2010年6月28日星期一

Yahoo! News: Elections

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Elections

10 alleged Russian secret agents arrested in US (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:35 PM PDT

AP - The FBI has arrested 10 people for allegedly serving for years as secret agents of Russia's intelligence organ, the SVR, with the goal of penetrating U.S. government policymaking circles.

Kagan pledges impartiality, restraint as justice (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:09 PM PDT

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, June 28, 2010, prior to testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on her nomination. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Elena Kagan pledged to be a model of impartiality and restraint as a Supreme Court justice as the Senate opened confirmation hearings Monday, but she still braced for a grilling by Republicans who suggest she'd let liberal views color her rulings.

Cashiered general tells Army he'll retire (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 03:18 PM PDT

US General David Petraeus listens to President Barack Obama announce him as the successor of US commander in Afghanistan. The placing of Petraeus is the AP - Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who was fired last week as the top U.S. general in the stalemated Afghanistan war, told the Army on Monday that he will retire.

Justices extend gun owner rights nationwide (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 11:50 AM PDT

** CORRECTS SPELLING OF AUDREY AND FIGGINS ** Charlene Figgins, 50, right, and her mother Audrey Williams, 75, sit on their porch Monday, June 28, 2010, in Chicago. Monday's Supreme Court decision did not explicitly strike down Chicago's ban on handguns. Instead, it ordered a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling. But it left little doubt that the statutes eventually would fall. Figgins lives in the West Side neighborhood where an 80-year-old man used an illegal handgun to fatally shoot an intruder who had fired a shot at him last month. She said Monday that she has mixed feelings about the court's decision. She wondered if putting more guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens would put more people, particularly children, in danger. But Figgins said she knew another man who did not have a gun and was shot and killed by an intruder. 'If he would have had a gun to protect himself, he'd be alive today,' she said. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - The Supreme Court held Monday that Americans have the right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they live, expanding the conservative court's embrace of gun rights since John Roberts became Chief Justice.

Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia dead at 92 (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 01:16 PM PDT

Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., relaxes in his Capitol Hill office on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1995 in Washington. As the Senate's senior Democrat and its most erudite orator, Byrd has long played a powerful role. Now that the Republicans are in control, he's not about to give up. (AP Photo/John Duricka)AP - Senator Robert C. Byrd, a son of West Virginia coal country who used his mastery of Senate rules and a taste for hardball tactics to become a passionate and often feared advocate for the state and the Senate he loved, died Monday at age 92.

Get moving: Cancer survivors urged to exercise (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 12:21 PM PDT

Bobbie Ritt, right, watches as her husband, Ed Ritt, lifts weights at a couples exercise class for cancer patients, Thursday, June 24, 2010, at Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)AP - Cancer survivors, better work up a sweat.

Democrats, again, look for 60 votes for bank bill (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:36 PM PDT

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in May, 2010 in New York City. One of President Barack Obama's top allies in the US Congress called Monday for military spending cuts and a possible tax increase once the economy has AP - A sweeping overhaul of financial regulations faced new obstacles in the Senate on Monday — the loss of one and potentially more crucial votes to guarantee its passage.

US: Sinking of SKorean warship not terrorism (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 11:22 AM PDT

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has said he asked Chinese President Hu Jintao in talks to condemn North Korea's alleged sinking of a South Korean warship.(AFP/File/Hong Jin-Hwan)AP - The Obama administration said Monday that the sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on North Korea was not terrorism, and not enough by itself to put Pyongyang back on a U.S. terror blacklist.

Obama, activists to push on immigration reform (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:51 PM PDT

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, after meeting with Obama Administration officials regarding the border, immigration, and National Guard troop deployment, talks about the meeting at the capitol Monday, June 28, 2010, in Phoenix. The officials told the governor that 524 of the 1,200 National Guard troops headed to the U.S. Mexican border will be deployed in the state. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - President Barack Obama is enlisting activists and labor leaders in a push for comprehensive immigration legislation that will showcase Republican opposition and include a speech by the president.

