2010年8月2日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Elections


AP sources: 3 charges filed against Rep. Waters (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 04:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2009 file photo, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. A House investigative panel has charged California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters with violating ethics rules. Waters, a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, would face a trial in the fall unless she negotiates a settlement. The specific charges against Waters were not made public in the announcement Monday from the House ethics committee. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - California Democrat Maxine Waters faces a House trial this fall on three charges of ethical wrongdoing, setting the stage for a second election-season public airing of ethics problems for a longtime Democratic lawmaker.


Study ties civilian deaths to attacks on US forces (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 03:17 PM PDT

AP - Each time U.S. or NATO forces accidentally kill Afghan civilians, insurgents and their sympathizers typically retaliate with six additional assaults on foreign forces over the next six weeks, researchers using newly declassified NATO data conclude.

Obama salutes promised end of US combat in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 02:44 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama exits the Oval Office to speak in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC, in July 2010. Obama's foreign policy of grand gestures has given way in his second White House year to a diplomatic slog in pursuit of elusive but occasionally promising gains.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AP - Nearing a milestone in the long and divisive Iraq war, President Barack Obama on Monday hailed this month's planned withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops — "as promised and on schedule" — as a major success despite deep doubts about the Iraqis' ability to police and govern their country.


Key Republican previews case against Kagan (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 01:40 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 28, 2010 file photo, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., left, leans over to talk to Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass, on Capitol Hill in Washington at a hearing for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. Kerry and Brown have their political differences, but the two senators share bike rides together in the Maryland countryside.  Both will participate in the Pan-Mass Challenge, a charity bike ride across Massachusetts on Aug. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee is telling colleagues that Elena Kagan has a dangerous political approach to the law that makes her unfit for the Supreme Court.


Brewer builds her national brand (Politico)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 06:30 PM PDT

Politico - Three months ago, Arizona GOP Gov. Jan Brewer was in a fight for her political life. Her support for a sales tax increase had alienated her from her party, her approval ratings were in the dumps and she faced a handful of primary opponents looking to deny her nomination to a full term in office.

National intelligence director nomination blocked (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 05:08 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 20, 2010 file photo, Director of National Intelligence nominee James Clapper listens to opening statements during Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on his nomination on Capitol Hill in Washington. On Thursday, Clapper was unanimously approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)AP - A spokeswoman for Sen. John McCain says the senator is blocking President Barack Obama's nominee to be the director of national intelligence.


EPA says Gulf dispersants not more toxic than oil (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 12:58 PM PDT

AP - A new federal study of chemical dispersants used to break up oil in the Gulf of Mexico shows that when mixed with oil, the dispersant is no more toxic to aquatic life than oil alone.

Iffy Senate outlook for state aid package (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 01:52 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama's Senate allies are taking one last run at advancing what's left of his tattered jobs agenda.

Obama: Patchwork immigration policy unacceptable (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 04:09 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 28, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama delivers remarks following his meeting with small business owners,  at the Tastee Sub Shop in Edison, N.J, Congress is at work on a new program that would send $30 billion to struggling community banks, in a process similar to the huge government bailouts of big banks during the financial crisis.  (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - President Barack Obama says he agrees that more control must be exerted over illegal immigration, but he won't accept "a patchwork of 50 different states" acting on their own.


Trying little-known option to seal a leaky lung (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 12:29 PM PDT

Dr. Keith D. Mortman, Director of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery at the Washington Cancer Institute at Washington Hospital Center, left, talks with Guy Vance, right, before undergoing a minimally invasive procedure to insert a valve into his lung at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, Tuesday, July  27, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The final straw came when Guy Vance's chest, neck and face ballooned, little air bubbles in his skin crackling to the touch — all because of a leak somewhere in his lung.


Obama: combat mission in Iraq to end this month (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 05:12 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama vowed on Monday to make good on his promise to end U.S. combat operations in Iraq by the end of August, despite a dangerous political deadlock in Baghdad and a recent surge in militant violence.

McCain, demanding report, blocks spy chief vote (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 04:35 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. Senator John McCain said on Monday he would allow a Senate vote on President Barack Obama's nominee to be U.S. intelligence chief as soon as he receives an intelligence report he requested 18 months ago.

Brown reports having $23M in race for Calif. gov (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 04:31 PM PDT

AP - Democrat Jerry Brown reported Monday that he has $23 million in the bank in his race against former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman for California governor, an indication that he is choosing to save the bulk of his money for what is certain to be a costly fall election campaign.

Zsa Zsa's husband drops out of Calif. gov's race (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 04:04 PM PDT

AP - Less than six months after charging onto California's political scene in alligator-skin cowboy boots, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, a flamboyant Los Angeles socialite and eighth husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor, said Monday he was ending his bid for governor.

Another Obama ally in US House faces ethics woes (AFP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 03:02 PM PDT

Representative Maxine Waters, pictured in 2009, on Monday became the second veteran House Democrat in days to face charges of ethics violations, another burden for the party three months from key elections.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AFP - Representative Maxine Waters on Monday became the second veteran House Democrat in days to face charges of ethics violations, another burden for the party three months from key elections.


Top Senate Republican McConnell aims for "a good day" (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 01:58 PM PDT

Reuters - Republicans are positioned to score solid victories in November's congressional elections which would force President Barack Obama more to the political center, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday.

Judge lets Virginia healthcare challenge proceed (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 01:57 PM PDT

Reuters - A U.S. judge ruled on Monday that the state of Virginia could proceed with its challenge to President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare law, a setback that will force the White House to defend its reforms in the middle of a tough congressional election campaign.

McCain holds up vote on Obama intel chief pick (AFP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 12:43 PM PDT

Republican US Senator John McCain is holding up a full Senate confirmation vote on President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the US intelligence community, James Clapper, seen here in July, 2010, his spokeswoman confirmed Monday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AFP - Republican Senator John McCain is holding up a full Senate confirmation vote on President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the US intelligence community, his spokeswoman confirmed Monday.


Obama invokes Bush to attack Republicans (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 12:30 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama rallied support for his embattled Democrats on Monday, charging that Republicans had no ideas different from those pursued by his predecessor, George W. Bush.

Anti-government mood stifles regulatory push (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 10:45 AM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks at a Democratic National Committee (DNC) fundraising event in Atlanta, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Public distrust of government is limiting the push for tighter federal regulations even in the wake of regulatory lapses that contributed to the financial meltdown, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and April's deadly coal mine explosion.


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