2009年8月27日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Elections

What vacation? Obama still in news spotlight (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 03:02 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, second from left, pauses on his bike ride with his family and friends including Sasha Obama, 8, right, while on vacation on Martha's Vineyard on Lobsterville Beach in Aquinnah, Mass. Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Barack Obama's first presidential vacation began with a hurricane, was interrupted for a major economic announcement and is ending with a sad eulogy for a famous friend.

Senators question system of replacing retirees (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 02:47 PM PDT

FILE -- In this Aug. 7, 2009 file photo, Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla.,talks with reporters during a news conference in Orlando, Fla., announcing his resignation from the Senate. At his right is his wife, Kitty. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - With the death of Edward M. Kennedy, seven seats in the Senate have been opened since the last election or soon will be, the most in any one year in six decades.

US seen easing Israeli settlement demands (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 03:58 PM PDT

A Palestinian man works on construction of a new housing development in the Jewish neighborhood of Har Homa in east Jerusalem, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009. Israel's relations with the international community have been recently overshadowed by the issue of settlements, which the U.S. and other countries are pushing Israel to freeze. Israel and the U.S. are currently engaged in talks meant to strike a compromise.(AP Photo/ Tara Todras-Whitehill)AP - The Obama administration appears to be backing down on its insistence that Israel halt all settlement activity as a condition for restarting peace talks with the Palestinians.

Analysis: NKorea's talk offer a dilemma for Obama (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 04:07 PM PDT

Kim Young-chol, chief delegate and secretary general of the South Korean Red Cross office, right, and other delegates inspect the reunion center at the Diamond Mountain, North Korea, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009. South Korea has proposed regular reunions of families separated by the Korean War during rare meetings between officials from the two Koreas held this week amid signs of easing tension on the peninsula, a spokesman said Thursday. (AP Photo/Korea Pool)AP - After being portrayed for years as a reclusive villain with nuclear ambitions, it's North Korea that wants to talk. And it's the Obama administration — champion of engaging adversaries — that does not.

Biden to tout stimulus in speech (Politico)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 02:50 PM PDT

Politico - The White House is moving to take some credit for the economic recovery by touting the progress of the $787 billion stimulus plan. 

NM governor's future brighter as fed probe ends (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 03:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2009 file photo, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson speaks during a news conference in Santa Fe, N.M. after withdrawing his nomination as U.S. Commerce Department secretary. Richardson and former high-ranking members of his administration won't be criminally charged in a yearlong federal investigation into pay-to-play allegations involving one of the Democratic governor's large political donors, someone familiar with the case said. The federal probe, which began in 2008, derailed Richardson's appointment as commerce secretary in President Barack Obama's administration. (AP Photo/Craig Fritz, File)AP - A dark cloud over Gov. Bill Richardson's political future has lifted after the federal government's decision against indictments in a pay-to-play investigation that prompted the governor to withdraw his nomination as U.S. commerce secretary earlier this year.

Gov't tightens oversight of laptop border searches (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 03:56 PM PDT

AP - The Obama administration on Thursday put new restrictions on searches of laptops at U.S. borders to address concerns that federal agents have been rummaging through travelers' personal information.

PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama wins praise for Katrina (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 03:03 PM PDT

FILE - In a Monday, Aug. 17, 2009 photo, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, right, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate and Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding Janet Woodka answer questions at a news conference in New Orleans. Many local officials say the new Obama administration has brought 'a new vision' to the job of Gulf Coast reconstruction, and appears to be turning things around. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)AP - As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama pledged to right the wrongs he said bogged down efforts to rebuild the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. Seven months into the job, he's earning high praise from some unlikely places.

Napolitano: Politics didn't push stimulus projects (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 04:01 PM PDT

FILE - This March 30, 2007, file photo provided by the Daniels County Leader shows the Whitetail, Mont., border checkpoint at left. At right is the Canadian border crossing station. The small checkpoint along Montana's border with Canada, which serves about three travelers every day, will receive $15 million for repairs under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan. Until recently, the project was not considered a high priority for the Department of Homeland Security. (AP Photo/Daniels County Leader, Mike Stebleton, File)AP - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday that politics did not influence the decision to spend millions of dollars in stimulus money on little-used border checkpoints while passing over higher-priority projects.

Patrick: Questions on Kennedy successor can wait (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 02:57 PM PDT

Family members follow an honor guard as they carry the casket of Sen. Edward Kennedy as it arrives at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick says the focus should be on mourning Sen. Edward Kennedy and that questions surrounding his Senate vacancy can wait.

White House not ready to commit to Vineyard return (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 05:01 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama(2ndR), seen here waving from a lighthouse during sightseeing with First Lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Malia and Sasha on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, will head to his Camp David retreat next week, seeking the rest and relaxation which has been elusive on his frenetic stay on Martha's Vineyard.(AFP/Jewel Samad)AP - President Barack Obama hasn't even finished his Martha's Vineyard vacation and already he's being asked whether he'll come back next year.

Idaho GOP hopeful jokes about 'Obama Tags' (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 04:30 PM PDT

AP - An Idaho Republican gubernatorial hopeful insists he was only joking when he said he'd buy a license to hunt President Barack Obama.

Bernanke personal bank account struck by ID theft (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 04:25 PM PDT

US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies before the Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill in July. President Barack Obama will reappoint Bernanke Tuesday to a second term as chairman of the US Federal Reserve, an administration official said on condition of anonymity.(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)AP - No one is safe from identity theft, not even the chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Richardson celebrates 'vindication' (Politico)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 03:59 PM PDT

Politico - From his office:

Military monitoring reporters' work in Afghan war (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 03:32 PM PDT

U.S. Marine Gen. Lawrence Nicholson, center, walks through the bazaar in the village of Dahaneh during a visit to see progress by Marines and Afghan security forces there Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009, in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)AP - The U.S. military in Afghanistan acknowledged Thursday that it pays a private company to produce profiles on journalists covering the war.

Taps, rifle salute planned for Kennedy's burial (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 03:19 PM PDT

Arlington National Cemetery officials and personal from the U.S. Army Military District of Washington hold a meeting at the gravesite of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday, August 27, 2009 in Arlington, Va. Shown in the rear is Arlington House, the home of Robert E. Lee. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - With a bugler playing taps, a rifle squad firing a salute and pallbearers representing each branch of the military, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be laid to rest in a private funeral at Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday.

Jenkins: `Great white hope' remark not about Obama (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 03:04 PM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008 file photo, Lynn Jenkins talks with voters in Valley Falls, Kan. U.S. Rep. Jenkins told a Aug. 19, 2009 forum in northeast Kansas that the Republican Party is looking for a 'great white hope' to help stop the political agenda of the Democratic party and President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, file)AP - A freshman Kansas congresswoman said Thursday that her remark about fellow Republicans seeking a "great white hope" was not a reference to someone who could challenge President Barack Obama or his political agenda.

Who gets Kennedy's campaign funds? (Politico)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 01:58 PM PDT

Politico - One of Ted Kennedy's most tangible political legacies sits in a bank account — the $4.55 million he had already raised for his 2012 reelection campaign and which now can be used for a wide variety of political or charitable causes.

Army National Guard trims its personnel as ordered (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 01:43 PM PDT

AP - The Army National Guard says it has trimmed its forces to a congressionally mandated goal a month early thanks to a drawback in recruiting.

Conservatives warn of 'Wellstone effect' (Politico)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 01:32 PM PDT

Politico - Key conservative voices have begun to charge in the day after Sen. Ted Kennedy’s death that Democrats are inappropriately politicizing the senator’s death, his memorial and his legacy.

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