2010年2月27日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Obama says US prepared to assist Chile if asked (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 01:29 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks to the media about the recent earthquake in Chili outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010. Obama said the United States has resources in position to deploy should Chile ask for help. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - The U.S. "will be there" if Chile asks for rescue and recovery help after a powerful earthquake struck the South American nation, President Barack Obama said Saturday.


Obama signs one-year extension of Patriot Act (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 03:11 PM PST

President Barack Obama turns to leave after speaking to the media about the recent earthquake in Chile outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010.  Obama called the earthquake 'devastating,'and said the U.S. has resources in position to deploy should Chile ask for help. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama has signed a one-year extension of several provisions in the nation's main counterterrorism law, the Patriot Act.


AP source: RFK's grandson weighing US House run (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 03:11 PM PST

AP - A top Massachusetts Democrat said Saturday that one of Robert F. Kennedy's grandsons is considering carrying on the family's vaunted political tradition by running for the U.S. House of Representatives.

Obama to GOP on health care: `Let's get this done' (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 03:35 PM PST

President Barack Obama greets  Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., as Sen.  John Barrasso, R-Wyo., looks on at right, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010, in the Blair House across the street from the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama said Saturday he is ready to compromise with Republicans on health care if they are serious about it, but that an overhaul must go forward. "Let's get this done," he said.


Supreme Court scrutinizes state, local gun control (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 07:41 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2010 file photo, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, right, attends a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010, the Supreme Court gun ban case: McDonald v. Chicago. Chicago firefighter Annette Nance-Holt, and her husband Chicago Police Officer Ronald Holt, recall the death of their son Blair to gun violence.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - Gun control advocates are hoping they can win by losing when the Supreme Court rules on state and local regulation of firearms.


Warming panel, under attack, seeks outside review (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 03:04 PM PST

AP - The Nobel Prize-winning international scientific panel studying global warming is seeking independent outside review for how it makes major reports.

Obama in a bind over Armenian genocide vote (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 03:43 PM PST

FILE - In this April 24, 2009 file photo, Armenians gather to  mark the 94th anniversary of the mass killing of the Armenian people, at a monument in Yerevan. President Barack Obama is facing a bind as a congressional panel prepares a vote next week on a resolution that would recognize the World War I-era killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a genocide.  (AP Photo/ Mkhtar Khachatryan/Photolure, File)AP - President Barack Obama is in a bind as a House committee prepares to vote on a resolution that would recognize the World War I-era killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.


Obama selects campaign adviser as social secretary (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 10:26 AM PST

FILE - In this April 13,2009 file photo, President Barack Obama walks with White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers at the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington.  Rogers will step down as White House social secretary next month, a White House aide says. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - It didn't take long for the White House to name the next social secretary.


US military monitoring situation after Chile quake (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 06:14 AM PST

AP - The Pentagon says it's had no reports that the big earthquake in Chile has affected the U.S. military in the region — on land or at sea.

Organized labor's agenda hits roadblock; what now? (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 04:35 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama acknowledges AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka as he addresses the AFL-CIO in Pittsburgh. The high hopes organized labor had for dramatic gains under Obama and a Democratic Congress have turned sour, raising fresh doubts about how much muscle unions can wield even when they're in the best of times politically. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - Labor's high hopes for major gains under President Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress have dimmed, raising fresh doubts about union leverage even in the best of political times.


Nelson Fighting Like It's 2012 (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 11:37 AM PST

CQPolitics.com - As a dangerous election cycle unfolds for Democrats, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has been proactive -- hitting statewide television to defend his controversial health care vote and on Wednesday becoming the only member of his party to oppose Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) jobs package.

Colombia election race starts, Santos favored (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 09:31 AM PST

Colombia's former Defence Minister Juan Manuel Santos gestures during an interview with Reuters in Bogota February 10, 2010. REUTERS/John VizcainoReuters - The race for Colombia's presidency began Saturday, with former defense minister Juan Manuel Santos the favorite after the South American nation's popular incumbent was blocked from running for a third term.


Shock over voided Puerto Rican birth certificates (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 07:46 AM PST

AP - Native Puerto Ricans living outside the island territory are reacting with surprise and confusion after learning their birth certificates will become no good this summer.

First dad watches daughter hoop it up in Maryland (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 06:31 AM PST

President Barack Obama speaks to the media about the recent earthquake in Chile outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010. Obama said the United States has resources in position to deploy should Chile ask for help. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - The first dad is watching one of his daughters hoop it up.


Rangel refuses to step aside after ethics slap (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 10:11 PM PST

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., leaves the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Feb. 26, 2010. Rangel says he will not step down as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee even though the ethics committee found that he violated House rules by accepting corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Rep. Charles Rangel said Friday he won't step down as chairman of the powerful House tax-writing committee after being admonished by an ethics panel for accepting corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean. The public rebuke of one of the Democrats' most outspoken leaders posed more woes for a party that had vowed to end a "culture of corruption."


White House social secretary Rogers resigning (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 10:10 PM PST

White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers walks at the White House in Washington December 4, 2009. REUTERS/Larry DowningAP - White House social secretary Desiree Rogers is stepping down three months after an uninvited couple crashed the Obama administration's first state dinner and she was heavily criticized for her role in allowing the embarrassing episode to happen.


U.S. lawmakers get details of Pakistan aid plan (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 07:52 PM PST

Reuters - The Obama administration sent lawmakers this week a plan for $1.45 billion in aid for Pakistan this year, funding water, energy and other projects as well as a media campaign to counter extremist views.

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