2009年5月9日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Peel and weep: Stamps costing 2 cents more Monday (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2009 01:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 9, 2009 file photo, a United States Postal Service employee displays Forever stamps at the main post office in New York. It will cost an extra two-cents to mail a letter starting Monday. The price of a first-class stamp will climb to 44-cents, though folks who planned ahead and stocked up on Forever stamps will still be paying the lower rate. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, FILE)AP - Peel it and weep: It'll cost an extra 2 cents to mail a letter starting Monday.

AG Holder says law school grads have duty to serve (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2009 01:37 PM PDT

AP - Attorney General Eric Holder offers this advice for Howard University law school graduates: devote part of your career to public service.

Obama: Send me credit card legislation this month (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2009 02:04 PM PDT

A woman holds her credit cards. President Barack Obama plans to back Democratic lawmakers in AP - Send me a bill that stops credit card companies from taking advantage of consumers, and do it by month's end, President Barack Obama is demanding of Congress.

Health overhaul draws groups' competing demands (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2009 01:37 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office building in the White House complex in Washington, Friday, May 8, 2009, where he made an unannounced visit to a Spanish language town hall meeting on the H1N1 swine flu virus. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Patients and doctors. Small businesses and multinationals. Retirees, workers and insurance companies.

Biggest year yet at Haddad's brunch (Politico)

Posted: 09 May 2009 03:18 PM PDT

Politico - Walking into Tammy Haddad's now famous garden brunch was a different experience this year:

In swine flu, key moments and decisions lie ahead (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2009 02:11 PM PDT

Hotel guests celebrate after being released from quarantine at the Metropark Hotel where they were held for a week in Hong Kong Friday, May 8, 2009. Hong Kong on Friday lifted its weeklong quarantine on a downtown hotel where a Mexican swine flu patient stayed, releasing some 280 guests and employees who were isolated in the building. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)AP - The most pivotal moments in the swine flu saga are yet to come. Will it sweep through impoverished Southern Hemisphere countries in the next few months? Will it roar back in the rest of the world in the fall? And who will be vaccinated if it does?

Obama hosts US captain once held by Somali pirates (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2009 01:42 PM PDT

FILE - This Monday, April 13, 2009 file photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows a team from the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer towing the lifeboat from the Maersk Alabama to Boxer to be processed for evidence after the successful rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips. Roughly a month after pirates seized the Maersk Alabama and fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons on the U.S.-flagged Liberty Sun, there have been no further attacks against American boats or their crews. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Petty Officer 2nd Class Jon Rasmussen, file)AP - President Barack Obama has met with the captain of a U.S. cargo ship who was held hostage by Somali pirates last month.

Chance for Obama to jab at DC's establishment (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2009 01:43 PM PDT

AP - It's a chance for President Barack Obama to jab at the Washington establishment and perhaps chide his critics.

GOP: Closing Guantanamo prison threatens security (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2009 01:45 PM PDT

In this Nov. 2, 2007 photo, Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., listens to Republican Presidential hopeful and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, not pictured, speak in Washington. Bond of Missouri, delivering the Republicans' weekly radio and Internet address, said Saturday May 9, 2009 that President Barack Obama's plan to close the Guantanamo detention center 'is a dangerous case of putting symbolism over security.' (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Republicans say the White House plan to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay "is a dangerous case of putting symbolism over security."

Barack, Miley move up; baby names Emma, Jacob rule (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2009 01:45 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 23, 2009 file photo, U.S. singer and actress Miley Cyrus arrives for the British Premiere of the film ' Hannah Montana', at a Leicester Square cinema, in London. Barack and Miley moved up, but the classics still rule. Emma is the top baby name for girls, Jacob for boys. Miley, as in popular teen singer Miley Cyrus, moved up 152 spots to No. 127. But her stage name, Hannah — as in Hannah Montana — fell from No. 9 to No. 17. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, FILE)AP - Barack and Miley move up, but the classics still rule. Emma is the top baby name for girls, Jacob for boys.

McConnell: No 'empathetic' Court pick (Politico)

Posted: 09 May 2009 05:12 PM PDT

Politico - Senate Republicans may have little power, if any, to stop President Obama’s eventual Supreme Court nominee, but on Saturday Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell signaled that the GOP wasn’t going to give in without a fight.

Indonesian president's party named election winner (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2009 03:13 PM PDT

AP - Indonesia's election body says President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's party officially won last month's parliamentary polls.

Complaint over Palin's mining comment dismissed (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2009 02:55 PM PDT

AP - A state panel has dismissed a complaint that accused Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin of breaking election law by taking a public position on a mining ballot initiative days before the vote.

Aide resigns over NYC flyover; probe continues (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2009 01:47 PM PDT

In this photograph released by the White House, one of the president's official planes flies over the Statue of Liberty in New York in this undated photograph. On Friday, the White House released the picture that panicked New York — a spectacular shot of the president's official plane soaring majestically past the Statue of Liberty. The Obama administration also announced the departure under fire of Louis Caldera, the White House official who authorized the $328,835 photo shoot, which gave the city heart-thumping Sept. 11 flashbacks, enraged local officials and forced the president to condemn the incident. (AP Photo/The White House)AP - The Pentagon and Air Force are reviewing whether their officials may be partly to blame for a $328,835 photo-op of a jumbo jet used by the president soaring above New York City that has already forced the White House military director to step down.

Notre Dame to pay some police bill for Obama visit (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2009 11:02 AM PDT

AP - The University of Notre Dame has agreed to pay some of the costs local police departments will face for helping provide security during next weekend's visit by President Barack Obama.

Specter clarifies 'cancer' site (Politico)

Posted: 09 May 2009 08:39 AM PDT

Politico - Sen. Arlen Specter’s campaign team has changed the layout of its specterforthecure.com Web site to make it clear that the site is aimed at promoting Specter’s reelection to the Senate. 

Race for Iran presidency hots up (AFP)

Posted: 09 May 2009 08:21 AM PDT

Former Iranian premier Mir Hossein Mousavi -- who steered Iran's economy through the brutal war with Iraq in the 1980s -- waves to his supporters after registering his candidacy for next month's presidential election. The race for Iran's presidency hotted up as the two key moderate opponents of hardline incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad formally registered to stand against him in the June 12 election.(AFP/Atta Kenare)AFP - The race for Iran's presidency hotted up on Saturday as the two key moderate challengers to hardline incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad formally registered to stand against him in the June election.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood dismisses Obama speech (Reuters)

Posted: 09 May 2009 06:34 AM PDT

Dr. Mohamed Habib, Deputy Chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), speaks during an interview with Reuters in Cairo April 21, 2009. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah DalshReuters - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood dismissed Saturday U.S. President Barack Obama's plan to deliver a speech to the Muslim world from Egypt as part of a plan to keep Arab and Muslim states divided.

From ACORN, a mighty GOP fight (Politico)

Posted: 09 May 2009 04:45 AM PDT

Politico - It's almost as if the 2008 presidential campaign never ended: The community organizing group known as ACORN continues to find itself in legal jeopardy and the Republican Party continues to spend an inordinate amount of time obsessing about it.

Obama: Time for credit card reform (Politico)

Posted: 09 May 2009 04:42 AM PDT

Politico - President Barack Obama called on Congress on Saturday to pass a credit card reform bill by Memorial Day, saying that "it is past time for rules that are fair and transparent."

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