2010年6月7日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Obama defends his Gulf spill response (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 05:36 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama says he's been talking closely to Gulf Coast fishermen and experts on BP's catastrophic oil spill not for academic reasons but "so I know whose ass to kick."

Outside groups win outsized influence in primaries (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 04:08 PM PDT

Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark. greets supporters in Forrest City, Ark., Monday, June 7, 2010. Lincoln is being challenged in her re-election bid by Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter in the June 8 Democratic primary election runoff. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP - In Arkansas, Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln struggles against a flood of labor money. In Nevada, Republican senatorial hopeful Sharron Angle benefits from a conservative combination of the Tea Party Express and Club for Growth.


Helen Thomas ends White House career amid uproar (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 05:25 PM PDT

Veteran White House journalist Helen Thomas asks a question of President Barack Obama during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, in this photo taken Thursday, May 27, 2010. Thomas abruptly retired Monday as a columnist for Hearst News Service following remarks she made about Israel that were denounced by the White House and her press corps colleagues. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Helen Thomas, the opinionated White House correspondent who used her seat in the front row of history to grill 10 presidents and often exasperate them, lost her storied perch Monday in a flap over calling on Israelis to get "out of Palestine."


THE INFLUENCE GAME: Dueling over debit card fees (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 03:24 PM PDT

AP - Swipe your debit card at the supermarket and you've placed yourself at the heart of a contentious congressional debate.

Dems drill campaign foes over BP (Politico)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 06:10 AM PDT

A dead turtle floats on a pool of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Barataria Bay off the coast of Louisiana Monday, June, 7, 2010.  (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)Politico - Democratic candidates in a handful of pivotal Senate races have seized on the Gulf oil disaster to go on offense against their Republican opponents, painting them as tools of BP and other firms responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster.


Rand Paul breaks silence with talk show interview (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 05:26 PM PDT

FILE - In a Wednesday, May 19, 2010 photo, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul is shown during an interview at his campaign headquarters in Bowling Green, Ky. Paul broke his recent silence Monday, June 7, 2010 with a friendly interview on the Rush Limbaugh Show, weeks after his negative comments about the U.S. Civil Rights Act set off a political firestorm. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke, File)AP - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul said Monday that Washington lawmakers are showing no consideration for future generations with deficit spending that is passing an "enormous burden of debt" on to America's children and grandchildren.


Senate candidates make pitches before Ark. runoff (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 03:39 PM PDT

Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., left, campaigns in her home town of Helena-West Helena, Ark., Monday, June 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP - Sen. Blanche Lincoln returned Monday to the area where she launched her political career while her labor-backed opponent, Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, greeted plant workers a day before a Democratic runoff election that could end Lincoln's tenure.


AP Essay: Gov't flunks test of trust in Gulf (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 06:36 AM PDT

FILE -  In this June 5, 2010, file photo Plaquemines Parish coastal zone director P.J. Hahn lifts his boot out of thick beached oil at Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay, just off the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La.  The spill exacerbates the worry that a nation founded on trust now faces a crisis of faith in its public and private institutions, government and big business particularly. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)AP - Nobody led.


Republicans ask: Who can beat Sen. Harry Reid? (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 05:29 PM PDT

AP - Republican Beatrice Vibal says Sen. Harry Reid has got to go. But the means to that end is another matter.

Obama says US will bounce back from oil crisis (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 12:39 PM PDT

President Barack Obama meets with members of his Cabinet to discuss the response to BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Monday, June 7, 2010, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. From left are, White House Adviser on climate and energy Carol Browner, the president, National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama sought to reassure Americans on Monday that the Gulf Coast would "bounce back" from the worst oil spill in the nation's history, but not without time, effort and reimbursement from BP.


Obama, recalling hard-partying youth, exhorts graduates (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 05:36 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama attends the 2010 Kalamazoo Central High School graduation at Western Michigan University in Michigan, June 7, 2010. REUTERS/Larry DowningReuters - President Barack Obama recalled youthful indiscretions on Monday as he urged graduating high schoolers to work hard, persevere and spurn the instant gratification offered by technology and reality TV.


