2009年6月25日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Climate bill showdown: Obama, Dems pressing hard (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 03:45 PM PDT

President Barack Obama comments in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 25, 2009, on the passage of the energy bill. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - President Barack Obama pushed urgently Thursday for passage of legislation to confront global warming, billing it as a job-creating machine rather than the costly "job killer" Republicans denounced. He telephoned wavering Democrats on the eve of what could be a historic House vote.

Tree owners could reap climate bill windfall (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 04:23 PM PDT

President Barack Obama walks out of the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 25, 2009, to deliver remarks on the passing of the energy bill, in the Rose Garden. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - For years, landowners have gotten paid for not farming. Now they may get paid for not cutting down trees.

Strip search of Ariz. teenager illegal, court says (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 04:48 PM PDT

FILE - This April 21, 2009, file photo shows Savana Redding standing outside the Supreme Court in Washington, after the court heard the case of Redding who was strip searched when she was 13 years old by school officials looking for prescription-strength ibuprofen pills . The court ruled Thursday, June 25, 2009, that the school's strip search was illegal. In an 8-1 ruling, the justices said school officials violated the law with their search of Redding in the rural eastern Arizona town of Safford. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, file)AP - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that school officials violated an Arizona teenager's rights by strip-searching her for prescription-strength ibuprofen, declaring that U.S. educators cannot force children to remove their clothing unless student safety is at risk.

Obama brings taste of Hawaii to White House (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 05:22 PM PDT

President Barack Obama walks with daughter Sasha as he hosts a luau on the South Lawn of the White House for members of Congress and their families, Thursday, June 25, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Straw huts, hula dancers and kids playing with hula hoops were all on display Thursday evening in the White House's backyard — not the typical congressional picnic.

Health care bill price tag goes down (Politico)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 09:32 AM PDT

Politico - A group of key Senate negotiators has found a way to further reduce the price tag of the health care reform bill, bringing it in line with a $1 trillion target and moving the Senate Finance Committee closer to a deal, Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Thursday.

Officials: US bolsters Somalia aid to foil rebels (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 04:30 PM PDT

Four men sentenced to have a hand and foot cut off stand in a square in north of Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday June 22, 2009. The Somali Islamic militants faction Alshabab carried out amputations on Thursday on four young men accused of robbery in the capital Mogadishu. Alshabab judge Abdul Haq sentenced the four young men on Tuesday to a cross-amputation, that's the amputation of the right hand and the left foot. They were accused of stealing pistols and mobile phones from Mogadishu residents. Aden Mohamud, Ismail khalif , Jeylani Mohamed, and Abdulkadir Adow were brought in an open ground by Alshabab in their Malah military camp in the notrheastren part of the city, where the the sentence was carried out. (AP Photo)AP - The Obama administration has decided to bolster efforts to support Somalia's embattled government by providing money for weapons and helping the military in neighboring Djibouti train Somali forces, U.S. officials said Thursday.

CAPITAL CULTURE: Gibbs in the tank for the media? (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 05:09 PM PDT

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is dunked on the South Lawn of the White House by a member of the White House Press Corps, Thursday, June 25, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - For all those who say the press corps is in the tank when it comes to the Obama White House, here's the news.

PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama slow on pledge to gays (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 05:16 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, center, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., meets with members of Congress to discuss immigration, Thursday, June 25, 2009, in the State Dinning Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - President Barack Obama promised gay and lesbian voters he would repeal a law banning their open service in the military, would do away with a federal marriage law and would champion their causes from the White House. In his first five months, he's taken incremental steps that have little real effect and left some people feeling betrayed.

General: Troops needed as Afghan elections near (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 04:44 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Tuesday, June 2, 2009, U.S. Army National Guard Chaplain Merry Wentworth, of Louisville, Ken., lights a cigar for U.S. Pfc. Anthony Vandegrift, of Mililani, Hawaii, at the U.S. hospital in Bagram Air base, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Vandegrift, of Bravo Company 287, 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, was wounded and three of his comrades died when the vehicle they were driving was hit by roadside bomb in Nerkh district of Wardak province. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - Despite the thousands of U.S. troops headed to southern Afghanistan this summer, a NATO commander said Thursday they'll fall short of the numbers historically needed to defeat insurgents.

NTSB probes 2 incidents involving Airbus A330s (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 04:57 PM PDT

AP - Federal safety officials said Thursday they are investigating two incidents in which airspeed and altitude indications in the cockpits of Airbus A330 planes may have malfunctioned, including one that took place ten days before the same type of plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean killing all 228 aboard.

U.S. Senate approves communications panel chief (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 05:10 PM PDT

Reuters - The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved the Obama administration's nomination of Julius Genachowski, a telecommunications industry executive, to head the Federal Communications Commission.

Questions and answers about the climate bill (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 05:05 PM PDT

President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the passage of the energy bill, Thursday, June 25, 2009, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Cap-and-trade? Offsets? Pollution credits? The climate bill under consideration in the House tackles global warming with new limits on pollution and a market-based approach to encourage more environmentally friendly business practices. But what exactly do the proposed rules mean, and how would they work?

Lawmakers vote to continue production of F-22 jets (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 04:48 PM PDT

AP - Congressional supporters of an advanced jet fighter won battles Thursday to build more of the aircraft. But with the Obama administration threatening to veto the move, they're a long way from winning the war.

Memphis mayor resigns to focus on run for Congress (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 04:45 PM PDT

AP - The first elected black Memphis mayor has announced his resignation halfway into his record fifth term to concentrate on a run for Congress.

Impeached federal judge to resign (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 03:51 PM PDT

AP - An imprisoned federal judge facing an impeachment trial in the Senate in a sex-abuse case says he will resign from the bench at the end of the month.

Senators claim $1 trillion health bill in reach (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 04:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 2, 2009 file photo, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., left, and the committee's ranking Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa talk on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, FILE)AP - Senators working to give President Barack Obama a comprehensive health care overhaul said Thursday they had figured out how to pare back the complex legislation to keep costs from crashing through a $1 trillion, 10-year ceiling.

Two weeks after: Iran rallies fade, elite split (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 03:35 PM PDT

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad smiles during a meeting in Tehran. A top Iranian dissident cleric warned the nation's rulers that their continued suppression of opposition protests over the disputed presidential election could destabilise the regime.(AFP/Behrouz Mehri)Reuters - Iran's leadership has quelled mass protests over a disputed presidential poll two weeks ago, but the battle has moved off the street into a behind-the-scenes struggle splitting the clerical establishment into two camps.

Obama makes 11th-hour climate change push (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 03:14 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama speaks on passing an energy bill at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. Obama Thursday pleaded with US lawmakers to prove they were not AFP - US President Barack Obama urged lawmakers Thursday to pass a historic global warming bill, amid down-to-the-wire campaigning on the eve of a tense vote in the House of Representatives.

U.S. lawmakers defy White House on 2010 defense cuts (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 03:02 PM PDT

Reuters - Both houses of the Democratic-controlled Congress on Thursday took action on 2010 defense spending legislation that would continue funding weapons programs targeted by President Barack Obama for cuts.

Big Obama campaign donors get ambassadorships (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 02:52 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama on Thursday selected for ambassadorships in Europe two of his presidential campaign's biggest fundraisers, extending a pattern of rewarding political supporters.

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