2009年8月10日星期一

Yahoo! News: Elections

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Elections

Hillary Clinton: I'm secretary of state, not Bill (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 04:55 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, right, is greeted by members of the government on arrival at the airport in Kinshasa, Congo Monday, Aug. 10, 2009. Clinton's Congo stop is the latest in an 11-day journey through Africa to promote development and good governance and underscore the Obama administration's commitment to the world's poorest continent. (AP Photo/Etienne Kokolo)AP - Hillary Clinton has a message for the world: It's not all about Bill.

FACT CHECK: No 'death panel' in health care bill (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 05:03 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2008 file photo, shows Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Palin abruptly announced Friday, July 3, 2009. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called President Barack Obama's health plan 'downright evil' Friday Aug. 7, 2009 in her first online comments since leaving office, saying in a Facebook posting that he would create a 'death panel' that would deny care to the neediest Americans. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia,File)AP - Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin says the health care overhaul bill would set up a "death panel." Federal bureaucrats would play God, ruling on whether ailing seniors are worth enough to society to deserve life-sustaining medical care. Palin and other critics are wrong.

House leaders drop their plans to buy fancy jets (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 05:35 PM PDT

AP - House Democratic leaders say they will not force the Pentagon to buy four passenger jets used to ferry senior government officials.

AP NewsBreak: GM pulls out of mercury partnership (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 05:15 PM PDT

The GM logo is seen at the General Motors Arlington Assembly Plant in July 2009 in Arlington, Texas. General Motors and eBay announced Monday that the US automaker, which emerged from bankruptcy protection a month ago, will begin selling new cars and trucks on the online auction site.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Tom Pennington)AP - General Motors has quit working with a partnership that collects toxic parts from scrapped automobiles, jeopardizing an effort to prevent mercury pollution just as hundreds of thousands of clunkers are headed to recyclers.

Obama: Immigration bill this year (Politico)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 12:04 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama answers a journalist's question during a news conference at the North American Leaders' Summit in Guadalajara August 10, 2009. REUTERS/Henry Romero (MEXICO POLITICS)Politico - GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Under fire from immigration reform supporters who say he's not moving fast enough, President Barack Obama said Monday he expects to have a draft immigration bill in Congress by year's end — but that lawmakers wouldn't begin to seriously debate the issue until next year.

Obama braces for 'vigorous' town hall health talk (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 03:39 PM PDT

President Barack Obama gestures during a joint press conference with Mexico's President Felipe Calderon and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, not seen, at the Cabanas Cultural Center in Guadalajara, Mexico, Monday Aug. 10, 2009. President Obama met with Calderon and Harper, for a North American summit, where the swine flu epidemic and knotty disputes over cross-border trade dominated a lengthy agenda. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - A day before facing a potentially boisterous town hall in New Hampshire, President Barack Obama praised the spirited debate over his health care plans on Monday and predicted "sensible and reasoned arguments" would ultimately prevail in Congress.

Kind words for Obama, Calderon, Harper — no pacts (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 04:29 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, right, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, center, and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper walk towards a stand for the official photo in Guadalajara, Mexico, Monday Aug. 10, 2009. President Obama huddled Monday with Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, and Canada's Prime Minster Stephen Harper, for a North American summit, where the swine flu epidemic and knotty disputes over cross-border trade dominated a lengthy agenda. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama and his counterparts from Mexico and Canada emerged Monday from a speed summit united on recession-fighting and Honduras' ousted leader but still divided on security and trade, the areas that most define their partnership.

Senate probe: SC gov broke law on state travel (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 04:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 30, 2009 file photo, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford talks to Associated Press in his Columbia, S.C., Statehouse office. Sanford used state aircraft for personal and political trips, often bringing along his wife and children — contrary to state law regarding official use, an Associated Press investigation has found, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, file)AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford broke state law when he charged taxpayers for more expensive business and first-class flights, according to the chairman of the legislative committee investigating Sanford's international travel.