Obama risks Democratic fight in pressing Korea deal (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 05:10 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama's plan to send a free trade pact with South Korea to Congress by early 2011 could spark a major fight within his own Democratic party unless Seoul agrees to major changes in the deal.

Witness: Blago was serious about Winfrey in Senate (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 21, 2010 file photo, Illinois Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias speaks before The Metropolitan Planning Council in Chicago. Two months ago, federal regulators had taken over his family's Chicago bank, Broadway Bank, which had grown insolvent because of bad loans and a bad economy. Stories about the bank lending money to criminals were resurrected, leading Republicans to start calling Giannoulias a 'mob banker.' The Giannoulias-Kirk contest is one of the highest-profile Senate races in the country. Illinois voters now find themselves with one candidate who puffed up his credentials, Mark Kirk, and one with an iffy banking record, both of them seeking a seat that former Gov. Rod Blagojevich is accused of trying to sell to the highest bidder. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich seriously considered Oprah Winfrey as a candidate to fill President Barack Obama's former Senate seat, calling the talk show host a kingmaker who could influence voters, according to an FBI tape played Monday at his corruption trial.

W.Va. official: No fall election for Byrd's seat (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:38 PM PDT

AP - The person who gets picked to fill the seat vacated by the death of Democratic U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd won't have to face an election until 2012, a key decision for Democrats nationally trying to hold onto a slim majority in Congress after this November's elections.

Obama allies struggle for Wall Street bill votes (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 03:57 PM PDT

People walk along Wall Street in New York City. US Senate Democrats struggled without success Monday to rally the 60 votes needed to ensure passage of a sweeping Wall Street overhaul bill after the death of Democratic Senator Robert Byrd.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)AFP - US Senate Democrats struggled without success Monday to rally the 60 votes needed to ensure passage of a sweeping Wall Street overhaul bill after the death of Democratic Senator Robert Byrd.

Election for Byrd's replacement to be held in 2012 (The Newsroom)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 03:14 PM PDT

The Newsroom - Speaking from the state capitol in Charleston, explained that the state election code presented her with an "interesting situation" in the case of Byrd's seat. "Had Senator Byrd's term not run out in 2012 there would not have been this unique situation," Tennant said.

West Virginia Special to Be Held in 2012 (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 03:08 PM PDT

CQPolitics.com - West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin III (D) will appoint a replacement to fill the seat of the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D) until November 2012, when both a special election and a general election will take place on Election Day.

Byrd's passions: Poetry, power and home-state pork (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 02:34 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 6, 1979, file photo Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W, Va., plays the fiddle for his grandchildren as he relaxes at home in Washington. They are, from left, Mary Anne Moore, Erik Fatemi, Frederik, Frederik Fatemi, Michael Moore, Mona Byrd Moore and Darvis Fatemi. Byrd carried himself like a man from another century. Dead Monday June 28, 2010, at age 92, he very nearly was. A poorly educated son of Appalachia, Byrd became patriarch of the United States Senate. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi, File)AP - How that man loved to speak.

Summary Box: Gov't seeks more wireless spectrum (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 01:52 PM PDT

AP - THE WHITE HOUSE PLAN: The Obama administration is backing a Federal Communications Commission plan to nearly double the space available on the airwaves for wireless high-speed Internet traffic.

A bowtie goodbye for Justice John Paul Stevens (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 01:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2009 photo, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens sits for a group photograph at the Supreme Court in Washington. Stevens, 90, officially retires Tuesday, the first day of the Supreme Court's summer recess. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - Bowtie-wearing lawyers and spectators dotted the U.S. Supreme Court chamber on Monday, a nod to retiring justice John Paul Stevens and his signature neckwear.

Gov't plans to double available wireless spectrum (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 01:39 PM PDT

President Barack Obama walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington upon arrival from the G20 Summit in Toronto Sunday, June 27, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - The Obama administration is backing a plan to nearly double the space available on the airwaves for wireless high-speed Internet traffic to keep up with ever-growing demand for video and other cutting-edge applications on laptops and mobile devices.

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