2010年4月20日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Too much salt: Report urges FDA to force rollback (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:23 PM PDT

The Morton Salt distribution facility is seen in Chicago, Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Too much salt is hidden in Americans' food, and regulators plan to work with manufacturers to cut back, but the government isn't ready to go along with a major new recommendation that it order a decrease. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)AP - Too much salt is hidden in Americans' food, and regulators plan to work with manufacturers to cut back — but the government isn't ready to go along with a major new recommendation that it order a decrease.

Gates: Sensitive export list outdated, ineffective (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:48 PM PDT

Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaks before the Business Executives for National Security at the Reagan Building in Washington, Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Gates said the U.S. will soon begin updating its antiquated export-control system to better keep sensitive technology out of the hands of terrorists and other adversaries. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The government will update a Cold War-era rule book that decides which U.S. technologies and widgets may be sold abroad, revamping a system criticized as too strict and one that doesn't always keep sensitive technology out of enemy hands, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.

Court voids law aimed at animal cruelty videos (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 03:30 PM PDT

U.S. Supreme Court Justices gather for an official picture at the Supreme Court in Washington in this September 29, 2009 file photo. They are (front row, L-R) Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Justice John Paul Stevens, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Clarence Thomas (2nd row, L-R) Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Stephen G. Breyer, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced on April 9, 2010, that he will resign, giving President Barack Obama his second chance to reshape the nation's highest court and setting up a potential Senate confirmation battle. Picture taken September 29, 2009. REUTERS/Jim Young/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW)AP - The Supreme Court, with only one dissenting vote, on Tuesday struck down a federal ban on videos that show graphic violence against animals. The ruling cheered free speech advocates, but it raised concerns that more animals will be harmed.

Senators call for scrapping 'virtual fence' (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:35 PM PDT

AP - Two senators said Tuesday it's time to consider ending a contract for a "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border, contending it doesn't stop illegal immigration.

Perot: Time will show tea party effect on country (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 06:02 PM PDT

AP - Texas billionaire and two-time presidential candidate Ross Perot says the national tea party movement seems to be well organized but that time will tell how it will effect the country, government and November elections.

Dorothy Height, civil rights activist, dies at 98 (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 04:23 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 1963 file photo, Dorothy Height, right, National President of the National Council of Negro Women and Director of the center for Racial Justice of the national YWCA, listens as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., gestures during his 'I Have a Dream' speech as he addresses thousands of civil rights supporters gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C. Height, who as longtime president of the National Council of Negro Women was the leading female voice of the 1960s civil rights movement, died Tuesday, April 20, 2010. She was 98. (AP Photo, File)AP - Dorothy Irene Height, a pioneering voice of the civil rights movement whose activism stretched from the New Deal to the election of President Barack Obama, died Tuesday. She was 98.

Justice Stevens turns 90; only Holmes was older (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:54 PM PDT

In this file photo taken Friday, March 3, 2006, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens sits for a portrait session with other members of the high court at the Supreme Court Building in Washington. Stevens is the court's oldest member; he was nominated by President Gerald Ford and took his seat Dec. 19,1975. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - President Barack Obama congratulated John Paul Stevens on his 90th birthday Tuesday, hailing the Supreme Court justice's decades-long career for leaving "an undeniable imprint on our country's jurisprudence."

AP source: Obama talking to possible court picks (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 06:30 PM PDT

President Barack Obama turns to wave as he boards Air Force One at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles Tuesday, April 20, 2010. President Obama was in Los Angeles to attend three fundraising events.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama has begun conversations with potential Supreme Court nominees, a senior administration official said Tuesday, signaling an upswing in the president's consideration of an already coalescing list of candidates.

Dems' committees have $21M cash advantage over GOP (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 04:09 PM PDT

AP - Democrats' campaign committees on Tuesday posted more than a $21 million in-the-bank advantage over their Republican counterparts.

IMF says banks should pay for future bailouts (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 04:04 PM PDT

AP - The International Monetary Fund is recommending that banks and other financial institutions pay fees to cover the cost of any future government bailouts.

House abandons vote bill for US capital. (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 03:54 PM PDT

AP - The people of the nation's capital have waited more than two centuries to get a vote in Congress, and now it looks like Washington's roughly 600,000 residents will have to wait even longer.

Obama starts talks with possible high court picks (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 03:29 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama has begun conversations with potential candidates to be his next nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, a White House official said on Tuesday, a day before meeting with senators as he seeks support in making his pick.

White House: Obama to return to Calif. for Boxer (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:57 PM PDT

AP - A White House official says President Barack Obama will return to California next month to help raise money for Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and other candidates.

Whitman to get campaign boost from Romney, McCain (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:46 PM PDT

AP - Several Republican heavyweights will join gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman in California for a series of campaign fundraisers.

AP source: Pirate suspects to be prosecuted in US (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:39 PM PDT

AP - At least five pirate suspects are being brought to the United States for prosecution, a federal law enforcement official said Tuesday.

Fla. gov has many political options; none are good (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:21 PM PDT

Gov. Charlie Crist announces his veto of Senate Bill 6 concerning teacher tenure and merit pay on Thursday, April 15, 2010, in Tallahassee, Fla. Already trailing badly in the GOP Senate primary race, Crist further alienated many powerful Republican and business interests Thursday by vetoing a contentious teacher merit-pay and anti-tenure law they pushed through the Legislature. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)AP - Plan A isn't working so well for Gov. Charlie Crist, a former rising Republican star who now trails badly in the Florida Senate primary, but Plans B, C and D don't look much better.

New bank tax picks up support in Congress (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:52 PM PDT

Sens. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks before the weekly caucus luncheons on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 20, 2010.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - A new tax on large banks is picking up support in Congress as Democrats target financial institutions that benefited from the Wall Street bailout to help pay for their jobs program and other election-year initiatives.

Possible GOP tide drawing has-beens into campaigns (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 12:43 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2006, file photo, then-Rep. Charlie Bass is seen during an interview with the Associated Press in Concord, N.H. Republicans once saddled with the burden of President George W. Bush's unpopularity are now experiencing a boon from another struggling president: Barack Obama. The GOP senses rising fortunes from coast to coast, as one-time lawmakers look to capitalize on voter frustration that booted some of them from office in 2006. Others, long retired, see the Democrats' luster fading and with it a chance for them to return to Washington. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - Republicans once saddled with the burden of President George W. Bush's unpopularity are now experiencing a boon from another struggling president: Barack Obama.

Biden vows to stop 'cynical' foes derailing finance reform (AFP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 11:35 AM PDT

US Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC. Biden warned Tuesday the Obama administration would not let AFP - US Vice President Joe Biden warned Tuesday the Obama administration would not let "powerful," "cynical" foes block its financial reform plan, including the regulation of "shadowy" derivatives.

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