2010年11月16日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Murkowski widens lead over Miller in Senate race (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 06:10 PM PST

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 file photo, Alaska's Division of Elections Director Gail Fenumiai, center, looks over a ballot with Mags Paton Walsh, right and Laura Fox, both from the Department of Law, in Juneau, Alaska. Fenumiai's decisions during the tedious process of hand-counting ballots could well determine whether Murkowski wins re-election and makes history as the first person since 1954 to win a write-in campaign for U.S. Senate. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)AP - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has widened her lead over GOP rival Joe Miller to 10,400 votes in Alaska's Senate race and is returning to the state, where she could declare victory as early as Wednesday.


White House-Hill leaders meeting postponed (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 05:33 PM PST

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, accompanied by Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz., left, and Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., arrives for a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - The White House has postponed a meeting with Democratic and Republican congressional leaders to Nov. 30 after top Republicans said they had a scheduling conflict.


Pelosi tries to soothe unhappy House Democrats (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 05:04 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2010 file photo, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks in Washington. Seven weeks ahead of the GOP House takeover, hobbled Democrats and invigorated Republicans return Monday, Nov. 15, 2010, to a testy tax dispute and a lengthy to-do list for a post-election session of Congress unlikely to achieve any landmark legislation.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - Fractious House Democrats feuded Tuesday over their leader's refusal to step aside after massive election losses, and some signaled they will compromise with Republicans over the next two years. In contrast, Republicans who won control of the House and strengthened their power in the Senate further closed ranks.


APNewsBreak: Endowment fund will honor Obama's mom (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 05:01 PM PST

AP - The University of Hawaii Foundation is forming an endowment fund that will honor the late Stanley Ann Dunham, President Barack Obama's mother.

Obama summit with Republicans postponed (AFP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 04:33 PM PST

US President Barack Obama, pictured on November 13. Obama's post-election summit this week with congressional leaders, including his top Republican foes, has been postponed to November 30, the White House said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Indranil Mukherjee)AFP - US President Barack Obama's post-election summit this week with congressional leaders, including his top Republican foes, has been postponed to November 30, the White House said Tuesday.


Reality Shows in New Poll: Sarah Palin as Unpopular as Ever (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 04:11 PM PST

ContributorNetwork - It has been over two years since the "Lower 48" was introduced to Sarah Palin because of the immeasurably meticulous and thoughtful vetting performed by Senator John McCain's campaign staff, which felt that the governor of Alaska was a better running mate for the presidency in 2008 than former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney or sitting Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty.

Soldier given highest medal for heroism on a ridge (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 03:56 PM PST

President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Honor to Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, who rescued two members of his squad in October 2007 while fighting in the war in Afghanistan, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010, at the White House in Washington.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Ambushed in Afghanistan, Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta stepped into a "wall of bullets" and chased down two Taliban fighters who were carrying his mortally wounded friend away.


Obama to meet Republican leaders on November 30 (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 03:41 PM PST

President Barack Obama smiles after he presented the Medal of Honor to Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010. Giunta, of Hiawatha, Iowa, is the first living veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to receive the award. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Reuters - President Barack Obama has postponed a meeting with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders to November 30 because of a scheduling conflict, the White House said.


(AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 03:34 PM PST

AP - Obama meeting with bipartisan congressional leadership rescheduled to Nov. 30 at GOP request.

Minority Leader McConnell, GOP Stress Economy but Not Other Issues (Time.com)

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 03:25 PM PST

Time.com - A Mitch McConnell talk soon after the election showed how keen the GOP is to stick to its message

Montana senator faces first Republican challenger (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 03:17 PM PST

AP - Reinvigorated Republicans have their first announced candidate in what could be a 2012 election battleground to win Montana Democrat Jon Tester's seat and control of the U.S. Senate.

France's Sarkozy eyes taxes, immigration for now (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 02:59 PM PST

Reuters - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday his newly reshuffled government would seek tax reform and keep a tight rein on illegal immigrants, but refused to be drawn on whether he would run for re-election .

Tea party seeks Capitol clout after election gains (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 02:51 PM PST

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., left, accompanied by Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., center, and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Tea party activists and other conservatives, eager to transform electoral gains into clout on Capitol Hill, are pressuring Republican leaders to take a hardline approach in the next Congress, shunning compromise for confrontation with Democrats.


Obama: Congress should pass DREAM Act this year (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 02:29 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama has called on the Senate to pass legislation this year that would allow certain foreign-born young people who entered the United States as children without documents to become legal U.S. residents.

US aims to transfer power to Afghans by 2014 (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 02:14 PM PST

US soldiers patrol Logar Province in 2009. A defense lawyer condemned as AP - President Barack Obama and leaders of other NATO countries will sign off this week on a plan for Afghan forces to take the lead in securing their country by 2014, the first clear indication of when Obama envisions most American troops leaving Afghanistan.


Top RNC strategist delivers scathing resignation (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 01:24 PM PST

AP - A senior Republican National Committee strategist quit Tuesday, leaving behind a scathing resignation letter that blasts Chairman Michael Steele for spending as much as 70 percent of donations on fundraising and credits other GOP groups for the party's gains.

Top medal given to 1st post-Vietnam living winner (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 01:19 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama on Tuesday awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry to Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta, the first living recipient of the top military honor for a post-Vietnam era conflict.

Biden says nuclear pact failure would endanger US (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 01:09 PM PST

Vice President Joe Biden gestures while speaking at the Biennial National Procurement and Grant Fraud Conference, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)AP - Vice President Joe Biden says Senate failure to ratify a pending nuclear arms treaty with Russia would endanger U.S. national security.


First lady's chief of staff leaving White House (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 10:30 AM PST

AP - Michelle Obama is losing another chief of staff.

Obama deficit panel likely to come up empty-handed, Democrat says (Daily Caller)

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 09:56 AM PST

Daily Caller - A leading Democrat on President Obama’s deficit commission said that the proposal released by the panel’s co-chairs last week would receive support from no one on the 18-member body, and strongly signaled that the Dec. 1 deadline will pass without any agreement on a set of recommendations.

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