2009年10月9日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Obama discusses troop levels for Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 04:53 PM PDT

Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen, left, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrive at the Pentagon, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. after a meeting at the White House to discuss` Afghanistan and Pakistan.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Hours after winning a Nobel Peace Prize, President Barack Obama assembled his war council in the White House basement to talk about how many troops might be needed to right the 8-year-old Afghanistan conflict that military commanders are pressing him to escalate.


Obama steps up push for consumer protection agency (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 04:17 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama speaks on regulatory reform in the East Room at the White House in Washington, DC. US President Barack Obama on Friday accused big business and its lobbyists of trying to kill his bid to pass a new law shielding US consumers from ruinous predatory lending practices.(AFP/Jewel Samad)AP - President Barack Obama fought to keep his proposed banking overhaul on track Friday, casting the political struggle ahead as one between big financial interests and average Americans victimized by complex or unscrupulous financial transactions.


Job competition toughest since recession began (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:03 PM PDT

Charts shows number of people unemployed per job opening available sinceAP - The number of job seekers competing for each opening has reached the highest point since the recession began, according to government data released Friday.


Read the health bill! Not as easy as you think (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 04:29 PM PDT

House Speaker Pelosi of Calif. takes part in her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - Read the bill! It was a rallying cry at angry health care town halls this summer and has evolved into something of a political movement. Many Americans are demanding that lawmakers actually read the comprehensive legislation they've written — or at least make it publicly available — before voting on it.


GOP postpones Vegas event (Politico)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:04 PM PDT

Politico - An RNC fundraiser, Lindsey Williams-Drath, raised some eyebrows among Republican donors this afternoon with an email that a big donor weekend in Las Vegas from October 16 to 18 -- headlining the embattled Senator John Ensign -- had been scuttled "due to unforeseen circumstances."

From right and left, questions about peace prize (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:36 PM PDT

President Barack Obama makes remarks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009, about him being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Gee, you'd think a U.S. president who won the Nobel Peace Prize might get rave reviews from his party's activists and polite congrats from top Republicans.


Undecided Democrat mulls health care options (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:26 PM PDT

Senate Finance Committee member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. heads to the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct.  8,  2009. On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. announced that the Finance Committee will vote next week on the health care bill.   (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - All eyes are on Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe as health care legislation heads for a high-stakes committee vote next week. But she's not the only senator who is being noncommittal.


Report: Limiting medical lawsuits could save $41B (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:29 PM PDT

AP - Limits on medical malpractice lawsuits would lead doctors to order up fewer unneeded tests and save taxpayers billions more than previously thought, budget umpires for Congress said Friday in a reversal that puts the issue back in the middle of the health care debate.

Obama says he'll accept Nobel as 'call to action' (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:04 PM PDT

President Barack Obama talks on the phone in the Oval Office in Washington, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009, before speaking about winning the Nobel Peace Prize in the Rose Garden. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - A beaming President Barack Obama said Friday he was both honored and humbled to win the Nobel Peace Prize and would accept it as a "call to action" to work with other nations to solve the world's most pressing problems.


Republican shoots target with Fla. Dem's initials (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:48 PM PDT

FILE -  In a Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009 photo, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington following a hearing on breast cancer legislation by the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Health. Robert Lowry, a South Florida Republican candidate vying to replace Democratic congresswoman Deborah Wasserman Schultz, says it was a mistake to fire at a full-body silhouette with Wasserman Schultz'  initials written next to its head during a weekly meeting of the Southeast Broward Republican Club held at a gun range on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009.   (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)AP - A South Florida Republican said it was a mistake to shoot at a target with the initials of the Democratic congresswoman he is trying to unseat.


GOP dials down Nobel Prize criticism (Politico)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:41 PM PDT

Politico - While top conservative media personalities and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele were quick to disparage Friday's surprise awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama, the response from other corners of the GOP was considerably more muted.

Obama, Democrats court women on health overhaul (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 04:35 PM PDT

Senate Finance Committee member Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark. heads to the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct.  8,  2009. On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. announced that the Finance Committee will vote next week on the health care bill.   (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - The White House and top Democrats, intensifying their push to build support for their party's health overhaul proposals, are increasingly targeting women, a politically crucial group with strong opinions on health care that polls suggest has yet to be sold on the changes.


Obama says Nobel Peace Prize is "call to action" (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 04:31 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama makes opening remarks before presenting the 2008 National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation in the East Room at the White House in Washington October 7, 2009. REUTERS/Jim YoungReuters - Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision that honored the first-year U.S. president more for promise than achievement and drew both praise and skepticism around the world.


Analysis: A great prize, but will it help goals? (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 04:21 PM PDT

President Barack Obama walks to the podium in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009, to speak about winning the Nobel Peace Prize. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Now that he's Nobel laureate Barack Obama, will he find smoother sailing for his plans to rid the world of nuclear weapons, to forge Mideast peace and stabilize Afghanistan, to halt climate change?


US reaction to Obama's win of Nobel Peace Prize (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 03:15 PM PDT

AP - Some U.S. reaction to President Barack Obama's win of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday:

Obama expresses admiration for Father Damien (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 12:59 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama is expressing his admiration for Father Damien, a Hawaiian priest set to become a saint on Sunday when he is canonized in Rome by Pope Benedict XVI.

Lawmaker cusses out fellow Missourian in House (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 12:42 PM PDT

AP - Show me some civility, Republicans cried Friday after a Missouri congressman speaking on the House floor was caught on microphone apparently cussing out a fellow Missourian.

Deeds: Obama Will Campaign Again in Virginia (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 11:21 AM PDT

CQPolitics.com - Democrat Creigh Deeds said Friday that he'll take all the help for his campaign for Virginia governor that President Obama wants to give him.

Obama's daughters excited about dad's Nobel prize (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 11:16 AM PDT

AP - Moments after President Barack Obama got the news about winning the Nobel Peace Prize, his excited daughters came to congratulate him.

NY mayoral challenger gets lukewarm Obama backing (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 11:03 AM PDT

Reuters - The long-shot Democratic challenger to Mayor Michael Bloomberg is scarcely a household name to many New Yorkers, and his campaign got little help on that front on Friday from the White House.

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