2010年5月10日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Obama taps Kagan to give court historic 3rd female (AP)

Posted: 10 May 2010 06:45 PM PDT

** Alternate Crop ** President Barack Obama introduces Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his choice for Supreme Court Justice in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday May 10, 2010 as Vice President Joe Biden applauds. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Introducing his Supreme Court nominee to the nation, President Barack Obama on Monday portrayed Elena Kagan as a guiding force for a fractured court and a champion of typical Americans. She would be the youngest justice on the court and give it three women for the first time in history.

Kagan in '97 urged Clinton to ban late abortions (AP)

Posted: 10 May 2010 06:45 PM PDT

This Sept. 11, 2009 photo released by the Harvard University Law School shows U.S. Solicitor General and former Dean of Harvard Law School Elena Kagan, center, listening to law professor Charles Fried, left, alongside law professor John F. Manning, right, on the university campus in Cambridge, Mass. President Barack Obama nominated Kagan to the Supreme Court, Monday, May 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Harvard University News Office, Jon Chase) NO SALESAP - As a White House adviser in 1997, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan urged then-President Bill Clinton to support a ban on late-term abortions, a political compromise that put the administration at odds with abortion rights groups.

Lettuce recall expands as FDA investigates E. coli (AP)

Posted: 10 May 2010 06:22 PM PDT

Freshway Foods truck is photographed in Sidney, Ohio, Friday, May, 7, 2010. Federal investigators are looking at a farm in Yuma, Ariz., as a possible source of a widespread E. coli outbreak in romaine lettuce, according to the distributor. Freshway Foods of Sidney, Ohio, said Thursday it recalled lettuce sold in 23 states and the District of Columbia because of a possible link to an E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 19 people — three with life-threatening illness. (AP Photo/The Sidney Daily News, Luke Gronneberg)AP - A recall of romaine lettuce that has sickened students with E. coli poisoning is expanding as the government tries to find out where the contamination occurred.

Karzai seeking license for wider Taliban talks (AP)

Posted: 10 May 2010 03:40 PM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, front left, accompanied by US and NATO forces in Afghanistan Commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal, right, walks in a tarmac upon arrival at Bagram Air Field, Saturday, May 8, 2010. 'We have traveled far together, but the international effort in Afghanistan still has miles to go,' said Karzai, who heads to Washington on Monday after months of rocky relations with the Obama administration. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, Pool)AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai is asking for something he isn't likely to get during a bells-and-whistles state visit that began Monday: U.S. backing for faster negotiations with Taliban leaders who were in power during the Sept. 11 attacks but whose support for a peace deal is considered essential to ending the war.

GOP senators hedge bets on Kagan (Politico)

Posted: 10 May 2010 09:11 AM PDT

Politico - Key Senate Republicans who already voted to confirm Elena Kagan as solicitor general were quick to point out that their previous support does not guarantee they will back her for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

Easing bone marrow transplants to widen their use (AP)

Posted: 10 May 2010 12:08 PM PDT

AP - Bone marrow transplants are undergoing a quiet revolution: No longer just for cancer, research is under way to ease the risks so they can target more people with diseases from sickle cell to deadly metabolic disorders.

Kagan should have quick path to Supreme Court (AP)

Posted: 10 May 2010 12:47 PM PDT

Solicitor General Elena Kagan is applauded by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden as she is introduced as Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court during an announcement in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - As Democrats pressed Monday for an early August vote to confirm Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the next Supreme Court justice, skeptical Republicans began casting doubt on her qualifications for the job.

New coverage for young adults will raise premiums (AP)

Posted: 10 May 2010 06:26 PM PDT

A supporter of the health care reform holds a sign outside a health care town hall meeting with U.S. congressman Kendrick Meeks (R-FL) in Miami, Florida September 3, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos BarriaAP - Letting young adults stay on their parents' health insurance until they turn 26 will nudge premiums nearly 1 percent higher for employer plans, the government said in an estimate released Monday.

Toyota waited months to issue '05 steering recall (AP)

Posted: 10 May 2010 04:07 PM PDT

In this Sept. 15, 2007 photo provided by the Idaho Sate Police, a snapped relay rod is shown at the scene of a car accident near Fairfield, Idaho where Michael 'Levi' Stewart was killed in a 1991 Toyota pickup. His family is suing Toyota over a faulty steering issue. Toyota waited nearly a year to issue a recall in 2005 over steering problems in trucks and SUVs, despite issuing a similar recall in Japan. (AP Photo/Idaho State Police)AP - Toyota waited nearly a year in 2005 to recall trucks and SUVs in the United States with defective steering rods, despite issuing a similar recall in Japan and receiving dozens of reports from American motorists about rods that snapped without warning, an Associated Press investigation has found.

