2010年4月7日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Obama heads to Prague to sign arms deal (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 04:33 PM PDT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, front left, leaves his plane after he arrived for a two-day visit to Prague, Czech Republic, on Wednesday, April 7, 2010. Before he signs a new nuclear arms reduction treaty with US President Barack Obama on Thursday, he will meet his Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus tonight. (AP Photo/CTK, Radek Petrasek) ** SLOVAKIA OUT **AP - President Barack Obama is taking the first major step in his push toward a nuclear-free world, returning to Prague to sign the kind of arms-reduction treaty with Russia unseen for nearly two decades.

Toyota official: 'We need to come clean' (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 05:06 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2010 file photo, a Toyota logo is seen at a dealership in Kamp-Lintfort, western Germany. Long before Toyota told U.S. regulators about sticking accelerator pedals, the Japanese automaker warned its distributors throughout Europe about similar problems, documents obtained by The Associated Press show. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)AP - Five days before Toyota announced a massive recall, a U.S. public relations executive at the automaker warned colleagues in an internal e-mail: "We need to come clean" about accelerator problems, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday.

FBI arrests Calif man for alleged Pelosi threats (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 05:13 PM PDT

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talks about health care reform during a news conference after she spoke to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Tuesday, April 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - A California man angry about health care reform allegedly made threatening and harassing phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, including at least one call in which he got through and spoke to her directly, law enforcement officials said.

Taliban release video of captured US soldier (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 05:07 PM PDT

This image grab from an undated video reportedly posted on the internet by Taliban militants in 2009 allegedly shows US soldier Bowe Robert Bergdahl. The Taliban Wednesday released a new video said to be of Bergdahl begging the US government to intervene and win his release after nine months in captivity in Afghanistan.(AFP/HO/File)AP - The Taliban released a video Wednesday of a man identified as an American soldier captured in Afghanistan last June, showing him pleading for his freedom and to be returned home.

Sen. Reid tells voters: 'I need your help' (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 04:41 PM PDT

AP - As he embarked on a campaign swing through his home state this week, Sen. Harry Reid didn't have to look far to see that trouble is coming at him.

Calif. lawmaker: Silence on Palin visit unlawful (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 05:42 PM PDT

AP - A California lawmaker said Wednesday that a state university is breaking the law by failing to disclose correspondence about an upcoming fundraiser appearance by Sarah Palin.

Developing test to warn smokers of cancer danger (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 05:15 PM PDT

In this photo taken April 6, 2010, released by Boston Boston University School of Medicine, David Lowney, left, undergoes a bronchoscopy by Boston University School of Medicine researchers Dr. Avrum Spira, center, and Dr. Frank Schrembi, right, in Boston. The procedure is part of a test to measure a genetic change inside patients' windpipes to try to tell which smokers are it the highest risk of developing lung cancer. (AP Photo/Boston University School of Medicine, David Keough) NO SALES. FOR USE ONLY WITH AP STORY BY LAURAN NEERGARRD ABOUT THIS RESEARCHAP - Scientists may have found a way to tell which smokers are at highest risk of developing lung cancer: measuring a telltale genetic change inside their windpipes.

Nearly half of US households escape fed income tax (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 02:38 PM PDT

Federal tax forms are distributed at the offices of the Internal Revenue Service. Americans who don't pay their taxes face hefty fines, can have their property seized or their wages witheld. Or worse still, they could find themselves named and shamed on the Internet.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Olson)AP - Tax Day is a dreaded deadline for millions, but for nearly half of U.S. households it's simply somebody else's problem.

Obama talks less of terror in outreach to Muslims (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 04:17 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 4, 2009, file photo, President Barack Obama addresses an audience at the Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt Thursday, June 4, 2009. Since Obama's speech to the Muslim world in Cairo last year, the White House has changed not just how it talks to Muslim nations but also what it talks about, shifting away from terrorism and focusing instead on health care, science and education. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - Less talk about "Islamic radicalism" and a lot more about doing business. In the year since President Barack Obama pledged a new beginning in the relationship with the Muslim world, the White House has begun to change the U.S. focus.

GOP officials back Steele in conference call (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 03:58 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2010 file photo Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele speaks at the John F. Kennedy School of Government on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. Sean Mahoney, A New Hampshire activist has resigned from the Republican National Committee, adding to the pressures chairman Michael Steele faces from a party frustrated with his stewardship heading into crucial midterm elections. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)AP - Republican Party officials did not urge chairman Michael Steele to resign or discuss replacing him during a conference call Wednesday, though the embattled GOP leader was urged to make "internal adjustments" and watch his rhetoric.

Kyrgyz opposition says running government, wants election (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 03:20 PM PDT

Protestors stand near a burning vehicle during clashes with police near the main government buildings in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Wednesday, April 7, 2010. Police in Kyrgyzstan opened fire on thousands of angry protesters who tried to seize the main government building amid rioting in the capital as protests spread across the Central Asian nation. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)Reuters - Kyrgyz opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva said on Thursday she had taken over the government after violent protests forced the president of the Central Asian country to flee the capital.

US Treasury beefing up staff in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 02:15 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. Treasury Department is sending more staff to Afghanistan to target the financial networks that provide money for the Taliban, a Treasury official said Wednesday.

Obama's next-door neighbor in Chicago sells house (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 01:22 PM PDT

FILE- In this Dec. 10, 2009 file photo in Chicago, The home belonging to President Barack Obama and family, left, is pictured. The 17-room house next door, right, has been sold for $1.4 million. Listing agent Matt Garrison says the deal closed Tuesday April 6, 2010, seven months after the brick house was put on the market. (AP Photo/(M. Spencer Green, File)AP - When President Barack Obama and his family return to Chicago they will have new next-door neighbors to get to know.

UK's Brown pledges reform, clashes on economy (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 11:24 AM PDT

A video grab image shows Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown addressing the House of Commons during the last Prime Minister's Questions before the general election, in central London April 7, 2010. REUTERS/Parbul TV via Reuters TVReuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Wednesday he would overhaul a scandal-hit parliament and take more steps to secure an economic recovery if his Labour Party defies the polls and wins a May 6 election.

Pennsylvania Gov. Field Still Under the Radar (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 10:57 AM PDT

CQPolitics.com - It stands to reason that candidates will become better known as the campaign for an upcoming election intensifies. Yet the latest Quinnipiac University poll on Pennsylvania's May 18 primary for governor shows that the major-party contenders have made only incremental gains in implanting themselves in voters' consciousness.

Leahy won't delay hearing for appeals court pick (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 10:18 AM PDT

AP - Senate Democrats have rejected a Republican effort to delay a hearing for a liberal appeals court nominee, making clear they are ready for a partisan fight.

Financial Reform: Obama, GOP Far from a Deal in Congress (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 09:35 AM PDT

Time.com - Beltway consensus is that reform of the financial regulatory system is inevitable. But there are significant roadblocks

Obama heads overseas to sign new arms treaty (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 02:12 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama has overseas travel plans Wednesday.

Obama calls nuke terrorism the top threat to US (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 10:21 PM PDT

Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton brief reporters about nuclear arms at the Pentagon, Tuesday, April 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Rewriting America's nuclear strategy, the White House on Tuesday announced a fundamental shift that calls the spread of atomic weapons to rogue states or terrorists a worse threat than the nuclear Armageddon feared during the Cold War.

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