2010年6月30日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Elections


US officials: Al-Qaida operative tied to NY plot (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 04:20 PM PDT

Thus undated handout photo provided by the FBI shows Adnan Shukrijumah. Authorities believe that Shukrijumah met with one of the would-be suicide bombers in a plot to strike the New York subway system last year. Intelligence officials believe Shukrijumah, 34, is one of the top candidates to be al-Qaida's next head of external operations, the man in charge of planning attacks worldwide. The U.S. has offered up to $5 million for information leading to his capture. (AP Photo/FBI)AP - U.S. counterterrorism officials have linked one of the nation's most wanted terrorists to last year's thwarted plot to bomb the New York City subway system, authorities said Wednesday.


Obama takes on election-year fears over big debt (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 04:38 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks at a town-hall style event on the economy, Wednesday, June 30, 2010, at Racine Memorial Hall in Racine, Wis.. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Sensitive to election-year resentment over big government, President Barack Obama declared Wednesday he intends to get "our debt and our deficits under control." With fears alive of a double-dip recession, Obama warned that he won't slash spending at the expense of the economic rebound.


Dems offer to scale back climate bill (Politico)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 11:20 AM PDT

Politico - Key Senate Democrats offered, during a White House meeting with President Barack Obama and skeptical Republicans on Tuesday, to scale back their ambitious plans to cap greenhouse gases across multiple sectors of the economy.

Brown cuts backroom deals he campaigned against (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 04:37 PM PDT

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., left, leans over to talk to Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, June 28, 2010. prior to their introduction statements on behalf of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Republican Scott Brown owes his election in part to the public furor over the so-called Cornhusker Kickback, the backroom deal that Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska struck for his vote to pass the health care bill. Now he is following Nelson's example, winning concessions in the financial overhaul bill on behalf of Massachusetts banks.


House panel denies aid to Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 04:18 PM PDT

AP - A key House panel voted Wednesday to cut off almost $4 billion in aid to the government of Afghanistan pending an investigation into charges that Afghan officials are blocking corruption probes and huge amounts of foreign aid is being stolen.

Gun rights, campaign spending top high court term (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 12:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 9, 2008 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. speaks at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio.  (AP Photo/Jason Miller, File)AP - Two conservative-driven decisions with potentially broad consequences will likely define the just-completed Supreme Court term: freeing corporations and unions to spend as much as they like in campaigns for Congress and president, and ruling that Americans have a right to a gun for self-defense wherever they live.


House panel votes to lift Cuba travel ban (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 02:40 PM PDT

AP - A House committee voted Wednesday to lift the ban on American travel to Cuba, the latest in a string of attempts to ease restrictions on the island.

Obama: Attacking debt will be 'our project' (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 12:41 PM PDT

President Barack Obama smiles during a town hall meeting, Wednesday, June 30, 2010, in Racine, Wis. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - President Barack Obama says the United States has to wean itself from its habit of using the national "credit card" and leaving future generations to pay the bill.


Obama: Pressing China on currency to make trade fair (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 04:17 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday maintained pressure on China to ensure its currency policy did not give it an unfair export advantage.

Terror chief defends targeting rebel US cleric (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 03:39 PM PDT

AP - A top counterterrorism official on Wednesday defended the government's right to target U.S. citizens perceived as terror threats for capture or killing, citing the example of the renegade al-Qaida-linked cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.

Blago says on tape Obama is 'all take and no give' (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 02:51 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 8, 2010 file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, left, arrives at the Federal Court building with his wife Patti, for his federal corruption trial in Chicago. Blagojevich's profanity-laced comment about not giving up his power to appoint Barack Obama's successor in the U.S. Senate for nothing will likely reappear at the former governor's corruption trial. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - An angry Rod Blagojevich is heard grumbling on FBI wiretap tapes played at his corruption trial Wednesday that he is willing to appoint a favorite of Barack Obama to the U.S. Senate, but the newly elected president is "all take and no give."


Biden: Voters will turn to Democrats in the fall (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 02:40 PM PDT

AP - In a campaign stop for a nominee for U.S. Senate, Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Democrats may be vulnerable in the summer but voters will look at contrasts in the fall.

Obama orders flags lowered for Byrd (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 02:31 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama has ordered flags at the White House and other federal buildings to be flown at half-staff in honor of the late Sen. Robert Byrd.

GOP's false talking point: Jones Act blocks Gulf help (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 01:50 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — From former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to Arizona Sen. John McCain to junior members of the House of Representatives, conservative Republicans have accused President Barack Obama of failing to do all he can to help clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill because he hasn't waived a U.S. maritime law called the Jones Act.

Obama: Republicans "out of touch" over bank reform (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 01:40 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama launched a broad attack against Republican lawmakers on Wednesday, calling them out of touch with ordinary Americans for opposing Wall Street reform and siding with Big Oil.

'Humiliated' Merkel's pick for president finally approved (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 01:25 PM PDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and Lower Saxony's State Premier Christian Wulff speak after the first round of voting during the presidential election at the Bundestag in Berlin. Merkel suffered a blow to her authority Wednesday as her pick for president needed three voting rounds to win election after a rebellion in her ruling coalition.(AFP/Barbara Sax)AFP - Embattled German Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered a blow to her authority Wednesday as her pick for president needed three voting rounds to win election after a rebellion in her ruling coalition.


Scientific panel reviewing unintended acceleration (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 01:07 PM PDT

AP - The government said Wednesday it had not uncovered any electronic problems in runaway Toyotas as a scientific panel started work on an extensive study to determine what prompts some vehicles to suddenly accelerate.

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