2009年8月26日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Elections

A torch extinguished: Ted Kennedy dead at 77 (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 04:31 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo shows the Kennedy brothers, John F. Kennedy, left, Robert Kennedy, and Ted Kennedy, right, in Hyannis Port, Mass. Ted Kennedy, has died after battling a brain tumor his family announced early Wednesday Aug. 26, 2009.(AP Photo, File)AP - The greatest heights eluded Ted Kennedy over a lifetime of achievement and pain. No presidency. No universal health care, chief among his causes.

Kennedy's absence leaves Senate void of dealmaker (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 04:05 PM PDT

Barack Obama(L) with Ted Kennedy(R) of Massachusetts in 2008. It was fitting that President Obama was in Edward Kennedy's beloved home state when the senator died, as the Democratic giant had played a vital role in getting him elected.(AFP/File/Mannie Garcia)AP - In an era of bitter political division, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's death silenced a singular voice of bipartisanship at a time when colleagues are struggling with angry constituents and each other over an elusive plan to overhaul the nation's health care system.

Kennedy to have Boston funeral, Arlington burial (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:55 PM PDT

Visitors stop at the grave of President John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va., Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., the last surviving brother in an enduring political dynasty, died Tuesday night at his home on Cape Cod after a yearlong battle with brain cancer. He was 77. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will lie in repose Thursday and Friday at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, followed by his funeral Saturday at a city church and burial later that day near his slain brothers at Arlington National Cemetery.

CDC leery of estimates about swine flu's toll (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:56 PM PDT

A patient (R) with symptoms of infection by Influenza A (H1N1) virus, receives from a doctor medication to relieve fever and pain at a first-aid post in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on August 7, 2009. Brazil now has 557 swine flu deaths, making it the country with the highest number of fatalities in the world from the disease, according to figures announced by the health ministry Wednesday.(AFP/File/Mauricio Lima)AP - Government health officials are urging people not to panic over estimates of 90,000 people dying from swine flu this fall. "Everything we've seen in the U.S. and everything we've seen around the world suggests we won't see that kind of number if the virus doesn't change," said Dr. Thomas Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Grieving Dodd weighs chairmanships (Politico)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 02:37 PM PDT

US Christopher Dodd, seen here in June 2009, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, cited Politico - Grieving the loss of his close friend Ted Kennedy, Sen. Chris Dodd is also faced with one of the most significant political choices of his Senate career.

Obama says 'thank you and goodbye' to Kennedy (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2008 file photo, then-Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., smiles with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., during a rally at American University in Washington where Kennedy endorsed Obama. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate, has died after battling a brain tumor. He was 77. Kennedy's family announced his death in a brief statement released early Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - Edward M. Kennedy was much more than just former Senate colleague and influential legislator to Barack Obama, evident in the president's personal, mournful tribute on Wednesday.

Cash for Clunkers under budget with 690,000 sales (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:13 PM PDT

Ford employees work on the 2010 Ford Focus at the Wayne Stamping and Assembly plant in Wayne, Mich., Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. Cash for Clunkers generated nearly 700,000 new car sales and ended under its $3 billion budget, the Transportation Department said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Gary Malerba)AP - The popular Cash for Clunkers program generated nearly 700,000 new car sales during the past month, giving the U.S. auto industry a badly needed jolt of activity during the deepest decline in auto sales in two decades.

OAS chief still hopes for Honduran settlement (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 02:52 PM PDT

Honduras' interim President Roberto Micheletti, second left, shakes hands with Jose Miguel Insulza, the Secretary General the Organization of American States (OAS) at the presidential house in Tegucigalpa, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - The head of the Organization of American States held out hope Wednesday for a resolution of the Honduran presidential crisis even after the high-level delegation he led to the Central American country failed to arrange for ousted President Manuel Zelaya's return.

Stimulus checks not boosting economy — in prison (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:02 PM PDT

AP - The federal government sent about 3,900 economic stimulus payments of $250 each this spring to people who were in no position to use the money to help stimulate the economy: prison inmates.

Kennedy tributes pour in from Democrats — and GOP (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 1994 file photo, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., left, and Republican challenger Mitt Romney argue while answering a question concerning welfare during a televised debate Oct. 27, 1994, at Holyoke Community College in Holyoke, Mass. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate, has died after battling a brain tumor. He was 77. Kennedy's family announced his death in a brief statement released early Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)AP - President Barack Obama marked Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's death Wednesday by declaring his fellow Democrat "one of the single most effective senators" in U.S. history, praise that was hardly a shock to the partisan senses.

Obama asks docs to promote health care fix (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:56 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 - The White House is asking doctors to help promote its drive to overhaul health care, marking an effort by President Barack Obama to regain momentum on the issue.

Health care industry contributes heavily to Blue Dogs (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:06 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — During the first half of the year, as the Obama administration and moderate and liberal factions within the Democratic Party wrangled over the timing, shape and cost of health care reform efforts, the party's fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition pulled in $1.1 million in campaign contributions, according to watchdog organizations.

Winds shifting for Wall Street? (Politico)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 02:54 PM PDT

Politico - Sen. Ted Kennedy's death could shift the political winds for a reviled Wall Street.

Who will succeed Kennedy? Speculative list is long (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 02:27 PM PDT

Edward Kennedy, pictured in 2007, the last of the storied band of brothers whose triumphs and tragedies dominated a generation of US politics, has died after losing his year-long battle with brain cancer.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AP - For the first time in nearly half a century, Massachusetts voters will be handed ballots for the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Edward Kennedy without his name on them.

Ted Kennedy: Family senator, patriarch, dead at 77 (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 04:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2004 file photo, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., speaks during an announcement by the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs that it will conduct an extensive oral history of his life and career, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Kennedy, has died after battling a brain tumor his family announced early Wednesday Aug. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - In the quiet of a Capitol elevator, one of Edward M. Kennedy's fellow lawmakers asked whether he had plans for a family Thanksgiving away from the nation's capital. No, the Massachusetts senator said with a shake of his head, and mentioned something about visiting his brothers' gravesites at Arlington National Cemetery.

A tale of two Teddys (Politico)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 01:45 PM PDT

Politico - Highlights and lowlights from the life of a political legend:

'Problem by problem,' Kennedy transformed himself (Politico)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 01:10 PM PDT

Edward Kennedy, pictured in 2007, the last of the storied band of brothers whose triumphs and tragedies dominated a generation of US politics, has died after losing his year-long battle with brain cancer.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)Politico - A decade ago, at the memorial service for John F. Kennedy Jr., yet another family member struck down at an early age, Edward M. Kennedy mourned his nephew by noting that he would not live “to comb gray hairs.” 

Obama left holding Kennedy flame (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 12:58 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama makes a statement over the death of US Sen. Edward Kennedy at the Blue Heron Farm in Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Obama eulogized Edward Kennedy as a AFP - It was fitting that President Barack Obama was in Edward Kennedy's beloved home state when the senator died, as the Democratic giant had played a vital role in getting him elected.

Obama wants states to overhaul failing schools (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 12:45 PM PDT

AP - The Obama administration is making good on a promise to use federal dollars to prod local officials to turn around failing schools.

Open Calif. congressional seat attracts wide field (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 11:57 AM PDT

AP - More than a dozen candidates, including the lieutenant governor, two state lawmakers and an openly gay Iraq war veteran, are running to fill an open congressional seat in a special election in Northern California next week.

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