2010年7月21日星期三

Yahoo! News: Elections

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Elections


Senate approves jobless payments to millions (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 05:48 PM PDT

Eric Bilderback, left, holds his resume as he talks with Mike Watson, a business employment specialist at WorkSource Oregon Tuesday, July 20, 2010, in Portland, Ore.  The U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday 60-40 to end a Republican-led filibuster of legislation that would extend unemployment benefits for an estimated 2.5 million Americans. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - State unemployment agencies are gearing up to resume sending unemployment payments to millions of people as Congress moves to ship President Barack Obama a measure to restore lapsed benefits.


Fired Ag worker mulls job offer after WH apology (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 06:24 PM PDT

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack tells reporters that he acted in haste in firing Shirley Sherrod, a black U.S. Agriculture Department official, after it appeared she had made racist remarks in unfair and heavily edited video posted on a conservative Web site, during a news conference at the Department of Agriculture in Washington, Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Vilsack said he is taking personal responsibility for what happened.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The White House did a sudden about-face Wednesday and begged for forgiveness from the black Agriculture Department employee whose ouster ignited an embarrassing political firestorm over race. She was offered a "unique opportunity" for a new job and said she was thinking it over.


DOJ: Prosecutor firing was politics, not crime (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 05:48 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2007, file photo, U.S. Attorney David Iglesias speaks at his last news conference at the U.S. Attorney offices in Albuquerque, N.M. The Bush administration's Justice Department's actions were inappropriately political, but not criminal, when it fired a U.S. attorney in 2006, prosecutors said Wednesday, July 21, 2010, in closing a two-year investigation without filing charges. Investigators looked into whether the Bush administration improperly dismissed nine U.S. attorneys, and in particular Iglesias, as a way to influence criminal cases.(AP Photo/Jake Schoellkopf)AP - The Bush administration's Justice Department's actions were inappropriately political, but not criminal, when it fired a U.S. attorney in 2006, prosecutors said Wednesday in closing a two-year investigation without filing charges.


Historic financial overhaul signed to law by Obama (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 06:24 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama signs the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in Washington, July 21, 2010.   REUTERS/Jim Young   (UNITED STATE S - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS)AP - Reveling over a new milestone in his presidency, a triumphant Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of lending and high-finance rules since the Great Depression, adding safeguards for millions of consumers and aiming to restrain Wall Street excesses that could set off a new recession.


House approves drilling safety, clean up bills (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 04:39 PM PDT

Pelicans sit on boom to that is protecting Queen Bess Island in Grand Isle, Louisiana. US officials anxiously eyed bad weather near the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday which may delay efforts to plug the broken BP well, just as the endgame approaches in the three-month oil spill.(AFP/Getty Images/Chris Graythen)AP - The House passed legislation Wednesday that promotes new ways to clean up oil spills and aims to make deepwater drilling safer.


US to hit NKorea with more sanctions in August (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 02:15 PM PDT

From left, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-Hwan,  participate in a wreath laying ceremony at the Korean War Memorial, on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. Secretary Gates and Secretary Clinton are participating in talks with their Korean counter parts and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak.  (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, pool)AP - Tightening the screws on North Korea, the Obama administration said Wednesday it would expand and strengthen sanctions against the isolated regime and its nuclear weapons program, a tactic which in the past has been undercut by North Korea's knack for finding loopholes and escape hatches.


GOP Sen. Lugar to support Kagan for Supreme Court (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 12:35 PM PDT

** FILE ** In this June 30, 2010 file photo, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on her nomination on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Republican Sen. Richard Lugar, breaking with the GOP on an election-year Supreme Court nomination, on Wednesday became the second in his party to announce he would vote to confirm Elena Kagan as a justice.


Kennedys give $185K to Democratic candidates (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 02:31 PM PDT

AP - Heirs to the late Sen. Edward Kennedy are giving $185,000 from his campaign account and their personal wealth to Democratic House candidates in gratitude to Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her role in enacting a landmark health care law.

Top GOP prospect won't seek Byrd's Senate seat (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 02:36 PM PDT

FILE - In a Friday, July 9, 2010 photo, West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin speaks during a news conference at the opening of the annual meeting of the National Governors Association in Boston. Manchin confirmed Tuesday, July 20, 2010 that he will run for the U.S. Senate to fill the late Robert C. Byrd's unexpired term. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)AP - The top GOP prospect for the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd's seat said Wednesday she won't run, leaving the state's Democratic governor the clear favorite as his party looks to keep its Senate majority in November.


Obama to hold forum with African youth in August (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 05:47 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama will mark 50 years of independence by 17 sub-Saharan Africa countries at a forum next month in Washington attended by more than 100 young African leaders.

Obama says he'll sign Tribal Law and Order Act (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 05:18 PM PDT

AP - A bill giving American Indian tribes more authority to combat crime on reservations has cleared Congress and is headed to President Barack Obama, who said he looks forward to signing it.

Colo. GOP Senate candidates spar over gender (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 04:28 PM PDT

AP - With Colorado's primary just a few weeks away, the Republican Senate contest has turned for the moment into a battle over gender.

Dems reserve $7 million for vulnerable incumbents (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 03:48 PM PDT

AP - House Democrats are setting aside more than $7 million for television advertising to help endangered incumbents, a sign that the party's final march toward November's midterms likely will be spent on defense, according to a plan obtained by The Associated Press.

Obama to sign Tribal Law and Order Act (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 03:28 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama says he looks forward to signing a bill giving American Indian tribes more authority to address what he calls "unique public safety challenges" on their reservations.

Conn. Senate dropout reminds voters he's on ballot (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 02:38 PM PDT

AP - Former U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons plans to run a campaign ad reminding voters that he's still on the Republican primary ballot in Connecticut's U.S. Senate race, a fresh sign that the campaign dropout may return.

AP IMPACT: A political filter for info requests (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 04:36 PM PDT

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano waits for an elevator on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday, July 21, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - For at least a year, the Homeland Security Department detoured hundreds of requests for federal records to senior political advisers for highly unusual scrutiny, probing for information about the requesters and delaying disclosures deemed too politically sensitive, according to nearly 1,000 pages of internal e-mails obtained by The Associated Press.


Tancredo Seriously Exploring Independent Gubernatorial Bid (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 02:07 PM PDT

CQPolitics.com - Former GOP Rep. Tom Tancredo, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 and is known nationally for leading the charge against illegal immigration, is seriously exploring a run for governor of Colorado as an Independent and will announce his intentions soon.

Many in NY election gave 6 votes to 1 candidate (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 01:37 PM PDT

AP - An exit survey indicates that nearly a third of the voters in an unusual election in a New York City suburb cast all six of their votes for one candidate.

Treasurer accuses GOP chairman of hiding debt (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 01:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 24, 2010, file photo Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele speaks in San Francisco.  The Republican National Committee's treasurer has accused chairman Michael Steele of hiding more than $7 million in debt to inflate the party's finances and mislead donors. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)AP - The Republican National Committee's treasurer has accused chairman Michael Steele of hiding more than $7 million in debt to inflate the party's finances and mislead donors.


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