2010年12月16日星期四

Yahoo! News: Elections

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Elections


Iowa GOP announces date for straw poll, debate (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 06:30 PM PST

AP - Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Matt Strawn says the party will host its presidential straw poll for presidential contenders in August 2011

Obama courts Big Labor after meeting Big Business (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 06:23 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama will seek to shore up support for his economic agenda from Big Labor in White House talks on Friday, just days after he tried to mend fences with Big Business at a similar meeting.

House heads toward anticipated tax bill passage (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 05:03 PM PST

Reuters - The $858 billion tax-cut package brokered by President Barack Obama and Republicans survived a key test vote in the House of Representatives on Thursday and headed toward passage, likely within hours.

McCain says he is open to a government shutdown (Daily Caller)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 04:47 PM PST

Daily Caller - Texas Sen. John Cornyn may have spoken too soon when he said "nobody" is considering a government shutdown over the $1.2 trillion omnibus spending bill that Majority Leader Harry Reid has vowed to push through Congress in the lame-duck session.

Obama: US will back UN on rights of native peoples (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 02:43 PM PST

President Barack Obama gestures while speaking at the White House Tribal Nations Conference, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010, at the Interior Department Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama said Thursday that the United States will reverse course and support a United Nations declaration defending the rights of indigenous peoples.


Government pushes solar power in six western states (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 02:42 PM PST

An array of solar panels point to the Nevada sky as they generate electricity for use on Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada May 27, 2009. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - The Obama administration on Thursday proposed special energy zones on public lands in six western states deemed good locations to build utility-scale facilities to produce electricity from solar power.


US: Ivory Coast leader told to leave country (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 12:54 PM PST

AP - The United States and other nations have given the president of Ivory Coast an ultimatum to step down and leave the country within days or face travel and financial sanctions, a senior Obama administration official said Thursday as deadly postelection violence hit the African nation.

Obama update on Afghanistan war skirts around difficult question of long-term presence (Daily Caller)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 12:00 PM PST

Daily Caller - The unspoken reality underlying President Obama’s update for the nation on the war in Afghanistan Thursday was that U.S. troops will likely be fighting for many years to come in a conflict that has already gone on for almost a decade.

Obama backs U.N. indigenous rights declaration (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 11:18 AM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Thursday he was giving a belated U.S. endorsement to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, drawing hearty applause from a gathering of Native Americans.

White House: Pass giant year-end spending bill (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 09:43 AM PST

AP - The White House is pressing for passage of a $1.27 trillion year-end spending bill despite the inclusion of thousands of congressional pet projects that President Barack Obama had vowed to oppose.

Obama says progress not fast enough in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 09:08 AM PST

President Barack Obama walks back to the White House after a meeting on the economy at Blair House with corporate CEOs, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo)AP - President Barack Obama has said that a review of the U.S. war strategy in Afghanistan shows that progress has not come fast enough in Pakistan's efforts to root out terrorists.


Military jury: Prison, dismissal for Army birther (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 03:26 PM PST

Army Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin of Greeley, Colo., left, leaves a military court after being found guilty of missing a flight for deployment Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010 at Fort Meade, Md. Lakin refused to deploy to Afghanistan because he does not believe that President Barack Obama was born in the United States and therefore questions his eligibility to be commander in chief. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)AP - An Army doctor who disobeyed orders to deploy to Afghanistan because he questioned President Barack Obama's eligibility to be commander in chief was sentenced by a jury Thursday to six months in a military prison and dismissal from the Army.


Obama to speak about latest Afghan-Pakistan report (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 01:57 AM PST

AP - President Barack Obama is making a statement Thursday morning about the latest assessment on Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Sarah Palin's MSM détente (Politico)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 01:41 AM PST

Politico - After making attacks on what she memorably labeled “the lamestream media” one of her signature issues, Sarah Palin has started to experiment with a new strategy toward the press — engaging it.

Bill Clinton calls for rebuilding in uncertain Haiti (AFP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 06:48 PM PST

Former US president Bill Clinton (L) and Haitian Minister of Health Alex Larsene hold a press conference in Port-au-Prince on December 15 2010. Clinton has called for an AFP - Former US president Bill Clinton called for reconstruction efforts in Haiti to continue despite post-election uncertainty that has flared into violence and fresh warnings of protests.


Rare immigration bills pass Congress (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 08:45 PM PST

FILE - This March 6, 2009 file photo shows Hotaru Nakama, center, her son, Mickey, and her mother-in-law, Robin Ferschke, right, outside their home in Maryville, Tenn. Nakama married Ferschke's son, Sgt. Michael Ferschke, by phone in 2008 while he was stationed in Iraq and she was in Japan. Sgt. Ferschke died in combat a month later. The House on Wednesday Dec. 15, 2010, approved a private relief bill, meaning it only applies to an individual case, granting permanent resident status to Hotaru Ferschke. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)AP - Congress has taken the unusual step of waiving immigration restrictions for two Japanese citizens fighting to live in the United States.


White House: Summers exit not until end of year (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 05:20 PM PST

AP - The White House says President Barack Obama has asked one of his key economic advisers, Lawrence Summers, to remain at his post until the end of the year.

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