2010年8月11日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Elections

White House: US on track to end Iraq combat role (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 05:06 PM PDT

A U.S. Army soldier stands at the scene of a blast in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. A suicide car bomber struck a police patrol west of Baghdad Sunday and killed several people, most of them civilians standing in line outside a post office to collect a monthly state stipend for some of the country's poorest, police officials said. Violence across Iraq has spiked in the past month as the U.S. moved ahead with a major drawdown of its troops to be completed by the end of August, when only 50,000 will remain in the country.(AP Photo)AP - President Barack Obama is satisfied that the United States can safely end its combat role in Iraq at the end of this month and meet the deadline for removing all U.S. troops from the country by the end of 2011, White House officials said Wednesday.

Some job-screening tactics challenged as illegal (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 02:55 PM PDT

Adrienne Hudson is photographed at the law office of Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen and Dardarian in Oakland, Calif., in this photo taken Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Hudson, a single mother, says she was fired from her new job as a bus driver at First Transit in Oakland, Calif., when the company found out she had been convicted seven years earlier for welfare fraud. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)AP - Companies using criminal records or bad credit reports to screen out job applicants might run afoul of anti-discrimination laws as the government steps up scrutiny of hiring policies that can hurt blacks and Hispanics.

Rhetoric dims hope for Social Security compromise (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 05:06 PM PDT

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is surrounded by area children as she signs a $26 billion jobs bill to protect 300,000 teachers and other nonfederal government workers from election-year layoffs during an enrollment ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Prospects are bleak for fixing Social Security's financial problems as the government retirement insurance program celebrates its 75th anniversary this week.

Embattled Rep. Rangel thanks crowd at fundraiser (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 06:14 PM PDT

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, left, joins Rep. Charles Rangel, center, D-N.Y., and New York Gov. David A. Paterson onstage during Rangel's birthday fundraiser, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 at the Plaza Hotel in New York. Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel has told a packed gathering at a fundraiser in New York City that he was deeply moved by the show of support. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel has told a packed gathering at a fundraiser in New York City that he was deeply moved by the show of support.

US military sees heavier fighting in fall (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 03:05 PM PDT

In this combination of photos from various family and organizational sources, the ten civilian volunteers who were killed in Afghanistan on Thursday, Aug, 5, 2010, are shown. From top left, Glen D. Lapp, Tom Little, Dan Terry, Thomas Grams, Cheryl Beckett, Brian Carderelli, Karen Woo, Daniela Beyer, Mahram Ali, and Jawed. (AP Photo) NO SALESAP - The United States expects heavy fighting around the key Afghan city of Kandahar through this fall, one Pentagon official said Wednesday, dimming hopes for big gains in the war ahead of U.S. elections and a White House review of its war strategy.

DOJ says credit card trafficker arrested (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 03:48 PM PDT

AP - The Justice Department says an international credit card trafficker who allegedly sold stolen credit card information has been arrested in Nice, France.

Ben Quayle's new ad: Obama worst president ever (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 05:32 PM PDT

Ben Quayle is shown Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2010 in Phoneix. Quayle is currently leading 10 Republicans in fundraising and name recognition in the primary race for Arizona's 3rd Congressional District. The son of former Vice President Dan Quayle admitted once he wrote for a racy website that follows nightlife in Scottsdale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - The son of former Vice President Dan Quayle unveiled a TV campaign ad Wednesday in his bid for Congress in which he calls President Barack Obama "the worst president in history" and tells Arizona voters that he wants to "knock the hell" out of Washington.

Air Force Two in minor incident on Long Island (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 03:17 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 6, 2010 file photo, a presidential guard stands alert as U.S Air Force Two, carrying United States Vice President Joe Biden, lands at the red sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik airport, Egypt. Air Force Two with Vice President Joe Biden aboard has been involved in a minor accident with no injuries at at Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach, N.Y. on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)AP - Air Force Two with Vice President Joe Biden aboard was involved in a minor accident with no injuries Wednesday morning at a Long Island airport.

Clinton predicts GOP support for nuke arms treaty (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 07:57 AM PDT

AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she is confident the administration will win enough Republican votes in the Senate to ratify a nuclear arms treaty with Russia.