Second time's the charm for nominee Kagan (AP)

Posted: 10 May 2010 01:55 PM PDT

President Barack Obama introduces Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his choice for Supreme Court Justice in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday May 10, 2010 as Vice President Joe Biden applauds. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - From President Barack Obama's Top 10 list, one nominee emerged — Elena Kagan.

Obama resubmits US-Russia nuclear energy deal (AP)

Posted: 10 May 2010 06:29 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama planned to resubmit to Congress on Tuesday a nuclear power pact with Russia that his predecessor angrily canceled two years ago after Russia invaded neighboring Georgia.

Ohio Democrats respond to racy GOP ad (AP)

Posted: 10 May 2010 05:31 PM PDT

This screen grab taken Monday, May 10, 2010 from the website of the Ohio Democratic Party shows part of a political ad that features male workers, and one woman wearing in a sports bra, who have 'lost their shirts' in Ohio's lousy economy. The ad was made in response to a sexually suggestive GOP ad that features an image of a shirtless Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher in a provocative pose. (AP Photo/Ohio Democratic Party) ** NO SALES **AP - Ohio Democrats have released a political ad full of shirtless workers. It's the party's answer to a sexually suggestive GOP ad that depicted a bare-chested U.S. Senate candidate.

Ky. GOP Senate hopefuls facing off in final debate (AP)

Posted: 10 May 2010 05:27 PM PDT

AP - Kentucky Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul says he is opposed to congressional earmarks that he blames for running up the national debt.

UK's two big parties court Lib Dems, Brown to quit (Reuters)

Posted: 10 May 2010 05:23 PM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers a statement outside his official residence of 10 Downing Street in London May 10,2010. REUTERS/Paul HackettReuters - Britain's two big rival political forces planned to resume wooing the smaller Liberal Democrats on Tuesday after Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he would step aside to try to keep his Labour Party in power.

Obama wants to beef up law on oil spill damage cap (Reuters)

Posted: 10 May 2010 04:34 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama wants his administration to send legislation to Congress to toughen U.S. law on caps for damages from oil spills, the White House said on Monday.

Obama revives civilian nuclear deal with Russia (Reuters)

Posted: 10 May 2010 04:24 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama makes a statement about the monthly job numbers from the White House in Washington May 7, 2010. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - President Barack Obama revived on Monday an agreement with Russia in which the two countries would cooperate on civilian nuclear energy, almost two years after it was shelved over Russia's 2008 war with Georgia.

Obama resubmits US-Russia nuclear energy pact to Congress (AFP)

Posted: 10 May 2010 04:19 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama (L) and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev sign a landmark treaty at the Prague Castle in Prague in April 2010. Obama on Monday resubmitted a US-Russia nuclear energy cooperation pact to Congress, after the deal fell into limbo following Moscow's conflict with Georgia in 2008.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AFP - President Barack Obama on Monday resubmitted a US-Russia nuclear energy cooperation pact to Congress, after the deal fell into limbo following Moscow's conflict with Georgia in 2008.

BP, other companies point fingers in oil rig blast (AP)

Posted: 10 May 2010 04:04 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 3, 2010, file photo, BP America Chairman Lamar McKay leaves the Interior Department in Washington, after a closed door meeting. Early finger-pointing erupted Monday, May 10, 2010, among companies involved in the oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico and unstopped leak of millions of gallons of oil, on the eve of the first congressional hearings into the accident. McKay, said a critical safety device known as a blowout-preventer failed catastrophically. Separately, the owner of the rig off Louisiana's coast said that BP managed it and was responsible for all work conducted at the site. A third company defended work that it performed on the deepwater oil well as 'accepted industry practice' before last month's explosion. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Early finger-pointing erupted Monday among companies involved in the oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico and unstopped leak of millions of gallons of oil, on the eve of the first congressional hearings into the accident.

Axelrod: Obama is open to reviewing Miranda issue (AP)

Posted: 10 May 2010 03:49 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama is open to the idea of reviewing Miranda warnings for terrorist suspects, Senior White House adviser David Axelrod said Monday.

Top Democrat urges Obama on S.Korea trade deal (Reuters)

Posted: 10 May 2010 03:27 PM PDT

Reuters - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry on Monday urged President Barack Obama to quickly press for a vote in Congress on a long-delayed free trade agreement with South Korea.

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