2009年5月30日星期六

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First couple's date: dinner and a Broadway show (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 05:04 PM PDT

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama depart Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to New York where they will have a private dinner and attend a play, Saturday, May 30, 2009. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - President Barack Obama made good on a campaign promise to his most important supporter Saturday night — his wife, Michelle.

Obama's Gramps: Gazing skyward on D-Day in England (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 03:08 PM PDT

FILE - This photo provided by the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., WWII veteran Stanley Armour Dunham playing with his grandson Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Obama Presidential Campaign)AP - Surely, Stanley Dunham was gazing skyward 65 years ago, on D-Day. Dunham, the man whom Barack Obama would one day call Gramps, was a 26-year-old supply sergeant stationed near the English Channel with the U.S. Army Air Forces when the invasion of Normandy at last began.

Baucus, Kennedy to work together on health care (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 02:59 PM PDT

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., talks with reporters after a closed-door committee meeting on financing an overhaul of the health care system, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - The two Senate Democrats leading the drive to overhaul health care say they will work together to come up with legislation.

GOP divided over how tough to be on Sotomayor (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 03:23 PM PDT

FILE -- In this May 21, 2009 file photo, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich speaks during a conference on health care reform in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)AP - Republicans are divided over how aggressively to go after Sonia Sotomayor, a family feud about the tone of the debate over confirming the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court.

Tougher negotiations ahead for Obama (Politico)

Posted: 30 May 2009 04:45 AM PDT

Politico - President Barack Obama prevailed in negotiations with automakers, banks and bondholders in recent weeks — but don't chalk that up solely to superior haggling. In those cases, the president's team sat across the table from executives whose companies he owned or controlled.

Gov't refuses to release documents in wiretap case (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 04:31 PM PDT

AP - The Obama administration insists it has no obligation to provide access to a top secret document in a wiretapping case, setting up a showdown next week with the judge who ordered it released.

Gates: NKorea nuke progress sign of `dark future' (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 03:30 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, right, looks at South Korean Minister of National Defense Lee Sang-hee, left, during their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Asia Security Summit on Saturday May 30, 2009 in Singapore. The U.S. defense chief urged Asian allies Saturday to consider tougher sanctions against North Korea, noting that past efforts to cajole the reclusive regime into scrapping its nuclear weapons program have only emboldened it. (AP Photo/DOD photo by Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison)AP - North Korea's progress on nuclear weapons and long-range missiles is "a harbinger of a dark future" and has created an urgent need for more pressure on the reclusive communist government to change its ways, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday.

GOP says Democrats' climate proposal does little (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 03:46 PM PDT

FILE -- In this Jan. 13, 2009 file photo, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels delivers the State of the State address to a joint session of the Legislature at the Statehouse in Indianapolis. Daniels, in the GOP's weekly radio and Internet address Saturday May 30, 2009, called the House climate bill 'a classic example of unwise government.' The address culminated a week of coordinated Republican attacks on the Democratic proposal which would require the first nationwide reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)AP - The climate change proposal developed by congressional Democrats and endorsed by President Barrack Obama does little to reduce global warming and saddles Americans with high energy costs, Republicans said Saturday.

Obama court pick puts spotlight on Sen. Sessions (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 02:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 21, 2008, file photo Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, huddles with committee member Sen. Jeff Sessions, R- Ala., on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sessions, now the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee and a hard line conservative once rejected by the Senate for his own judgeship after a bitter confirmation fight, has spent much of his career as a lawyer and politician railing against what he calls 'activist judges', who twist the law to their own liking. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, FILE)AP - Sen. Jeff Sessions has made a career of speaking out and voting against anyone he considers an activist liberal judge. Sonia Sotomayor was no exception the last time they crossed paths.

Obama confident Sotomayor will survive criticism (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 03:43 PM PDT

Americans back President Barack Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, seen here on May 26, 2009, as the next justice on the US Supreme Court by a margin of two to one, according to a poll released Friday.(AFP/Saul Loeb)AP - President Barack Obama expressed confidence Saturday that efforts to scuttle Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court will fail despite intensified scrutiny of her judicial career. He said senators should work quickly to elevate the federal appeals judge.

Geithner's China trip comes at difficult time (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 05:13 PM PDT

FILE -- In this May 12, 2009 file photo, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner speaks at the Treasury Department in Washington. Geithner's upcoming trip to China as treasury secretary comes at a vulnerable time for the United States. Mired in recession, the U.S. needs China to boost its purchases of U.S. goods, let its currency rise and take other steps to narrow a massive trade gap. And on the foreign policy front, America needs China's help to combat a growing threat from North Korea. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - Timothy Geithner's first trip to China as treasury secretary comes at a vulnerable time for the Obama administration.

CNN fades in prime-time picture (Politico)

Posted: 30 May 2009 04:48 PM PDT

Politico - On day one, CNN ruled cable news.

Obama's day: Soccer, NYC date night with Michelle (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 08:03 AM PDT

President Barack Obama waves as he and first lady Michelle Obama walk towards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Saturday, May 30, 2009, enroute to New York. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - There are no official events are his schedule Saturday, so President Barack Obama had plenty of time to devote to his other roles — father and husband.

Obama: Critics of court nominee twisting her words (Reuters)

Posted: 30 May 2009 03:02 AM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama pushed back on Saturday at conservative critics of his Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, accusing them of twisting her words to score political points.

Bush, Clinton appear on stage together in Canada (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 08:03 AM PDT

A man throws a shoe at an effigy of George W. Bush in front of the Metro Convention center in Toronto on Friday, May 29, 2009. Former U.S. presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton spoke the Toronto convention center. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jim Ross)AP - Former President George W. Bush called ex-President Bill Clinton "his brother" and the two rarely disagreed in their first-ever appearance together on stage.

Obama sure Sotomayor would restate 2001 comment (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 12:59 AM PDT

Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor smiles as President Barack Obama applauds, Tuesday, May 26, 2009, in the East Room Ceremony of the White House in Washington. The battle is on between conservative and liberal interest groups to define little-known federal judge Sonia Sotomayor before senators — away from the capital on a weeklong break — return to weigh in on the fate of the woman who would be the Supreme Court's first Hispanic. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama on Friday personally sought to deflect criticism of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, who finds herself under intensifying scrutiny for saying in 2001 that a female Hispanic judge would often reach a better decision than a white male judge. "I'm sure she would have restated it," Obama flatly told NBC News, without indicating how he knew that.

Death cases among early issues for new justice (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 11:11 PM PDT

President Barack Obama announces federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor, right, as his nominee for the Supreme Court, Tuesday, May 26, 2009, in an East Room ceremony of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - As a director of a Puerto Rican advocacy group in the 1980s, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was part of a three-person committee that equated capital punishment with racism.

Administration opposes Uighurs' release in US (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 10:12 PM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday, May 13, 2009 and reviewed by the U.S. military, the sun rises over the Guantanamo detention facility at dawn, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - The Obama administration, picking up the argument of its predecessor, is opposing the release of Chinese Muslim detainees at Guantanamo Bay into the United States.

Chavez: Next gift for Obama authored by Lenin (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 08:35 PM PDT

AP - President Hugo Chavez says he has a new book for President Barack Obama: "What is to be Done?" by communist Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet state.

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