2011年2月17日星期四

Yahoo! News: Elections

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Elections

Alaska governor refusing to enact health care law (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:18 PM PST

AP - Gov. Sean Parnell took a defiant stand Thursday against the federal health care overhaul Congress passed last year, declaring that he will refuse to implement a law he views as blatantly unconstitutional.

Senate would limit subsidies for rural air service (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:16 PM PST

AP - The Senate has agreed to impose new restrictions on small, often remote airports receiving federally subsidized airline service.

White House aims to revamp education law by summer (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:06 PM PST

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan delivers his closing address at the Education Summit in Denver on on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/ Ed Andrieski)AP - The Obama administration set a goal Thursday of revamping the federal No Child Left Behind education law before students start the next school year in the fall, a timeframe likely to clash with the priorities of congressional Republicans.

PG&E: San Bruno blast to cost twice prior estimate (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:53 PM PST

AP - Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s parent company says costs related to September's deadly pipeline explosion in San Bruno will be twice as high as the company previously expected.

HI lawmaker: Obama birth certificate bill tabled (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:51 PM PST

US President Barack Obama walks to Marine One on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, DC, as he departs for California. Obama Thursday headed west to meet the cream of Silicon Valley business titans, including Apple's Steve Jobs, to seek input on how to speed up job growth and economic recovery.(AFP/Jewel Samad)AP - A proposal to sell copies of President Barack Obama's birth records to anyone for $100 is going nowhere in the Hawaii Legislature.

Palin rejects new gun laws, vague on 2012 plans (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:50 PM PST

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin covers her heart during the national anthem as she attends a public appearance at a Long Island Association (LIA) meeting and luncheon in Woodbury, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)AP - Sarah Palin, in a rare public appearance at which reporters were allowed, praised lawmakers threatening to vote against raising the federal debt ceiling. She stuck to her guns on "death panels" Thursday and continued tweaking the first lady's efforts to fight childhood obesity, but she chided some of her own supporters for sustaining the "annoying" claims that President Barack Obama is foreign-born and Muslim.

Memos: Firefighter refused call to Tucson shooting (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:50 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2011 file photo, emergency personnel work at the scene where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and others were shot outside a Safeway grocery store in Tucson, Ariz. Veteran firefighter Mark Ekstrum refused to respond to the deadly shooting spree because of 'political bantering,' and it may have delayed his unit's assignment to help, according to internal city memos. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)AP - A veteran firefighter refused to respond to last month's deadly shooting spree that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords wounded because he had different political views than his colleagues and "did not want to be part of it," according to internal city memos.

House votes to overturn FCC Internet rules (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:20 PM PST

Reuters - The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to overturn proposed rules that bar Internet service providers from blocking legal content but give some discretion to ration access for bandwidth hogs.

Ex-whistle-blower protector asks to withdraw plea (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:15 PM PST

AP - The former government protector of whistle-blowers who admitted to criminally withholding information from Congress asked a judge Thursday to withdraw his guilty plea to avoid mandatory jail time.

Wis. lawmakers flee state to block anti-union bill (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:10 PM PST

Protestors of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers pack the rotunda at the State Capitol in Madison, Wis., Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)AP - Faced with a near-certain Republican victory that would end a half-century of collective bargaining for public workers, Wisconsin Democrats retaliated with the only weapon they had left: They fled.

Census shows huge Hispanic growth in Texas (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:15 PM PST

In this photo made Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011, five-year-old kindergarden students Gael Alvarado, left, Perla Ortiz, center, and Yahir Perez do school work in a bilingual english-spanish class at Hanby Elementary School in Mesquite, Texas. Mesquite ISD, like many districts in Texas, has seen a demographic shift in the racial make up students over the past 10 years. Hispanics account for two-thirds of Texas' growth over the past decade and now make up 38 percent of the state's total population, according to new local U.S. Census figures released Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/LM Otero) (AP Photo/LM Otero)AP - Ethnic minorities accounted for 89 percent of the staggering growth in Texas over the past decade, according to figures released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau that support projections putting Hispanics on pace to soon outnumber whites in the nation's second-largest state.

Correction: Patriot Act (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 03:52 PM PST

AP - In story Feb. 15 about the Senate voting to extend antiterrorism measures, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a "lone wolf" provision in a 2004 law permits secret intelligence surveillance of non-U.S. individuals not known to be linked to a specific terrorist activity.

US rep: Agents ambushed by drug gang in Mexico (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 03:45 PM PST

In this undated photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Wednesday Feb. 16, 2011 is seen ICE Special Agent Jaime Zapata. Zapata, on assignment to the ICE Attache in Mexico City from his post in Laredo, Texas, died Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011 when gunmen attacked the agents' vehicle as he and another agent drove through the northern state of San Luis Potosi. The second agent, who wasn't identified, was shot in the arm and leg and was in stable condition, according to statements from the Department of Homeland Security. (AP Photo/ICE)AP - Gunmen from Mexico's ruthless Zetas drug gang carried out a highway ambush that killed one U.S. federal agent and wounded another this week, a Texas congressman said Thursday.

NH lawmakers urged to scrap gay marriage repeal (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 03:38 PM PST

AP - Undeterred by the likelihood that no vote will take place until next year, hundreds of supporters of New Hampshire's gay marriage law spent hours Thursday urging lawmakers to reject efforts to repeal it.

Giffords is alert, one of first words was 'better' (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 03:18 PM PST

FILE - This Jan. 5, 2011 file photo shows Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., on Capitol Hill in Washington. Giffords was shot on Jan. 8, 2011 while meeting with constituents in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is laughing at jokes and eating sushi and even spoke the word "better" when asked recently by her husband how she was doing. Her doctor describes her as a hard worker who diligently completes her therapy each day.

Manipulative Media: How to Spin Fabrications and Influence Politics (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 02:56 PM PST

ContributorNetwork - Fox News is making headlines for alleged media deception to its viewers by airing erroneous footage from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), depicting Texas Congressman Ron Paul's recent straw poll win with boos from a sea of Mitt Romney supporters.

Democrats leave Wisconsin to protest union curbs (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 02:38 PM PST

Reuters - Democrats in the Wisconsin Senate left the state on Thursday in a boycott of a vote to curb the union rights of public employees, attempting to force majority Republicans to negotiate a compromise.

US seeks to avoid UN vote on Israeli settlements (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 02:34 PM PST

AP - Stuck in a diplomatic bind, the Obama administration scrambled Thursday to avert a difficult U.N. Security Council vote on a Palestinian-backed resolution condemning Israeli settlements. President Barack Obama raised the subject in a call with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after other attempts to sway him failed.

Dodd-Frank tensions headline Senate hearing (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 02:34 PM PST

Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke (L) speaks as Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Sheila Bair (2nd L), Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission Mary Schapiro (C), Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Gary Gensler (2nd R) and acting Comptroller of the Currency John Walsh (R) listen, at the Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington February 17, 2011. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS)Reuters - Republicans escalated their push to delay and defund the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reforms on Thursday as top regulators warned the Senate Banking Committee of a staff and funding crunch.

Highlights of $1.2 trillion GOP spending bill (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 02:21 PM PST

AP - Republicans controlling the House are advancing a $1.2 trillion omnibus spending bill to wrap up the unfinished 2011 spending bills they inherited from Democrats. The measure cuts $61 billion from the 2010 bills endorsed by President Barak Obama. Highlights include:

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