2010年5月17日星期一

Yahoo! News: Elections

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Elections


MMS drilling official retires in oil spill fallout (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 04:30 PM PDT

BP America Chairman and President Lamar McKay, right, listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, May 17, 2010, as U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Peter V. Neffenger, Deputy National Incident Commander, testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to assess the nation's response to BP PLC's Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - The federal official overseeing offshore drilling announced his departure Monday in a fallout from the Gulf oil spill and criticism that federal regulators have been too cozy with industry.


Obama 2009 income includes $1,600 pet dog, Bo (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 04:54 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama raked in millions of dollars in book royalties in 2009 and got one very special $1,600 gift — his pet dog, Bo.

Primary Day: Testing themes for big fall elections (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 04:14 PM PDT

Tim Burns, left, a republican candidate for the congressional seat vacated by the death of Congressman John Murtha, waits his turn while trap shooting during a campaign stop at the Ford City Sportsman Club in Kittanning, Pa., Sunday, May 16, 2010.  (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)AP - For all the primaries testing tea party clout and veteran senators' ability to survive, a special House election in southwestern Pennsylvania is the multimillion-dollar battleground of choice Tuesday for the two political parties, previewing themes for a fall campaign shadowed by recession and voter discontent.


Auto dealers fight to avoid new regulations (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 04:09 PM PDT

A euro coin and US one dollar bill. The euro, stocks and oil endured another rough ride Monday as German demands that Europe confront its debt crisis with tougher rules rattled markets. The euro dropped to 1.2235 dollars in Asian trade Monday -- its lowest since April 2006(AFP/Joel Saget)AP - The nation's 18,000 auto dealers are trying to cut themselves a deal in the Senate, seeking exemption from proposed consumer regulations that would police how they write car loans.


Obama begins to rein in Congress (Politico)

Posted: 17 May 2010 02:42 AM PDT

Politico - The general is getting more specific.

Court rules out some life sentences for juveniles (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 04:04 PM PDT

FILE - In a Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009 photo, Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy sits for a new group photograph at the Supreme Court in Washington. In a speech Friday, May 14, 2010 in West Palm Beach Fla., Kennedy decried the way some senators question Supreme Court nominees, defended President Barack Obama's pursuit of empathetic judges and refuted the idea of activist courts  (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - The Supreme Court took two cracks at one of the law's thorniest questions Monday: When can you lock up a prisoner and throw away the key? Not when it's a teenager who hasn't killed anyone, the justices said. But when it's a "sexually dangerous" inmate, maybe so, even if he has completed his federal prison sentence.


AP Exclusive: Social Security needs small 'tweaks' (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 01:32 PM PDT

AP - Social Security faces a $5.3 trillion shortfall over the next 75 years, but a new congressional report says the massive gap could be erased with only modest changes to payroll taxes and benefits.

Paul predicts Ky. win; Foe slams overconfidence (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 04:38 PM PDT

AP - Front-runner Rand Paul predicted he would ride a wave of tea party support to a big victory in Tuesday's Republican U.S. Senate primary, while his chief opponent portrayed him as an overconfident "grandstander" who could lose sight of Kentucky if elected.

Kagan campaigns for Supreme Court job (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 02:52 PM PDT

US Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan makes the rounds on Capitol Hill on May 13. The White House is seeking some 160,000 pages of records from Kagan's time as an adviser to former president Bill Clinton, the Politico website reported Sunday.(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)AP - Reaching out to potential converts, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is dropping carefully calculated hints about her judicial approach on issues ranging from political speech to national security.


White House notes Iran nuclear deal skeptically (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 11:07 AM PDT

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters is subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim (bottom L) signs an agreement with his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki (bottom C) and Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu in Tehran May 17, 2010. REUTERS/Morteza NikoubazlAP - The White House on Monday showed deep skepticism about Iran's new deal to ship low-enriched uranium off its soil, saying it has the chance to be "positive step" but warning that the deal still allows Iran to keep enriching uranium toward the pursuit of a nuclear weapon.


Michelle Obama touts 1.5 trillion calorie cut (AFP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 04:54 PM PDT

US first lady Michelle Obama speaks as she makes an announcement at the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC. Michelle Obama Monday praised US food manufacturers for agreeing to cut 1.5 trillion dollars of calories from their products, in a boost for her anti-obesity campaign.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AFP - First Lady Michelle Obama praised US food manufacturers on Monday for agreeing to cut 1.5 trillion calories from their products, in a boost for her anti-obesity campaign.


