2010年2月10日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Obama on CEO bonuses: He doesn't 'begrudge' wealth (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:57 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2009 file photo, James Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., speaks at a Crain's New York Business forum. Dimon is getting a stock bonus valued at nearly $16 million for 2009, it was disclosed Friday, Feb. 5, 2010, after steering the big bank through the aftermath of the financial crisis. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)AP - Less than a month after calling bank executives' pay "obscene," President Barack Obama is declining to criticize bonuses received by two top Wall Street chief executives, saying he doesn't "begrudge people success or wealth."

Obama, black leaders focus on economic hard times (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:06 PM PST

From right, NACCP chief executive Benjamin Todd Jealous, Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network and National Urban League president Marc Morial, speak to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House following their meeting with President Barack Obama in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Prominent African-American leaders pressed President Barack Obama on Wednesday to pursue an economic agenda that includes targeted help for blacks, whose unemployment rate is much higher than the national average and nearly twice that of whites.

Former Texas Rep. Charlie Wilson dies at 76 (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 05:32 PM PST

FILE - In this Saturday, April 26, 2008 picture, former Texas Rep. Charlie Wilson speaks at the Annual Dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association in Washington. According to a hospital spokesperson, Wilson, 76, died in Lufkin, Texas on Wednesday, Feb 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Charlie Wilson, the fun-loving Texas congressman whose backroom dealmaking funneled millions of dollars in weapons to Afghanistan, allowing the country's underdog mujahedeen rebels to beat back the mighty Soviet Red Army, died Wednesday. He was 76.

AP sources: FAA eyes hefty fines for American (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 01:02 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2009 file photo, American Airlines jets are seen at the Miami International Airport in Miami on Monday, Feb. 1, 2009. The Federal Aviation Administration is close to wrapping up a two-year investigation of safety violations at American Airlines, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010, that could result in one of the largest fines in the agency's history, according to government and industry officials familiar with the investigation.(AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, file)AP - American Airlines could face a fine in the ballpark of $10 million for safety violations involving wiring in its large MD-80 fleet, according to a government official familiar with the nearly completed federal investigation.

A 'giant' of the house dies at 77 (Politico)

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 11:50 AM PST

Politico - Rep. John Murtha, a Pennsylvania powerhouse in Congress for 36 years and an early ally for Speaker Nancy Pelosi in her rise to the top of the House, died Monday afternoon as a result of complications from recent surgery.

Debt woes in Europe could infect U.S.recovery (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 01:04 PM PST

Protesters march during an anti-government rally in Athens February 10, 2010. A strike by Greek civil servants grounded flights and shut many state schools and offices on Wednesday, in the first big test of the government's resolve to tackle a debt crisis which has shaken the euro zone.The plackards read AP - The United States, which led the world into recession, may now see its fragile recovery stifled by events across the globe.

Bernanke sees less stimulus, higher rates ahead (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 02:34 PM PST

FILE - In this April 17, 2009 file photo, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks at the Federal Reserve Sixth Biennial Community Affairs Research Conference in Washington. In prepared remarks to a House committee, Bernanke said Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010, the Fed will likely start tightening credit by boosting the interest rate it pays banks on money they leave at the central bank. Consumers and companies would then have to pay more to borrow.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)AP - Prepare for the end of record-low interest rates, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says. Just not yet.

Scientists seek better way to do climate report (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 11:42 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2001 file photo, Briton Robert Watson, right, then-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) accompanied by James J. McCarthy, USA, IPCC's co-chairman, gestures during a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland. Some climate scientists are calling for drastic changes in how future United Nations climate reports are done. (AP Photo/Donald Stampfli)AP - A steady drip of unsettling errors is exposing what scientists are calling "the weaker link" in the Nobel Peace Prize-winning series of international reports on global warming.

Republican wants Toyota exec to testify on Hill (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 02:52 PM PST

Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda, speaks to reporters after meeting with Japan's Transport Minister Seiji Maehara at he ministry in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Earlier in the day Toyota filed a recall to the ministry and Toyoda made an announcement that his company is recalling about 437,000 Prius and other hybrid vehicles worldwide to fix brake problems — the latest in a string of embarrassing safety lapses at the world's largest automaker. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)AP - A top Republican on a House panel investigating Toyota's massive recalls called Wednesday for the company's president to testify before Congress later this month, seeking an "open exchange" before the American public.

