2010年3月6日星期六

Yahoo! News: Elections

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Elections

Obama turns up the heat for health care overhaul (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks about clean energy and job creation at OPOWER, a smart grid and energy efficiency software company that works with utility companies to help customers use less energy, Friday, March 5, 2010, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama is trying to persuade a weary public and wavering Democrats to get behind his frantic, late-stage push on health care, while Republicans dig in and demand starting from scratch after a year's worth of work.

NY gov faces legal minefield in conduct inquiries (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 03:15 PM PST

New York Gov. David Paterson speaks during a news conference at Terminal 4 of JFK airport Friday, March 5, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)AP - Legal experts say the next few days and weeks could be the most dangerous yet for the embattled administration of Gov. David Paterson.

Just one job now for ex-Va. Gov. Kaine — Dem chief (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 04:18 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2009 file photo, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine speaks in Austin, Texas. Kaine spent President Barack Obama's first year in office pulling double duty as Virginia's governor and DNC chairman. Now freed from the responsibilities of elected office, and with a White House struggling to communicate with voters, Kaine has embraced his party-chief role amid unrelenting joblessness and persistent Washington gridlock. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck, File)AP - Tim Kaine spent President Barack Obama's first year in office pulling double duty as Virginia's governor and the Democratic National Committee chairman — and weathering criticism that he was an ineffective, absent party leader.

Partisanship's bad now in Washington? Think again (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 05:21 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2010 file photo, Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind. speaks with reporters after a news conference in Indianapolis. Party politics 'agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms.' It 'kindles the animosity of one part against another (and) foments occasionally riot and insurrection.' The words of Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, who announced with much fanfare that he's not running for re-election because he's fed up with the Senate's partisan battles? Try George Washington. (AP Photo/AJ Mast, File)AP - The current partisan divide is as stark and nasty as any in recent history and on almost every issue — from health care to energy independence to reviving the economy — there's little or no effort to find common ground.

Texas Gov. Perry must win in Nov. before 2012 talk (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 03:09 PM PST

AP - Before Rick Perry can parlay his tea party-powered victory in the Texas governor's primary into something bigger — a 2012 Republican presidential ticket, perhaps — he'll have to actually win a record-setting, third four-year term.

Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 03:57 PM PST

In this photo Friday, Feb. 26, 2010, Thirteen year-old Louisa Perry-Farr, left, works on her science while her ten year old sister Thea Perry-Farr works on her Logic in the dining room of their home in Lexington, Ky. (AP Photo/James Crisp)AP - Home-school mom Susan Mule wishes she hadn't taken a friend's advice and tried a textbook from a popular Christian publisher for her 10-year-old's biology lessons.

A furious health care push — but what about jobs? (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 04:21 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks about clean energy and job creation at OPOWER, a smart grid and energy efficiency software company that works with utility companies to help customers use less energy, Friday, March 5, 2010, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama's furious, final push to get a health care bill passed threatens to shove aside the message he promised would top his list this year: creating jobs.

Gays in military ruling creates dilemma for brass (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 03:31 PM PST

FILE - In this June 30, 2006 file photo shows U.S. Air Force Reservist Maj. Margaret Witt after a hearing of a case challenging her dismissal from the Air Force for being a lesbian in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, Wash. A pressing legal reality for the 'don't ask, don't tell' standard for gays serving in the military is that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has already struck down the way it's practiced in much of the Western United States. The 2008 ruling, while largely overlooked, would force the military to apply a much higher threshold in determining whether a service member should be dismissed for being gay. (AP Photo/John Froschauer, File)AP - A pressing legal reality for the "don't ask, don't tell" standard for gays serving in the military is that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has already struck down the way it's practiced in much of the Western United States.

Toyota disputes critic who blames electronics (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 04:02 PM PST

AP - Toyota Motor Corp. plans Monday to try to undercut suggestions that its electronics systems caused the sudden acceleration problems that led to the recall of more than 8 million vehicles.

