2010年5月19日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Elections

State dinner chef tweets about 'day of creation' (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2010 05:49 PM PDT

First lady Michelle Obama, left, adjusts President Barack Obama's suit as they wait for the arrival of Mexican President Felipe Calderon and his wife Margarita Zavala at the North Portico of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 19, 2010, for a State Dinner. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - "Got my fingers crossed there are no hitches."

Brazen attacks might signal a new Taliban strategy (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2010 04:55 PM PDT

An Afghan policeman stops a three-wheeler near the U.S. air base in Bagram, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 19, 2010. Insurgents launched a brazen pre-dawn assault Wednesday against the giant U.S.-run Bagram Air Field, killing an American contractor and wounding nine service members in the second Taliban strike at NATO forces in and around the capital in as many days. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - Brazen Taliban attacks in and around Afghanistan's capital Kabul this week demonstrate the power of the insurgency to strike directly at foreign forces on Afghan soil.

Big lessons of primaries: What the heck were they? (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2010 05:58 PM PDT

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul address supporters at his victory party in Bowling Green, Ky., Tuesday, May 18, 2010. At left is Paul's son William. At right is his wife Kelley and sons Duncan, top, and Robert. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)AP - Dazed and confused. The biggest primary night of the season left the two parties struggling Wednesday to figure out their next steps in an increasingly volatile election year.

Dems unite for Pa. Senate nominee who beat Specter (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2010 04:31 PM PDT

People react as results come in at Rep. Joe Sestak's, D-Pa., primary night watch event at the Valley Forge Military Academy & College in Wayne, Pa., Tuesday, May 18, 2010. Sestak unseated incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., in the Democratic primary. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Democratic Party leaders and labor unions began lining up Wednesday behind the party nominee whom they had fought to defeat in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate primary as the Republican opponent attacked him as too liberal for the state's voters.

Rand Paul tapped into 'anger' (Politico)

Posted: 18 May 2010 06:11 PM PDT

Rand Paul and wife Kelly Paul talk to the media at Briarwood Elementary School after voting in the U.S. Senate Republican primary election in Bowling Green, Kentucky, May 18, 2010. Pennsylvania, Arkansas, and Kentucky are holding primary elections on Tuesday, prior to November 2010 elections. REUTERS/Jake Stevens (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)Politico - BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Rand Paul, the first-time candidate for elective office who has emerged as a symbol of the national tea party's clout in Republican politics, appears to have clinched the GOP's nomination for this state's open Senate seat — in a victory certain to jolt the political order in Kentucky and across the country.

Senate fails to end debate on bank regulation bill (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2010 06:02 PM PDT

Senator Blanche Lincoln has rejected suggestions that her anti-derivatives measure could translate to less regulation of the massive derivatives market or hamper US competitiveness.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AP - Senate Republicans on Wednesday delayed final action on a sweeping financial regulation bill, raising a last-minute obstacle to the legislation as it approached the home stretch.

Salazar: Abolish energy agency, divide in 3 parts (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2010 05:45 PM PDT

AP - The Obama administration moved on Wednesday to abolish the beleaguered agency that oversees offshore drilling and replace it with three separate entities.

Senate Dems: Make oil industry pay for inspections (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2010 04:19 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 22, 2010 file photo obtained by The Associated Press shows the Deepwater Horizon oil platform burning following a massive explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. The federal agency responsible for ensuring that the Deepwater Horizon was operating safely before it exploded last month fell well short of its own policy that the rig be inspected at least once per month, an Associated Press investigation shows. In fact, the agency's inspection frequency on the Deepwater Horizon fell dramatically over the past five years, according to federal Minerals Management Service records. The rig blew up April 20, killing 11 people before sinking and triggering a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo, File) NO SALESAP - Senate Democrats are calling for the Obama administration to improve inspections of deepwater oil rigs such as the one that exploded last month in the Gulf of Mexico. The lawmakers said oil companies should pay for the emergency inspections, not taxpayers.

Kerry, Pickens: Odd couple of climate legislation (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2010 03:57 PM PDT

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., left, meets with T. Boone Pickens to discuss the Kerry-sponsored climate bill, which Pickens supports, Wednesday, May 19, 2010, in Kerry's office on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - Call them the odd couple of climate change.

Penn urges help for hospitals in post-quake Haiti (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2010 04:24 PM PDT

Actor Sean Penn testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 19, 2010, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing: After the Earthquake: Empowering Haiti to Rebuild Better. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - Actor Sean Penn said Wednesday the biggest challenge facing post-quake Haiti is getting hospitals staffed and supplied during its current rainy season and ahead of the upcoming hurricane season.

Senate fails to end debate on bank reform bill (Reuters)

Posted: 19 May 2010 05:46 PM PDT

Reuters - In a setback for the Obama administration, Senate Democrats failed to muster enough votes on Wednesday to end debate on the biggest overhaul of financial regulation since the 1930s, delaying a vote on passage.

US weighs response to SKorean ship sinking (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2010 05:36 PM PDT

AP - Deciding how to respond to North Korea's apparent sinking of a South Korean warship will be tricky for U.S. officials.

Lincoln enlists Clinton help in Ark. runoff fight (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2010 04:29 PM PDT

Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter waves to commuters Wednesday May 19, 2010 in Little Rock, Ark. Halter will face fellow Democrat Blanche Lincoln in a runoff election June 8, 2010 for the Democratic nomination for the US Senate. (AP Photo/Brian Chilson)AP - Lt. Gov. Bill Halter wasted no time Wednesday trying to rally voter support in his runoff with Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln, who enlisted the help of former President Bill Clinton in her fight for her political career.

Election Result: Primary Voters Show Anger at Incumbents (Time.com)

Posted: 19 May 2010 04:15 PM PDT

Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., gives his concession speech to supporters on stage with his wife Joan Specter, center, and son Shanin Specter, right, Tuesday, May 18, 2010, in Philadelphia. Specter lost to Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., for the Democratic Senate nomination. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Time.com - After Tuesday's elections, the Establishment in Washington found three more reasons to worry about their staying power

Speeches and writings show fuller picture of Kagan (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2010 04:12 PM PDT

Supreme Court nominee Solicitor General Elena Kagan smiles during a visit at Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Not so long ago, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan opined the law sometimes allows things that are "just plain dumb."

Immigrant's child steals the show from Mexico's Calderon (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 19 May 2010 03:58 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon railed Wednesday against Arizona's new immigration law and pressed Congress to pass a national immigration overhaul, but a second-grade girl at a school in the Maryland suburbs unwittingly made a more passionate case.

Obama clamors for federal fix to immigration woes (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2010 04:36 PM PDT

President Barack Obama and Mexico's President Felipe Calderon hold a joint news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 19, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Confronting soaring frustration over illegal immigration, President Barack Obama on Wednesday condemned Arizona's crackdown and pushed instead for a federal fix the nation could embrace. He said that will never happen without Republican support, pleading: "I need some help."

Correction: Virginia Drilling story (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2010 03:02 PM PDT

AP - In a story May 18 about offshore drilling, The Associated Press reported erroneously that President Barack Obama lifted a ban on offshore drilling in the Atlantic Ocean in March. President George W. Bush lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific coasts in 2008 and Congress lifted its moratorium on most coastal drilling later the same year.

Second-grader asks Michelle Obama about new immigration law (The Newsroom)

Posted: 19 May 2010 02:55 PM PDT

The Newsroom - During a visit to an elementary school in Langley Park, Maryland, to promote her anti-obesity campaign, first lady Michelle Obama faced a tough question from one second-grader.

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