Hacker's extradition for cyber heist: sign US is gaining in cyber crime fight (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 03:20 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The cyber attack on the Atlanta-based subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) began Nov. 4, 2008, even as Americans went to polls to elect a new president.

Reid questions Hispanic support for Republicans (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 03:18 PM PDT

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. gestures during a news conference about the federal medical assistance program, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he cannot understand why Hispanics would vote for Republicans, a remark that drew immediate criticism from Republicans.

'Game of chicken' coming in Congress over Bush tax cuts (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 03:04 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Congressional incumbents, already nervous about increasingly unpredictable November elections, are facing a potentially make-or-break political decision: Whether to vote on extending expiring Bush era tax cuts before the election.

Pentagon plans advanced Patriot missile sale to Kuwait (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 02:57 PM PDT

Reuters - The Obama administration told Congress on Wednesday it planned to sell Kuwait the latest production version of Raytheon Co's Patriot interceptor missile amid concerns over Iran's growing missile capabilities.

Ga. GOP picks Deal as nominee for governor (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 01:40 PM PDT

Republican gubernatorial hopeful, Nathan Deal, left, talks with news anchors John Bachman, right, and Carol Sbarge on the set of Channel 2 Action News This Morning Wednesday, August 11, 2010 in Atlanat. With Republican gubernatorial runoff candidates Nathan Deal and Karen Handel only 2500 votes apart from each other, neither candidate was claiming victory or defeat Wednesday. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal Constitution, John Spink)AP - As antiestablishment anger swept other parts of the nation, Georgia Republicans tapped an 18-year congressional veteran dogged by ethics allegations as the party's nominee for governor.

Rwanda grenade attack marks Kagame's presidential win (AFP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 12:47 PM PDT

Surpporters of Rwanda's president Paul Kagame dance during a celebration rally at the Amahoro stadium on August 10, in Kigali. Kagame secured another seven-year term Wednesday after being declared landslide winner of an election criticised by international observers for shutting out the real opposition.(AFP/File/Simon Maina)AFP - A grenade attack shook the Rwandan capital on Wednesday, wounding at least seven people, as President Paul Kagame was declared winner of a much-criticised election devoid of real opposition.

Pilot: Waving hand 1st clue of AK crash survivors (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 03:33 PM PDT

**CORRECTS SOURCE FROM ALASKA STATE POLICE TO ALASKA STATE TROOPERS****RECROPPED VERSION OF NY117** This image provided by the Alaska State Troopers on Aug. 11, 2010 shows the wreckage of the amphibious plane carrying former Sen. Ted Stevens which crashed on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 into a remote mountainside during a fishing trip, killing the state's most beloved political figure and four others and stranding the survivors on a rocky, brush-covered slope near Dillingham, Alaska. Three teenagers and their parents, including the former head of NASA, were on the plane when it plowed into the mountain with so much force that it left a 300-foot gash on the slope, federal investigators said. The photos were taken as a trooper flew overhead in a state helicopter when weather allowed Alaska State Troopers to get near the scene. (AP photo/Alaska State Troopers)AP - One of the pilots who saw the wreckage of the amphibious plane carrying former Sen. Ted Stevens, his fishing companions and their families strewn across a mountainside remembers thinking: No one could've survived.

Gibbs stands by remarks on liberals — sort of (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 04:41 PM PDT

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs briefs reporters at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday he might have said things differently when he lashed out at liberals he called the "professional left" and suggested some of them should be drug tested.

US sells more Patriot missiles to Kuwait (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 12:08 PM PDT

A Kuwaiti reporter gets a close up look at a Patriot missile launcher in 2003. The Pentagon on Wednesday said it had notified the US Congress of a planned sale of Patriot missiles to Kuwait, which is looking to bolster its defenses against the threat from Iran.(AFP/File/Yasser al-Zayyat)AP - The Pentagon is planning to sell more than 200 Patriot missiles worth some $900 million to Kuwait as part of its long-term effort to build up anti-missile systems in the Persian Gulf.

Bennet hedges on Obama role in election campaign (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 11:28 AM PDT

AP - Victorious Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado says he appreciates Barack Obama's help in his primary fight, but isn't sure how big a part the president will play in his fall campaign.

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