2009年12月6日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Elections

White House still lacks solid intel on bin Laden (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 04:19 PM PST

An unidentified United States Marines from the 2nd MEB, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion takes a position, during a patrol near Khan Nashin in the volatile province of Helmand, southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - Osama bin Laden may be slipping back and forth from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Or the U.S. might not have a clue, more than eight years after the al-Qaida leader masterminded the terrorist attacks on America.

Obama urges Dems to pass health care overhaul (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 04:50 PM PST

President Barack Obama walks out of the Senate Democratic caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009. The Senate is meeting in a rare Sunday session to debate health care overhaul.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Casting health care overhaul as a legacy for the American people and failure as politically unthinkable, President Barack Obama on Sunday rallied Senate Democrats to deliver on their party's half-century quest to expand the social safety net by providing access for all.

Reid: Obama wants to help any way on health care (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:08 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama has pledged to work with Senate Democrats "in any meaningful way he can" to help pass a health care overhaul.

Obama tells Dems to keep up the health care fight (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:15 PM PST

AP - The White House says President Barack Obama has told Democratic senators to keep up the fight on health care legislation.

Obama visits Hill to push health plan (Politico)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 11:32 AM PST

Politico - President Barack Obama put his personal prestige on the line Sunday with an unusual weekend visit to the Senate as Democrats moved toward a new vision of a public competitor to private insurance — a plan negotiators hope could be the key to breaking a months-long impasse on a health reform bill.

Promises, promises: A closed meeting on openness (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 03:29 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2007 file photo, then-Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., center, is greeted by supporters as he arrives at the Clark County Government Center in Las Vegas. As Obama's first year in office ends, the government's actions when the public and press seek information are not yet matching up with the president's words. 'The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails,' Obama told government offices on his first full day as president. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)AP - It's hardly the image of transparency the Obama administration wants to project: A workshop on government openness is closed to the public.

Republicans hit Democrats for partisan health bill (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 11:54 AM PST

AP - Top Senate Republicans say President Barack Obama's drive for a health care overhaul has become a closed-door, partisan effort that is aiding drug companies and other medical providers.

Must-pass bills pile up as days wind down (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 06:28 AM PST

AP - Time is running out for Congress this year on must-pass legislation to pay for federal programs, allow the government to borrow more money, keep highway projects going and prevent the jobless from losing unemployment and health insurance benefits.

How health care bills compare to lawmakers' plan (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 09:48 AM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2009, file photo, people cheer as President Barack Obama makes a point during a health care reform rally in Minneapolis. You should get the same health insurance deal that members of Congress get. That was the gist of Obama's message as he tried to drum up enthusiasm for his health care overhaul at the Minneapolis town hall meeting. But the legislation taking shape now in Congress is no carbon copy of what lawmakers get through the federal employee plan, even if Democrats cite it as their inspiration. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - You should get the same health insurance deal that members of Congress get.

US applauds Iraq plans for parliamentary elections (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 04:20 PM PST

Journalists watch a television showing Deputy Parliament Speaker Khalid al-Atiya during a press conference, in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009. Iraqi lawmakers approved plans Sunday to hold parliament elections early next year that are seen as an important step toward political reconciliation and easing the withdrawal of U.S. troops. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - The White House is applauding Iraqi lawmakers' vote Sunday to hold parliament elections early next year, a step that the U.S. hopes will ease the eventual withdrawal of American troops.

Obama Gives Senate Democrats a 'Pep Talk' (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 02:19 PM PST

CQPolitics.com - Senate Democrats emerged from a meeting with President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Sunday afternoon still mired in intraparty disagreements over health care overhaul legislation but committed to resolving their differences before Christmas Day.

