2010年9月11日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Record gains for US poverty with elections looming (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 05:40 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 13, 2009 file photo, a 'No trespassing' sign is seen at the edge of a homeless camp in Sacramento, Calif.  (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)AP - The number of people in the U.S. who are in poverty is on track for a record increase on President Barack Obama's watch, with the ranks of working-age poor approaching 1960s levels that led to the national war on poverty.


In first for Afghan war, award goes to living vet (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 02:48 PM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by the Defense Department shows Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta. President Barack Obama will award Giunta with the first Medal of Honor to a living service member from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to receive the Medal of Honor, the White House announced Friday Sept. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Bumgardner, Defense Department)AP - The first living service member from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to receive the Medal of Honor said Saturday the award honors more than a dozen fellow soldiers who were part of a deadly ambush three years ago.


Establishment, Palin join forces in NH Senate race (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 01:44 PM PDT

New Hampshire Republican Senate hopeful Kelly Ayotte greets Bingo players in Manchester, N.H., in this photo taken Wednesday Sept. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - Can the Republican establishment and Sarah Palin find happiness in New Hampshire?


Obama: Feds ready to help after Calif. explosion (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 01:13 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama has called California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to offer the federal government's help in the wake of the pipeline explosion that killed at least four people.

Obama commemorates 9/11 with appeal for tolerance (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 11:13 AM PDT

President Barack Obama hugs an unidentified woman as he greets family members of victims after speaking at the Pentagon Memorial, marking the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama appealed to an unsettled nation Saturday to honor the memory of the Sept. 11 attacks by hewing to the values of diversity and tolerance. "We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust," the president declared.


Obama remarks on 9/11 as provided by White House (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 08:38 AM PDT

AP - Remarks by President Barack Obama on anniversary of Sept. 11 at the Pentagon memorial, as provided by the White House.

President to mark 9th anniversary of 9/11 attacks (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 12:37 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama is marking the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with a speech at the Pentagon, one of the targets of the terrorists.

FACT CHECK: Obama's tone shifts on health care (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 12:20 AM PDT

President Barack Obama is reflected in the mirror as he answers questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - President Barack Obama told voters repeatedly during the health care debate that the overhaul legislation would bring down fast-rising health care costs and save them money. Now, he's hemming and hawing on that.


Daley: Passion for being Chicago mayor remains (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 08:22 PM PDT

Mayor Richard M. Daley speaks during an interview in his office, Friday, Sept. 10, 2010, in Chicago. Daley made the surprise announcement Tuesday that he won't seek a seventh term but insisted he won't 'bless' anyone to be the next mayor. Daley says Chicagoans will choose their next mayor and he says it could be anyone, including someone who's gay or a woman. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - It wasn't his wife's cancer. It wasn't the tough economy that battered Chicago's finances. It wasn't the prospect of a re-election campaign amid falling poll numbers, or the city's embarrassing loss of the 2016 Summer Olympics.


Musharraf eyes Pakistan presidency in political comeback (AFP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 08:21 PM PDT

Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf (pictured in February) vowed to return to politics in a bid to restore the country's self-confidence and thinks he could become president again. The retired army general told BBC radio he would form a new political party and stand for parliament at the next general election in 2013.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf vowed to return to politics in a bid to restore the country's self-confidence and thinks he could become president again.


NRA, DeMint nods cited for Delaware's O'Donnell (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 08:12 PM PDT

AP - Christine O'Donnell has picked up key endorsements from the National Rifle Association and conservative Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina in Delaware's Republican U.S. Senate primary.

Recession has left huge hole: Obama (AFP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 06:21 PM PDT

People attend a job fair in El Monte outside Los Angeles. US President Barack Obama said Friday the AFP - US President Barack Obama said Friday the "hole" left by the worst recession in decades was "huge" and admitted the recovery had been "painfully slow," but vowed his policies were working.


Write-in option poses challenge for AK senator (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 06:08 PM PDT

AP - For Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the odds of winning a write-in campaign to keep her job would be exceedingly long and the personal political stakes just as high.

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