McCain, Scott Brown appear at Tucson, Ariz., rally (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 04:57 PM PST

AP - U.S. Sen. John McCain says the race for the Republican nomination for the seat he currently holds should be about fixing the economy, not about political ideology.

E-mail compares first lady to Tarzan's Cheeta (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 03:40 PM PST

First Lady Michelle Obama joins kids at a free soccer clinic as part of her campaign to improve fitness and combat obesity in children, Friday, March 5, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The CEO of Tennessee's hospitality association is apologizing for sending an e-mail to a group of public figures that compares first lady Michelle Obama to a chimpanzee.

Togo's president re-elected: electoral chief (AFP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 03:18 PM PST

Togolese incumbent President Faure Gnassingbe, pictured on March 4, was re-elected Saturday, winning a total of 1,243,044 votes and defeating his opposition rival, Jean-Pierre Fabre, the electoral agency chief announced.(AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo)AFP - Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe was re-elected Saturday, winning 60.9 percent of the vote and defeating his opposition rival, Jean-Pierre Fabre, election officials announced.

Under threat, Iraqis vote in crucial election (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 03:00 PM PST

Iraqi policemen examine the remains of a vehicle used in a bomb attack in Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, March 6, 2010. REUTERS/Ali Abu ShishReuters - Iraqis vote on Sunday in a parliamentary election that will help to determine whether their shaky democracy can end sectarian conflict and defeat insurgents who are trying to plunge Iraq back into broader bloodshed.

Local Democrats Back Critz for Murtha Special (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 12:26 PM PST

CQPolitics.com - Democratic officials in Pennsylvania 12th district on Saturday picked Mark Critz, a former top aide to the late Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), as their preferred nominee for the May 18 special election to replace Murtha.

Deadly car bomb rocks Iraq holy city on election eve (AFP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 11:17 AM PST

An Iraqi soldier stands guard as a man inspects the wreckage of a bus at the site of an explosion in Najaf. A car bomb targeting Shiite pilgrims killed three people in Iraq's holiest city on Saturday on the eve of the country's parliamentary election which Al-Qaeda has threatened to wreck.(AFP/Qassem Zein)AFP - A car bomb targeting Shiite pilgrims killed three people in Iraq's holiest city on Saturday on the eve of the country's parliamentary election which Al-Qaeda has threatened to wreck.

Obama urges action on health care without delay (AFP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 03:07 AM PST

US President Barack Obama has renewed his appeal to Congress to vote on his health care reform, arguing that any delay will allow insurance companies to continue their old practices.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AFP - US President Barack Obama on Saturday renewed his appeal to Congress to vote on his health care reform, arguing that any delay would allow insurance companies to continue their old practices.

Bomb kills 4 near Shi'ite shrine before Iraq poll (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 02:07 AM PST

Reuters - A car bomb killed four Iranian pilgrims near Iraq's holiest Shi'ite shrine on Saturday, a day before a parliamentary election that Sunni Islamist militants have vowed to wreck.

Congressional estimates show grim deficit picture (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 01:46 AM PST

President Barack Obama speaks about clean energy and job creation at OPOWER, a smart grid and energy efficiency software company that works with utility companies to help customers use less energy, Friday, March 5, 2010, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - A new congressional report released Friday says the United States' long-term fiscal woes are even worse than predicted by President Barack Obama's grim budget submission last month.

Massa, facing harassment complaint, resigns (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 09:55 PM PST

FILE - This Tuesday Oct. 14, 2008 picture shows Eric Massa, Democratic candidate for New York's 29th Congressional District in Rochester, N.Y. On Wednesday, March 3, 2010, Rep. Eric Massa, a freshman Democrat from New York, said that he will not seek a second term after a recurrence of cancer late last year, dismissing blog reports that he had harassed a staffer. He was elected in 2008. (AP Photo/David Duprey)AP - New York Democratic Rep. Eric Massa, facing a harassment complaint by a male staffer, said Friday that he is stepping down from his seat with "a profound sense of failure."

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