2009年10月10日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Obama reaffirms will end 'don't ask, don't tell' (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 06:12 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, speaks at the Human Rights Campaign national dinner, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - President Barack Obama pledged to end the ban on homosexuals serving openly in the military in a speech Saturday, but acknowledged to a cheering crowd that the policy changes he promised on the campaign trail are not coming as quickly as they expected.

Wait for benefits is 3 years if health care passes (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 02:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2009 file photo, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. gestures on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, FILE)AP - Sixty years is how long Democrats say they've been pushing for legislation that provides health care access for all Americans. They'll have to wait another three if President Barack Obama gets a bill to sign this year.

Solar power outshining Colorado's gas industry (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 04:45 PM PDT

A 44 Kw grid tied photovoltaic solar system is seen on the roof of the Similey Community Building, converting it into a miniature solar power plant, in downtown Durango Colo., Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009. The sun had just crested the distant ridge of the Rocky Mountains, but was already producing enough power for the building's electric meter to spin backwards. (AP Photo/Jerry McBride)AP - The sun had just crested the distant ridge of the Rocky Mountains, but already it was producing enough power for the electric meter on the side of the Smiley Building to spin backward.

Clinton basks in diplomatic victory (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 04:32 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, right, is welcomed by Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey, left, before the signing ceremony of a Turkey and Armenia peace deal in Zurich, Switzerland, Saturday Oct. 10, 2009. The Turks and Armenians are to sign an accord establishing diplomatic ties in hopes of reopening their border and ending a century of acrimony over their bloody past. (AP Photo/Christian Hartmann, Pool)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton basked in the glow of praise from her Nobel laureate boss on Saturday after spearheading successful efforts to salvage historic accords between longtime bitter foes Turkey and Armenia.

Can Obama win the gay community? (Politico)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 05:01 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win has been met with skepticism by many US media organizations, including those who endorsed him as a candidate during the 2008 election campaign.(AFP/Saul Loeb)Politico - Strident conservative attacks on two of President Barack Obama’s gay nominees could temper the impatience gay and lesbian activists show as he speaks to a major gay civil rights group Saturday night — but the widespread restlessness still will be palpable.

Russians praise, GOP mocks, Obama's peace prize (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 01:55 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - While Russia's president congratulated President Barack Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Republicans see the award as so outrageous that they're using it to raise campaign money.

Rep. Frank: Gays should lobby elected officials (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 02:48 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, April 6, 2009 file photo, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, addresses an audience at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. Rep. Barney Frank, the first openly gay member of Congress, says in an interviewe with The AP that he'd rather see gay rights supporters lobbying their elected officials than marching in Washington this weekend, calling the demonstration 'a waste of time at best.' (AP Photo/Steven Senne, file)AP - Rep. Barney Frank, an openly gay member of Congress, says he'd rather see gay rights supporters lobbying their elected officials than marching in Washington this weekend, calling the demonstration "a waste of time at best."

Clinton talks to Mubarak; US envoy busy in Mideast (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 03:19 PM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives at London's Heathrow Airport from Zurich, where she was met by Louis Susman the US Ambassador to Britain, Saturday Oct. 10, 2009. (AP Photo)AP - U.S. officials are keeping in touch with Mideast leaders in hopes of getting the faltering peace process back on track.

Obama: Consensus and obstructionism on health care (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 03:58 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2009, file photo President Barack Obama shakes hands with doctors after making remarks on health care reform in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. 'The historic movement to bring real, meaningful health insurance reform to the American people gathered momentum this week as we approach the final days of this debate,' Obama said Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009, in his weekly radio and video address. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file)AP - President Barack Obama sees both "unprecedented consensus" from outside Congress on his drive to remake the nation's health care system and obstructionism by some on Capitol Hill.

Congress could thwart bid to view abuse photos (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 02:42 PM PDT

FILE - This 2003 file photo obtained by The Associated Press shows a detainee bent over with his hands on the bars of a prison cell at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. Congress is set to give the Pentagon power to keep new pictures of detainee abuse from the public, a move intended to end a legal fight over the photographs' release that has reached the Supreme Court (AP Photo/file)AP - Congress is set to allow the Pentagon to keep new pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors from the public, a move intended to end a legal fight over the photographs' release that has reached the Supreme Court.

Watering down the public option (Politico)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 04:49 PM PDT

Politico - Senate Democrats are growing increasingly bold in predicting a public health insurance option will pass Congress this year, defying months of pessimism and outright opposition from party moderates.

Obama praises Republicans who support health reform (AFP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 03:03 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama walks to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 9. Obama on Saturday praised Republicans who expressed support for his health care reform, saying it was time for Congress to AFP - US President Barack Obama on Saturday praised Republicans who expressed support for his health care reform, saying it was time for Congress to "rise above" political posturing and pass his proposals.

'Die quickly' congressman new hero for Fla. Dems (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 02:52 PM PDT

AP - Weeks after his harsh remarks toward the GOP, a Florida congressman's popularity with Democrats isn't dying quickly.

Obama says Nobel Peace Prize is "call to action" (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 02:46 PM PDT

President Barack Obama comments on winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize while delivering a statement in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, October 9, 2009. REUTERS/Jim YoungReuters - Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision that honored the first-year U.S. president more for promise than achievement and drew both praise and skepticism around the world.

Hawaii evangelical churches plan election push (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 02:38 PM PDT

AP - In the last 50 years, religious conservatives have scored few victories in Hawaii. They did manage to oust a half-dozen pro-gay marriage lawmakers and lead a successful drive for a constitutional amendment to reject same-sex marriages a decade ago.

State budgets get adrenaline shot from Clunkers (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 01:29 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2009 file photo, cars traded in as part of the Cash for Clunkers program, at Winner Ford in Cherry Hill, are shown. The taxes brought in by clunkers offered a summer shot of adrenaline for most states. The funds, often earmarked for school aid, highway repairs and law enforcement, came at a time when they were struggling with big shortfalls.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)AP - Struggling states and towns got a dose of badly needed money this summer from a Cash for Clunkers program that poured hundreds of millions of dollars of tax revenue into their budgets.

Iran sentences three to death over vote unrest (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 09:50 AM PDT

A supporter of Iran's moderate presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi holds a piece of paper that reads Reuters - A court has sentenced three people to death over unrest that erupted after Iran's disputed election in June and links to exiled opposition groups, the ISNA news agency reported on Saturday.

Three Iranian protestors face death penalty (AFP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 08:56 AM PDT

Supporters of Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in their trademark green scarves and headbands, flash the v for victory during a massive protest in Tehran on June 18. Three people arrested after Iran's disputed presidential election have been condemned to death despite a global outcry over trials of people who claimed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election was rigged.(AFP)AFP - Three people arrested after Iran's disputed presidential election have been condemned to death despite a global outcry over trials of people who claimed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election was rigged.

Democrats may lose two state governors' races (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 08:07 AM PDT

New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine delivers his opening remarks at a luncheon hosted by Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in New York February 19, 2009. REUTERS/Chip EastReuters - Democrats running for governor in New Jersey and Virginia face possible defeat in November, despite strong showings by President Barack Obama in those states last year, in elections that could render the first judgments on the Obama presidency.

Fidel Castro lauds Nobel prize for Obama (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 07:45 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama smiles after making remarks on regulatory reform in the East Room at the White House in Washington October 9, 2009. REUTERS/Jim YoungReuters - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro lauded the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama, saying on Saturday it was "a positive measure" that was more a criticism of past U.S. policies than a recognition of Obama's accomplishments.

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