2009年3月15日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Chorus of outrage over millions in AIG bonuses (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 04:25 PM PDT

AIG plans to pay 450 million dollars in bonuses to finance executives who led the insurance giant to a 99.3-billion dollar loss last year.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)AP - Leaders of the White House economic team and the Senate's top Republican bellowed about bonuses at a bailed-out insurance giant and pledged to prevent such payments in the future.

Cheney: Obama detainee policies make US less safe (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 10:56 AM PDT

Former Vice President Dick Cheney appears on CNN's 'State of the Union' Sunday, March 15, 2009, in Washington. Cheney's going high-tech with a BlackBerry and a wireless device for reading books. And he's driving a car these days. Such is life after 8 years as vice president. Two months after leaving office, Cheney also is getting used to being out of the loop when it comes national secrets. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)AP - Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that Americans are less safe now that President Barack Obama has overturned Bush terrorism-fighting policies and that nearly all the Republican administration's goals in Iraq have been achieved.

Summers calls AIG bonuses 'outrageous' (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 11:39 AM PDT

In this photo provided by CBS, White House National Economic Council Chairman Lawrence Summers appears on CBS's 'Face the Nation' in Washington, Sunday, March 15, 2009. (AP Photo/CBS Face the Nation, Karin Cooper)AP - "Outrageous." That's what the president's chief economic adviser calls the tens of millions of dollars in new bonuses paid out by the troubled insurance giant American International Group.

Obama plans to boost small biz (Politico)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 11:02 AM PDT

Politico - President Barack Obama is looking for some sector of the economy to lead the nation out of recession, and he's putting down a $730 million dollar bet Monday on small businesses.

Health insurance industry works on image makeover (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 11:50 AM PDT

ADVANCE FOR MARCH 16; graphic shows contributions from insurance companies to Democrats and Republicans during election cyclesAP - The health insurance industry is working on a transformation that could come right out of "Extreme Makeover."

Obama to unveil plans to help small businesses (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 04:24 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, citing an existing health AP - Amid misgivings over his spending blueprint, President Barack Obama has decided to provide billions of dollars in federal lending aid aimed at struggling small business owners.

Cheney going high-tech and driving a car (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 08:06 AM PDT

Former Vice President Dick Cheney appears on CNN's 'State of the Union' Sunday, March 15, 2009, in Washington with moderator John King. Cheney's going high-tech with a BlackBerry and a wireless device for reading books. And he's driving a car these days. Such is life after 8 years as vice president. Two months after leaving office, Cheney also is getting used to being out of the loop when it comes national secrets. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)AP - Dick Cheney's going high-tech with a BlackBerry and a wireless device for reading books. And he's driving a car these days.

For Liberians in US, a frightening waiting game (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 07:42 AM PDT

Alexander Collins, a refugee from Liberia, reflects on his status Thursday, March 12, 2009 in Brooklyn Park, Minn. Collins is among 3,600 Liberians who were granted temporary protected status to settle in the United States while civil war ravaged their west African homeland. The war has ended in Liberia, and with a fledgling democracy taking hold there, one last 18-month extension granted by then-President George W. Bush is due to expire March 31. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella)AP - Alexander Collins has two homes: a new one in the U.S. where he wants to stay and one in Africa he wants to leave for good.

Cheney dismisses idea that Limbaugh is bad for GOP (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 11:00 AM PDT

In this Jan. 13, 2009 file photo, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh talks with guests in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Limbaugh has been Topic A in the political world, with Republicans debating his influence on their party and Democrats trying to elevate the conservative radio host to the GOP's de facto spokesman. The skirmish has cast a bright light on the GOP and its search for leadership in the Obama era. But the personality-driven diversion has deflected attention from the deeper problems the party faces. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)AP - A debate between President Barack Obama and Rush Limbaugh? If it ever happens, Dick Cheney will be in line for a ticket.

Polls close in Salvador vote (AFP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 04:59 PM PDT

A man votes in Antiguo Cuscatlan, south of San Salvador, during presidential elections. Salvadorans voted Sunday in a presidential election that could see former leftist rebels complete their political takeover 17 years after the end of a devastating civil war.(AFP/Yuri Cortez)AFP - Polls closed in El Salvador Sunday in a potentially historic presidential election that could see former leftist rebels complete their political takeover, 17 years after a devastating civil war.

VIDEO: Economy dominates shows (Politico)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 01:54 PM PDT

Politico - Several key members of President Obama’s economic team used Sunday’s talk show circuit to project an upbeat long-term outlook for the U.S. economy—although they faced tough questions over AIG employee bonuses, taxing employee health benefits, and the details of further White House efforts to bail out American banks by buying up hundreds of billions of dollars in “toxic assets.”

Obama to announce steps to aid small businesses (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 01:18 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama will announce steps on Monday to make it easier for small business owners to borrow money, using $730 million in stimulus funds to cut lending fees, boost loan guarantees and expand other programs, officials said.

Biden aids Lincoln reelection bid (Politico)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 10:25 AM PDT

Politico - Vice President Joe Biden helped bank $800,000 Saturday for the reelection campaign of Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.). It was the first fundraising event attended by either Biden or President Barack Obama since the inauguration.

Cheney: US less safe under Obama (AFP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 10:20 AM PDT

President Barack Obama has made Americans more vulnerable to attack, former vice president Dick Cheney, seen here in 2008, said in a trenchant defense of his own controversial stance in the AFP - President Barack Obama has made Americans more vulnerable to attack, former vice president Dick Cheney said Sunday in a trenchant defense of his own divisive prosecution of the "war on terror."

Summers: AIG bonuses 'outrageous' (Politico)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 10:00 AM PDT

Politico - Lawrence Summers, the director of the National Economic Council, said the $165 million in bonus payouts to AIG employees was "outrageous."

Lawmakers take aim at AIG (Politico)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 09:58 AM PDT

President Barack Obama's top economic adviser blasted Politico - While lawmakers are vowing to investigate huge bonuses paid by American International Group—the struggling mega-insurer that has received more than $170 billion in government rescue funds—they admit it's not clear the government has the authority to stop them, or recoup the bonus money.

Romer: Obama is against taxing health care (Politico)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 09:38 AM PDT

Politico - Dr. Christina Romer, chairwoman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, took a slightly different tack from other administration officials on the hugely controversial issue of whether President Obama would support taxing health-care benefits in order to pay for expanding health care to uninsured Americans.

Possible therapy takes bite out of peanut allergy (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 01:50 PM PDT

Ashlyn Chadwick, 4, and her mother Karen listen to Dr. Wesley Burks discuss Ashlyn's peanut allergies at the Duke South Clinic at Duke University in Durham, N.C., Tuesday, March 10, 2009. A handful of children once severely allergic to peanuts now can eat them without worry. Scientists have retrained their immune systems so they're allergy-free. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - Scientists have the first evidence that life-threatening peanut allergies may be cured one day.

Lawmakers angry over AIG (Politico)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 08:03 AM PDT

Politico - Lawmakers reacted angrily, but with a hint of caution, on the issue of failed insurance giant AIG paying out $165 million in bonuses to its employees despite receiving $170 billion in federal bailout funds.

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