2010年7月3日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Elections

US largely ruling out NKorea in 2009 cyberattacks (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 02:49 PM PDT

Don Jackson, director of intelligence at SecureWorks which manages security information systems for corporations world wide, is pictured in his office Friday July 2, 2010, in Atlanta. Analysts at the company worked on the investigation into last year's cyber attack that took down websites in the U.S. and South Korea. (AP Photo/John Amis)AP - U.S. officials have largely ruled out North Korea as the origin of a computer attack last July that took down U.S. and South Korean government websites, according to cybersecurity experts.

Clinton juggles diplomacy, wedding prep demands (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 02:47 PM PDT

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers the keynote address on democracy and freedom during the Community of Democracies Program at the Slowacki Theater, in Krakow, Saturday, July 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Drew Angerer, Pool)AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton says she's not letting the demands of global diplomacy stop her from planning daughter Chelsea's wedding.

Essay: Spy arrests offer bit of Cold War nostalgia (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 01:51 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file image taken from the Russian social networking website 'Odnoklassniki', or Classmates, shows a woman journalists have identified as Anna Chapman, an alleged deep-cover Russian agent, who appeared at a New York federal court hearing June 28, 2010, after her arrest. Chapman, the spy suspect with a heavy presence on the Internet and New York party scene, quickly became a tabloid sensation with the obvious references to her as a James Bond girl. (AP Photo/File)AP - The capture of those alleged deep-cover Russian agents has — for a moment of nostalgia — taken Americans back to a day when their enemy was sneaky but familiar, ensconced right there behind the crenelated red-brick Kremlin walls.

Tea party's next wave rising in Alaska to Colorado (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 12:34 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 17, 2010 file photo South Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate, Rep. Nikki Haley, R-Lexington, takes part in a televised debate in Columbia, S.C. Sarah Palin's support and tea party activists helped GOP Haley emerge from a crowded field to capture the GOP nod for governor. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)AP - Rifle through a stack of tea party candidate resumes, and Joe Miller's will stand out.

Bipartisan Boehner beat down (Politico)

Posted: 01 Jul 2010 03:49 AM PDT

Politico - Minority Leader John Boehner is two days into a bipartisan beat-down — a small taste of what he can expect should he become speaker of the House and a test of his resilience as a leader.

Clinton: `Steel vise' crushing global activists (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 11:42 AM PDT

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks at the Schindler Factory Museum in Krakow, Poland, Saturday, July 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Drew Angerer, Pool)AP - Intolerant governments across the globe are "slowly crushing" activist and advocacy groups that play an essential role in the development of democracy, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday.

Gates wants military interviews with press cleared (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 12:27 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, June 6, 2010 file photo, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates addresses the media aboard a U.S. Military aircraft, en route to Baku, Azerbaijan, from Singapore, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered top military officials to tell the Pentagon's public affairs branch before giving interviews, Friday, July 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool, File)AP - Military officials will need Pentagon clearance for interviews and other dealings with reporters, according to an order from Defense Secretary Robert Gates not long after the top general in Afghanistan was fired for his comments in a magazine article.

Obama awards $2B for solar power, hails new jobs (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 02:43 PM PDT

President Barack Obama waves at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, July 2, 2010. President Barack Obama returned from the memorial service for Sen. Robert Byrd in Charleston, West Virginia, before heading to Camp David, Md. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - The government is handing out nearly $2 billion for new solar plants that President Barack Obama says will create thousands of jobs and increase the use of renewable energy sources.

GOP chairman: Afghan 'war of Obama's choosing' (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 10:28 PM PDT

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele speaks at the Rhode Island Republican Party Convention on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 in Cranston, R.I. (AP Photo/Joe Giblin)AP - Republican chairman Michael Steele drew criticism from within his own party Friday, including calls to resign, after saying the 9-year-old commitment of U.S. troops to Afghanistan was a mistaken "war of Obama's choosing."

Supreme Court lets Green Party on ballot — for now (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 12:31 PM PDT

AP - The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that the Green Party can put its candidates on the November statewide ballot while it considers whether the party took improper donations to fund its petition drive.

Biden visits Iraq amid election deadlock (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 12:58 PM PDT

Reuters - Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq on Saturday amid dangerous tensions following an election in March that produced no clear winner and as yet no new government.

Obama commits nearly $2 billion to solar companies (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 12:54 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama, under pressure to spur job growth, said on Saturday two solar energy companies will get nearly $2 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to create as many as 5,000 green jobs.

Biden 'extremely optimistic' about Iraq's democracy (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 01:36 PM PDT

US Vice President Joe Biden (R), Gen. Ray Odierno (C) and US Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill (L) confer at the US Embassy in Baghdad. Biden said on a surprise visit to Baghdad on Saturday he was optimistic Iraqi politicians could end the squabbles that have deadlocked the conflict-torn nation's democracy for months.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - US Vice President Joe Biden said on a surprise visit to Baghdad on Saturday he was optimistic Iraqi politicians could end the squabbles that have deadlocked the conflict-torn nation's democracy for months.

Obama relaxing at Camp David retreat (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 12:10 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama is at Camp David but will return in the evening to get ready for July Fourth celebrations at the White House.

Driving while blind? Maybe, with new high-tech car (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 08:00 PM PDT

This handout photo, taken in 2009, provided by the National Federation of the Blind shows Addison Hugen, who is blind student participating in the 2009 YouthSlam, a science camp for blind students, in College Park, Md. The National Federation of the Blind and Virginia Tech say they plan to demonstrate a prototype vehicle next year equipped with technology that would help a blind person drive a car. Called nonvisual interface technology, it allows a blind person make driving decisions that let them to drive independently. (AP Photo/National Federation of the Blind)AP - Could a blind person drive a car? Researchers are trying to make that far-fetched notion a reality.

Obama to expand broadband Internet across U.S. (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 03:06 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — More than a year after Congress passed the economic stimulus package, President Barack Obama announced that $795 million of that money will go toward expanding Internet access across the country to provide jobs and improve communication.

West Virginia, political elite say goodbye to Byrd (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 02:29 PM PDT

An honor guard carries the casket of Sen. Robert Byrd during a memorial service at the West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston, W.V. ,Friday July 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - Craning their necks and clapping to Appalachian music, West Virginians bid farewell Friday to Robert C. Byrd, their beloved senator who rose from childhood poverty in a coal mining town to become the nation's longest-serving member of Congress.

Correction: Democratic convention (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 01:09 PM PDT

AP - In a June 30 story about the Democrats' 2012 presidential convention, The Associated Press wrongly attributed comments about President Barack Obama's re-election prospects to Democratic National Committee chairman Tim Kaine.

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