2009年8月25日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Most red ink ever: $9 trillion over next decade (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 05:26 PM PDT

President Barack Obama looks on after announcing he is keeping Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, left, for a second term, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009, during a news conference in Oak Bluffs, Mass. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - In a chilling forecast, the White House is predicting a 10-year federal deficit of $9 trillion — more than the sum of all previous deficits since America's founding. And it says by the next decade's end the national debt will equal three-quarters of the entire U.S. economy.

Analysis: Bernanke is Obama's safe choice at Fed (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 05:14 PM PDT

President Barack Obama and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke walk off after Obama announced he is keeping Bernanke for a second term, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009, during a news conference in Oak Bluffs, Mass. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - Giving Ben Bernanke a second term as Federal Reserve chairman was the politically safe course for a president beset by multiple crises and wanting no new battles.

Postal Service offers $15,000 buyouts to cut costs (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 03:26 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2006 file photo, mail for one route in the Mid-City section of New Orleans is sorted and waits to be picked up by recipients at the New Orleans post office. The Postal Service is offering $15,000 buyouts to employees in an effort to cut costs at a time when the post office is being buffeted by the recession and the popularity of e-mail and electronic bill payment. The workers have to decide by Sept. 25, 2009.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, file)AP - The Postal Service is offering $15,000 buyouts to employees in an effort to cut costs at a time when the post office is being buffeted by the recession and the popularity of e-mail and electronic bill payment.

Sebelius: Vaccinations main swine flu defense (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 04:43 PM PDT

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, speaks with school children at H.D. Cooke Elementary School in Washington, after speaking at a news conference about the H1N1 virus, on Monday, Aug. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday that a massive school closing wouldn't stop the spread of the swine flu virus, saying vaccinations must be the defense against a menace that one report said could infect up to half of the population.

Doubts cast on Giuliani governor bid (Politico)

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 02:17 PM PDT

Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and a one-time contender for the Republican presidential nomination seen here in July 2009, may be eyeing a new political office: governor of New York state.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chris Hondros)Politico - Close associates of Rudy Giuliani are casting doubt on growing speculation that the former New York mayor is planning to run for governor.

US working with Libya on Gadhafi visit to UN (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 05:03 PM PDT

Construction is seen Monday, Aug. 24, 2009, in Englewood, N.J., as workers renovate a 25-room mansion owned since 1982 by Libya. Officials are trying to prevent Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi from staying at the mansion in this northern New Jersey suburb on his first visit to the United States. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - In a bid to head off any embarrassing incidents, the State Department said Tuesday it is working with Libya to find a place for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to stay when he visits the United Nations next month.

Pilots union wants cargo ban on lithium batteries (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 05:19 PM PDT

AP - The world's largest pilots union said Tuesday it wants bulk shipments of lithium batteries and products containing the batteries immediately banned from passenger and cargo planes because they can start a fire.

Military rethinking 'golden hour' for injuries (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 04:33 PM PDT

A U.S. soldier secures the area after a truck bomb attack targeting the Iraqi Finance Ministry in Baghdad August 19, 2009. A series of explosions killed at least 75 people and wounded more than 300 in central Baghdad on Wednesday, the deadliest day in the Iraqi capital since U.S. troops withdrew from urban centres in June. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ CONFLICT POLITICS)AP - The U.S. military is rethinking its "golden hour" goal for critically injured troops, questioning whether it should spend a little longer evacuating patients to get them to a better hospital.

US to stop issuing most visas in Honduras (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 03:59 PM PDT

Xiomara Castro, front left, the wife of the Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya, embraces a demonstrator as she takes part in a rally in support of Zelaya, in Tegucigalpa, Monday, Aug. 24, 2009. Foreign ministers from seven nations launched a direct, high-profile attempt to persuade Honduras' interim government to restore Zelaya. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - The United States will stop issuing most visas on Wednesday at the U.S. Embassy in Honduras because the current government is standing by its refusal to sign an accord that would bring back overthrown President Manuel Zelaya.

