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 09:00 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 5, 2009 file photo Education Secretary Arne Duncan has lunch with students at Eagle School in Martinsburg, W.Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, FILE)AP - Classrooms are filling up as kids head back to school, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan's two children are among them.


Case of Abramoff protege puts lobbying on trial (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 11:00 AM PDT

FILE -  In this June 22, 2005 file photo, Kevin Ring testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - Years into the scandal, a protege of Jack Abramoff is the first member of the imprisoned lobbyist's team going before a jury to fight federal corruption charges that will put their very profession on trial.


INSIDE WASHINGTON: Labor board in gridlock (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 10:18 AM PDT

National Labor Relations Board Chairman Wilma B. Liebman and Peter Carey Schaumber, a longtime board member and former chairman, left, meet in a conference room at NLRB headquarters in Washington, Monday, Aug. 24, 2009. This independent federal agency enforces the National Labor Relations Act and keeps accord among unions and private sector employers, deciding such questions as whether employers forbid employees from using the company's e-mail system to send union-related messages. But such matters are going nowhere since January 2008, since the board has had one lonely Democrat, one lonely Republican and a political stalemate over three empty seats, which need to be appointed by the White House and confirmed on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Another Labor Day, another year of dysfunction in the agency that's supposed to protect workers from unfair labor practices and referee clashes between unions and management.


Beck up, left let down and Jones defiant (Politico)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 04:04 PM PDT

Politico - The resignation early Sunday of “green jobs” adviser Van Jones says as much about the Obama White House as it does about Jones – marking the latest sacrifice to the political gods after a long summer of compromises and surrenders highlighted the limits of White House power.

Gabon threatens emergency powers to quell unrest (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 03:26 PM PDT

Gabonese youths stand outside a shop in Libreville. Gabon's government threatened Sunday to impose emergency powers to quash unrest in its second city Port-Gentil after three people were killed in post-election violence.(AFP/Issouf Sanogo)AFP - Gabon's government threatened Sunday to impose emergency powers to quash unrest in its second city Port-Gentil after three people were killed in post-election violence.


CDC chief says swine vaccine for my kids, too (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 10:46 AM PDT

Graphic shows percentage of children who have died from seasonal flus since 2003 and swine flu in 2009 by age groupAP - The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says his kids are going to get the swine flu vaccine when it's available.


Karzai inches toward Afghan poll win (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 09:22 AM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai holds up his inked stained finger as he gestures during a news conference on election day in Kabul August 20, 2009. REUTERS/Ahmad MasoodReuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai inched closer to a first-round victory as more results came in from an election last month marred by accusations of fraud.


Axelrod: Firm on public option (Politico)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 08:42 AM PDT

Politico - White House senior adviser David Axelrod tells POLITICO that the administration is not dialing back its support for a public health-insurance option as part of a reform bill, and that a comment he made on NBC’s “Meet the Press” was misinterpreted.

Jones Resigns as Obama Aide, Citing ‘Smear’ Campaign (Bloomberg)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 08:16 AM PDT

Bloomberg - Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Van Jones, an environmental adviser to President Barack Obama, resigned today, citing a “vicious smear campaign” by opponents of health care and energy plans focused on comments he made before joining the administration.

White House sees healthcare reform this year (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 08:05 AM PDT

Reuters - The Obama administration is optimistic about pushing through reforms to the U.S. healthcare system this year despite heavy opposition from Republicans in Congress, White House adviser David Axelrod said on Sunday.

Van Jones and the W.H. casualty list (Politico)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 07:15 AM PDT

Eco-activist Van Jones accepts an award at Global Green USA's 12th Annual Green Cross Millennium Awards in 2008 in Santa Monica, California. The White House on Friday sought to deflect criticism of a special adviser who reportedly holds controversial views on the role of the George W. Bush administration in the attacks of September 11, 2001.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Vince Bucci)Politico - When President Barack Obama's green jobs adviser, Van Jones, submitted his resignation this weekend, he became the first casualty of the Obama administration not to go quietly.


Obama's "green jobs" guru Jones resigns after uproar (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 04:03 AM PDT

Reuters - A White House environmental policy adviser who specialized in "green jobs" resigned on Sunday after an uproar over his previous affiliation with a September 11 conspiracy group.

Van Jones resigns amid controversy (Politico)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 03:50 AM PDT

Politico - The White House, in an unusual pre-dawn announcement Sunday, said its “green jobs czar” Van Jones would resign after fierce criticism from Republicans about some of his statements and associations prior to joining the administration.

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