2009年10月24日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Obama declares swine flu a national emergency (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 04:52 PM PDT

Registered nurse Bethlehem Tekolla administers the swine flu vaccine to Katie Alms, 3, as her mother Kim Alms of McLean Va., watches during a vaccine clinic at the Fairfax County Government Center in Fairfax, Va., on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients.


White House situation room monitored wayward plane (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 04:19 PM PDT

The flight recorders from Northwest flight 188, that overflew the Minneapolis-St Paul International/World-Chamberlain Airport, are displayed at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) headquarters in Washington, Friday, Oct. 23, 2009. At left is the Cockpit Voice Recorder, the Flight Data Recorder is at right.  (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)AP - There was concern at the White House about that wayward Northwest Airlines jet that flew past its scheduled destination in Minneapolis.


Patients — and patience — in health care end game (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 04:58 PM PDT

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. gestures during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - In Congress these days, the health care debate is as much about patience as patients.


Al-Qaida and the Taliban: Knowing your enemy (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 04:14 PM PDT

A Pakistani police officer argues with a person who fled fighting between security forces and militants in Pakistani tribal area of Waziristan, as he tried to get food relief out of his turn at a relief distribution center in the suburb of Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009. Pakistan's 8-day-old offensive in the Taliban and al-Qaida stronghold of South Waziristan is considered its most critical test yet in the campaign to stop the spread of violent extremism in this nuclear-armed country. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)AP - Senior al-Qaida leaders are forging deeper relationships with Pakistani militants and often operating from their camps inside the Pakistan border, fueling Obama administration arguments for a shift in the Afghan war strategy that more narrowly targets the terrorists.


Bernanke's trillion-dollar decision (Politico)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 04:59 AM PDT

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke listens to businessmen following an address in Chatham, Mass., Friday, Oct. 23, 2009. Bernanke prodded Congress Friday to enact legislation overhauling the nation's financial regulatory system to prevent a repeat of the banking and credit debacles that had thrust the country into crisis.(AP Photo/Charles Krupa)Politico - The biggest decision of the economic recovery will be made in the next six months, and Barack Obama will have almost nothing to do with it.


Obama: Time for big banks to help small businesses (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 04:25 PM PDT

President Barack Obama tours Eastern Land Management with Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., in Stamford,  Conn., Friday, Oct. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Big banks that got big bailout bucks should return the favor by lending more to qualified small businesses, President Barack Obama says.


Republicans bash Dems over health care proposals (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 03:51 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2009 file photo Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., second from left, talks about health care reform on Capitol Hill in Washington with, from left, Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., Johanns, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Vermont Gov. James Douglas, and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. Johanns, in the GOP's weekly video and radio address Saturday Oct. 24, 2009, asked voters a basic question about Democratic proposals to overhaul the nation's health care system; 'Will this improve your life?' (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)AP - With landmark health care votes expected in the coming weeks, Republicans are warning voters that the Democratic plan to expand coverage to millions who lack it will increase costs for the average American.


EPA: Climate bill could cost family $100 annually (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 04:30 PM PDT

AP - A Senate plan to tackle global warming would add about $100 a year to the energy costs for a typical household, according to an analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Recyclers want more time to dispose of clunkers (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 06:25 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2009 photo, a crane lifts a flattened car to a shredder at Gershow Recycling Corp. in Medford, N.Y.  Cash for Clunkers may be history for car shoppers, but the program's largesse lives on in recycling yards around the country. A torrent of traded-in clunkers have arrived at auto recyclers in the past two months and are still waiting to be drained of fluids, stripped of valuable parts and eventually flattened.   (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)AP - Trade-ins from the Cash for Clunkers program are piling up and auto recyclers are seeking more time to meet the deadline for disposing of all those vehicles.


Report defends stimulus spending, questions linger (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 04:43 PM PDT

Container ships are seen docked at the Keppel terminal port in Singapore in mid September. Some Asian nations - particularly advanced and export-dependent economies that have experienced a relatively large cyclical weakening of their fiscal positions - plan to withdraw stimulus packages next year amid recovery signs, the IMF has said.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman)AP - A watchdog's review of stimulus spending by the Department of Homeland Security doesn't resolve the controversy about how the Obama administration allocated the money for border projects.


