2010年5月5日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Feds didn't call all airlines to warn of suspect (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT

From left, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 5, 2010, before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Law enforcement officials decided not to call all airlines directly on Monday to tell them an important name had been added to the government's "no-fly" list, even as investigators pursued the man they suspected was the Times Square bomber.

Officials predict higher casualties in Kandahar op (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 05:59 PM PDT

Taliban fighters pose with weapons in an undisclosed location in Afghanistan, August 19, 2009. REUTERS/StringerAP - When record numbers of U.S. troops confront the prized Taliban stronghold of Kandahar this summer, higher casualties will likely result, the chairman of the House Armed Service Committee predicted Wednesday, and top Pentagon officials didn't disagree.

Tea party comes up short in early primaries (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 02:41 PM PDT

Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Dan Coats reacts after winning the nomination for the U.S. Senate seat in Indianapolis, Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Coats will likely face Rep. Brad Ellsworth in the fall election. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)AP - Mark the first round down, shakily, for Republican incumbents and party establishment favorites.

White House in P.R. 'panic' over spill (Politico)

Posted: 04 May 2010 03:20 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama waves as he walks out from the White House in Washington, DC. Obama heads to Louisiana on Sunday to rally faltering efforts to protect its vulnerable shores from a giant oil slick threatening environmental and economic catastrophe.(AFP/Yuri Gripas)Politico - The ferocious oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is threatening President Barack Obama’s reputation for competence, just as surely as it endangers the Gulf ecosystem.

Obama wants work on immigration reform this year (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT

President Barack Obama looks to those attending the signing of the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act, Wednesday, May 5, 2010, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - President Barack Obama said Wednesday he wants to begin work this year on legislation overhauling the nation's immigration system, firming up his commitment on a key priority for Latino voters and lawmakers.

Powerful House chairman David Obey to retire (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., a leading liberal Democrat and chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 5, 2010, where he announced that he intends to retire at the end of his term this year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Rep. David Obey, a leading liberal Democrat and chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, said Wednesday that he will retire at the end of his term this year, dealing Democrats defending their majority another blow in an election season of voter discontent.

Axelrod: Stevens' legacy influencing Obama's pick (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 02:27 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2009 photo, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens sits for a group photograph at the Supreme Court in Washington. It was a classic Stevens tactic: wait until the closing seconds and then ask a lawyer a pointed question. The 90-year-old justice employed it for the last time Wednesday, April 28, 2010, as he sat through the final high court arguments of his 35-year career. But Wednesday's arguments — over whether the name of petition signers who wanted to overturn Washington state's domestic partnership law should be made public — was his last chance to interact with lawyers appearing before the court. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama will choose a Supreme Court nominee he thinks can provide the "spark and leadership" of retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, the lion of the court's liberals and a respected, persuasive force for decades, one of Obama's chief advisers said Wednesday.

Private sleuths once pierced nuclear veil (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 02:20 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) conference at United Nations headquarters, Monday, May 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Shortly after nuclear weapons sleuths Tom Cochran and Bill Arkin published their unauthorized estimate of the size of the U.S. arsenal in 1984 they got a call from alarmed U.S. officials.

Joe the Plumber is elected to party office in Ohio (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 05:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 15, 2009 file photo, Samuel 'Joe the Plumber' Wurzelbacher, who made news during the presidential campaign when he asked Barack Obama about taxes, speaks during a tax day 'tea party' protest. Wurzelbacher has won a seat on a GOP committee in his hometown of Toledo, Ohio. He'll be one of nearly 400 committee members who oversee the Republican Party in northwest Ohio's Lucas County. The group elects the county chairman and sets the party agenda. (AP Photo/Al Goldis, File)AP - Joe the Plumber is plunging into party politics. Samuel "Joe" Wurzelbacher, who was hailed by Republican John McCain's presidential campaign in 2008, won one of nearly 400 seats on the local Republican Party committee in Ohio's Lucas County.

Last push as British poll goes down to wire (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 04:29 PM PDT

Conservative Party leader David Cameron speaks during a rally in Bristol. Party leaders rushed across Britain in a frantic final day of campaigning Wednesday as they battled to win over undecided voters, before what is expected to be the tightest election contest in decades.(AFP/POOL/Carl de Souza)AFP - Party leaders rushed across Britain in a frantic final day of campaigning Wednesday as they battled to win over undecided voters, before what is expected to be the tightest election contest in decades.

US Senate votes to ban big bank 'bailouts' (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 03:57 PM PDT

US Sen. Barbara Boxer speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in February 2010. Spurred by deep election-year voter anger, the US Senate voted Wednesday to forbid government-funded bailouts of big banks those like those blamed for the global economic meltdown of 2008.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AFP - Spurred by deep election-year voter anger, the US Senate voted Wednesday to forbid government-funded bailouts of big banks those like those blamed for the global economic meltdown of 2008.

Senate donors to Fla. Gov. Crist: Return our money (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 03:41 PM PDT

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, right, accompanied by Sen. George LeMieux, R-Fla., left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., gestures while speaking to reporters about the Gulf oil spill, Tuesday, May 4, 2010, following the weekly caucus luncheons on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - Twenty major Republican donors demanded Wednesday that Gov. Charlie Crist return every penny of the money they gave him for his Senate campaign, saying he broke their trust when he decided to run as an independent candidate.

Sen. DeMint endorses Paul in US Senate race in Ky. (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 03:25 PM PDT

AP - U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint put himself at odds with Kentucky's Sen. Mitch McConnell on Wednesday by endorsing an antiestablishment candidate for U.S. Senate in Kentucky.

House votes to give Haiti textiles a boost (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 02:38 PM PDT

Watched by an U.N. peacekeeper, girl reacts as she leaves the site where the bodies of her mother and her brother, run over by a truck, lie in Port-au-Prince, Monday, May 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - The House on Wednesday approved trade breaks for Haiti's textile industry, the latest of several actions aimed at helping the hemisphere's poorest nation recover from a devastating earthquake.

Rep. David Obey to retire after 41 years in Congress (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 05 May 2010 02:24 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Rep. David Obey, the chairman of the powerful House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, said Wednesday that he wouldn't seek re-election this year because he was "bone tired" after a 41-year congressional career.

Top Obama ally Obey won't seek reelection (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 02:05 PM PDT

In a major blow to President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in the US Congress, one of their senior House members will not seek reelection in November, a congressional official said. Representative David Obey of Wisconsin, pictured in March 2010, powerful chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, had faced an uphill battle to a new term amid deep voter anger at lawmakers in Washington.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AFP - In a major blow to President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in the US Congress, one of their top leaders in the House announced Wednesday he will not seek reelection in November.

Woodward book on Obama due out in U.S. in September (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2010 02:00 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. investigative journalist Bob Woodward, who rose to fame reporting on the Watergate scandal in the 1970s, will release a new book on President Barack Obama in September, publisher Simon & Schuster said on Wednesday.

NY weekly shows Obamas as 'Sanford and Son' actors (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 01:49 PM PDT

AP - A weekly newspaper photo depicting President Barack Obama and his wife as characters from the TV sitcom "Sanford and Son" was intended as political satire and not a racist commentary, the publisher said Wednesday.

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