2009年7月19日星期日

Yahoo! News: Elections

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Elections

Idaho town prays for return of captured US soldier (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 03:01 PM PDT

This video frame grab taken from a Taliban propaganda video released Saturday, July 18, 2009 shows Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23, of Ketchum, Idaho, who went missing from his base in eastern Afghanistan June 30. The Pentagon on Sunday confirmed that the American soldier who went missing from his base in Afghanistan has been captured and identified him as a private from Idaho serving with an Alaska-based infantry regiment. The Defense Department released the name of Pfc. Bergdahl one day after he was seen in a video posted online as saying he was 'scared I won't be able to go home.' (AP Photo/Militant Video)AP - Friends and family of an Idaho soldier who was captured in Afghanistan prayed for his safe return Sunday, shaken by the image of the frightened young private in a Taliban video posted online.

Officials: Health care proposal a work in progress (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 02:43 PM PDT

FILE -- In this July 17, 2009, photo, President Barack Obama speaks about health care in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Administration officials defended President Barack Obama's broad health care proposals on Sunday and urged a skeptical public not to judge the Democrats' overhaul until Congress writes a final version.

Palin: Alaska tour is thanks, not goodbye (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 12:51 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Friday July 17, 2009, Gov. Sarah Palin talks with residents in Unalakleet, Alaska. (AP Photo/Matthew Daly)AP - She was greeted like a rock star in Unalakleet, a fishing village on the Bering Sea. She danced with Eskimos in Kotzebue. And she watched grizzlies at a wildlife sanctuary on the Kenai Peninsula.

Analysis: Sotomayor would be beholden to no one (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 09:27 AM PDT

FILE -- In this July 15, 2009, photo, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday July 15, 2009, before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sotomayor might find that disarming Republican senators with one eye on Hispanic voters was easier than swaying Supreme Court justices with lifetime appointments. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - Once Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed to the Supreme Court, all those hours of predictable questions and cautious replies at her Senate confirmation hearings will be filed and forgotten as she judges the way she sees fit. Nobody can hold her to what she's said.

Ad paints insurers as allies of reform (Politico)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 04:00 PM PDT

Politico - For the first time since Harry and Louise helped sink health care reform in 1994, the insurance industry is back on the airwaves Monday with a seven-figure, national cable television ad campaign. 

Starting to get crowded in 100-year-olds' club (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 05:59 AM PDT

FILE -- In this March 6, 2008, file photo, President Bush meets with World War I veteran Army Cpl. Frank Woodruff Buckles, 107, from Charles Town, W.Va., in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - It's starting to get crowded in the 100-year-olds' club. Once virtually nonexistent, the world's population of centenarians is projected to reach nearly 6 million by midcentury. That's pushing the median age toward 50 in many developed nations and challenging views of what it means to be old and middle-age.

GOP leader: Health care overhaul too drastic (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 06:41 AM PDT

AP - The Senate's top Republican says the U.S. has the best health care in the world and the system doesn't need to be scrapped.

Bad time to be rich? Only if you don't like taxes (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 05:59 AM PDT

In this July 14, 2009 file photo, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., from left, is joined by other House Democratic leaders, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland, Pete Stark of California, Henry Waxman of California, Charles Rangel of New York, and John Dingell of Michigan, in a news conference announcing the introduction of health care legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - It's probably never a bad time to be rich. But the good times for America's wealthy could soon be a little less so.

In D.C., what recession? (Politico)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 04:47 PM PDT

Politico - The rest of the country has a new reason to hate the inside-the-Beltway crowd: Our economy is better than yours.

Junta leader declared Mauritania president (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 03:06 PM PDT

Mauritanian Junta leader and presidential election candidate General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz casts his ballot at a polling station in Nouakchott. Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz, who led the coup that toppled Mauritania's first elected president last August, has been elected president, the country's interior minister said Sunday.(AFP/Watt Abdel Jelil)AFP - The army general who led a military coup that toppled Mauritania's first elected head of state last August was on Sunday declared the winner of a presidential election organised by his junta.

Administration Facing Tough Sell To Doctors On Health IT (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 11:55 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Dr. David Blumenthal, the Obama Administration's national coordinator for health information technology, can recall the day he became a true believer in the potential of electronic health records.

Budget chief sees progress in health care overhaul (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 07:31 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama's budget director is playing down reports that lawmakers are bogged down over the health care overhaul.

Sessions remains troubled by Sotomayor's record (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 07:28 AM PDT

AP - The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee says he remains troubled by some of Sonia Sotomayor's remarks and rulings.

Senate GOP chief: Sotomayor won't get my vote (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 07:07 AM PDT

AP - The Senate's top Republican says he admires Judge Sonia Sotomayor's personal story but is not going to vote for her confirmation to the Supreme Court.

Health care overhaul seen as `a work in progress' (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 06:23 AM PDT

AP - The president's health secretary says the Obama administration's health care overhaul is "a work in progress.

STIMULUS WATCH: Neediest areas not first for money (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 05:57 AM PDT

In this photo taken Monday, July 13, 2009, a view of U.S. Hwy 83 leading to Uvalde, Texas, is shown, near Concan, Texas, and the nearby Frio River. Low water levels in popular rivers like the Frio make tubing down the rapids difficult at best. And it's taken its toll on the river's usually vibrant summer tourism industry. Uvalde County is getting $5.4 million to widen a half-mile stretch of Ranch Road 187 south of Sabinal. (AP Photo/April Castro)AP - Under the Obama administration's economic stimulus plan, needy communities were supposed to be a priority when doling out money to rebuild highways and jump-start the economy.

Film shows students battle racism for mixed prom (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 05:41 AM PDT

Reuters - As Barack Obama campaigned to become the first black U.S. president, teenagers in the small Mississippi hometown of Hollywood star Morgan Freeman battled racism to hold their high school's first integrated prom.

Obama feels the heat, changes the play (Politico)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 05:03 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama has called on Congress to pass his health care reform, arguing that the stability of the entire US economy was at stake.(AFP/Jim Watson)Politico - Finally, we're starting to see him sweat. 

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