2009年9月19日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Obama to meet with Netanyahu, Abbas (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 04:06 PM PDT

President Barack Obama talks with workers about the economy as he visits the Lordstown Complex General Motors Plant in Warren, Ohio, September 15, 2009. REUTERS/Larry DowningAP - President Barack Obama will host a meeting Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in an effort to lay the groundwork for renewed negotiations on Mideast peace.


Toughest test coming up for health care overhaul (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 02:51 PM PDT

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. takes part in a news conference on health care legislation, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009, Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Keep going. You don't have to fix all of it now. Just please don't let it stall. That's the essence of the message that Senate Democratic leaders have for their Finance Committee senators, who plan to start voting Tuesday on a remake of the nation's health care system.


Did ACORN get too big for its own good? (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 02:48 PM PDT

The sign of the nonprofit radio stations KABF is seen outside its building in Little Rock, Ark., Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. The station and ACORN work closely together, share a common mission and have offices in the same buildings. ACORN, the community activist group shown on Internet videos aiding a couple posing as a pimp and prostitute, started in 1970 to help poor people in Arkansas. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP - Activist group ACORN started in 1970 to help the poor in Arkansas and quickly went national, growing into a multimillion-dollar conglomerate with a mission so far-flung that schools now bear its name, two radio stations are affiliates and a man it backed is the president. Oh yeah, it's also the unwilling star of a hot Internet video featuring a couple dressed as a hooker and her pimp.


Obama rolling into week of high diplomatic stakes (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 03:36 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, file photo, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, laughs with U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell, during their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Mitchell pressed Israel to curtail settlement construction, but announced no breakthroughs after more than two hours of talks Tuesday. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)AP - The unrelenting global troubles confronting Barack Obama are about to converge on him all at once, providing a stern test of leadership for a first-year president who has pledged to "change the world."


Romney rouses Values Voters (Politico)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 12:52 PM PDT

Politico - Mitt Romney used an address Saturday at a social conservative conference to critique President Obama on fiscal and defense issues, largely ignoring such issues as abortion and gay rights.

At summit, Asian leaders to press for greater role (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 04:23 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009  file photo,  the David L. Lawrence Convention Center is seen in Pittsburgh , where the Group of 20 global economic summit will be held Sept. 24 and Sept. 25. Asian leaders gathering at next week's economic summit in Pittsburgh will be demanding a greater voice in the way global financial institutions make crucial decisions. Likewise, the world's established powers will have some demands of their own for the rising Asian nations.  (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, file)AP - Asian leaders at this week's economic summit will demand a greater voice in the way global financial institutions make crucial decisions. Likewise, the world's established powers will have some demands of their own.


GOP lawmaker warns of dangers in health overhaul (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 02:51 PM PDT

File - Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., answers a question during a news conference in Charlotte, N.C., in this July 17, 2006 file photo. Myrick issued the latest warning against a Democratic-backed health care overhaul as she recalled her fight with breast cancer in the GOP's weekly radio and Internet address Saturday Sept. 19, 2009.  (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)AP - A GOP congresswoman grateful for quick detection of her breast cancer says Democratic health overhaul plans could mean life-threatening delays in treatment.


Obama: G-20 summit should assess economic progress (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 02:57 PM PDT

President Barack Obama talks with workers about the economy as he visits the Lordstown Complex General Motors Plant in Warren, Ohio, September 15, 2009. REUTERS/Larry DowningAP - President Barack Obama says the world's leading economic powers have made progress in stabilizing the global financial system but much work remains to produce needed jobs and growth.


Former CIA heads ask Obama to quash probe (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 04:12 PM PDT

CIA Director Leon Panetta addresses the media at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn, Mich., Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. Panetta was scheduled to address members of the area's large Middle Eastern community at the Iftar, the evening meal that breaks the fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.  (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Seven former CIA directors who served both Republican and Democratic presidents have asked President Barack Obama to end the Justice Department's criminal probe into the harsh interrogations of terror suspects during the Bush administration.


Huckabee is tops in conservatives' straw vote (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 01:52 PM PDT

AP - A straw vote suggests former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is a favorite among religious conservatives to be president in 2012.

Obama to hold joint meeting with Netanyahu, Abbas (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 04:45 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama will hold a joint meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday to try to restart peace talks between the two sides, the White House said.

Obama, family out in Georgetown (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 03:56 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama, wife Michelle and their two daughters were spending the evening in Georgetown at the home of senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.

Palin emerges as Facebook phenom (Politico)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 03:19 PM PDT

Politico - Since resigning her post as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin has essentially gone dark, making almost no public appearances and successfully avoiding the media outlets that are clamoring to talk to her.

Official: FCC to propose 'Net neutrality' rules (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 01:58 PM PDT

File - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski testifies during his nominee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this June 16, 2009 file photo. Reports published Saturday Sept. 19, 2009 say Genachowski will propose new rules designed to ensure the free flow of information and applications over the Internet in a speech Monday at the Brookings Institution. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)AP - The head of the FCC plans to propose new rules that would prohibit Internet service providers from interfering with the free flow of information and certain applications over their networks, an official at the agency said Saturday.


Senate jockeying begins on Baucus bill (Politico)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 11:52 AM PDT

Politico - Members of the Senate Finance Committee filed more than 500 amendments to Chairman Max Baucus’s health care reform bill, setting the stage for a markup next week that will lay bare differences between the parties on overhauling the health care system. 

Obama extends greetings on Muslim holiday (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 09:39 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama is extending greetings to Muslims celebrating Eid al-Fitr (ayd ahl-FIH'-tur), which marks the end of the holy monthlong fasting time known as Ramadan.

U.S. Officials Probe Union Chief’s Political Actions (Bloomberg)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 07:11 AM PDT

Bloomberg - Sept. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Federal investigators are probing whether a local union president at a Pennsylvania U.S. Energy Department laboratory improperly helped President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign on government time by using government facilities, union lawyers said.

Obama touts reform in advance of G-20 (Politico)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 05:20 AM PDT

Politico - In advance of the G-20 economic summit in Pittsburgh next week, President Barack Obama is seeking to harness lingering anger against Wall Street to give some momentum to regulatory reform legislation that’s been languishing on Capitol Hill.

Obama's first dance at the U.N. (Politico)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 05:15 AM PDT

Politico - Tom DeLay may be Dancing with the Stars, but it's President Barack Obama who'll need some fancy footwork next week as he tries to dodge the dictators during his first-ever visit to the United Nations.

Obama seeks to reassure G20 on financial reforms (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 03:53 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama talks with workers about the economy as he visits the Lordstown Complex General Motors Plant in Warren, Ohio, September 15, 2009. REUTERS/Larry DowningReuters - President Barack Obama vowed on Saturday to work with fellow G20 leaders next week to close gaps in financial regulations and insisted reckless schemes that yield "fat executive bonuses" could no longer be tolerated.


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