2010年8月13日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Obama backs mosque near ground zero (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 05:48 PM PDT

Construction cranes tower above One World Trade Center, Friday, August 13, 2010 in New York. President Barack Obama on Friday will speak up for religious freedom at a dinner celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, emphasizing that point just as New York City is immersed in a deeply sensitive debate about whether a mosque should be built near ground zero. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - President Barack Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed building a mosque near ground zero, saying the country's founding principles demanded no less.


Obama signs $600M border security bill into law (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:11 PM PDT

President Barack Obama signs the Southwest Border Security Bill, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - President Barack Obama on Friday signed a bill directing $600 million more to securing the U.S.-Mexico border, a modest election-year victory that underscores his failure so far to deliver an overhaul of immigration law.


Obama looks to boost Gulf tourism with family trip (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 03:13 PM PDT

President Barack Obama looks up in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010, after signing the Southwest Border Security Bill. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - President Barack Obama is heeding his own advice to American vacationers, taking his family to the Gulf Coast this weekend to help the sagging tourism industry.


Like father, like son? Quayle stumbles in Arizona (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 12:45 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2010 file photo, Ben Quayle speaks in Phoenix. Seems like old times — Jay Leno cracking Quayle jokes on late night. But now the rising target of comics is Ben Quayle, son of the gaffe-prone former vice president, who is committing doozies of his own in his campaign for Congress.  (AP Photo/Matt York, File)AP - Seems like old times — Jay Leno cracking Quayle jokes on late night. But now the rising target of comics is Ben Quayle, son of the gaffe-prone former vice president, who is committing doozies of his own in his campaign for Congress.


Gates likes military's plans to reinvest savings (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:24 PM PDT

Defense Secretary Defense Robert Gates greets U.S. Marine Captain Tammy Parsons during a visit Friday Aug. 13, 2010 to the Marines Corps Recruiting Depot at San Diego. Secretary Gates says he is pleased with the military services' initial recommendations for cutting their budgets and spending the savings. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday he is pleased with the military services' initial recommendations for cutting their budgets and spending the savings on weapons modernization.


Waters releases documents in ethics case defense (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 01:01 PM PDT

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., gestures as she answers questions during her news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010, to discuss the House ethics committee investigation. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - A defiant Maxine Waters disputed charges that she violated House ethics rules and released documents Friday that could undercut the complaint that the 10-term California Democrat sought federal money to bail out a bank where her husband owns stock.


Trend continues with second hottest July on record (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:33 PM PDT

AP - The Earth continues to feel the heat.

White House against ending birthright citizenship (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:13 PM PDT

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)0AP - The Obama administration says it's wrong to try to change the constitutional amendment that grants automatic citizenship to babies born in the United States.


Laborers' union to rejoin AFL-CIO (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:21 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2009 file photo, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is seen at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - The Laborers' International Union has agreed to rejoin the AFL-CIO, sparking hopes that a once-splintered labor movement is moving closer to reuniting under a single umbrella.


Longshot US Senate candidate from SC indicted (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 05:42 PM PDT

FILE - In a Sunday, July 18, 2010 photo, Alvin Greene, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, makes his first public speech at Manning Junior High School, in Manning, S.C. Greene was indicted Friday, August 13, 2010 on two charges, including a felony charge of showing pornography to a South Carolina college student. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)AP - Longshot Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene was indicted Friday on two charges, including a felony charge of showing pornography to a teenage student in a South Carolina college computer lab.


Obama backs controversial New York mosque project (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 05:38 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama on Friday backed construction of a proposed mosque and Muslim cultural center near the site of the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York -- a project opposed by U.S. conservatives and many New Yorkers.

Sec'y Clinton tries dialing diplomacy for Mideast (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:28 PM PDT

A Palestinian protester wears a gas mask as Israeli troops take position , during a protest against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, , Friday, Aug 13, 2010. Israel says the barrier is necessary for security while Palestinians call it a land grab. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is working the phones to prod Israel and the Palestinians into direct peace talks.


New Mexico's 2010 gubernatorial election: Denish and Martinez in a dead heat (The Newsroom)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:10 PM PDT

The Newsroom - Brad Sylvester, Associated Content

Social Security back in campaign spotlight (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 02:56 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. Democrats renewed a traditional election-year battle over Social Security on Friday, launching a campaign to warn seniors that Republican proposals would undermine the popular retirement program.

Obama signs $600 million border security bill (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 02:50 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a $600 million bill to beef up security on the U.S. border with Mexico, and his aides pressed lawmakers to set aside election-year politics and work toward broader immigration reform.

Democratic ad targets Toomey in Pa. Senate race (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 02:29 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 28, 2009 file photo, Pat Toomey gives the keynote address during the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference in Harrisburg, Pa. The first negative TV ad against the Republican candidate in the general-election campaign to fill Sen. Arlen Specter's seat in Pennsylvania began running Friday, Aug. 13, 2010, indicating the already-hot race is getting hotter. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee sponsored the ad, which portrays Republican Pat Toomey as a champion of Wall Street and the financial instruments that toppled some financial institutions beginning in 2008. Toomey is opposed by Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak, a two-term member of Congress from the Philadelphia suburbs and former Navy vice admiral. (AP Photo/John Zeedick, File)AP - The first negative TV ad against the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Pennsylvania's general-election campaign for Sen. Arlen Specter's seat began running Friday in the highly competitive race.


Angle on private Social Security: Chile's done it (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 03:36 PM PDT

AP - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle says the nation's Social Security system needs to be privatized, and that it was done before in the South American country of Chile.

McCain says he doesn't back 14th Amendment change (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 11:38 AM PDT

AP - Breaking with Republican leaders in the Senate, U.S. Sen. John McCain says he is not requesting hearings into the constitutional amendment that grants automatic citizenship to babies born in the United States, and doesn't support changing the Constitution.

Obama signs border security bill (AFP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 11:34 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama signs the Southwest Border Security Bill as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano looks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. The Senate passed the 600 million dollar bill August 12 to beef up security along the Mexican border.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)AFP - President Barack Obama Friday signed a bill that tightens security at the Mexico border, hoping to address the hot issue of illegal immigration in the run-up to November congressional elections.


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