2010年5月12日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Obama: Afghan war will worsen before it improves (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 05:04 PM PDT

US President Barak Obama meets with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC. Both the US and Afghan governments are trying to lay to rest questions about their relationship, following a damaging series of public disagreements, and open mistrust in Washington over Karzai's capacity to serve as a US partner.(AFP/Jim Watson)AP - The war in Afghanistan will get worse before it gets better, President Barack Obama warned on Wednesday, but he declared his plan to begin withdrawing U.S. forces next year remains on track.

Bill aimed to stem global warming, create jobs (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 04:36 PM PDT

Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., right, and Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., at a news conference, with industry leaders, announcing their climate change bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2010.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman unveiled a long-awaited bill Wednesday that aims to curtail pollution blamed for global warming, reduce oil imports and create millions of energy-related jobs.

Kagan centrist in Clinton W.H. memos (Politico)

Posted: 12 May 2010 02:48 AM PDT

Solicitor General and Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, rides the Senate Subway during her day of meetings on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2010.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)Politico - LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan urged President Bill Clinton to take centrist stances in several battles over issues like abortion and family leave when other administration officials or allies were pressing for a more aggressively liberal approach, according to documents at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library.  

Former Astronauts unhappy with Obama space plan (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 03:29 PM PDT

Apollo 11 hero Neil Armstrong, pictured in March 2010, Tuesday lashed out at President Barack Obama's decision to axe NASA plans to return to the Moon, describing the move as AP - The first man to walk on the moon said Wednesday that President Barack Obama's plans to revamp the human space program would cede America's longtime leadership in space to other nations.

Congress provides stage for scolding executives (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 11:52 AM PDT

From left, Steven Newman, President and Chief Executive Officer Transocean Limited, Lamar McKay, President and Chairman of BP America, Inc., Timothy Probert, President, Global Business Lines, and Chief Health, Safety, and Environmental Officer, Halliburton, and Jack Moore, President and Chief Executive Officer, Cameron, are sworn in before they testify during a House subcommittee hearing on the Gulf Coast oil spill, Wednesday, May 12, 2010, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - It's become a reality show-like ritual, Congress summoning once-imperious executives to be berated and shamed about the damage they've done to the country.

US files first defense of health care law in court (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 01:21 PM PDT

AP - Critics who allege that Congress overstepped the U.S. Constitution by requiring Americans to carry health insurance are "flatly wrong," the Obama administration said Wednesday in its first court defense of the landmark health care law.

Lettuce recall expands to Tennessee (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 03:10 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 - An outbreak of E. coli poisoning has expanded to Tennessee, where one more person has been sickened after eating romaine lettuce grown on an Arizona farm.

Pentagon works to define rules of cyber warfare (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 04:09 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. military may never have a direct answer on when to fire back against a computer-based attack, a top Pentagon leader said Wednesday, reflecting the complex world of cyber warfare.

New Hawaii law shuns Obama birth document requests (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 06:14 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama (R) speaks during a press conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Obama praised Wednesday the AP - It's now law in Hawaii that the government can ignore repetitive requests for President Barack Obama's birth certificate.

Obama, Lebanon's prime minister to meet May 24 (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 05:59 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri (sahd hah-REER'-ee) plan to meet at the White House later this month. It will be the prime minister's first official visit to Washington.

New poll full of bad news for Democrats (The Newsroom)

Posted: 12 May 2010 05:38 PM PDT

The United States Capitol building is seen in Washington March 19, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Jim BourgThe Newsroom - Democrats already knew they were facing a tough Election Day this November, but new poll numbers out tonight show the party has lost significant ground with a crucial voting bloc. The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds that self-described independent voters, credited with helping Democrats take control of Congress in 2006, have switched their allegiance to Republicans.

9 indicted on charges of accessing Obama records (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 05:36 PM PDT

President Barack Obama gestures during a news conference with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - Nine people were indicted Wednesday on federal charges of accessing President Barack Obama's student loan records while they were employed for a Department of Education contractor in Iowa.

Obit: Angus Thuermer, former AP writer, CIA agent (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 04:53 PM PDT

** FILE ** In this Feb. 13, 1943 file photo, Angus Thuermer, on leave from the AP as a Navy ensign. While he became widely known as a CIA spokesman, Thuermer had a front row seat both as a newsman and CIA agent for some of the biggest moments in the 20th century. Thuermer died April 14 of pneumonia at a northern Virginia hospital at age 92. (AP Photo)AP - Angus M. Thuermer witnessed firsthand the anti-Semitic firebombings of synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses on a night of broken glass that came to be known as "Kristallnacht" as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press in prewar Germany and covered the German invasion of Poland, before he was interned by the Nazis.

Obama to meet families of NY plane crash victims (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 04:44 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama will meet briefly with relatives of people who died when their plane crashed into a New York home.

Wide support for Arizona immigration law: poll (AFP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 03:42 PM PDT

US Border Patrol agents watch over the border with Mexico with surveillance equipment on May 2, at Montezuma Pass, Arizona. A majority of the public support Arizona's tough immigration law which has been criticized by President Barack Obama and outraged civil rights groups, according to an opinion poll published Wednesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/John Moore)AFP - A majority of the public support Arizona's tough immigration law which has been criticized by President Barack Obama and outraged civil rights groups, according to an opinion poll published Wednesday.

Republicans pick Tampa, Fla., for 2012 convention (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 03:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2005, file photo, The St. Pete Times Forum, the home of Tampa Bay Lightning in Tampa, Fla. The 660,000-square-foot St. Pete Times Forum with be the site of the Republican 2012 presidential convention. (AP Photo/Scott Audette)AP - Republicans chose Tampa as the site of their 2012 presidential convention Wednesday, hoping the swing state of Florida will help them defeat President Barack Obama.

Crist signs the paperwork to officially leave GOP (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 02:33 PM PDT

AP - Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is officially an independent.

WH wants increased industry liability in oil spill (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 01:40 PM PDT

AP - The White House asked Congress Wednesday to raise limits on BP's liability for the Gulf oil spill, approve new spending on everything from food stamps to seafood inspections and increase taxes on oil companies for an emergency cleanup fund.

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