2010年6月12日星期六

Yahoo! News: Elections

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Elections

Obama stand on oil spill is tough and temperate (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 01:54 PM PDT

British Prime Minister David Cameron talks to President Obama on the phone in his office at Chequers, England, about the BP situation in the Gulf of Mexico, Saturday June 12, 2010. The leaking oil that has tainted the Gulf of Mexico is also threatening the political shores on both sides of the Atlantic, with a British company the villain. (AP Photo / Andrew Parsons , PA ) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - President Barack Obama took a fist-and-olive-branch approach to the Gulf oil spill Saturday, giving BP a deadline to accelerate cleanup efforts while also reassuring Britons he's not pointing a finger at them or their national institutions.

Calif. gov candidates come from different worlds (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:15 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 11, 2007 picture, Meg Whitman, eBay president and CEO, waits for her salad during lunch at the annual Allen and Co.'s media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown are fighting for the same job, but that's where the similarities end for the two candidates running for California governor. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)AP - She's chartered jet, he's Southwest. Her mentor was Mitt Romney, he worked for Mother Teresa. She pays her chief campaign consultant $90,000-a-month, his worked for free most of last year.

Obama tells Britain no hard feelings over spill (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:04 PM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, centre, addresses British soldiers, at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, during his two day visit to Afghanistan, Friday June 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau, Pool)AP - President Barack Obama reassured Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday that his frustration over the mammoth oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not an attack on Britain as the two leaders tried to soothe trans-Atlantic tensions over the disaster.

Obama faces rare defeat on health help for jobless (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 08:19 AM PDT

Chuck Lacasse stands in front of his De Pere, Wis., home Thursday, June. 10, 2010. If Lacasse had gotten his pink slip four days earlier, Uncle Sam would have covered most of his family's health insurance while he looked for a new job. But Congress allowed emergency health care assistance for unemployed workers to expire May 31, and seems unwilling to renew it despite pleas from President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)AP - If Chuck Lacasse had gotten his pink slip four days earlier, Uncle Sam would have covered most of his family's health insurance while he looked for a new job.

Kagan had role in Clinton White House's big fights (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 11:32 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 26, 2010 file photo, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan meets with Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M. on Capitol Hill in Washington. Newly released documents from the Clinton White House provide glimpses into how Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan approached a number of controversial issues, including assisted suicide, religious freedom, abortion and defending the president against impeachment. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - For four years as a White House lawyer and aide, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan had a hand in many of the major issues that drove and vexed the Clinton administration.

Obama and GOP bicker over doctors' Medicare pay (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 08:30 AM PDT

President Barack Obama makes a statement on his small business jobs initiatives, Friday, June 11, 2010, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama is asking Republican lawmakers to approve billions of dollars in new spending to avert a scheduled 21 percent cut in payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients.

Big soccer game, US-UK beer bet on the line (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 02:28 PM PDT

President Barack Obama makes a statement on his small business jobs initiatives, Friday, June 11, 2010, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron set sudsy stakes on Saturday's World Cup soccer match between their countries.

Indiana GOP picks state senator to replace Souder (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 03:43 PM PDT

AP - Republican officials in northeast Indiana have selected state Sen. Marlin Stutzman to replace former U.S. Rep. Mark Souder on the November ballot.

Paul reaches out to gun advocates in Senate race (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 01:18 PM PDT

Kentucky Senate candidate Republican Rand Paul talks to leaders of the Kentucky Republican Party on Saturday, June 12, 2010 in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Patti Longmire)AP - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul reached out to gun advocates on Saturday, trying to shore up support from a major voting bloc in Kentucky also being courted by his Democratic opponent.

Iran crushing freedom, opposition says on poll anniversary (AFP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:35 PM PDT

Supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi run past a burning bus in Tehran in June 2009. Iran's opposition issued fresh calls for freedom on Saturday as thousands of police and militiamen patrolled central Tehran on the one-year anniversary of an election that sparked deadly protests.(AFP/File/Olivier Laban-Mattei)AFP - Iran's opposition issued fresh calls for freedom on Saturday as the anniversary of a presidential election that sparked deadly street unrest passed off without major anti-government protests.

Ruby Ridge: Kagan focus as 1996 re-election loomed (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 26, 2010 file photo, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan meets with Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M. on Capitol Hill in Washington. Newly released documents from the Clinton White House provide glimpses into how Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan approached a number of controversial issues, including assisted suicide, religious freedom, abortion and defending the president against impeachment. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - As an aide in the Clinton White House, Elena Kagan steeped herself in details of the Ruby Ridge controversy, an issue that Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania had zeroed in on as he sought the Republican presidential nomination.

Obama, UK's Cameron wager beer over World Cup game (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:16 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron may agree on weighty issues like Iran and Afghanistan but their "special relationship" stops when it comes to soccer.

Obama, British PM Cameron discuss BP oil spill (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 10:49 AM PDT

AP - The White House says President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron have discussed BP's need to do all it can to respond effectively to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

South Carolina head scratcher: More curiosities in election of Alvin Greene (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 10:25 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Is he a working class hero, proof that anyone can make it in politics? Or did someone put Alvin Greene up to it, paying his way to sabotage the Democratic statewide primary to take pressure off South Carolina Republican incumbent Sen. Jim DeMint?

Obama takes aim at Republicans again on healthcare (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 10:23 AM PDT

Chuck Lacasse stands infront of his De Pere, Wis. home on Thursday, June. 10, 2010. If Lacasse had gotten his pink slip four days earlier, Uncle Sam would have covered most of his family's health insurance while he looked for a new job. But Congress allowed emergency health care assistance for unemployed workers to expire May 31, and seems unwilling to renew it despite pleas from President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)Reuters - President Barack Obama called on Republicans on Saturday to vote for a delay in cutting government Medicare insurance payments to doctors, taking aim at the opposition party in a renewed election-year push for his new healthcare law.

Advice to college graduates from Obama, McCain, and Souter (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 05:46 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - It's the time of year for advice, inspiration, calls to service, and more than a few clichés. At colleges and universities across America, politicians, actors, writers, activists, and scholars have drawn from their experiences as they speak to college graduates. Here are a few of their words of wisdom.

Iran's Guards warn opposition on vote anniversary (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 04:57 AM PDT

Reuters - Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned the opposition on Saturday, the first anniversary of a disputed presidential election, that they would crack down on any attempts to create a "security crisis."

发贴者：iwvck8 时间 17:37 0 条评论

bnzv