2010年6月24日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Elections


G20 leaders facing worries about rising deficits (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 04:35 PM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, left, addresses the troops on board British Royal Navy's HMS Ark Royal carrier, in Halifax, Canada, Thursday, June 24, 2010. Cameron made a short stop to visit the carrier, while on his way to Toronto and Deerhurst to attend the G8 and G20 summits. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - World leaders trickled into Canada's largest city on Thursday for global economic talks, but their resolve seemed less focused than at earlier meetings held in the fearful atmosphere of the worst downturn since the 1930s. New leaders in Australia, Japan and Britain could alter the dynamics.


High court reins in prosecutors' use of fraud law (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 03:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 25, 2006 file photo, former Enron executive Jeff Skilling, left, and his attorney Dan Petrocelli leave the courthouse after the verdict in his fraud and conspiracy trial in Houston. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday, June 24, 2010 that prosecutors erred in using a federal fraud law to convict former Enron chief executive Jeffrey Skilling, but left it to a lower court to determine whether his conviction should be overturned.   (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, file)AP - The Supreme Court on Thursday sharply curtailed prosecutors' use of an anti-fraud law that was central in convicting politicians and corporate executives in many of the nation's most prominent corruption cases. The ex-CEO of disgraced energy giant Enron and a Canadian media mogul, both in prison, are among the figures who could benefit from the ruling.


House passes campaign bill backed by Democrats (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 03:18 PM PDT

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif.  gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Jose Luis  Magana)AP - Four months before midterm elections, the Democratic-controlled House approved new limitations on the political activity of outside interest groups Thursday after carving out exemptions that benefit the National Rifle Association as well as labor unions and numerous federal contractors.


Afghanistan: Five key dates ahead (Politico)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 02:41 AM PDT

Politico - President Barack Obama's decision Tuesday to replace his insubordinate Afghan commander has refocused the attention of an anxious nation and a divided Congress on the war in Afghanistan and on a series of crucial moments expected over the next two years of a long, messy conflict that, thanks to American politics, is on a very tight schedule.

Congress approves new penalties against Iran (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 04:24 PM PDT

AP - Congress on Thursday overwhelmingly passed tough new sanctions against Iran, sending a message to the Tehran government that notions of becoming a nuclear power could be accompanied by a steep economic price.

Obama stresses no discord with Petraeus on board (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 04:36 PM PDT

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, take part in a news conference at the Pentagon, Thursday, June 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - No more discord in the Afghanistan war command, President Barack Obama vows. With Gen. David Petraeus in charge, the president said Thursday he's assembled the team that will take the U.S. through the months ahead — by all expectations the make-or-break stage of the conflict.


For US and Russia, it's now a walk in the park (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 02:58 PM PDT

President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev walk through Lafayette Park in Washington, Thursday, June 24, 2010, from the White House to a attend a meeting at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The president of the United States and the president of Russia enjoyed quite a summer's day on Thursday: Grab some burgers, joke about Twitter, take a walk in the park.


Congress votes to spare doctors from Medicare cuts (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 04:39 PM PDT

AP - Doctors would be temporarily spared a 21 percent cut in Medicare payments under a bill passed by Congress Thursday evening.

GOP, conservatives reveal arguments against Kagan (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 12:54 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 26, 2010 file photo, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan meets with Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M. on Capitol Hill in Washington. Newly released e-mails from Elena Kagan's time as an aide to President Bill Clinton portray the Supreme Court nominee as a driven and highly opinionated person with a flair for political tactics and little tolerance for high-flying rhetoric.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - Elena Kagan's a politics-driven liberal, her detractors say. She's a judicial activist. She treated military recruiters like second-class citizens during wartime.


Big GOP donors go to Napa Valley to hear Giuliani (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 05:06 PM PDT

AP - The Republican National Committee is assembling its biggest donors at a Napa Valley resort this week for golf, wine tasting and cigar smoking and speeches from former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and other party stars.