Gov't watchdog questions airport stimulus projects (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 03:17 PM PDT

AP - A government watchdog is questioning the way the Obama administration is spending airport money under the economic stimulus program.

AP sources: New benchmarks aimed at Afghan war (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 03:05 PM PDT

Officers of the Commanche Company, part of 2-87 Infantry, 10th Mountain Division from Fort Drum, NY, go over details of a major military push to secure the Chalk valley, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009, in Afghanistan. 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 election. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh)AP - The Obama administration is preparing a set of about 50 benchmarks for Afghanistan, senior officials said Monday, redefining how to measure success in a war now widely assessed as a stalemate.

GOP rebranding effort flames out (Politico)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 03:58 PM PDT

Politico - Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) generated the kind of buzz other politicians covet when he launched his bid to help rebrand the Republican Party last spring.

Pelosi, Hoyer: Protesters' behavior 'un-American' (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 03:16 PM PDT

AP - The House's top two Democrats on Monday called some of the behavior of health care overhaul opponents "simply un-American." The White House disagreed.

Top insurance lobbyist: August key in health drive (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 02:39 PM PDT

Elizabeth Smith ,left, and her husband Spence Smith hold protest signs during a rally protesting government managed health care in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Thursday, August 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 - August will be a make-or-break month for the drive to revamp health care, as members of Congress use the recess to either sell the need for an overhaul to voters or continue criticism of the insurance industry, the chief of the insurers' main lobbying arm said Monday.

Flu planners fear ERs flooded with the not-so-sick (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 01:52 PM PDT

AP - Sit for hours amid the sneezing in an emergency room this fall, and if you didn't arrive with swine flu you just might leave with it.

US targets Afghan druglords for death or capture (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 01:50 PM PDT

A carry team carries the transfer case containing the remains of Marine Lance Corp. Javier Olvera of Palmdale, Calif., at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del., Monday, Aug. 10, 2009. According to the Department of Defense, Olvera was killed in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The U.S. military is targeting major drug traffickers in a new strategy to kill or capture Afghan militants, according to a Senate report that also questions the Obama administration's deepening involvement in the war-torn country.

Obama turns to Web to boost health overhaul (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 12:11 PM PDT

AP - The White House on Monday turned to its favorite tool — the Internet — to bolster President Barack Obama's push for health care overhaul and challenge misconceptions about Democratic plans.

U.S. religious left wades into healthcare fight (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 11:54 AM PDT

Reuters - Liberal religious groups announced on Monday they are teaming up with President Barack Obama in a national campaign to counter the surprisingly vehement conservative opposition to his plan for overhaul of the U.S. healthcare industry this year.

Clinton assails rampant sexual violence in Congo (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 11:35 AM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listens to Angolan Foreign Minister Assuncao dos Anjos during their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Luanda, Angola on August 9. Clinton turns her African tour to human rights as she heads to one of its most tragic nations, the Democratic Republic of Congo, to press for an end to mass rapes.(AFP/Louise Redvers)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Monday for Congolese youth to lead nationwide protests against massive corruption and rampant sexual violence in the country's violence-torn east.

Taliban attack near Kabul kills police, civilians (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 11:25 AM PDT

A burning vehicle which was used in a suicide attack against NATO forces in Kunduz is seen next to another NATO military vehicle August 10, 2009. REUTERS/WahdatReuters - Taliban bombers, some disguised as women with suicide vests hidden under their burqas, stormed government buildings near Kabul on Monday in a brazen strike just 10 days before a presidential election.

"Three amigos" talk trade, H1N1 in Mexico (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 11:07 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama signs an autograph after an official photo with Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper Mexico's President Felipe Calderon in Guadalajara, August 10, 2009. REUTERS/Eliana AponteReuters - Leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada vowed on Monday to fight the spread of the H1N1 swine flu and combat climate change but differed on trade disputes at their "three amigos" summit.

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