PROMISES, PROMISES: Jobs bill won't add many jobs (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:46 PM PST

U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, right, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke look on as they take part in G7 Finance Ministers talks in the Nunavut Legislative Assembly for their first formal talks in the Canadian northern community of Iqaluit, Nunavut,in Ontario Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Fred Chartrand)AP - It's a bipartisan jobs bill that would hand President Barack Obama a badly needed political victory and placate Republicans with tax cuts at the same time. But it has a problem: It won't create many jobs.

Obama doesn't "begrudge" Dimon, Blankfein over pay (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 05:18 PM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama waves as he leaves an impromptu news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - President Barack Obama said he doesn't begrudge the chief executives of JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs their bonuses but called their pay "extraordinary."

Latest plan to cut farm subsidies in trouble (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:43 PM PST

FILE -- In a May 14, 2008 file photo House Agriculture Committee Chairman, Rep. Collin C. Peterson, D-Minn., calls on a reporter during a news conference after the House approved the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008, in Washington. Peterson has said he'd oppose significant changes to the current Farm Bill. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., is at right. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana/file)AP - If history and the political lineup are any guides, President Barack Obama's latest effort to cut subsidies for wealthy farmers likely will fare no better than his first try — or his predecessor's attempt.

Obama, Palin: Jibes over teleprompters, palm notes (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:37 PM PST

FILE - In this May 17, 2009, file photo, President Barack Obama delivers his commencement address through a teleprompter during commencement ceremonies at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. The jokes about Obama's close relationship with his teleprompter have been a constant since he became president. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - The jokes about Barack Obama's close relationship with his teleprompter have been constant since he became president.

DC delegate to request federal funds to clear snow (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:13 PM PST

AP - The District of Columbia's delegate to Congress is asking President Barack Obama to declare a federal emergency to provide funds to help the nation's capital recover from record snowfall.

US slaps new sanctions on Iran Revolutionary Guard (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 12:51 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 8, 2008 file photo released by the Iranian President's Office, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, visits the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. The head of Iran's atomic agency Ali Akbar Salehi said Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010 that Iran, which is set to start enriching uranium to 20 percent on Tuesday, would not enrich uranium to a higher level if the West provides the fuel it needs for the Tehran research reactor. (AP Photo/Iranian President's Office, File)AP - The Obama administration on Wednesday slapped new sanctions on several affiliates of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps amid stepped-up efforts to get U.N. penalties against Tehran because of its nuclear and missile programs.

Man who threatened to kill Obama sentenced (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 11:11 AM PST

AP - A defense attorney says a man was homeless and drunk when he threatened to kill President Barack Obama as the first family vacationed in Hawaii.

Weather forces delay of monthly economic reports (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 10:40 AM PST

A jogger jogs near the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010, as another intense winter blizzard hit the Washington area. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - A severe snowstorm has forced the federal government to do something it seldom does — postpone release of several monthly economic reports.

Gov't fitness efforts haven't stemmed kid obesity (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 10:05 AM PST

First lady Michelle Obama announces a campaign to combat the rapidly growing problem of childhood obesity, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - First lady Michelle Obama isn't the first national leader to try to get America's kids off the couch. President Dwight D. Eisenhower tried more than 50 years ago, and it's been a losing battle since.

Rep. Ehlers Announces His Retirement (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 10:05 AM PST

CQPolitics.com - Rep. Vernon J. Ehlers, R-Mich., made it official Wednesday, announcing he will not seek re-election this year.

PROMISES, PROMISES: War widows' futile fight (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 10:04 AM PST

Kimberly Hazelgrove, with her children Katelyn Hazelgrove, 6, and Brandon Hazelgrove, 9, with their dog 'Molly' pose for a picture in their home in Lorton, Va., Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. Kimberly's husband U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Brian Hazelgrove died in Iraq in 2004. For a decade, war widows in matching yellow suit jackets and hats quietly and persistently have knocked on Capitol Hill doors seeking an end to the 'widows' tax,' a government policy that deprives them of benefits from their husbands' military service. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - For a decade, war widows in matching yellow suit jackets and hats quietly and persistently have knocked on Capitol Hill doors seeking an end to the "widows' tax," a government policy that deprives them of benefits from their husbands' military service.

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