2010年1月18日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Mass. Senate candidates battle to the end (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 06:31 PM PST

Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, right, campaigns outside the T.D. Garden before a Boston Bruins hockey game in Boston, Mass., Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Brown is running against Democrat Martha Coakley and Joseph Kennedy, a Libertarian who is running as an independent, in a special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat left empty by the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)AP - Nearly one year to the day after President Barack Obama was sworn into office as an agent of change, Massachusetts Senate candidates battled to the wire Monday in an election that threatened his agenda and reflected voters' frustration with the status quo.


Obama honors slain civil rights leader (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 06:26 PM PST

President Barack Obama serves lunch to people at So That Others Might Eat, a social services organization, in Washington Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama served plates of steaming hot lunches to the needy Monday, one of several ways the nation's first black president paid tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. on the federal holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader.


Gates says US not planning policing role in Haiti (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 06:31 PM PST

A police officer disperses people who were surprised taking goods from quake-damaged stores in downtown Port-au-Prince, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Violence and looting broke up in Port-au-Prince as earthquake survivors scavenged for anything they could find in the ruins. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday the U.S. forces in Haiti for earthquake relief can defend themselves and innocent Haitians or foreigners if lawlessness boils over.


FDA debates tougher cancer warning on tanning beds (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 06:31 PM PST

Katie Donnar, 18, shows her scar from where the melanoma was on the calf of her leg Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010 in Vincennes, Ind. in front of a tanning bed like the on she used at her home and at the tanning salons. Donnar was in the sixth grade when she started using tanning beds. (AP Photo/ Daniel R. Patmore)AP - Just as millions head to tanning beds to prepare for spring break, the Food and Drug Administration will be debating how to toughen warnings that those sunlamps pose a cancer risk. Yes, sunburns are particularly dangerous. But there's increasing scientific consensus that there's no such thing as a safe tan, either.


Massachusetts gets ugly (Politico)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 09:13 AM PST

Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, speaks at a rally in Worcester, Mass., Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling applauds at left.  Brown is running against Democrat Martha Coakley and Joseph Kennedy, a Libertarian who is running as an independent, in a special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat left empty by the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)Politico - BOSTON — The campaigns of Scott Brown and Martha Coakley exchanged angry jibes Monday as emotions in the crucial Massachusetts Senate contest seemed to reach the boiling point in its final day of campaigning and polls showed Brown either leading or in a dead heat.


Magazine raises questions over 3 detainee deaths (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 04:47 PM PST

An injured U.S. citizen is carried to a waiting helicopter on board the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier for evacuation to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being rescued from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 15, 2010. Rescue operations began onboard the carrier equipped with 19 helicopters transporting water, supplies and medical evacuations between the devastated island capital and the naval base.  REUTERS/Hans Deryk    (HAITI - Tags: DISASTER MILITARY ENVIRONMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY)AP - Three Guantanamo Bay detainees whose deaths were ruled a suicide in 2006 apparently had been transported from their cells hours before their deaths to a secret site on the island, an article in Harper's magazine asserts.


Obama to give State of the Union speech Jan. 27 (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 05:23 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama will deliver his first State of the Union address on Wednesday, Jan. 27.

Obama visits American Red Cross headquarters (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 12:51 PM PST

President Barack Obama, center, greets employees at the Red Cross Disaster Operation Center in Washington, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama has personally thanked some American Red Cross workers for their efforts following the earthquake in Haiti last week. He also sent his first Twitter message.


Pete Domenici Jr. running for NM governor (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 09:22 AM PST

AP - A well-known name in New Mexico politics has joined the race for governor.

Coleman: Family voted against Minn. governor run (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 12:05 PM PST

File--A Sept. 15, 2008 file photo shows former Sen. Norm Coleman in Minneapolis. Former Sen. Norm Coleman posted on his Facebook page Sunday Jan. 17, 2010, that  he won't be running for Minnesota governor. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - Former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman says his family voted 3-1 against him running for governor, so he will not join the race.


Obama State of Union set for Jan 27, budget Feb 1 (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 04:36 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama will deliver his first State of the Union address on January 27 and his budget plan on February 1, setting the tone for a second year in office marked by a long list of economic and foreign policy challenges.

New poll: Brown up 9 (Politico)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 01:01 PM PST

Politico - A new InsiderAdvantage poll conducted exclusively for POLITICO shows Republican Scott Brown holding a 9-point advantage over Martha Coakley a day before Massachusetts voters trek to the ballot box to choose a new senator.

Senate election pushes Obama agenda to cliff edge (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 12:01 PM PST

US President Barack Obama speaks alongside US Senate candidate Democrat Martha Coakley during a campaign rally for Coakley at the Cabot Center at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17. Voters in Massachusetts decide on a new senator Tuesday -- and possibly the fate of Obama's ambitious reform agenda.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AFP - Voters in Massachusetts decide on a new senator Tuesday -- and possibly the fate of President Barack Obama's ambitious reform agenda.


Pro-Russia rivals face-off in Ukraine presidential run-off (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 11:24 AM PST

Ukrainian opposition leader and presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovich gives a news conference in Kiev. Voters in Ukraine forced two old rivals who both favour close ties with Russia into a tense presidential election run-off Monday after rejecting the pro-Western leader of the 2004 Orange Revolution.(AFP/Pool/Andrei Mosienko)AFP - Voters in Ukraine forced two old rivals who both favour close ties with Russia into a tense presidential election run-off Monday after rejecting the pro-Western leader of the 2004 Orange Revolution.


CAPITAL CULTURE: Obama emphasizes volunteerism (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 10:28 AM PST

President Barack Obama makes a statement about Haiti in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House in Washington in this January 15, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Larry DowningAP - A retired teacher went back to a classroom in need. A barber is giving time to a child whose first years remind him of his own. A college graduate decided to help kids learn instead of helping investors on Wall Street.


Three ways healthcare reform could pass even if Coakley loses (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 09:25 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - It’s an extraordinary political situation: The fate of healthcare reform now may be determined by the outcome of Tuesday’s Senate election in Massachusetts.

AP sources: Obama in TV ad for Coakley (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 08:53 AM PST

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley speaks during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day Breakfast in Boston Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Coakley is campaigning on the day before the special election for the senate seat of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - Democratic officials tell The Associated Press that President Barack Obama is featured in a new TV ad for endangered Democratic candidate Martha Coakley in Massachusetts.


(AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 08:41 AM PST

AP - AP sources: Obama appears in new TV ad for endangered Democratic candidate in Massachusetts.

A by-the-numbers look at Obama's first year (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 07:13 AM PST

AP - Highlights of Obama's first year, by the numbers:

Key events during Obama's first year in office (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 07:12 AM PST

Barack and Michelle Obama pick up Joe and Jill Biden on their inaugural whistle-stop tour in Wilmington, Del. The 137-mile route, starting in Philadelphia and ending in Washington, D.C., was the same one that Abraham Lincoln took nearly a century and a half ago.AP - Timeline of important events during President Barack Obama's first year in office:


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