Candidate Whitman calls eBay altercation 'anomaly' (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 04:18 PM PDT

AP - Republican Meg Whitman, who is vying to be California's next governor, said Thursday that a tense altercation with an employee that led to a six-figure financial settlement when she was chief executive of eBay was an "anomaly" that doesn't reflect to her ability to lead the nation's most populous state.

(AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 04:16 PM PDT

AP - Congress approves Iran sanctions bill for Obama's signature.

Congress OKs sanctions on Iran's energy, banks (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 04:52 PM PDT

Reuters - Congress on Thursday approved tough new unilateral sanctions aimed at squeezing Iran's energy and banking sectors, which could also hurt companies from other countries doing business with Tehran.

Blago irked by 'thankful' message from Obama aide (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 03:59 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 3, 2010 file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrives at the Federal Court building in Chicago, for jury selection in his federal corruption trial.  The corruption trial of ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich — for allegedly trying to sell President Barack Obama's own Senate seat — is a distant but unwelcome headache for the White House.  While Obama hasn't been accused of wrongdoing, nor have his allies, top administration aides have now been subpoenaed to testify. And Obama already has many other problems — from the Gulf oil spill to the economy — in what is also a tough congressional election year. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty, File)AP - Rod Blagojevich became bitter when told that he would receive thanks — but nothing else — from Barack Obama in return for naming a friend of the newly elected president to the Senate, according to an FBI tape played Thursday at the former governor's corruption trial.


Sticking points keep work going on Wall St. bill (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 04:38 PM PDT

* FILE - In this April 28, 2010, file photo Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., right, speaks about financial reform on Capitol Hill in Washington.  A House-Senate conference is working to fuse separate versions of the biggest rewrite of Wall Street regulations since the Great Depression, and in an interview with The Associated Press Friday, June 19, 2010, Dodd said, 'I've gotta keep things together.' As chairman his final career test before retiring in January is to protect his and the Senate's version from changes, demanded by House members, bankers and the Obama administration.  (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - House and Senate negotiators struggled to meet a self-imposed Thursday deadline to wrap up a massive financial regulation bill, with two major sticking points standing in the way of completing legislation that has been one year in the making.


Brewer asks Obama for Arizona border plan details (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 03:25 PM PDT

AP - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is telling President Barack Obama she's anxious for details on how his administration's plans to tighten border security will apply to Arizona.

Parties' alleged rampant use of phony candidates in 2010 races (The Newsroom)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 02:57 PM PDT

Vic Rawl, represented by attorney Truett Nettles, attends the Democratic Party's Executive Committee to protest the election results in Rawl's senate campaign against Alvin Greene at the South Carolina Education Association in Columbia on Thursday, June 17, 2010.  (AP Photo/Greenville News, Heidi Heilbrunn)The Newsroom - As both major parties gear up for the big push toward November's midterm balloting, accusations are flying in many states and districts that one party or the other is recruiting phony candidates so as to distort voter turnout. The idea, most of the accusers allege, is to pick off favored opposition candidates by filling their primary slates with candidates who either poach from their voter base or sow confusion on the ballot, thereby producing a weaker nominee to run against in the general election.


Obama, Democrats prepare for campaign with iPad, iPhone apps (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 02:56 PM PDT

The new iPhone 4 is displayed at the flagship Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in New York City. US President Barack Obama's political arm, Organizing for America, and the Democratic Party launched iPhone and iPad applications on Thursday as they gear up for the November elections.(AFP/Getty Images/Spencer Platt)AFP - US President Barack Obama's political arm, Organizing for America, and the Democratic Party launched iPhone and iPad applications on Thursday as they gear up for the November elections.


McMahon: Wrestling was soap opera (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 02:23 PM PDT

AP - Senate hopeful Linda McMahon jokingly calls her former job as the CEO of a wrestling empire a "regular job" and calls the televised brawls a soap opera.

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