2009年7月26日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Elections

AP INVESTIGATION: Main Street's soaring sour loans (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 12:36 PM PDT

Chris Sakelarios, left, talks with her business partner Eric Geedey at Caffe Sportivo in Redwood City, Calif., Monday, July 20, 2009. Sakelarios opened Caffe Sportivo after taking out a $20,000 SBA loan from Union Bank in late 2007 when the economic outlook was brighter on the affluent San Francisco Peninsula. Within a year, however, she was scraping by with the help of a landlord and vendors who let her adjust payments. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - As the effects of the economic collapse began pouring down Main Street, the government last year was left holding a record $2.1 billion in write-offs of small business loans it had guaranteed. Officials expect the number of defaults to rise as the nation continues to climb out of the recession.

Clinton paints robust picture of US abroad (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 11:54 AM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks before US President Barack Obama in the East Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 24, 2009. Clinton sought once again Sunday to dispel speculation she has a rocky relationship with Obama, her adversary in last year's White House race who picked her as secretary of state.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stood fast Sunday behind the administration's readiness to engage with foes like Iran and North Korea and heaped praise on China in advance of two days of critical talks aimed at easing the global economic downturn.

HARD TIMES: School budgets dip, class sizes grow (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 11:15 AM PDT

AP - Like a seesaw on the school playground, falling state budgets are pushing class sizes higher.

US hopes China talks spur economy, job creation (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 02:41 PM PDT

AP - With the global economy mired in recession, the United States and China begin talks Monday to seek a solution together despite tensions over currencies, the U.S. budget deficit and the huge U.S. trade gap with China.

Clinton: Iran's pursuit of nukes 'futile' (Politico)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 07:27 AM PDT

Politico - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that Iran will never achieve its goal of obtaining a nuclear weapon, declaring to Tehran: "Your pursuit is futile."

Clinton says Israel should be patient on Iran (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 06:59 AM PDT

Iranian influential cleric and former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani delivers his sermon during Friday prayers at Tehran University in the Iranian capital on July 17, 2009. Rafsanjani denied there is a power struggle among Iran's top hierarchy in the wake of last month's disputed presidential poll, the Mehr news agency reported on Sunday.(AFP/FARS NEWS/Ali Rafiei)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is implicitly urging Israel to give U.S. policy on Iran's nuclear ambitions a chance to work.

Analysis: Fed in the middle of push-me, pull-me (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 09:12 AM PDT

AP - The Federal Reserve, the nation's central bank, is having a political Goldilocks moment.

Clinton says she has no interest in White House (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 12:03 PM PDT

AP - There is apparently no such thing as a simple yes or no when it comes to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and questions about another run for the White House.

US on verge of closing anthrax probe after 8 years (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 09:06 AM PDT

FILE ** In this Nov. 6, 2001, file photo, biohazard worker Michelle Gillie, right, prepares to enter the office of Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., in the Longworth House office building on Capitol Hill in Washington. At left, keeping a distance, is Michelle Richman, scheduler for Rep. Grace Napolitano, D-Calif. (AP Photo/Kenneth Lambert, File)AP - A year after government scientist Bruce Ivins killed himself while under investigation for the lethal anthrax letters of 2001, the Justice Department is on the verge of closing the long, costly and vexing case.

Clinton: NKorea has no friends left (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 06:35 AM PDT

South Korean protesters hold up their cards during a rally opposing the U.S. policy against North Korea near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul Sunday, July 26, 2009. About 100 demonstrators demanded that the U.S. sign a peace agreement with North Korea to replace the 1953 cease-fire that halted the Korean War, claiming it would be a way to resolve its nuclear standoff with the United States. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says that North Korea is isolated as never before and that China has been enormously helpful in pressuring the regime to abandon its nuclear program.

New deadlines, new woes for health bill (Politico)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 03:12 PM PDT

Politico - After a week of major setbacks on health reform, White House officials and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did their best to sound upbeat Sunday, with new deadlines looming to move bills out of key committees before the August recess.

Past donors giving up on Ky. Sen. Bunning (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 02:44 PM PDT

AP - Political contributors who donated thousands to Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning's past election campaigns have found a new Republican to support for Senate.

Results due Monday in Iraqi Kurd election (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 01:58 PM PDT

Reuters - Iraqi Kurdistan's two ruling parties are likely to be confirmed in power despite an unprecedented opposition challenge when election results are announced on Monday.

Democrat says health overhaul needs GOP to pass (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 11:25 AM PDT

President Barack Obama pauses while speaking during a town hall meeting on health care at Shaker Heights High School near Cleveland, Ohio, July 23, 2009. REUTERS/Jason ReedAP - Senate Democrats alone cannot pass President Barack Obama's ambitious overhaul of how Americans receive health care, a top lawmaker acknowledged on Sunday. Republicans said they will continue their opposition to a plan they say is simply a government takeover of private decisions.

New direction in terror fight may stem from case (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 09:13 AM PDT

The CIA symbol is shown on the floor of its headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The training phase of a secret CIA plan to kill leaders of Al-Qaeda was almost activated before agency chief Leon Panetta got word and terminated the program, The Washington Post reported Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File)AP - When the American-born al-Qaida recruit Bryant Neal Vinas was captured in Pakistan late last year, he wasn't whisked off to a military prison or a secret CIA facility in another country to be interrogated.

Sarkozy rushed to hospital after jogging collapse (AFP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 01:21 PM PDT

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, pictured in 2007, collapsed while jogging near his weekend retreat Sunday and was rushed to hospital where officials said he was AFP - France's President Nicolas Sarkozy collapsed while jogging near his weekend retreat Sunday and was rushed to hospital where officials said he was "doing well" but would remain overnight.

Palin faces questions as she exits Alaska politics (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 05:56 AM PDT

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin jokes with a picnic goers as she serves burgers at the governor's picnic in Anchorage, Alaska Saturday, July 25, 2009. Several thousand people attended the picnic. Palin will attend one more picnic in Fairbanks on Sunday where she will resign as Alaska's governor. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)AP - Gov. Sarah Palin gained fame — and to some infamy — since she embarked on a vice-presidential bid less than a year ago.

Al-Maliki: Iraqi officer 'out of line' (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 12:38 PM PDT

President Barack Obama looks on as Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speak during a joint press availability, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - The prime minister of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, says an Iraqi officer was wrong to order American soldiers detained after they killed three Iraqis while going after insurgents.

Iran opposition asks to commemorate unrest victims (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 05:03 AM PDT

Reuters - Opposition leaders in Iran want to organize a ceremony to commemorate pro-reformers killed since the disputed presidential election, a news agency reported on Sunday.

Health bill boils down to August battle (Politico)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 04:56 AM PDT

President Barack Obama pauses while speaking during a town hall meeting on health care at Shaker Heights High School near Cleveland, Ohio, July 23, 2009. REUTERS/Jason ReedPolitico - Congress's failure to deliver major health care legislation by President Barack Obama's deadline next month transforms the traditionally sleepy August recess into what could be the decisive moment in the battle to win support for the legislation, especially from conservative Democrats considered crucial to its fate.

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