2009年10月12日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Dems scramble after warning from health insurers (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 04:57 PM PDT

Senate Finance Committee member Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine talks to reporters outside of the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. Senate Majority Leader of Nev. announced Thursday that the Finance Committee will vote next week on the health care bill. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - Insurance companies aren't playing nice any more. Their dire message that health care legislation will drive up premiums for people who already have coverage comes as a warning shot at a crucial point in the debate, and threatens President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.

2 Nobel winners may shape financial crisis debate (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 02:49 PM PDT

Elinor Ostrom, a professor of political science at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Ind., became the first woman to be awarded the Nobel prize for economics on Monday, Oct. 12, 2009. Ostrom was praised 'for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons.' Ostrom's prize is Indiana University's eighth Nobel prize. (AP Photo/Indiana Daily Student, Ryan Dorgan)AP - One scholar studies how best to manage resources like forests, fisheries and oilfields. A fellow American looks at why some companies grow so large. Together they're winners of this year's Nobel Prize in economics for groundbreaking work that could affect efforts to prevent another global financial crisis.

Job data to show stimulus aided teachers, laborers (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 01:30 PM PDT

Road workers begin construction along California interstate 215 north in San Bernadino County on Monday, Sept 14, 2009. Officials say it's the largest stimulus funded freeway project to begin construction. They say the money will support about 2,000 jobs per year for the next four years in a region that has some of the nation's worst unemployment and foreclosure rate. The full project is expected to finish in 2013 for about $800 million. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - President Barack Obama's stimulus plan spared tens of thousands of teachers from losing their jobs, state officials said Monday amid a nationwide effort to calculate the effect of Washington's $787 billion recovery package.

GOP uses ACORN to fight bank redlining law (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 04:57 PM PDT

Some new homes, developed by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) Housing Corp., are seen in the Beverly subdivision of Phoenix, Ariz., Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. In the wake ACORN's recent troubles, which range from voter fraud charges to embarrassing videos of its employees, three Republican congressmen have asked 14 banks to provide details on their dealings with ACORN, reviving a longstanding GOP fight against the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act on bank investment in poor areas. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - Conservative Republicans are capitalizing on the troubles of community activist group ACORN — ranging from charges of voter registration fraud to embarrassing videos of its employees — to revive their long-standing fight against a federal law that grades banks on their investments in poor and minority neighborhoods.

What's with all the @#%! language? (Politico)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 02:56 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the audience at the Human Rights Campaign annual dinner in Washington October 10, 2009. REUTERS/Richard ClementPolitico - President Barack Obama called rap star Kanye West “a jackass.” Vice President Joe Biden told a senator to “Gimme a f—-ing break!” Economic adviser Christina Romer declared that Americans had yet to have their "holy s—-” moment over the economy.

Official: Taliban better financed than al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 04:57 PM PDT

In this image taken on Oct. 4, 2009, Pakistan's new Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, center, stands pose with his deputy Waliur Rehman, left, and spokesman Azam Tariq in Sararogha in Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan along Afghanistan border. Pakistan blamed Taliban militants Tuesday for the deadly suicide bombing at the U.N. food agency's heavily fortified compound in the capital as authorities detained some of the guards posted outside to try to determine how the attacker gained entry.(AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)AP - The Taliban are in much stronger financial shape than al-Qaida and rely on a wide range of criminal activities to pay for attacks on U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, a senior Treasury Department official said Monday.

Day care next frontier in fighting kids' obesity (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 09:57 AM PDT

In this photograph taken Friday, Oct. 2, 2009, Jean Carlos Rubell, 3, helps himself to grapes during preschool lunch at the Latin American Community Center in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/ Steve Ruark)AP - Grilled chicken replaced the hot dogs. Strawberries instead of cookies at snack time. No more fruit juice — water or low-fat milk only. This is the new menu at a Delaware day care center, part of a fledgling movement to take the fight against obesity to pudgy preschoolers.

