2009年9月1日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Elections

White House: Obama may detail health plans soon (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 04:58 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama (L) speaks from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC after receiving a briefing on the H1N1 virus with Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. Obama said Tuesday his government's plans to combat an expected spike in (A)H1N1 flu were AP - The White House says President Barack Obama is considering a speech to spell out more details of his goals for overhauling health care without waiting for Senate negotiators to finish their talks.

New rules coming to fight pilots' fatigue? (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 04:19 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2009, file photo, wreckage from a plane crash is loaded onto a flatbed trailer for removal at the scene where Continental Flight 3407 crashed into a home in Clarence, N.Y. NTSB's investigation of the crash of the flight, killing 50, has spotlighted the long hours, low pay and long-distance commutes of regional airline pilots. (AP Photo/David Duprey)AP - Crowded skies and exhausted pilots are a bad mix, the airline industry and pilot unions agree, but they're struggling over what to do about it.

Dems hope September alters health care debate (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 04:35 PM PDT

President Barack Obama stands with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as he makes a statement regarding the H1N1 swine flu virus in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - For backers of health care overhaul, it's TGIS: Thank goodness it's September.

Obama: Manufacturing growth a good sign (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 04:10 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, center, stands with, from left to right: Homeland Security adviser John Brennan; Education Secretary Arne Duncan; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano; Commerce Secretary Gary Locke; and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Thomas Frieden; as he speaks about the H1N1 swine flu virus in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama says a promising report on the state of U.S. manufacturing is a sign that the hurting economy is moving in the right direction.

'Lord of the Flies' in Kabul (Politico)

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 12:21 PM PDT

Politico - At a time when security in Afghanistan is worsening and the administration is trying to shore up liberal support for the war, State Department contractors guarding the U.S. embassy in Kabul are working in a “Lord of the Flies environment,” a Washington watchdog group told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday.

Obama says Americans should get swine flu vaccine (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 04:21 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks to reporters as he stands with, from left to right: Homeland Security adviser John Brennan; Education Secretary Arne Duncan; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Thomas Frieden; regarding the H1N1 swine flu virus in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - With a potentially deadly swine flu outbreak looming, President Barack Obama is urging Americans to take steps to prevent infection.

US, Cuba to discuss resuming direct mail (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 05:20 PM PDT

A fisherman carries his fishing rod along the malecon in Havana, Monday, Aug. 31, 2009. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)AP - The United States and Cuba will start talks this month on resuming direct mail service between the two countries for the first time in nearly half a century as the Obama administration continues to try to engage the communist island, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

GOP senators seek go-slow approach on health care (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 05:08 PM PDT

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., center, speaks as Sen. Richard Burr, R-NC, left, and Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., right, look on during a health care forum at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)AP - An odd couple of Republican senators have hit the road, arguing for a go-slow approach to President Barack Obama's push to revamp health care.

Video shows chicks ground up alive at egg hatchery (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 05:08 PM PDT

In this undated image made from video and provided Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009 by Mercy for Animals, male chicks are separated from females at Hy-Line North America's hatchery in Spencer, Iowa. An animal rights group is calling on the nation's largest grocery story chains to post warnings on egg cartons that unwanted male chicks are ground up alive, after videotaping the common industry practice at an Iowa egg hatchery. (AP Photo/Mercy for Animals)AP - An animal rights group publicized a video Tuesday showing unwanted chicks being tossed alive into a grinder at an Iowa plant and accused egg hatcheries of being "perhaps the cruelest industry" in the world.

New rules proposed for medical helicopters (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 04:45 PM PDT

Rescuers from a local fire department lift an 'injured person' to a helicopter during a disaster drill in Kawasaki, west of Tokyo, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009. The drill was set in a scenario that a magnitude 6.9 quake hit the Kawasaki area. More than 1 million people attended the annual disaster drill across the country. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday urged the government to impose stricter controls on emergency helicopter operators, including requiring the use of autopilots, night-vision systems and flight data recorders in an industry that suffered a record number of fatalities last year.

Study: Swine flu easily overtakes other strains (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 04:51 PM PDT

Board certified family nurse practitioner Marguerite Clohisy prepares a Fluzone seasonal flu vaccination for a patient at a CVS pharmacy MinuteClinic in Chicago on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009. Drugstore operators are beginning their seasonal flu shot campaigns several weeks early this year, saying they expect greater demand for the vaccine in a year when the swine flu strain has dominated the news. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Put swine flu in a room with other strains of influenza and it doesn't mix into a new superbug — it takes over, researchers reported Tuesday.

Obama ties Netanyahu support to talks (Politico)

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 04:40 PM PDT

Politico - U.S. officials are stepping up the pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cut a deal on curtailing Israeli settlements, and they're holding out a prize that both Netanyahu and President Barack Obama badly want: strong ties between the two leaders.

Mass. attorney general is 1st to seek Kennedy seat (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 03:45 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2008, file photo, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley speaks during a news conference in Boston. Coakley is among the Democrats who could seek to be the successor to the seat held by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. (AP Photo/Bizuayehu Tesfaye, File)AP - The race for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death last week of Edward Kennedy got off to a cautious start Tuesday, despite a tight five-month election schedule that leaves little time for campaigning.

Obama to host dinner for Islamic holy month (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 03:24 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama is hosting a dinner celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

Game time changed to avoid conflict with holiday (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 03:29 PM PDT

AP - ESPN and Major League Baseball have agreed to switch the starting time of a Yankees-Red Sox game to avoid conflicting with Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.

CIA: No more interrogation secrets to be disclosed (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 02:29 PM PDT

A man walks across the the lobby of the CIA headquarters in McLean, Virginia. A US-based medical rights advocacy group on Monday blasted health experts for playing a AP - The CIA says it cannot turn over more details of its interrogations of terror suspects without spilling classified government secrets.

Group: US Embassy guards in Kabul are mistreated (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 02:06 PM PDT

AP - Guards hired by the State Department to protect diplomats and staff at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan live and work in a "Lord of the Flies" environment in which they are subjected to hazing and other inappropriate behavior by supervisors, a government oversight group charged Tuesday.

White House: Attempt to kill Saudi 'cowardly' (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 01:35 PM PDT

AP - The White House says a failed assassination attempt against a Saudi anti-terrorism minister was a "cowardly attack" and serves as a reminder of the importance of U.S. cooperation with partners in that region.

Gov. Patrick Supports Interim Appointment to Replace Kennedy (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 01:13 PM PDT

U.S. News & World Report - It's been a quarter-century since Massachusetts last saw an open-seat race for the U.S. Senate, so speculation over who will vie to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy was raging even before his death. The question of whether the state legislature will comply with Kennedy's dying wish to allow the governor to appoint a replacement until a special election only adds to the drama.

US asks judge to dismiss diplomatic immunity suit (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 12:14 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. government has asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit brought by a former State Department official demanding diplomatic immunity against charges that she helped kidnap a terrorism suspect in Italy.

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