2009年8月6日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Sotomayor OK'd for Supreme Court in historic vote (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:10 PM PDT

Supreme Court Justice designate Sonia Sotomayor is congratulated at the federal courthouse in New York after being confirmed by the Senate as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/New York Law Journal, Rick Kopstein)AP - Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, a history-making Senate vote that capped a summer-long debate heavy with ethnic politics and hints of high court fights to come.

Adviser: US has 2 more tough years in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:05 PM PDT

Afghan children are seen next to U.S. soldiers from the 5th Striker Brigades, outside the headquarter of Afghan Border Police on the outskirts of Spin Boldak, about 100 kilometers (63 miles) southeast of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. Thousands of U.S. troops are deploying in southern Afghanistan as part of an effort to prevent the Taliban from disrupting the country's Aug. 20 presidential ballot. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)AP - An incoming adviser to the top U.S. general in Afghanistan predicted Thursday that the United States will see about two more years of heavy fighting and then either hand off to a much improved Afghan fighting force or "lose and go home."

Congress OKs $2B refill of 'cash for clunkers' (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:54 PM PDT

A crane lifts a flattened car from a stack of similar vehicles to a shredder at Gershow Recycling Corp. in Medford, N.Y., Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. Many of the scrapped vehicles are part of the 'cash for clunkers' program. The Senate is poised to pump $2 billion more into the popular 'cash-for-clunkers' program after agreeing to give shoppers until Labor Day to make a deal on more energy-efficient models. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Pedal to the metal, Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation Thursday night with an additional $2 billion for "cash for clunkers," the economy-boosting rebate program that caught the fancy of car buyers and instantly increased sales for an auto industry long mired in recession.

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Insurers fighting back quietly (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 04:43 PM PDT

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, center, speaks at a news conference after a roundtable discussion on health care issues with health care professionals, advocates, seniors and small business people at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center in San Francisco, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)AP - Cast as a profit-hoarding villain by Democratic foes, the insurance industry still has a fighting chance to fend off the part of health care overhaul it most despises — creation of a government-run plan to compete with private insurers.

WH to Dems: Punch back twice as hard (Politico)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 03:11 PM PDT

Politico - Top White House aides gave Senate Democrats a recess battle plan on Thursday, arming the lawmakers with tips for avoiding disastrous town hall meetings while showing them polling on popular aspects of the reform effort.

First moves toward immigration detention makeover (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:07 PM PDT

Marcos Antonio Marquez, 48, and his son, Marcos Marquez Solano, 10, are shown at Casa Marianella, an immigrant shelter, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009, in Austin, Texas. They are immigrants from El Salvador who have been granted amnesty. They once were held at a Central Texas detention center where immigration officials announced Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009 that they would no longer be housing families. They once stayed at Casa Marianella, but now live in Austin and he returned to the shelter to do repair work. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)AP - The Obama administration's plan to stop holding immigrant families at a former central Texas prison was cheered Thursday by the immigrants' supporters and some in Congress as a needed change in inhumane and sometimes deadly detentions.

Senators block Obama nominees, protest Guantanamo (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 04:46 PM PDT

The U.S. Disciplinary Barracks borders farmland as it sits on the north edge of Fort Levenworth in Leavenworth, Kan. on Monday, Aug. 3, 2009. The military prison is on the short list to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)AP - Kansas' two U.S. senators are blocking 10 of President Barack Obama's nominees for senior administration posts at the Pentagon and Justice Department in protest over a proposal to house Guantanamo detainees at the Fort Leavenworth prison.

White House advises Dems on handling protests (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:01 PM PDT

Joan Korman ,left, and Dawn Tabrizi, right, hold protest signs during a rally protesting government managed health care in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. Democrats and the White House are claiming that the sometimes rowdy protests that have disrupted Democratic lawmakers' meetings and health care events around the country are largely orchestrated from afar by insurers, lobbyists, Republican Party activists and others. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)AP - Top White House officials counseled Democratic senators Thursday on coping with disruptions at public events on health care this summer, officials said, and promised the party and allies would respond with twice the force if any individual lawmaker is criticized in television advertising.

In Virginia, Obama says US needs pragmatic leaders (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:32 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks at a fundraiser for Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds, left, in McLean, Va., Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - President Barack Obama on Thursday told fellow Democrats that the nation needs governors who focus on long-term implications and avoid petty matters that mar politics, returning to campaign mode and reviving his election-season rhetoric. He then blamed his predecessor — a Republican — for leaving behind an economic crisis.

Clinton vows new US support for Somalia (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:23 PM PDT

The United States of America Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, carries a wreath with the help of 1998 bomb survivors to lay the Wreath at Memorial Park in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009, commemorating victims of the August 7, 1998 Embassy Bombings. On Friday, Aug. 7, 1998, at 10:35 hours local time, a massive bomb blast rocked the American Embassy and its surroundings, in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 213 people and injuring more than 4,000 civilians. Clinton is in Kenya on the first leg of a seven-nation tour of Africa. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday pledged to expand American support for Somalia's weak interim government and threatened sanctions against neighboring Eritrea for aiding an extremist group she says is trying to launch worldwide terrorist attacks from Somalia.

Post office might look for new revenue (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:17 PM PDT

Postmaster General John Potter testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Postmaster General John Potter is trying to think outside the mailbox. "We have a network of 37,000 retail outlets. America loves them and we want to keep as many open as possible, but we cannot just sell stamps in them," he told a Senate hearing Thursday.

Obama: May be seeing beginning of recession's end (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Thursday the actions taken by his administration have helped stop an economic freefall and the United States may be seeing the "very beginnings" of the end of the recession.

What Congress has, hasn't done so far this year (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 04:42 PM PDT

AP - Some of the Democratic-led 111th Congress' accomplishments in the six months since Democratic President Barack Obama took office:

Activists to keep heat on with health protests (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 04:38 PM PDT

AP - Conservative activists are vowing to keep up their fight against President Barack Obama's health care plans, even as the Democratic Party pushes back hard, accusing Republicans of organizing angry mobs.

Rahm warns liberal groups to stop ads (Politico)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 04:37 PM PDT

Politico - White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel warned liberal groups this week to stop running ads against Democratic member of Congress.

U.S., Mexican, Canadian leaders to address H1N1 flu (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 04:11 PM PDT

Reuters - Leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada will address ways to deal with an expected spreading of the H1N1 influenza virus this fall at a summit next week and issue a statement, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday.

Feds to issue schools new guidance on swine flu (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 04:09 PM PDT

AP - The government is giving schools new guidance to follow when swine flu strikes, in hopes of preventing the panic and confusion that prompted hundreds of school closures last spring.

Obama's Approval Ratings Show a Summer Slump (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 02:38 PM PDT

U.S. News & World Report - President Obama got some good news this week. His nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court was approved by the Senate on a 68 to 31 vote. She is the first Latina on the high court, and her confirmation is a definite victory for the new administration.

Senate confirms Sotomoayor, first Hispanic on Supreme Court (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 02:14 PM PDT

Reuters - Judge Sonia Sotomayor won approval on Thursday to become the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court in a Senate vote that President Barack Obama said broke another social barrier.

Ex-top NASA official guilty of ethics violations (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 03:05 PM PDT

AP - A former top NASA official was found guilty Thursday of breaking ethics laws by helping a consulting client get nearly $10 million of the space agency's funds.

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