2009年12月3日星期四

Yahoo! News: Elections

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Elections


House votes to extend tax on wealthy estates (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 01:31 PM PST

Graphic shows amount of estate excluded from taxation and estate tax revenueAP - The House voted Thursday to indefinitely extend a 45 percent inheritance tax on estates larger than $3.5 million, canceling a one-year repeal of the tax set to begin next month.


Troop surge rattles political landscape (Politico)

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 01:50 AM PST

Politico - With his announcement of a troop increase in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama has complicated an already hazardous political landscape and introduced a highly combustible element into scores of House and Senate races.

Obama family lights National Christmas Tree (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 04:34 PM PST

The White House is seen in the background after the lighting of the National Christmas Tree, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Surrounded by celebrity performers and characters from the North Pole, the Obama family on Thursday led a countdown and lighted the National Christmas Tree.


Obama calls for new ideas for creating jobs (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 03:40 PM PST

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, speaks at the opening of his jobs summit, officially known as the Jobs and Economic Growth Forum, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - President Barack Obama promised at a White House jobs forum on Thursday to take "every responsible step to accelerate job creation," including some ideas he said could be put into action quickly. He cited an expanded program to help make more U.S. homes energy-efficient as an example.


Obama pushes to turn around failing schools (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 04:50 PM PST

President Barack Obama takes a question at the Jobs and Economic Growth Forum at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building across from the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - The Obama administration will spend at least $3.5 billion to push local officials around the country to close failing schools and reopen them with new teachers and principals.


Oprah visits White House for Christmas special (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 02:53 PM PST

AP - Oprah and Obama, teamed up again. The billionaire talk show host descended on the White House on Thursday, accompanied by a giant array of personnel and equipment, to interview President Barack Obama for her upcoming primetime Christmas television special.

Afghan training mission faces tough obstacles (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 04:49 PM PST

Graphic shows location of ground combat forces in Afghanistan, by regional commandAP - America's eight-year effort to build a functional Afghan security force has been a study in slow motion, raising doubts about President Barack Obama's new plan to quickly get the nation's army and police in shape so U.S. forces can begin to leave in 18 months.


Obama vows to tackle jobs challenge head-on (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 04:19 PM PST

Applicants wait during a job fair at the Southeast LA-Crenshaw WorkSource Center in Los Angeles, November 20, 2009. REUTERS/Mario AnzuoniReuters - President Barack Obama urged corporate America on Thursday to help tackle the nation's highest unemployment in 26 years but also hinted at federal tax credits and aid to states to ease jobless woes.


Obama seeks answers to rising joblessness, sinking polls (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 04:08 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — With the jobless rate rising and his approval ratings sinking, President Barack Obama hosted academics and leaders of business and labor at a White House jobs summit Thursday, seeking advice on how to boost employment.

Young voters fault Obama on many measures: poll (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 03:18 PM PST

Reuters - Fifty-eight percent of younger Americans approve of President Barack Obama's job performance but many feel differently about his handling of specific issues, a national poll has found.

In Massachusetts, hopefuls clutch at Kennedy aura (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 03:11 PM PST

Reuters - How do you follow a legend?

Insider, centerfold lead in race for Kennedy seat (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 03:00 PM PST

RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2009 - The casket (L) of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy is carried out of the family complex by members of a United States military honor guard in Hyannisport, Massachusetts August 27, 2009. Kennedy died August 25 at the age of 77 after a year-long battle with brain cancer. Family and friends watch at right, in front of the house that once belonged to Rose Kennedy, Senator Kennedy's mother.   REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES POLITICS OBITUARY)AP - The race for a Senate seat once held by John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, John F. Kennedy and "liberal lion" Edward M. Kennedy is shaping up as a battle of relative national unknowns, led by a state Democratic insider and a Republican lawmaker perhaps best known as a male centerfold and father of an "American Idol" contestant.


US isolationism on the rise, poll finds (AFP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 02:46 PM PST

US Marines in Afghanistan in November 2009. President Barack Obama may have sought to sell his revamped Afghanistan war strategy to a skeptical US public, but a poll showed Thursday that he faces a tough task amid a growing isolationist surge.(AFP/File/Manpreet Romana)AFP - President Barack Obama may have sought to sell his revamped Afghanistan war strategy to a skeptical US public, but a poll showed Thursday that he faces a tough task amid a growing isolationist surge.


White House to Rogers critics: Back off (Politico)

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 02:44 PM PST

Politico - If White House social secretary Desiree Rogers survives this week's withering attacks over her role in last week's state dinner security breach, she'll have gotten by with a lot of help from her friends in the West Wing.

Gates: 3,000 extra troops could go to Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 02:42 PM PST

Defense Secretary Robert Gates testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - President Barack Obama said he'd send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. But the actual number could be higher.


Vermont auditor pleads guilty to drunken driving (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 02:12 PM PST

AP - The state auditor of Vermont, who gained national notice when he deployed to Iraq during his re-election campaign, has pleaded guilty to drunken driving.

Pelosi: Bailout money to fund jobs initiative (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 02:02 PM PST

AP - The top Democrat on Capitol Hill said Thursday that Congress will tap unused funds from the Wall Street bailout to pay for new spending on roads and bridges and save the jobs of firefighters, teachers and other public employees.

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