In his own image: Obama's DNC (Politico)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 03:20 PM PDT

Politico - The Democratic National Committee, often relatively inactive in the year after a presidential election, is ramping up its hiring and aggressively broadening its mission under the direction of Obama campaign veterans intent on applying the lessons of 2008 to races in 2010 and 2012.

Taliban call for Afghan vote boycott, threaten violence (AFP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 01:54 PM PDT

Afghan workers transport ballot boxes at the Independent Election Commission (IEC) warehouse in Kabul. The Taliban called Saturday for a boycott of the upcoming run-off in Afghanistan's fraud-tainted presidential election as US and UN envoys predicted fewer problems with the second round.(AFP/Romeo Gacad)AFP - The Taliban called Saturday for a boycott of the upcoming run-off in Afghanistan's fraud-tainted presidential election as US and UN envoys predicted fewer problems with the second round.


White House opens Web site programming to public (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 12:37 PM PDT

First lady Michelle Obama, accompanied Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, addresses White House guests during a healthy kids fair, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - A programming overhaul of the White House's Web site has set the tech world abuzz. For low-techies, it's a snooze — you won't notice a thing.


Obama calls French, Russian presidents on Iran (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 12:33 PM PDT

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take pictures in Tehran.  IAEA nuclear inspectors sit in a vehicle before leaving Imam Khomeini International airport, 35 km (22 miles) south of Tehran, October 25, 2009. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN POLITICS ENERGY)AP - President Barack Obama has called French President Nicolas Sarkozy (sar-koh-ZEE') and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (dih-MEE'-tree med-VYEH'-dyev) to reaffirm their commitment to a U.N.-backed plan that would ship most of Iran's uranium abroad for enrichment.


Obama calls Sarkozy, Medvedev on Iran nuclear plan (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 12:24 PM PDT

Air Force One is pictured on the tarmac of Boston Logan Airport as U.S. President Barack Obama's motorcade returns from fundraisers for Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, October 23, 2009. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - U.S. President Barack Obama called Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday to consult on Iran's nuclear program, the White House said.


Ensign resignation would set up Nevada scramble (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 11:56 AM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 13, 2009 file photo shows Senate Finance Committee member Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev. on Capitol Hill in Washington during the committee's hearing regarding health care reform.  Ensign, dogged by ethics allegations and questions about an extramarital affair with a former aide, has vowed not to resign. But if Nevada's junior senator were to leave office, voluntarily or otherwise, the timing of his departure could set up a dizzying candidate shuffle and help determine Republican chances of retaining the seat. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - Sen. John Ensign, dogged by ethics allegations and questions about an extramarital affair with a former aide, has vowed not to resign. But if Nevada's junior senator were to leave office, voluntarily or otherwise, the timing of his departure could set up a dizzying candidate shuffle and help determine Republican chances of retaining the seat.


White House: Syria should release detained lawyer (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 11:07 AM PDT

AP - The White House says it's deeply concerned about the arrest of a 78-year-old human rights lawyer in Syria and wants an end to what it calls the Syrian government's "practice of arbitrary arrests."

Obama presses banks on small business loans (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 08:53 AM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama urged banks on Saturday to make more loans to small businesses and said his administration would do everything it can to push them to do so.

Taliban threaten Afghan run-off vote, urge boycott (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 08:25 AM PDT

An election worker carries a ballot box at the Independent Election Commission warehouse in Kabul October 22, 2009. REUTERS/StringerReuters - The Taliban called on Afghans on Saturday to boycott next month's presidential election run-off and vowed to disrupt voting in a repeat of their threat to derail the disputed first round.


Afghan Envoy Says Karzai Is Open to UN-Run Election (Bloomberg)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 08:00 AM PDT

Bloomberg - Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s government would accept the United Nations taking charge of a runoff election next month if that would alleviate concerns about fraud, the Afghan ambassador to Washington said.

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