2009年8月3日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Elections

'Clunker' sales nearing quarter-million; what now? (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 05:24 PM PDT

A person passes a car in a dumpster placed in front of an auto dealership in Philadelphia as a promotion for the 'cash for clunker' federal incentive program, Monday, Aug. 3, 2009. With the Obama administration saying it will honor $3,500-$4,500 'cash for clunker' deals in the pipeline by Tuesday, the Senate is under heavy pressure to pass a House bill that come up with $2 billion to extend the instantly popular and overwhelmed rebate program. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - The White House warned Monday that the "cash for clunkers" program, already zooming toward a quarter-million trade-ins with the initial $1 billion in rebates, could sputter to a stop by Friday unless the Senate quickly approves $2 billion more.

Postal officials consider closings, consolidation (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 04:43 PM PDT

AP - A pillar of U.S. communities since the nation's founding, the post office is facing the prospect of closings or consolidation of services at hundreds of locations amid a sharp decline in business due to e-mail.

Different US locations considered for Gitmo trials (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 03:58 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 - Staring at a January deadline, the Obama administration is debating between two dramatically different schemes for putting Guantanamo Bay detainees on trial: big-city courtrooms in the nation's capital, New York and Virginia — or a one-of-a-kind superjail in the Midwest.

Public passions are rising on health care overhaul (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 05:17 PM PDT

A demonstrator holds up a sign in support of a health care plan, in Lincoln, Neb., Monday, Aug. 3, 2009, just before a conservative political advocacy group, Americans for Prosperity, were to hold a rally to oppose the Democratic-led push to overhaul the country's health-care system.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - Booed, jeered and occasionally cheered in a raucous session with the public, a Democratic senator said Monday that other lawmakers can expect the same as they face voters on the divisive issue of overhauling health care.

As recess begins, the heat is on (Politico)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 02:09 AM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, July 30, 2009 file photo, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, to discuss health care. President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are looking ahead to a health care showdown on the House floor in September following a key committee's passage of sweeping overhaul legislation. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, file)Politico - Before rank-and-file House Democrats bolted for summer break last week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave them each a three-by-eight-inch pocket card and told them never to leave home without it.

Rare athlete deaths spur sickle cell trait testing (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 01:21 PM PDT

In this Aug. 1, 2009 photo, Andrea Williams, Executive Director of the Children's Sickle Cell Foundation sits with her son Jonathan, 9, who has Sickle Cell disease, as he holds a piece of red candy Williams uses to represent a child with sickle cell disease in a game she developed called the candy-gene game in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/John Heller)AP - Thousands of families carry the gene that causes sickle cell disease and don't know it — even though almost every newborn today is tested for what's called "sickle cell trait," and starting this summer more college athletes are getting tested, too.

McCain to vote 'no' on Sotomayor; Nelson a 'yes' (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 02:28 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 - Republican Sen. John McCain, his party's failed 2008 presidential contender, announced Monday he'd join the vast majority of the GOP to vote against Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who's on track to be confirmed this week as the first Hispanic justice.

AP ENTERPRISE: Biggest tax revenue drop since 1932 (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 03:37 PM PDT

Graphic shows change in federal tax receipts from 1980 toAP - The recession is starving the government of tax revenue, just as the president and Congress are piling a major expansion of health care and other programs on the nation's plate and struggling to find money to pay the tab.

McCain to oppose Sotomayor for Supreme Court (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 12:14 PM PDT

AP - Republican Sen. John McCain says he'll oppose Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor when the Senate votes on her confirmation this week.

A look at Democrats targeted by House GOP (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 05:03 PM PDT

AP - House Republicans are trying to rebound in the 2010 election from the hit they took last year's contests by targeting 70 districts held by Democrats.

Senate denies Obama bid to ax rural energy grants (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 04:06 PM PDT

AP - The Senate broke with Barack Obama on Monday as it voted to keep alive a grant program to help people in rural areas receive reasonably priced electricity despite the president's demand to kill it.

Obama, Mubarak to hold Aug 18 talks in U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 02:59 PM PDT

Reuters - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will visit Washington for talks with U.S. President Barack Obama on August 18, the White House said on Monday.

Gates, Mullen went to Belgium for Afghan war talk (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 01:39 PM PDT

In this handout picture released on August 2, 2009, Afghan National Policemen exit a cave after searching for enemy weapons caches during a mission with US soldiers in a cave near Shah Wali Zarat in Khowst province on July 24, 2009. Anders Fogh Rasmussen took the helm of NATO on Monday with a pledge to prevent Afghanistan from once more becoming the hub of international terrorism.(AFP/HO/File/Sergeant Andrew Smith)AP - A day after President Barack Obama's senior defense advisers huddled in Europe to discuss the future of the war in Afghanistan, the State Department on Monday talked optimistically about the conflict that top generals have called a stalemate.

Specter will likely face a primary challenge (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 01:33 PM PDT

AP - Republican-turned-Democrat Sen. Arlen Specter will likely face a formal challenge in Pennsylvania's Democratic primary.

White House says no to tax hike for middle class (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 03:00 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama waves to the crowd after speaking at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. The president, facing tough fights over his climate change and health care plans, has invited all of his Senate allies to his birthday lunch on Tuesday, his spokesman said.(AFP/Getty Images/Mark Wilson)AP - In a rebuke to the Treasury secretary, the White House said Monday that President Barack Obama remains opposed to any tax hike for families earning up to $250,000.

Loudly, some Kansans reject Guantanamo detainees (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 01:16 PM PDT

In this photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, a guard stands in a cell block at Camp 5 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, May 31, 2009. REUTERS/Brennan Linsley/Pool/FilesReuters - Not in my backyard! Not in my state! Not in my country!

Ex-NASA official goes on trial over steering money (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 12:58 PM PDT

AP - A former high-ranking NASA official is on trial under accusations that he steered nearly $10 million to a consulting client and lied about it.

Obama says Kuwait has been an 'outstanding host' (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 12:51 PM PDT

President Barack Obama talks with Kuwait Amir Shaykh Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al Sabah, Monday, Aug. 3, 2009, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama said Monday that Kuwait has been an outstanding host for U.S. military stationed there since the beginning of the war in Iraq and that he looks forward to even stronger relations with the Persian Gulf ally.

Lawmakers urge pardon for first black boxing champ (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 11:50 AM PDT

AP - Two Republican lawmakers are urging President Barack Obama to issue a posthumous pardon for boxer Jack Johnson, the black heavyweight champion who was imprisoned because of his romantic ties with a white woman.

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Biotech drug lobbying war (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 11:39 AM PDT

AP - With the nation's $46 billion biological drug market at stake, the war between makers of the pricey biotech medicines and their would-be generic competitors has involved millions of dollars in lobbying, thousands in campaign contributions and uncounted visits to members of Congress. And one noteworthy letter.

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