2009年7月25日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Lobbyists the silver lining in health care storm? (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 01:17 PM PDT

FILE -- In this July 15, 2009 file photo, Sec. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., left, watches as President Barack Obama speaks on health care reform in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-NY,is at center, and Rep. George Miller, D, Ca, is at right,. Others are unidentified. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)AP - A strong force, perhaps as powerful in Congress as President Barack Obama, is keeping the drive for health care going even as lawmakers seem hopelessly at odds.

Report: Bush mulled sending troops into Buffalo (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 01:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2002 file courtroom sketch, Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder Jr. presides over the U.S. District Court for the bail hearing of the six suspected al-Qaida terrorists from Lackawanna, N.Y. in Buffalo, N.Y. . Left to right, Shafal Mosed, 24; Mukhtar al-Bakri, 22; Faysal Galab, 26; Sahim Alwan, 29; Yahya Goba, 25; and Yasein Taher, 24. While six suspected members of an al-Qaida-trained terror cell remain in custody in upstate New York, their alleged ringleader is likely free in Yemen, investigators said. (AP Photo/Jane Rosenberg, artist, file)AP - The Bush administration in 2002 considered sending U.S. troops into a Buffalo, N.Y., suburb to arrest a group of terror suspects in what would have been a nearly unprecedented use of military power, The New York Times reported.

Analysis: Race is daunting challenge for Obama (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 12:58 PM PDT

Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley, left, stands with Sgt. Leon Lashley, right, as police from various unions hold a news conference in Cambridge, Mass. Friday, July 24, 2009 to express support for Crowley in connection to the incident in which he arrested Harvard Prof. Lewis Gates at his home. Sgt. Lashley, who was with Crowley at the scene of the arrest, later said he supports '100 percent' how Crowley handled the situation. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - President Barack Obama's summary of the furor over a black Harvard professor's arrest was so understated, and perhaps obvious, that it barely rose above the cable-news driven din.

SPIN METER: Few health exec visits to WH public (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 02:22 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 5, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the White House Forum on Health Reform in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Looking on are Director of White House Domestic Policy Council Melody Barnes, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., far right. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, FILE)AP - Despite President Barack Obama's promise of transparency on his health care overhaul, few White House meetings with medical industry representatives on a list recently released by his administration were made public at the time, an Associated Press review found.

Obama tries to retake race high ground (Politico)

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 05:44 PM PDT

Politico - With two phone calls and a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room Friday, President Obama attempted to recast his role in the debate over last week's arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. by the Cambridge, Mass., Police Department.

Some incumbent senators seem to get no respect (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 02:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 4, 2009 file photo, Senate Finance Committee member Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky. grills Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, FILE)AP - When it comes to next year's primaries, three senators probably are feeling a lot like Rodney Dangerfield: They can't get any respect.

Defense secretary scores big wins on weapons cuts (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 01:51 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by Northrop Grumman Corp., shows a pre-production model of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. (AP Photo/Northrop Grumman, FILE)AP - Robert Gates is on a roll. Question is, how long will it last?

Obama hawks health care overhaul, citing study (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 03:09 PM PDT

FILE -- In this July 15, 2009 file photo, Sec. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., left, watches as President Barack Obama speaks on health care reform in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-NY,is at center, and Rep. George Miller, D, Ca, is at right,. Others are unidentified. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)AP - President Barack Obama, citing a new White House study suggesting that small businesses pay far more per employee for health insurance than big companies, said Saturday the disparity is "unsustainable — it's unacceptable."

Schumer wants to curb traders' flash orders (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 03:08 PM PDT

AP - Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., has asked federal securities regulators to crack down on a high-speed computing advantage that large financial firms have over other investors.

US: Parade of officials to Israel coincidental (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 02:02 AM PDT

Palestinian farmers from the northern West Bank village of Burin walk next to cut olive trees close to the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar, Tuesday July 21, 2009. According to Burin's mayor, Jewish settlers cut more than 40 olive trees in the village. On Monday settlers, some of them on horseback, set fire to fields and olive trees and stoned Palestinian cars during a rampage in the West Bank in protest against the army's evacuation of an unauthorized settlement outpost in the area. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)AP - The Obama administration is dispatching four of its most senior foreign policy and security figures to Israel this coming week with the same message on two open questions causing friction between the close allies: Don't do it.

Both U.S. political parties offend "Joe the Plumber" (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 01:50 PM PDT

Reuters - "Joe the Plumber," who came to symbolize U.S. taxpayer frustration during last year's election, sounds even angrier now at what he sees as excessive government spending on the economy and healthcare reform.

Iraq to send students to colleges in US, abroad (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 01:46 PM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden welcomes Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Friday, July 24, 2009, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, prior to their meeting. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday his country plans to send up to 10,000 Iraqi students per year to colleges in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia over the next five years as a part of a new scholarship program.

CBO deals new blow to health plan (Politico)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 12:47 PM PDT

Politico - For the second time this month, congressional budget analysts have dealt a blow to the Democrat's health reform efforts, this time by saying a plan touted by the White House as crucial to paying for the bill would actually save almost no money over 10 years.

Iran opposition urge clerics to act over detainees (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 11:32 AM PDT

Members of Amnesty International hold balloons forming a message during an anti-Iranian government protest in Istanbul July 25, 2009. The message reads, Reuters - Iran's opposition urged senior clerics on Saturday to help secure the release of people arrested following June's disputed presidential election, after a protester died in prison.

Black scholar agrees to beer with Obama, policeman (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 11:24 AM PDT

Reuters - A prominent black Harvard University scholar has accepted an invitation to have a beer with President Barack Obama and the white police officer who arrested him in a racially charged case.

First lady fetes designers, stresses arts exposure (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 06:37 AM PDT

First Lady Michelle Obama smiles as he arrives in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 24, 2009, to speak during the annual National Design Awards. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - If you think your kids spend a little too much time on their laptops, take heart: Michelle Obama has the same problem.

Blow for Iran's Ahmadinejad as vice-president sacked (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 05:22 AM PDT

Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, pictured in 2007. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad caved in to hardliners and sacked his controversial deputy on Saturday, in a first major blow to forging a new government since his disputed re-election.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)AFP - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday caved in to hardliners and sacked his controversial deputy, suffering his first major blow to forge a new government since his disputed re-election last month.

Clinton's 'defense umbrella' has murky history (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 04:53 AM PDT

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talks with reporters during her news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki at the State Department in Washington, Friday, July 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton set off tremors in the Middle East this week when she said a nuclear Iran could be contained by a U.S. "defense umbrella" — an offhand remark that appears to have emerged from obscure Washington policy debates and her own presidential campaign rhetoric.

Obama touts healthcare plan for small businesses (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 03:22 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the Department of Education in Washington, July 24, 2009. REUTERS/Jim YoungReuters - President Barack Obama said Saturday that Democratic plans to revamp the U.S. healthcare system would benefit small businesses, an argument that quickly drew criticism from his Republican opponents.

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