2010年5月29日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Elections

GOP Senate hopes ride with tea party activists (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2010 01:52 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 25, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama waves with Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., at a fundraiser in San Francisco. Democrats are sufficiently concerned about the re-election of veteran Boxer for Obama to fly three times to California to raise funds for her. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - In Kentucky, the Republican Senate candidate stumbles over a question on racial segregation. In Connecticut, the party's hopes rest on an executive who banked millions on female wrestlers in skimpy outfits. In Nevada, one contender wants to phase out Social Security and another suggests trading chickens for medical care.

Back in Chicago, Obamas enjoy weekend barbecue (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2010 02:58 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, along with daughters Malia, front, and Sasha walk off Air Force One after arriving at Chicago O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Thursday, May 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)AP - President Barack Obama and his family are enjoying their hometown holiday weekend with barbecue Saturday night at a friend's home.

In oil spill saga, mysteries of the deep persist (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2010 05:30 AM PDT

This image made from video released by British Petroleum (BP PLC) early Saturday morning, May 29, 2010 shows drilling mud escaping from the broken pipe on the gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. BP started pumping heavy mud into the leaking Gulf of Mexico well Wednesday and said everything was going as planned in the company's boldest attempt yet to plug the gusher that has spewed millions of gallons of oil over the last five weeks. (AP Photo/BP PLC) NO SALESAP - The impatient nation isn't getting answers fast enough in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.

House vote advances end to ban on gays in military (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2010 11:07 PM PDT

Graphic shows countries that allow gays in their militaryAP - The House on Friday passed a defense bill that paves the way for gays to serve openly in the military for the first time, but advocates on both sides geared up for a fight in the Senate.

Report: US weighs military option in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2010 03:18 AM PDT

A Pakistani police official shows guns and ammunition on Saturday, May 29, 2010 recovered from militants who stormed the Garhi Shahu mosque on Friday, in Lahore, Pakistan. Islamist gunmen and a suicide squad lobbed grenades, sprayed bullets from atop a minaret and took hostages Friday in attacks on two mosques packed with worshippers from a minority sect in Pakistan. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)AP - The U.S. military is developing plans for a unilateral attack on the Pakistani Taliban in the event of a successful terrorist strike in the United States that can be traced to them, The Washington Post reports.

White House applauds Malawi pardon for gay couple (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2010 10:21 AM PDT

FILE - In this photo taken Thursday May, 20, 2010 file photo, Tiwonge Chimbalanga, foreground, and Steven Monjeza, left back, are led from court in Blantyre, Malawi, after a judge sentenced the couple to the maximum 14 years in prison for unnatural acts and gross indecency under Malawi's anti-gay legislation. Malawi's president says he has pardoned and ordered the release of the two Saturday May 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Ntonya, File)AP - The White House hopes it's a new day for gay rights in the African nation of Malawi and around the world.

Fight in Kandahar: US says it won't look like war (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2010 05:33 AM PDT

Foreign soldiers investigate the scene of a car bomb explosion in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 26, 2010. A car bomb exploded Wednesday outside a small NATO military base in southern Afghanistan's largest city, wounding two Afghans and destroying several cars, police said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - In the make-or-break struggle for Kandahar, birthplace of Afghanistan's Taliban insurgency, U.S. commanders will try to pull off the military equivalent of brain surgery: defeating the militants with minimal use of force.

Alabama Dems may nominate 1st black for governor (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2010 11:24 AM PDT

FILE - In a Friday, Feb. 6, 2009 photo, Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala., announces his candidacy for governor during a press conference in front of the Archives and History Building in Montgomery, Ala.(AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)AP - A well-funded black congressman has a shot at becoming the first African-American to win the Democratic nomination for governor of Alabama, even without the backing of the state's traditional civil rights organizations.

Video gone from phone activist used in La. caper (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2010 09:55 AM PDT

AP - Conservative activist-videographer James O'Keefe said video he shot of conversations with staffers of U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu was deleted when his cell phone was returned after he and three others pleaded guilty to charges in a caper he orchestrated at the Democrat's New Orleans office.

Centre-right wins Czech election on austerity plan (Reuters)

Posted: 29 May 2010 12:51 PM PDT

Chairman of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) Petr Necas walks to his party's election center in Prague May 29, 2010. REUTERS/Petr JosekReuters - Center-right Czech parties advocating austerity to prevent a Greek-style debt crisis beat pro-welfare leftists in an election on Saturday and looked set to form a government able to push through deep economic reforms.

Japan PM says to stay in post, but poll outlook grim (Reuters)

Posted: 29 May 2010 10:19 AM PDT

Reuters - Japan's premier said Saturday he would stay in his post despite a political furor over a U.S.-Japan deal on a Marine airbase, but he was not optimistic about the party's chances in a looming election.

Rafsanjani boosts pressure on Iran regime before anniversary (AFP)

Posted: 29 May 2010 09:36 AM PDT

Former Iranian president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, addresses the top clerical body during their meeting in Tehran, in 2009. The opposition sympathiser and powerful cleric has ratcheted up the pressure on the Iranian regime ahead of the first anniversary of the disputed presidential election.(AFP/File/Atta Kenare)AFP - Opposition sympathiser and powerful cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has ratcheted up the pressure on the Iranian regime ahead of the first anniversary of the disputed presidential election.

BP, not Obama, taking brunt of public's oil spill ire: poll (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 29 May 2010 06:33 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The Gulf oil spill is indeed a Hurricane Katrina-sized public relations disaster for someone. But that someone may be BP, not President Obama.

Obama: Memorial Day is time to honor fallen troops (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2010 06:15 AM PDT

John DeFruscio, 7, of Collegeville, Pa., walks on the edge of a field of flags on Boston Common ahead of Memorial Day, Friday, May 28, 2010, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)AP - More than just barbecues and family time, Memorial Day is the chance to honor members of the military who made the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of their country, President Barack Obama says.

Report: 2 dozen terror leaders among detainees (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2010 11:08 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, June 27, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba . About six dozen people who were being held at the Guantanamo Bay prison when President Barack Obama took office were directly implicated in terrorist attacks against the United States or played significant roles within al-Qaida and other terrorist groups, an administration task force concluded. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)AP - About six dozen people who were being held at the Guantanamo Bay prison when President Barack Obama took office were directly implicated in terrorist attacks against the United States or played significant roles within al-Qaida and other terrorist groups, an administration task force concluded.

Tar balls and promises: Obama visits Gulf Coast (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2010 11:05 PM PDT

President Barack Obama and LaFourche Parish President Charlotte Randolph show small amounts of oil washed up as 'tar balls' during a tour of areas impacted by the Gulf Coast oil spill,Friday, May 28, 2010, in Port Fourchon, La. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - Kneeling to pick up tar balls on an oil-fouled beach and listening to "heartbreaking stories" of loss, President Barack Obama personally confronted the spreading damage wrought by the crude gushing into the Gulf of Mexico — and the bitter anger that's rising onshore.

House approves pared-back tax and spending bill (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2010 06:14 PM PDT

People attend a job fair in Davie, Florida, in April 2010. New claims for US unemployment insurance benefits fell for the fourth straight week, the longest stretch since the economy entered recession more than two years ago, official data showed Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)AP - House Democrats on Friday salvaged a bill to continue providing unemployment checks to people out of work more than six months and revive tax breaks popular with families and businesses.

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