Progressives criticize White House, Democrats (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 05:25 PM PDT

President Barack Obama waves prior to boarding Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday, June 7, 2010, en route to Michigan where he will deliver the commencement address for Kalamazoo Central High School. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Progressive activists who helped elect Barack Obama president complained on Monday that the administration and congressional Democrats have been too timid and too willing to compromise.


Obama discusses health care (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 05:21 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama takes a short trip to suburban Maryland on Tuesday to talk with senior citizens.

Obama to high school grads: 'Don't make excuses' (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 05:15 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Education Secretary Arne Duncan, steps off Air Force One with at Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Mich., Monday, June 7, 2010, en route to deliver the commencement address for Kalamazoo Central High School. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Don't mimic Washington by making excuses, President Barack Obama advised graduating high school students on Monday night as he urged them to take responsibility for failure as well as success.


Super Tuesday Election: Nine Races to Watch (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 03:55 PM PDT

Sen. Blanche Lincoln participates in a news conference on Capitol Hill on April 20, 2010 in Washington, DC. The Democratic primaries in Arkansas and Pennsylvania could see two veteran senators backed by Obama, Lincoln and Arlen Specter, lose to upstart candidates backed by the party's more left-leaning core supporters.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)Time.com - Voters in 11 states will go to the polls on Tuesday to pick which Republicans and Democrats they'd like to see slug it out in November


Gulf rig widows urge repeal of high seas death law (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 03:50 PM PDT

FILE - This April 21, 2010, file photo show the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burning after an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, off the southeast tip of Louisiana. In yet another failed attempt, this time called 'Top Kill', a high-tech nation threw brute mass, old tools and golf balls at the oil gushing from the ocean floor, like blast from past.  (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)AP - Members of Congress vowed Monday to amend a 90-year-old law that limits the amount of money survivors can recover in the deaths of family members killed in the Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion.


No excuses, Obama will tell Michigan grads (The Newsroom)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 03:10 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Education Secretary Arne Duncan, steps off Air Force One with at Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Mich., Monday, June 7, 2010, en route to deliver the commencement address for Kalamazoo Central High School. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)The Newsroom - Against the backdrop of poll numbers showing the nation has soured on his government's handling of the Gulf oil spill, President Obama has one piece of advice for graduating high school students in Michigan: "Don't make excuses."


US military detains soldier linked to Iraq video (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 02:39 PM PDT

This frame grab image from the classified footage allegedly shows Reuter's photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen (C) before being fired upon. Bradley Manning reportedly said he had leaked other material to Wikileaks, including separate video of a 2009 air strike in Afghanistan, and a classified Army document evaluating Wikileaks as a security threat.(AFP/Wikileaks.org/File)AP - The Army has detained a 22-year-old soldier in Baghdad in connection with the leak of a military video that shows Apache helicopters gunning down unarmed men in Iraq, including two journalists, defense officials said Monday.


Adm. Allen: Face of fed's response to oil tragedy (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 02:17 PM PDT

National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington Monday, June 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Most times, it's the president's coattails that get ridden. But as oil keeps gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, it's looking more and more as if the White House is riding those of a straight-talking Coast Guard admiral entrusted not only to coordinate the federal response to the nation's worst environmental tragedy but to keep the administration out of the political muck.


Helen Thomas retires in flap over Israel remarks (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 01:54 PM PDT

Veteran White House journalist Helen Thomas asks a question of President Barack Obama during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, in this photo taken Thursday, May 27, 2010. Thomas abruptly retired Monday as a columnist for Hearst News Service following remarks she made about Israel that were denounced by the White House and her press corps colleagues. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Longtime Washington journalist Helen Thomas abruptly retired Monday as a columnist for Hearst News Service following remarks she made about Israel that were denounced by the White House and her press corps colleagues.


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