2010年3月18日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Netanyahu calls Clinton to defuse tensions (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 03:57 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton smiles before her talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, unseen, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 18, 2010. Clinton on Thursday opened two days of talks with Russian leaders on nuclear arms control and other security issues, and separately with top international diplomats on the outlook for bringing Israel and the Palestinians back to peace talks. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - Hoping to diffuse a fight between friends, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed Thursday to meet next week in Washington to confront face to face an embarrassing dispute over Israeli land claims.


Wind farm plans stir up storm over military radar (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:32 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. military is growing increasingly concerned that proposed wind farms can disrupt or block radar designed to detect threats and protect America's skies, a problem that is stalling the alternative energy projects around the country.

A Southern-style taste of health care politics (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 20, 2008, file photo, Rep. Travis Childers, D-Miss., is seen on his first day as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives before a mock swearing-in ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington. It may not bode well for Childers that many voters in his rural Mississippi district have stronger opinions about his party's health care bill than they do about him. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)AP - It may not bode well for Rep. Travis Childers that many voters in his rural Mississippi district have stronger opinions about President Barack Obama's health care plan than they do about the Democratic congressman.


The Senate's proud porkers (Politico)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 03:19 AM PDT

Politico - Oklahoma Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe said Tuesday that he’s taking a “very unpopular stand” by fighting for the right to keep sending pork back home.

US, Russia clash over startup of Iran nuke plant (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:06 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov smile as they leave a news conference after the talks in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 18, 2010. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday opened two days of talks with Russian leaders on nuclear arms control and other security issues, and separately with top international diplomats on the outlook for bringing Israel and the Palestinians back to peace talks. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her Russian counterpart clashed openly Thursday over the planned launch this summer of Iran's first, Russian-built nuclear power plant, highlighting a split in views over how to steer Iran away from nuclear weapons.


New Dem lawmakers feeling heat on health care (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:03 PM PDT

Stephanie Spivey protests in favor of health care reform during a rally outside the district office of Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Granger, in downtown South Bend, Ind., Thursday, March 18, 2010. Groups on both sides of the debate on the federal health care overhaul are keeping up the pressure on three Indiana Democratic congressmen who say they haven't decided how they'll vote. (AP Photo/South Bend Tribune, Marcus Marter)AP - Freshman Rep. Steve Driehaus is getting it from all sides on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The Ohio Democrat opened his local newspaper, The Cincinnati Enquirer, on Wednesday to find a giant ad urging him to vote against the bill — featuring a photo of him with his two young daughters. Tea party protesters stormed his office and berated his staff.


Obama backs senators' immigration overhaul outline (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:08 PM PDT

From left, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., talk on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 16, 2010, prior to a news conference to discuss new legislation to combat China currency manipulation. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - President Barack Obama, facing criticism from advocates of immigration reform, pledged Thursday "to do everything in my power" to get immigration legislation moving in Congress this year.


Retired general: Gays made Dutch weak in Bosnia (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:46 PM PDT

AP - A retired U.S. general says Dutch troops failed to defend against the 1995 genocide in the Bosnian war because the army was weakened, partly because it included openly gay soldiers.

VA seeks to make getting benefits easier for vets (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 10:18 AM PDT

AP - The Veterans Affairs Department took steps Thursday to make it easier for veterans of the Iraq or Afghanistan wars to get disability benefits. To qualify for the new streamlined status, they must have malaria, West Nile Virus or one of seven other diseases.

Reid says he's proud of Senate accomplishments (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:41 PM PDT

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., left, talks with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as they walk out before President Barack Obama signs the HIRE act jobs bill in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington Thursday, March 18, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - U.S. Sen. Harry Reid said Thursday he's proud of what he's accomplished during four terms in the Senate, and he challenged critics and opponents who say he's lost touch with Nevada.


Colo. abortion foes say they cleared petition bar (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:22 PM PDT

AP - Colorado abortion opponents say they have enough signatures to put an abortion-ending proposal on the ballot this fall — potentially the first state this election year to see the question.

Grand jury subpoenas GOP unit in Sen. Ensign probe (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 03:49 PM PDT

AP - A federal grand jury has issued subpoenas to a Republican campaign committee and companies in Nevada in a probe of Sen. John Ensign, who has been under scrutiny for his efforts to find lobbying work for the husband of his former mistress.

A look at the health care overhaul bill (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 03:38 PM PDT

AP - Congressional Democrats have released a final version of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul bill in advance of a House vote planned for Sunday. Some of the main features of the legislation, which makes changes to the bill the Senate passed on Christmas Eve:

Obama ditches Indonesia, Australia trip over health care (AFP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 03:34 PM PDT

Clinic workers hold signs and chant during a rally in support of US President Barack Obama's health care reform package in Oakland, California, on March 17. US President Barack Obama on Thursday scrapped a planned trip to Asia in favor of making an 11th-hour drive to see his historic health care overhaul through a cliffhanger Sunday vote.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AFP - US President Barack Obama Thursday dramatically postponed his trip to Indonesia and Australia until June, as he wages a vote-by-vote struggle to drive his health reform bill through Congress.


Obama scraps Asia trip as health plan faces Sunday test (AFP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 03:22 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC. Obama Thursday postponed his trip to Indonesia and Australia until a later date, as he attempts to push his health care reform bill through Congress.(AFP/Saul Loeb)AFP - US President Barack Obama on Thursday scrapped a planned trip to Asia in favor of making an 11th-hour drive to help steer his historic health care overhaul through a cliffhanger Sunday vote.


AP source: Clinton, Netanyahu to meet next week (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 03:02 PM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pictured on March 15, Thursday called US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton amid a dispute over Israeli settlements in east Jerusalem, her spokesman said.(AFP/Pool/File/Jim Hollander)AP - A U.S. official says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plan to meet next week amid troubles in the U.S.-Israel alliance.


White House spokesman takes show to Rose Garden (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 02:34 PM PDT

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs briefs reporters in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Good thing President Barack Obama's bill signing in the Rose Garden didn't take too long on Thursday. His press secretary had booked the real estate for his own event just a short time later.


Obama postpones Asia trip to focus on health care (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 02:32 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama has postponed his trip to Asia until June so he can stay in Washington for a possible vote Sunday on his health care overhaul.

CAPITAL CULTURE: Designer favored by Obama closes (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 02:30 PM PDT

Maria Pinto designer labels lay in a pile during the liquidation sale at the Maria Pinto Boutique in Chicago on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. After making her mark on fashion by creating clothing for first lady Michelle Obama and other celebrities, designer Maria Pinto says she is closing her Chicago boutique because of the poor economy. (AP Photo/John Smierciak)AP - The signs of Maria Pinto's rise were clear when Michelle Obama entered the world stage wearing her designs, also favored by Oprah Winfrey.


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