2010年6月5日星期六

Yahoo! News: Elections

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Elections


Gates prods China on NKorea, military ties to US (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 04:34 PM PDT

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, left, shakes hands Japan's Minister of Defense, Toshimi Kitazawa, during the Shangri-La Dialogue's Asia Security Summit in Singapore, Saturday, June 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates challenged China to deal realistically with the short-term question of how to respond to an antagonistic North Korea and the longer-term issue of whether Beijing's expanding military can establish more durable ties with the U.S.


Primaries from Calif. to SC measure voter anger (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 03:22 PM PDT

Meg Whitman, Republican gubernatorial candidate hopeful, spoke to a crowd of mostly senior citizens during an appearance in Roseville, Calif. on Thursday, June 3, 2010.  Whitman, who is challenged by Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, discussed her support for Proposition 13 regarding property taxes. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - How angry are Americans?


AP Enterprise: Sub attack was near US-SKorea drill (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 11:11 AM PDT

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, left, meets with the President of the Republic of Korea, Lee Myung-Bak, during the Shangri-La Dialogue's Asia Security Summit in Singapore, Saturday, June 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)AP - On the night a torpedo-armed North Korean submarine allegedly sank a South Korean patrol ship, the U.S. and South Korea were engaged in joint anti-submarine warfare exercises just 75 miles away, military officials told The Associated Press.


Obama dealmaking look like politics as usual (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 02:59 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 3, 2010, file photo Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff talks on his cell phone as he arrives in Denver for a campaign event.  In June it emerged that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina had contacted Romanoff about possible administration jobs, three federal international development jobs, that might be available to him if he got out of the way of Sen. Michael Bennet in the state's Aug. 10 Senate primary.  (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)AP - Barack Obama, being from Chicago, knows there are two basic ways to play foul in politics.


Anatomy of secret life: CIA officer's Afghan death (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 12:34 PM PDT

This is photo provided by family shows Darren James LaBonte, 35, in Afghanistan in 2007. LaBonte was one of seven CIA employees who died when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a U.S. base in Khost, Afghanistan on Dec. 30, 2009. LaBonte and the others were remembered at the American Airpower Museum at Republic Airport in Farmingdale, N.Y. on Memorial Day. As part of the ceremony, a B-17 bomber dropped flowers in the Atlantic Ocean not far from the site of the Twin Towers and the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Courtesy of LaBonte's Family) NO SALESAP - A last photo shows Darren James LaBonte on an all-terrain vehicle in Khost, Afghanistan, days before his death. He's smiling.


GOP wants Justice probe of White House dealmaking (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 11:11 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 4, 2010, file photo, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele walks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Steele.  (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)AP - Rebuffed before, Republicans are renewing demands for a Justice Department investigation into White House dealmaking in two Senate races. The Obama administration says it's broken no laws, but Republicans aren't taking its word.


Obama congratulates new Japanese leader (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 04:46 PM PDT

A pedestrian passes by a TV screen broadcasting the latest reports on just-named Prime Minister Naoto Kan, center, in central Tokyo, Saturday, June 5, 2010. Japan's parliament elected outspoken populist Kan as prime minister on Friday. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - President Barack Obama telephoned Naoto Kan on Saturday to congratulate Japan's new prime minister and promised to consult with him on the nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran.


Japan ruling party support leaps on new leader: poll (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 01:35 AM PDT

Japan's Prime Minister-to-be Naoto Kan speaks to journalists during a news conference at the Democratic Party of Japan's headquarters in Tokyo June 4, 2010. REUTERS/Issei KatoReuters - Support for Japan's ruling Democratic Party leaped to 36.1 percent in a poll published by Kyodo news agency on Saturday after the appointment of a new leader in the run-up to an upper house election.


Ill. Senate race: all insults, all the time (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 12:43 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 19, 2010 file photo, Illinois Republican Senate candidate, Rep. Mark Kirk, responds to a question during a news conference in Chicago. Kirk apologized Thursday for making inaccurate statements about his service in the Navy Reserves, while acknowledging more discrepancies. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - The candidates in one of the nation's most closely watched Senate races aren't saying much about health care, the Gulf oil spill or even the economy.


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