Clinton to press Russia on Iran, arms control (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 02:47 PM PDT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks during a ceremony for receiving foreign ambassadors' credentials in the Kremlin, Monday, Oct. 12, 2009, with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at right. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton travels to Russia on Monday hoping to win Moscow's backing for a strong stance on Iran's nuclear program and looking for progress on a new arms control pact. (AP Photo/ RIA Novosti, Vladimir Rodionov, Presidential Press Service)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to press Russian leaders for "specific forms of pressure" against Iran if the regime fails to comply with international demands to prove its nuclear program is peaceful.

Summers: Bush era set stage for economic troubles (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 02:52 PM PDT

AP - A top White House official issued a robust defense of the Obama administration's recovery policies on Monday with a pointed critique of economic conditions and fiscal policies during the presidency of George W. Bush.

Job losses mar recovery, create woes for Dems (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:12 AM PDT

In this Oct. 6, 2009 photo, people look for job opportunities at the Metro North Work Source Center in Los Angeles. Job losses are expected to continue at least into the middle of next year, likely driving the unemployment rate above 10 percent from 9.8 percent last month. It could take three or four more years for it to fall to normal levels. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - A distressed economy is widely blamed for President George H.W. Bush's re-election defeat in 1992, and a decade earlier, for the loss of 26 House seats in midterm elections by Ronald Reagan's Republicans. Yet in both instances recession had already ended or was winding down.

Panel on presidency in nuclear age at JFK library (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 04:07 PM PDT

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger speaks via a video taped recently during a conference titled, The Presidency in the Nuclear Age, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Monday, Oct. 12, 2009 in Boston. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)AP - President Barack Obama should learn from the experience of previous U.S. leaders when grappling with thorny nuclear issues ranging from the ambitions of Iran and North Korea to the threat of terrorism, experts told a forum on the shaping of American foreign policy in a nuclear age.

Obama aide accuses Fox of operating as GOP arm (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 01:42 PM PDT

AP - One of President Barack Obama's top aides says Fox News Channel acts like a wing of the Republican Party.

Obama invites tribal leaders to Nov. WH conference (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:38 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama is inviting Native American leaders to a White House conference on Nov. 5.

Obama song video prompts protests at NJ school (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:05 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama talks on the phone in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, in May 2009. The White House has gone on the offensive against its critics in the press, singling out Fox News and going so far as to accuse the News Corp.-owned network of waging a AP - Protesters brought some different songs Monday to an elementary school where students sang in praise of President Barack Obama, bringing criticism from conservative commentators who said children were being indoctrinated.

Sharpton to NFL: Block Limbaugh (Politico)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 09:48 AM PDT

Politico - The Rev. Al Sharpton has joined those imploring the National Football League to deny conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh the opportunity to buy the St. Louis Rams franchise.

Cities lag in preparations for high-stakes census (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 08:04 AM PDT

AP - With the 2010 census looming, major U.S. cities whose residents are at high risk of being missed are struggling with a shortage of money and manpower to prepare for an accurate count.

Clinton in Belfast seeks power-sharing progress (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 07:32 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives by car at Stormont Castle, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Monday, Oct. 12, 2009. The U.S. Secretary of State met with local political leaders to discuss the Irish peace process. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged the rival leaders of Northern Ireland's power-sharing government Monday to keep making their awkward coalition work for the sake of lasting peace.

Key senator says Afghanistan mission in jeopardy (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 05:12 AM PDT

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) speaks at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington,DC in July 2009. The California legislator warned that AP - Saying the U.S. mission in Afghanistan is in "serious jeopardy," the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee says more troops are needed to combat an increasingly potent Taliban.

Clinton says Nobel a recognition of Obama's vision (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 04:39 AM PDT

AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she thinks President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize because of "his attitude toward America's role in the world."

Clinton says Afghanistan's Karzai needs to change (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 01:50 AM PDT

Reuters - President Hamid Karzai needs to do more to ensure stability in his country if he is declared the victor of a disputed election, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday.

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