2009年9月2日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Big speech: Obama wants control of health debate (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 04:20 PM PDT

President Barack Obama makes statements about the economy and 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 will deliver a major prime-time health care address to Congress next week, opening an urgent autumn push to gain control of the debate that has been slipping from his grasp under withering Republican-led attacks.

SEC bungled Madoff probes, agency watchdog says (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 03:51 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 10, 2009 file photo, Bernard Madoff exits Manhattan federal court in New York. The watchdog of the Securities and Exchange Commission has found that the agency consistently mishandled its investigations of Bernard Madoff's business, despite ample warnings of the multibillion-dollar fraud, according to a report released Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, file)AP - Pushing past years of "red flags," investigators at the Securities and Exchange Commission bungled their probes of Bernard Madoff so badly that his multibillion-dollar fraud not only flourished but he used the exams to suck in new investors, an agency watchdog declared Wednesday.

Pfizer to pay record $2.3B penalty for drug promos (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 04:09 PM PDT

FBI Assistant Director of Criminal Investigative Division Kevin Perkins, right, looks on as Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli, answers questions during a news conference to announce Pfizer will pay a record $2.3 billion civil and criminal penalty over unlawful prescription drug promotions on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - Federal prosecutors hit Pfizer Inc. with a record-breaking $2.3 billion in fines Wednesday and called the world's largest drugmaker a repeating corporate cheat for illegal drug promotions that plied doctors with free golf, massages, and resort junkets.

Inquiry of alleged misconduct at embassy under way (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 02:49 PM PDT

AP - A wide-ranging State Department inquiry into allegations of misconduct and mismanagement by a private security firm guarding the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan could lead to the termination of the company's $189 million contract, a department spokesman said Wednesday.

Gay military question still up in air (Politico)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 03:25 PM PDT

Politico - When gay rights advocates march on Washington in October, they’ll be confronting a bleak political landscape in their effort to allow gays to openly serve in the military.

Obama using 5 measures to assess Afghan report (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 03:54 PM PDT

President Barack Obama walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington as he departs for the Camp David presidential retreat, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama is weighing an expected request for more U.S. troops against concerns that an expanded American presence could be perceived by Afghan civilians as an occupation army and not a liberating force battling a determined and bloody Taliban resurgence.

Poll suggests public opinion of Congress slipping (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 04:22 PM PDT

AP - Slightly more than one-third of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Democratic-led Congress, a new poll said Wednesday in a clear warning to the majority party.

Justice Stevens' hiring at high court slows (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 04:25 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2005, file photo, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens joins the members of the Supreme Court for photos during a group portrait session, at the Supreme Court in Washington. Stevens has hired fewer law clerks than usual for the court session scheduled to begin in the fall of 2009, generating speculation in the legal community that the leader of the court's liberals will retire in the next year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has hired fewer law clerks than usual, generating speculation that the leader of the court's liberals will retire next year.

US extends Iraq contract for Blackwater firm (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 04:29 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2007, file photo, Blackwater USA founder, Erik Prince, testifies before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. The private contractor had won the government's confidence by handling security and training operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the decision, revived by CIA in 2004, to use the private contractor as part ofits now-abandoned secret program to kill or capture terrorists in sensitive overseas operations, struck some former agency officials as highly unusual. (AP Photos/Susan Walsh, File)AP - The State Department said Wednesday it has extended a contract for protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq with a subsidiary of the security firm once known as Blackwater USA even though the company doesn't have a license to operate in the country.

US envoy's Asia trip won't include NKorea (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 04:32 PM PDT

US special envoy for North Korea Stephen Bosworth attends a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing in June 2009. The US point man on North Korea was due to leave Wednesday for Asia to discuss how to bring the reclusive Stalinist state back into nuclear disarmament negotiations.(AFP/Pool/File/Elizabeth Dalziel)AP - The U.S. special envoy for North Korea will travel to Asia this week but will not go to North Korea.

US diplomats say US-Japan alliance to stay strong (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 04:58 PM PDT

AP - The Obama administration is not worried that a landslide election victory by Japan's opposition party signals a drift from close ties with the United States, senior U.S. diplomats said Wednesday.

Japan's Hatoyama tells Obama U.S.-Japan ties key (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 04:47 PM PDT

Reuters - Japan's next leader, Yukio Hatoyama, told U.S. President Barack Obama in a telephone call that close relations with the United States would remain a fundamental part of Japanese policy.

Obama to make Sept 9 speech to Congress (AFP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 04:30 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama departs the White House in Washington, DC, enroute to Camp David. Obama, seeking to breathe new life into his drive to remake US health care, will address a rare joint session of the US Congress on September 9, congressional aides said Wednesday.(AFP/Jim Watson)AFP - President Barack Obama, seeking to breathe new life into his drive to remake US health care, will address a rare joint session of the US Congress on September 9, congressional aides said Wednesday.

FEC: NFL team's McCain video OK (Politico)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 04:26 PM PDT

Politico - The Federal Election Commission revealed this week it had dismissed a complaint alleging that the Kansas City Chiefs professional football team had illegally boosted Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign.

Senator calls for Lockerbie investigation (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 04:11 PM PDT

The Tripoli Medical Center, where convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi has been moved to an intensive care unit, is seen in Tripoli, Libya, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. al-Megrahi was controversially released from a Scottish jail on humanitarian grounds the previous week. (AP Photo/Abdel Meguid Al-Fergany)AP - Congress should investigate whether a lucrative oil contract might have played a role in the release of the only man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, a New Jersey senator said Wednesday.

Obama to give health-care speech to joint session of Congress (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 03:35 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Eager to turn the page after a politically damaging month, President Barack Obama will launch a new push next week to overhaul health care, highlighted by an evening address next Wednesday to a joint session of Congress.

Another challenger for Reid? (Politico)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 03:16 PM PDT

Politico - LAS VEGAS – Sue Lowden plans to step down from her position running Nevada’s Republican Party, a sign that she’s preparing to challenge Majority Leader Harry Reid in next year’s Senate race.

AP News in Brief (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 03:15 PM PDT

AP - Obama tries to grab control of health care debate, will address Congress next Wednesday night

Obama to address Congress as healthcare debate grows (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 03:11 PM PDT

President Barack Obama walks through the Colonnade to make remarks on preparedness and response efforts surrounding the 2009 H1N1 flu virus in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, September 1, 2009. REUTERS/Jim YoungReuters - President Barack Obama will seek to boost flagging support for healthcare reform next week with a rare speech to Congress after a rocky summer raised questions both about his leadership and legislative program.

Obama congratulates next Japanese PM (AFP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 03:09 PM PDT

Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) leader Yukio Hatoyama delivers a speech at the start of a meeting held by the Japanese Trade Union Confederation-Rengo in Tokyo. US President Barack Obama Wednesday spoke by telephone with Yukio Hatoyama to congratulate him and his Democratic Party of Japan on a landslide election win.(AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi)AFP - US President Barack Obama Wednesday spoke by telephone with Japan's incoming Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to congratulate him and his Democratic Party of Japan on a landslide election win.

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