MEMO FROM MARTHA's: Chief golfs with his chef (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 05:07 PM PDT

President Barack Obama watches the flight of his ball after teeing off on the seventh hole at the Mink Meadows Golf Club in Vineyard Haven, Mass., Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - A day after playing golf with the chairman of the UBS banking giant, President Barack Obama hit the links with an assistant White House chef during his Martha's Vineyard vacation.

Bush CIA insider key to Obama plan (Politico)

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 05:19 PM PDT

Politico - President Barack Obama has tried to distance himself in every way from Bush-era interrogation policies, stripping the lead role in questioning detainees from the CIA and banning the harshest tactics critics have decried as torture.

Interrogation probe steams those on right and left (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 05:26 PM PDT

A man walks across the the lobby of the CIA headquarters in McLean, Virginia. The US attorney general has named a prosecutor to investigate possible crimes in secret CIA interrogations amid disclosures of threats to kill suspects' children and rape their female relatives.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AP - Conservatives and liberals alike reacted critically, though for different reasons, to Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to appoint a federal prosecutor to investigate possible abuses by CIA interrogators in using harsh tactics on terror detainees.

Obamas visit top adviser's home, then go to dinner (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama visited White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett's house and then accompanied her to a nearby restaurant.

Cheney blasts Obama over CIA probe (AFP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 03:23 PM PDT

Former vice president Dick Cheney, pictured in 2008, has questioned President Barack Obama's trustworthiness on national security after the US Justice Department announce a probe into alleged CIA prisoner abuse.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AFP - Former US vice president Dick Cheney has questioned President Barack Obama's trustworthiness on national security after the US Justice Department announce a probe into alleged CIA prisoner abuse.

Obama supporters plan pro-health overhaul push (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 03:00 PM PDT

Demonstrators wait in line for a town hall meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After spending last week repulsing Republican attacks on the health care reform drive, Barack Obama is now facing a liberal backlash, following reports, denied by the White House, that he is prepared to drop a plan for a government-run entity or AP - Supporters of President Barack Obama's health care agenda are ramping up their efforts with rallies and bus tours starting this week, aiming to counter increasing public skepticism leading up to Congress' post-Labor Day return to Washington.

Swelling deficit poses key challenges to Obama reform plans (AFP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 02:11 PM PDT

Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orzag prepares to testify before the House Budget Committee about the proposed FY2010 White House budget on Capitol Hill in March 2009 in Washington, DC. US President Barack Obama's administration and a Congressional financial watchdog projected swelling 10-year government budget deficits, posing key challenges to his ambitious health care reform.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)AFP - US President Barack Obama's administration and a Congressional financial watchdog projected Tuesday swelling 10-year government budget deficits, posing key challenges to his ambitious health care reform and climate change plans.

CIA's interrogation program hastily put together (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 02:04 PM PDT

In this image from the CIA, the cover of a special review released Monday, Aug. 24, 2009, of a newly declassified CIA document describes how interrogators threatened to kill the children of one Sept. 11 suspect and may have threatened to sexually assault the mother of another detainee. (AP Photo/CIA)AP - With just two weeks of training, or about half the time it takes to become a truck driver, the CIA certified its spies as interrogation experts after 9/11 and handed them the keys to the most coercive tactics in the agency's arsenal.

Qadhafi visit prompts N.J. Dem tussle (Politico)

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 01:59 PM PDT

Politico - The mayor of the North Jersey town where Libyan leader Muammar al-Qadhafi might stay next month during a diplomatic visit to nearby New York City blasted federal officials on Tuesday, from members of Congress all the way up to President Barack Obama, for not doing enough to stop the visit.

Contentious hearing for Bernanke? (Politico)

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 01:42 PM PDT

Politico - Ben Bernanke may be a shoo-in for confirmation as Federal Reserve chairman, but that doesn't mean his confirmation hearing will be painless.

Obama renominates Bernanke as Fed chief (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 01:18 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Ben Bernanke to a second term as Federal Reserve chairman on Tuesday, aiming for continuity at a time when the U.S. economy is breaking free from a deep recession.

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