Specter, Pa. primary foe spar over tenure, trust (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 04:36 PM PDT

Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa. reacts to supports as he leaves the Capital City Airport in New Cumberland, Pa., Monday, May 17, 2010, as he campaigns across Pennsylvania for the Democratic nomination to run for re-election.  (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - The competing messages of experience and trust were the calling cards of the state's two Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate on the last day of campaigning before Tuesday's primary election in the too-close-to-call race.


US court grants asylum to Obama's African aunt (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 04:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 file photo, President Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, speaks to The Associated Press during an interview in her home in Boston. A U.S. immigration court has granted her asylum allowing her to stay in the country, her attorneys announced Monday, May 17, 2010. in Cleveland.  (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)AP - A U.S. immigration court has granted asylum to President Barack Obama's African aunt, allowing her to stay in the country and setting her on the road to citizenship after years of legal wrangling, her attorneys announced Monday.


Obama reports wealth of up to $7.7 million (Reuters)

Posted: 17 May 2010 03:57 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama's wealth in 2009 totaled between $2.3 million and $7.7 million, financial disclosure forms showed on Monday.

Democrats, Republicans Face Voter Backlash in Primaries (Time.com)

Posted: 17 May 2010 03:55 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 14, 2010, file photo Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul campaigns at a delicatessen in Scottsville, Ky. Deep-pocketed unions, business groups and others are spending heavily in the year's early primaries. A Kentucky commercial sponsored by American Future Fund shows Paul, tie askew, while an announcer relates the candidate's record on coal production and Iran's nuclear ambitions. Twice within 30 seconds, the doors of a clock swing open. A bird emerges and chirps 'cuckoo.' (AP Photo/Joe Imel, File)Time.com - The Tea Party may be wreaking havoc with the best-laid plans of the Republican leadership, but many Democrat incumbents are also under fire from challengers angry at Obama


Obama to create panel to probe oil spill (Reuters)

Posted: 17 May 2010 03:43 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama will create a presidential commission to investigate the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and study industry practices and the role of government oversight, an administration official said on Monday.

McCain shakes up campaign; Pa. Senate race tight (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 03:42 PM PDT

Perri Specter campaigns for her grandfather, Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., standing behind her, at the Capital City Airport in New Cumberland, Pa., Monday, May 17, 2010, as Specter campaigns across Pennsylvania for the Democratic nomination to run for re-election. Also on hand, from left are, Silvi Specter, Specter's granddaughter, Eileen Connelly, and Joan Specter, his wife.  (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Sen. John McCain's re-election bid lost its campaign manager and another veteran Republican official, part of a shake-up for the Arizona lawmaker locked in a tight primary race with radio host and former Rep. J.D. Hayworth.


Airline cockpit fire prompts emergency landing (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 03:24 PM PDT

** CORRECTS SPELLING OF SOURCE TO ADLON NOT ALDON **  In this Sunday, May 16, 2010 photo provided Pamela Adlon, a firefighter stands near the cockpit of a United Airlines Boeing 757 after it made an emergency landing at Washington Dulles International Airport in Sterling, Va. Investigators are looking into whether long-known problems with the heating system in a cockpit window of the Boeing 757 played a role in a fire that forced an airliner to make an emergency landing near Washington, federal safety officials said Monday. United Airlines Flight 27 en route from New York to Los Angeles with 112 people aboard made an emergency landing at Dulles International Airport in Virginia on Sunday night due to a cockpit fire, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration said. (AP Photo/Pamela Adlon) NO SALESAP - Investigators are looking into whether long-known problems with the heating system in a cockpit window of the Boeing 757 played a role in a fire that forced an airliner to make an emergency landing near Washington, federal safety officials said Monday.


New frogs and geckos and pigeons, oh my (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 03:23 PM PDT

AP - Finding a new animal species is a special moment for scientists and even better when one hops into their mountain camp and volunteers to be discovered. An international team of researchers was camping in the Foja mountains of Indonesia when herpetologist Paul Oliver spied a frog sitting on a bag of rice in the campsite.

Obama's Kenyan aunt is granted asylum in U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 17 May 2010 02:33 PM PDT

Reuters - An immigration judge in Boston has granted asylum to President Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt, allowing her to remain in the United States, her lawyers said on Monday.

0 条评论:

发表评论

订阅 博文评论 [Atom]

<< 主页

bnzv