Election of lesbian bishop re-opens Anglican wounds (AFP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 01:55 PM PST

This image provided by the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles shows The Rev. Canon Mary D. Glasspool. The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles has elected Glasspool, the first openly lesbian bishop since the national church lifted a ban that sought to bar gays and lesbians from the church's highest ordained ministry, the church announced.(AFP/HO)AFP - The election Sunday of a second openly gay bishop in the Anglican Church drew a stern warning from the Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the 77 million Anglicans worldwide.

W.H. rolls back curtain on surge call (Politico)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:57 PM PST

Politico - A week after President Barack Obama issued new orders for the war in Afghanistan, the White House is retroactively pulling away the curtain in front of his decision-making process, dispatching top officials to the Sunday shows to discuss it and offering top newspaper reports details for tick-tocks. Here’s what we know about his administration and war plan that we didn't know seven days ago:

Romanian president, rival both claim election victory (AFP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 11:54 AM PST

Presidential candidate Mircea Geoana celebrates the results of exit polls, which place him first, at the end of the voting day in Bucharest. Both candidates in Romania's presidential run-off vote claimed victory on Sunday as exit polls put the result on a knife-edge.(AFP/Andrei Pungovschi)AFP - Romania's incumbent President Traian Basescu and his Social-Democrat challenger Mircea Geoana both claimed victory in Sunday's presidential run-off vote.

Mass. Sen. hopefuls working to get voters to polls (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 10:41 AM PST

In this Nov. 20, 2009 photo provided by the Alan Khazei campaign, Caroline Kennedy, left, daughter of President John F. Kennedy, speaks with Alan Khazei, right, Democratic hopeful for the U.S. Senate seat left behind by the death of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, during a fundraiser at the home of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in New York. (AP Photo/Khazei Campaign, Diane Bondareff)AP - Forget the ads, debates and endorsements.

Jones: Bin Laden still spends time in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 10:04 AM PST

FILE - Osama bin Laden is seen at an undisclosed location in this television image broadcast in this Oct. 7, 2001 file photo. Bin Laden praised God for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and swore America 'will never dream of security' until 'the infidel's armies leave the land of Muhammad,' in a videotaped statement aired after the strike launched Sunday by the U.S. and Britain in Afghanistan. Graphic at top right reads 'Exclusive to Al-Jazeera.' At bottom right is the station's logo which reads 'Al-Jazeera.' At top left is 'Recorded.' Bottom left is 'Urgent news.' At bottom center is 'Osama bin Laden, Leader of the al-Qaida.' (AP Photo/Al Jazeera, File)AP - National security adviser James Jones said Sunday that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden still spends some time inside Afghanistan. Most recent U.S. estimates have placed bin Laden inside Pakistan. But Jones, a retired general, said the best estimate is that bin Laden "is somewhere in North Waziristan, sometimes on the Pakistani side of the border, sometimes on the Afghan side of the border."

McCain troubled by Afghan pullout target date (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 07:29 AM PST

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) appears on AP - Sen. John McCain says President Barack Obama's announcement that U.S. troops will begin to leave Afghanistan in July 2011 sends the wrong message to the Taliban and has confused countries in the region.

Clinton hasn't looked into Knox case in Italy (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 07:09 AM PST

AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she hasn't yet looked into the case of the American college student in Italy who was found guilty of murdering her British roommate.

The art of the 'tick-tock' (Politico)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 06:57 AM PST

Politico - A long reconstruction of President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan “surge” deliberations, splashed on the front page of Friday’s Los Angeles Times, featured the sort of journalistic candy that is the rarest treat on the White House beat: a behind-the-scenes anecdote (from the Situation Room, no less) – with an actual quote from the president.

Obama security adviser: Picture not good on Iran (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 06:34 AM PST

US General David Petraeus said Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seen here in September, is driving worried Gulf countries into US arms with his threats to expand Tehran's suspect nuclear program.(AFP/File/Don Emmert)AP - President Barack Obama's national security adviser says the door remains open for Iran to work with other countries on its nuclear program. But James Jones also says the "picture is not a good one."

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