2010年7月28日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Calls for Rangel to quit could escalate if no deal (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:34 PM PDT

Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., stands in the corner of the elevator as he leaves his office for to go vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 28, 2010.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - The calls from fellow Democrats for New York Rep. Charles Rangel to resign could quickly turn from a trickle to a flood unless he can quickly negotiate a plea bargain to prevent a congressional trial on allegations of ethical misconduct.


A return to silence in a post-WikiLeaks world? (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:41 PM PDT

Adm. Mike Mullen, the top U.S. military officer, gestures during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 27, 2010.  Mullen says the leak of U.S. military documents about Afghanistan could put American lives at risk.  Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters in Baghdad Tuesday that he was 'appalled' by the leak, and said 'there is a real potential threat there to put American lives at risk.'  (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP - Dismayed by the massive war-documents leak, intelligence experts are raising alarms that post-Sept. 11 changes promoting information sharing have made it too easy to lose control of the nation's secrets.


Obama pushes business bill as an all-American goal (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:23 PM PDT

President Barack Obama delivers remarks following his meeting with small business owners, Wednesday, July 28, 2010, at the Tastee Sub Shop in Edison, N.J,. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama on Wednesday cast his latest economic pitch as a matter of patriotism, urging the Senate to ditch its partisan mode at least long enough to pass a package of tax cuts and loan relief for small businesses. "This is as American as apple pie," the president said.


Congress ready to pass aviation safety measures (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:41 PM PDT

AP - Congress is getting ready to pass tough new aviation safety measures that were developed in response to a deadly commuter plane crash in western New York in early 2009, a key lawmaker said Wednesday.

Obama to defend education plan (Politico)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 02:32 AM PDT

Politico - President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan will deliver major speeches this week on their $4.35 billion Race to the Top school reform program, pushing back against complaints that it promotes unproven methods and ignores long-standing inequities in public education.

For veterans bill, Republicans put budget ax aside (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:44 PM PDT

AP - House Republicans who have spent months demanding spending cuts blanched Wednesday at their first opportunity to actually make them, instead joining Democrats in treating a bill to pay for veterans programs in 2011 as politically sacrosanct in an election year.

Small business lending bill at impasse in Senate (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:10 PM PDT

President Barack Obama delivers a brief speech after sitting with small business owners at the Tastee Sub Shop in Edison, N.J. on Wednesday, July 28, 2010.   Behind him are Tom and Catherine Horsburgh of Wayne, N.J. (AP Photo/Augusto F. Menezes, Pool)AP - Senators struggled to reach agreement Wednesday on a bill that would create a $30 billion government fund to help community banks increase lending to small businesses.


Key Republican calls Kagan a 'dangerous' nominee (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 03:27 PM PDT

Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) listens to Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan on the second day of her Senate confirmation hearings in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 29, 2010. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstAP - Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan picked up more GOP backing Wednesday in her drive toward near-certain confirmation next week, even as a top Republican lashed out at her as "dangerous."


FBI director defends bureau over test cheating (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:34 PM PDT

FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 28, 2010, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the 'Oversight of the  Federal Bureau of Investigation' .   (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that he does not know how many of his agents cheated on an important exam on the bureau's policies, an embarrassing revelation that raises questions about whether the FBI knows its own rules for conducting surveillance on Americans.


US official says nuclear treaty disputes lingered (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:19 PM PDT

AP - U.S. complaints about Russian compliance with the 1991 START nuclear arms control treaty had not been resolved when the pact expired last year, but the disputes never amounted to allegations of cheating, a senior administration official said Wednesday.

Chamber group donates $500,000 to McCollum ally (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:46 PM PDT

AP - A U.S. Chamber of Commerce affiliate has contributed $500,000 to a political group associated with Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum.

Congress narrows gap in cocaine sentences (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:18 PM PDT

AP - Congress on Wednesday changed a quarter-century-old law that has subjected tens of thousands of blacks to long prison terms for crack cocaine convictions while giving far more lenient treatment to those, mainly whites, caught with the powder form of the drug.

Democrats tie Republicans to Tea Party agenda (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:17 PM PDT

Reuters - With memories of last year's bitter town hall meetings still fresh, Democrats vowed on Wednesday to go on the offense during the August congressional recess and aggressively link Republicans with the conservative Tea Party movement.

NH GOP Senate front-runner hits a few bumps (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:02 PM PDT

FILE -  In this June 7, 2010, file photo, Republican Bill Binnie, right, is greeted by supporters after filing his declaration of candidacy papers seeking his party's nomination for U.S. Senate in Concord, N.H.  Binnie is seeking the seat being vacated by Sen. Judd Gregg, who is not seeking re-election. New Hampshire Republicans who once worried about losing their tight grip on Sen. Gregg's seat are growing more confident by the day that they will not only keep the seat in GOP hands when he retires but will reverse the winning streak Democrats have enjoyed. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)AP - Kelly Ayotte, the tough former prosecutor and wife of an Iraq war vet, seemed to be on a glide path to the Republican nomination in New Hampshire and perhaps the Senate.


Inside the FLOTUS office (Politico)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 11:15 AM PDT

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk down the steps from the White House's Blue Room balcony to greet members of the United States Armed Forces and their families during an Independence Day celebration on the South Lawn, Sunday, July 4, 2010 in Washington.   (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)Politico - The Oval Office is nearly as familiar an image as the president himself.


Dems election strategy: Equate GOP and tea party (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 09:57 AM PDT

'Tea Party' supporters are seen at a protest rally in Fort Collins, Colorado. The movement, which sprung up in 2009 as a grass roots revolt against President Barack Obama's taxation, economic and health reform policies, has electrified the Republican Party base.(AFP/Getty Images/File/John Moore)AP - The Democrats' national chairman on Wednesday trotted out his party's fall election strategy to limit potential GOP gains, claiming Republican goals are inseparable from the tea party's, from killing off Medicare to abolishing the departments of Education and Energy.


GOP Sen. Snowe to support Kagan for Supreme Court (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 09:55 AM PDT

AP - Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe says she plans to vote to confirm Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court justice.

Mueller says no racial targeting with guidelines (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 03:12 PM PDT

FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 28, 2010, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the 'Oversight of the  Federal Bureau of Investigation' .   (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that the bureau's domestic surveillance guidelines are being used properly and that agents are not employing them to target people for investigation based on race.


2 RI lt. gov. candidates seek to abolish office (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 09:00 AM PDT

In this July 21, 2010 photo, Robert Healey, candidate for Lt. Governor of Rhode Island, stands in front of the glass facade of a building on the campus of Roger Williams University, in Bristol, R.I.  Healey is running for a third time to be Rhode Island's lieutenant governor on the promise that he would abolish the office if elected. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - Robert Healey Jr. is running for Rhode Island lieutenant governor — not to excel in the position, but to eliminate it altogether.


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