2009年3月10日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Obama to unveil education plan, no new legislation (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 04:43 AM PDT

President Barack Obama calls on Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., to come to the stage prior to signing an Executive Order on stem cells and a Presidential Memorandum on scientific integrity, Monday, March 9, 2009, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - President Barack Obama is promoting tighter standards for teachers and a reduced dropout rate for students as part of an education plan that, at least for now, lacks any new legislative component.

Biden warns of 'deteriorating' Afghan situation (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 05:31 AM PDT

NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (R) delivers a speech to the North Atlantic Council next to U.S. Vice President Joe Biden at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels, March 10, 2009. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir (BELGIUM MILITARY POLITICS)AP - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden urged NATO members to jointly confront al-Qaida and other extremist groups in Afghanistan where he said instability threatens all of the alliance's members equally.

Lawmakers defend attacks against pet projects (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 03:28 AM PDT

Tonya Huenink, student technician for the United States Department of Agriculture, works at Iowa State University's National Soil Tilth Laboratory Thursday, March 5, 2009, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/ Nirmalendu Majumdar)AP - The idea of devoting $1.8 million to research controlling the smell of pig dung stinks to high heaven to opponents of Congress' proclivity for pork-barrel projects.

PROMISES, PROMISES: House fails to zero out carbon (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 03:17 AM PDT

In this Feb. 25, 2009 file photo, the Capitol Power Plant, that heats and cools the hallowed halls of Congress, is seen in Washington. In April 2007 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said 'The House must lead by example and it is time for Congress to act on its own carbon footprint,' and announced the 'Green the Capitol' initiative. But in late February the House quietly shelved the idea. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)AP - It was a bold promise: the House would "lead by example" to fight global warming, becoming the first legislative body in the world to zero out its carbon impact on the planet.

Attacks on Obama fall short (Politico)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 01:31 AM PDT

Politico - The sharp tone House GOP leaders have recently taken toward President Barack Obama may appeal to the conservative base, but don’t expect the whole conference to follow suit. With nearly three dozen Republicans sitting in congressional districts carried by the president in 2008, there’s still quite a bit of reticence when it comes to Obama-bashing.

Obama decision on stem cells cheers scientists (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 03:26 AM PDT

President Barack Obama signs an Executive Order on stem cells and a Presidential Memorandum on scientific integrity, Monday, March 9, 2009, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - President Barack Obama's decision to lift the contentious Bush-era restraints on stem-cell research came with a larger message for all scientists: Follow the data, not political ideology.

House considers money for border, Mexico drug war (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 03:18 AM PDT

AP - House subcommittees are considering spending requests for security along the U.S.-Mexico border and ways to help curb Mexican drug violence.

Runway safety improvements lag at busy airports (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 12:06 AM PDT

AP - Six-year-old Joshua Woods was singing Christmas songs on Dec. 8, 2005, when a runaway plane at Chicago's Midway Airport crashed through a fence and collided with his family's car, killing the boy. The tragedy underscores what the government says is an urgent safety problem.

Less body armor might be the answer in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 02:52 AM PDT

In this Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009 picture, the U.S. Army's Improved Outer Tachtical Vests (IOTV) are displayed by Army First Sgt. Patrick Schrader, left, and Staff Sgt. Fred Rowe, during a House Armed Services Committee joint hearing on Army and Marine Corps force protection programs, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Heavy layers of body armor, a proven lifesaver of U.S. troops, also may be an impediment to winning the fight in Afghanistan where 17,000 additional American forces are being sent to quell rising violence. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Heavy layers of body armor, a proven lifesaver of U.S. troops, also may be an impediment to winning the fight in Afghanistan, where 17,000 additional American forces are being sent to quell rising violence.

FDA seeks rapid test for salmonella (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 12:05 AM PDT

Mary Tock checks for peanut products at the Greater Chicago Food Depository, the city's clearinghouse for nearly 600 local food banks, in Chicago, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2009. Food pantries are chucking thousands of pounds of food containing peanut products tainted from the salmonella outbreak — a particularly painful process as food banks struggle to meet a growing demand to feed families in a floundering economy. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)AP - Wanted: Salmonella detector. Must work fast.

Congress, agencies move as stem cell limits lifted (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 05:14 AM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama signed an order lifting eight years of restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research on Monday as scientists gushed, activists cheered and shares in stem cell companies rose.

Taliban say Obama's call on moderates "illogical" (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 04:17 AM PDT

Soldiers on guard in Swat valley in Pakistan in 2008. Taliban militants shot dead three men in Pakistan's restive northwest tribal belt after filming them confessing to spying for the United States, officials said Monday.(AFP/File/Farooq Naeem)Reuters - Afghanistan's Taliban on Tuesday turned down as illogical U.S. President Barack Obama's bid to reach out to moderate elements of the insurgents, saying the exit of foreign troops was the only solution for ending the war.

Obama takes on teachers' unions (Politico)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 03:59 AM PDT

President Barack Obama, seen here at a school in Washington, DC last month, is to unveil an overhaul of the underperforming US education system, with a goal of restoring America to the top-ranks of learning excellence, a senior administration official has said.(AFP/Jim Watson)Politico - After weeks of pleasing Democrats by overturning policies set by the previous administration, President Barack Obama Tuesday will for the first time confront a powerful constituency in his own party: teachers’ unions.

Obama to address U.S. education woes in speech (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 03:05 AM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama will mark his seventh week in office on Tuesday by proposing reforms to the U.S. education system, which has one of the worst high school dropout rates in the industrialized world.

Not all quiet on the foreign front (Politico)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 01:26 AM PDT

Politico - On the foreign front, President Barack Obama has had a remarkably quiet first 50 days in office. But Monday offered stark reminders that he cannot rely on international calm forever, and any number of overseas crises could derail the administration’s nearly single-minded focus on repairing the economy.

Protests at Chamber for card check (Politico)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 01:24 AM PDT

Politico - You’ve probably seen the ads and heard the rhetoric on the House and Senate floor, but now the protests over the Employee Free Choice Act are under way. A spokeswoman for the Service Employees International Union said the organization dispatched 300 labor union members to protest outside the offices of the Chamber of Commerce, which opposes legislation — also known as card check — that would make it easier to unionize.

GOP urges rookies to go for the dough (Politico)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 01:17 AM PDT

Politico - House GOP leaders are tired of throwing good money into lost causes on the campaign trail, so they’ve got a new message for rookie Republicans: You’re going to have to raise cash early and often.

Reckoning day: Firms stuck with tab (Politico)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 01:12 AM PDT

Politico - Of the $353 billion in new business taxes in President Barack Obama’s 10-year budget plan, about two-thirds — $234 billion — is aimed at just three targets: hedge funds, foreign firms and U.S. companies that play on the world stage.

A dash of science: Now that's change (Politico)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 01:11 AM PDT

Politico - President Barack Obama did a lot more than lift the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research Monday. He came to the startling conclusion that scientific research should be based on science.

Stem cell decision ignites right's ire (Politico)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 01:06 AM PDT

Politico - He called for reducing abortions and seeking common ground on one of the nation’s most divisive issues — promises that led some on the right to think maybe, just maybe, Barack Obama was a different kind of Democrat.

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