2009年8月2日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Sands hid fate of Gulf War pilot lost since '91 (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 05:21 PM PDT

FILE - This a photo of Michael Scott Speicher made aboard the carrier USS Saratoga in June 18, 1990 when he was promoted to Lt. Commander. Speicher, whose jet fighter went down Jan. 17, 1991 over Iraq, has been missing ever since. Officials said Sunday Aug. 2, 2009, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology has positively identified the remains of Captain Michael 'Scott' Speicher, whose disappearance has bedeviled investigators since his jet was shot down over the Iraq desert on the first night of the war (AP Photo/Barry Hull, File) NO SALESAP - Navy pilot Michael "Scott" Speicher was shot down over the Iraq desert on the first night of the Gulf War in 1991 and it was there he apparently was buried by Bedouins, the sand hiding him from the world's mightiest military all these years.

McCain undecided on vote for Sotomayor (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 02:58 PM PDT

FILE -- In this July 16, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the fourth day of her confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - Sen. John McCain says he is still on the fence when it comes to voting for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

LaHood: Car rebates will stop unless Senate acts (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 06:15 PM PDT

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood gestures during an event in Washington, Monday, July 27, 2009, promoting a car buyer incentive program designed to help consumers purchase new fuel efficient vehicles if they trade in their old gas-guzzling cars or trucks. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The Obama administration will suspend the "cash for clunkers" program unless the Senate provides $2 billion more for the popular car incentive plan, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Sunday.

2 Obama officials: No guarantee taxes won't go up (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 01:36 PM PDT

In this photograph provided by 'Meet the Press,' White House adviser Larry Summers appears on 'Meet the Press'' Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009, at the NBC studios in Washington. (AP Photo/Meet The Press, William B. Plowman) NO SALES **AP - President Barack Obama's treasury secretary said Sunday he cannot rule out higher taxes to help tame an exploding budget deficit, and his chief economic adviser would not dismiss raising them on middle-class Americans as part of a health care overhaul.

Stimulus? W.H. may extend jobless aid (Politico)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 07:27 AM PDT

Politico - President Barack Obama's top economic advisers said in interviews aired Sunday that the administration may support an extension in unemployment benefits.

AP sources: Military-civilian terror prison eyed (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 04:44 PM PDT

FILE -- In this Nov. 19, 2008 file photo reviewed by the U.S. Military, a Guantanamo detainee glances up while resting on a foam pad inside a fenced-in outdoor exercise area at the Camp 6 high-security detention facility on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison. Several senior U.S. officials said the administration is eyeing a soon-to-be-shuttered state maximum security prison in Michigan and the 134-year-old military penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., as possible locations for a heavily guarded site to hold the 229 suspected al-Qaida, Taliban and foreign fighters now jailed at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - The Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison.

McCain: Palin to be `force' in Republican Party (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 06:39 AM PDT

AP - Sen. John McCain says he sees Sarah Palin continuing to play a major role in the future of the Republican Party.

Off to Africa, Clinton to pledge new Somali aid (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 05:42 AM PDT

Hard-line islamist fighters hold up their hands and say allahu-akbar (God is great) in southern Hodan district of Mogadishu, Somalia, Friday, July 31, 2009. Abu Yahya al-Libi, one of the top Al-Qadah,has praised the Somali jihad and gives advice to mujahideen to continue their strikes and be wary of fellow Somalis in a visual speech released on jihadist forums on July 30, 2009. The speech, titled, 'Somalia The Cloud of Summer Dissipated,' is contained in a 40 minute, 23 second video produced by as-Sahab, the media arm of al-Qaeda. Libi, an official within al-Qaeda's Shariah Committee, has given speeches in the past championing the jihad in Somalia and giving recommendations to Somali mujahideen.(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)AP - On a seven-nation tour of Africa this week, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will pledge more U.S. assistance, including military aid, to Somalia's shaky government as it fights for survival against Islamist extremists.

New HIV strain discovered in woman from Cameroon (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 11:31 AM PDT

AP - A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian virus recently discovered in wild gorillas, researchers report in Monday's edition of the journal Nature Medicine.

McCain says Obama fails to be a bipartisan leader (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 07:22 AM PDT

File picture from August 2008 shows Republican presidential nominee John McCain and vice-presidential nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin during a campaign event. With questions swirling about her next move, Palin stepped down as governor after bursting into the US political spotlight last year as McCain's presidential running mate.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)AP - Sen. John McCain says President Barack Obama has failed in his effort to be a bipartisan leader.

Senate Dems spar over public plan (Politico)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 04:47 PM PDT

Politico - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) runs the health care negotiations like the patriarch of a sprawling clan, urging his members to keep their feuds within the family.

AP News in Brief at 5:58 p.m. EDT (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 03:08 PM PDT

AP - McCain says he remains undecided on whether to vote to confirm Sotomayor for Supreme Court

Iran hardliners accuse opposition of 'treason' (AFP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 12:36 PM PDT

A picture obtained from the Fars News Agency on August 1, 2009, shows a Tehran courtroom during the trial of 100 people accused of rioting after the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iranian hardliners accused opposition leaders of treason as defeated presidential challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi said the authorities used AFP - Iranian hardliners accused opposition leaders of treason on Sunday as defeated presidential challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi said the authorities used "medieval torture" to force confessions from protesters on trial over the election unrest.

FACT CHECK: Distortions rife in health care debate (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 09:58 AM PDT

FILE -- In this July 29, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama holds a town hall on health care reform at Broughton High School in Raleigh, N.C. The health care debate is heading back to Main Street, to cities and towns across the country where Americans are worried about paying for medical costs but increasingly concerned that overhauling the system may do more harm than good. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)AP - Confusing claims and outright distortions have animated the national debate over changes in the health care system. Opponents of proposals by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats falsely claim that government agents will force elderly people to discuss end-of-life wishes. Obama has played down the possibility that a health care overhaul would cause large numbers of people to change doctors and insurers.

Officials to seek unemployment benefits extension (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 09:28 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama's top economic advisers say the administration will work with Congress to extend unemployment benefits for millions of Americans.

Greenspan says no need yet to raise interest rates (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 09:07 AM PDT

AP - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan says he doesn't think the Fed should be considering raising interest rates to ward off inflation — at least not yet.

Geithner: Lower deficit key to sustaining recovery (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 08:52 AM PDT

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner speaks at a dinner at the conclusion of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, Tuesday, July 28, 2009, at a hotel in Washington. U.S. and Chinese leaders engaged in two days of intense economic and diplomatic meetings. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the U.S. must cut the annual federal budget deficit, now more than $1 trillion, for the economy to have a sustained recovery and he's not ruling out new taxes.

McCain is 'sick' over steroid scandal in baseball (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 08:21 AM PDT

AP - Sen. John McCain is lamenting the latest report of a baseball player linked to performance-enhancing drugs.

Afghan attacks kill five Western soldiers (AFP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 08:02 AM PDT

US Marines of 1st Combat Engineer Battalion take a break during a patrol in Nawa district in Helmand Province on August 1. Insurgent attacks across Afghanistan have killed three US and two NATO soldiers as well as seven Afghan policemen and soldiers, authorities said, in a bloody start to election month.(AFP/Manpreet Romana)AFP - Insurgent attacks across Afghanistan have killed three US and two NATO soldiers as well as seven Afghan policemen and soldiers, authorities said Sunday, in a bloody start to election month.

White House adviser won't say no to tax increase (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 08:01 AM PDT

AP - A top White House adviser says he can't rule out a tax on middle-class Americans to pay for President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

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