2010年7月20日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Obama, British PM: Bomber release not BP's doing (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:37 PM PDT

President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron hold a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday turned aside U.S. calls for an investigation into the release of the Lockerbie bomber by Scotland and said there was no indication that oil giant BP had swayed the controversial decision.


USDA worker pressured to resign over race comments (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:58 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2006 file photo, Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack appears on 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' in New York City. The Obama administration is standing by its quick decision to oust a black Agriculture Department employee, Shirley Sherrod, on Tuesday July 20, 2010, over racially tinged remarks at an NAACP banquet in Georgia, despite evidence that her remarks were misconstrued and growing calls for USDA to reconsider. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, not the White House, made the decision to ask Sherrod to resign, said USDA spokeswoman Chris Mather.   (AP Photo/Adam Rountree, File)AP - The Obama administration is standing by its quick decision to oust a black Agriculture Department employee over racially tinged remarks at an NAACP banquet in Georgia, despite evidence that her remarks were misconstrued and growing calls for USDA to reconsider.


Obama thanks senators for moving unemployment bill (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:36 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks at a White House Music Series event saluting Broadway in the East Room of the White House, Monday, July 19, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - President Barack Obama is thanking senators for acting to restore unemployment benefits to 2.5 million people who began losing their checks weeks ago.


Countrywide VIP loans reached deep into Fannie Mae (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 02:44 PM PDT

AP - The former Countrywide Financial Corp. gave preferential loans to more than three dozen employees of Fannie Mae while the two giant housing enterprises were locked in an expanding, multi-billion dollar business relationship in subprime mortgages, documents show.

Jobless benefits clear Senate hurdle by one vote (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:38 PM PDT

Senate Republican Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, speaks to reporters just before the Democratic majority voted 60-40 to end a GOP filibuster of legislation that would extend unemployment benefits for an estimated 2.5 million Americans, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Sen. Carte Goodwin, D-W.Va., newly-sworn as the appointed successor to West Virginia's Robert Byrd who died in June, provided the crucial 60th vote for Senate Democrats. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, listens at left. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Senate Democrats broke through a stubborn Republican filibuster Tuesday and pressed to restart jobless benefits for 2 1/2 million Americans still unable to find work in the frail national economic recovery. The Democrats were victorious by the single vote of a new senator sworn in only moments earlier.


Intelligence director nominee faces a grilling (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 03:17 PM PDT

Director of National Intelligence nominee James Clapper testifies during the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on his nomination on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2010.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Pledging to increase trust with Congress, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper said Tuesday he would be candid with lawmakers if confirmed as the next director of national intelligence.


Judiciary panel OKs Elena Kagan for Supreme Court (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:37 PM PDT

Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, talks with ranking minority member Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., during a markup hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee as they vote on the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday, July 20, 2010. A polarized U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday approved Elena Kagan to be the third current female justice; Just one Republican joined Democrats to approve Kagan's nomination and send it to the full Senate, where she is expected to win confirmation within weeks.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Pushing toward an election-year Supreme Court confirmation vote, a polarized Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday approved Elena Kagan to be the fourth female justice. Just one Republican joined Democrats to approve Kagan's nomination and send it to the full Senate, where she's expected to win confirmation within weeks.


Tough GOP fight in Ga. for open governor's seat (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 05:52 PM PDT

Repubican gubernatorial candidate Karen Handel and her husband Steve leave a polling spot after voting Tuesday, July 20, 2010 in Roswell, Ga. . (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP - Dueling endorsements from Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich were key factors as voters sought to decide a crowded Republican primary for Georgia governor Tuesday.


AP-Univision Poll: US Hispanics mix hopes, strains (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 02:58 PM PDT

Aniela Sanchez stands at the entrance to her home in Passiac, N.J., Wednesday, July 14, 2010. According to an Associated Press-Univision Poll of over 1,500 Latinos, hopes for tomorrow, tempered by daily doses of financial stress, are a familiar blend for Hispanics in the U.S. 'It's important to survive in whatever land we're in,' said Sanchez, 30, a freelance editor in Passaic, and child of a Puerto Rican mother and Dominican father. 'But every culture has its beautiful mannerisms, songs, food, and you have to take pride in who you are.' (AP Photo/ Mel Evans)AP - Hispanics are eager to blend into American society while still maintaining their cultural identity, a paradox that reflects the complex beliefs of the nation's fastest-growing minority. Yet there are limits to assimilation — most don't expect the United States to elect a Latino president in the next 20 years.


Thurmond wins Dem. primary in Ga. Senate race (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 05:50 PM PDT

AP - Georgia's labor commissioner has defeated a little-known opponent to win the state's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.

(AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 05:41 PM PDT

AP - Democrat Michael Thurmond wins right to challenge Georgia GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson.

Goodwin joins Senate caucus of short-termers (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:59 PM PDT

AP - West Virginia Democrat Carte Goodwin replaced the Senate's oldest member as its youngest Tuesday, becoming part of a small caucus of freshman seat-warmers with little seniority but outsized power in the closely divided chamber.

W.Va. gov, a popular Dem, to go for US Senate seat (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:47 PM PDT

AP - Gov. Joe Manchin, a centrist and popular Democrat known for his calm, compassionate handling of a coal mine disaster that killed 29 in April, declared Tuesday that he will run for the late Robert C. Byrd's U.S. Senate seat.

Fed workers to be urged to commute, travel less (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:41 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama wants federal workers to cut down on business travel and commuting by car as he seeks to reduce heat-trapping emissions produced by the federal government.

Congressional delegate election threatened (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:30 PM PDT

AP - There is no budget for the financially troubled Northern Mariana Islands to elect the U.S. commonwealth's delegate to Congress this year.

Obama to campaign in Texas (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:18 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama plans fundraisers for fellow Democrats in Republican-controlled Texas, but his party's nominee for governor said Tuesday he would not join the event scheduled in the city that he used to run.

GOP candidate for NY gov calls for mosque inquiry (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:16 PM PDT

AP - One of the Republican candidates for governor of New York says Democrat gubernatorial candidate, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, is playing to his liberal voter base by refusing to open an inquiry into plans to build a mosque near ground zero.

US envoy: Diplomatic presence in Iraq will shrink (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 02:47 PM PDT

AP - The State Department is telling Congress that it intends to phase out a network of embassy branch offices in Iraq as soon as three years after the U.S. military leaves in 2011.

Bush Interior chiefs: No one expected major spill (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 03:11 PM PDT

Department of the Interior former Secretaries Dirk Kempthorne, and Gale Norton, left background, listen to opening statements during the joint House subcommittee hearing of Oversight and Investigations, and Energy and Environment, regarding the role of the Interior Department in the Deepwater Horizon disaster, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. The hearing examines the Interior Department's actions before and since the Deepwater Horizon explosion on April 20, 2010.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Two former Interior secretaries told Congress Tuesday they did not anticipate an accident as large as the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.


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