2011年3月29日星期二

Yahoo! News: Elections

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Elections


Save the date: Obama set to announce reelection plans mid-April (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 05:46 AM PDT

President Barack Obama delivers his address on Libya at the National Defense University in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2011.   (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)Exclusive to Yahoo! News - By Marc Ambinder National Journal President Obama is fewer than three weeks away from formally announcing his reelection campaign, and will make it public with an online video his aides will post on his new campaign website, Democratic sources familiar …


Obama pushes DNC chairman Kaine toward Senate bid (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 06:07 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama nudged Democratic Party chief Tim Kaine toward a Senate run Tuesday, saying the former Virginia governor would be an outstanding lawmaker.

DOJ probe says Panthers case handled appropriately (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 05:26 PM PDT

AP - In a case that has drawn strong criticism from Republican conservatives, the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility has found no evidence that politics played a role when department attorneys dismissed three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party.

House votes to kill main Obama foreclosure aid (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 05:20 PM PDT

Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to kill President Barack Obama's signature program to help struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure.

Obama helps dedicate Ron Brown building in NYC (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 05:18 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama paid tribute Tuesday to the memory of Ron Brown, a Democratic trailblazer who broke racial barriers and who Obama says helped make his own presidency possible.

House votes to end mortgage reduction program (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 05:06 PM PDT

AP - House Republicans pushed through legislation Tuesday to terminate an underachieving Obama administration program designed to reduce mortgage payments for homeowners in danger of losing their homes to foreclosure.

Obama: Too early to negotiate exit with Gadhafi (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 04:47 PM PDT

FILE - In this 1970 file photo, Moammar Gadhafi is shown at the Cairo Airport in Cairo, Egypt.  Gadhafi was many things over many years: a dashing icon of Libyan revolution, a brazen patron of terrorists, the custodian of vast oil wealth, a dictator whose flamboyance masked grit and guile, and a longtime pariah on the road to rehabilitation in the West. From his cadre of female bodyguards to his penchant for pitching a tent on foreign visits, he was an object of fascination, ridicule and revulsion.  Now, in perhaps his final reinvention, Gadhafi is an apocalyptic figure, the dispenser of terrible bloodshed who seeks to keep power four decades after he ousted King Idris in a coup when he was an army captain.  (AP Photo, File)AP - President Barack Obama pledged Tuesday to increase diplomatic and political pressure on Moammar Gadhafi to compel the Libyan strongman to step down.


Two-thirds of oil and gas leases in Gulf inactive (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 04:36 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama is seen on a camera screen as he delivers remarks at a DNC event at The Studio Museum in New York March 29, 2011.    REUTERS/Jim Young      (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)AP - More than two-thirds of offshore leases in the Gulf of Mexico are sitting idle, neither producing oil and gas, nor being actively explored by the companies who hold the leases, according to a Department of Interior report released Tuesday.


Brown halts budget talks with GOP lawmakers (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 06:51 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 17, 2011 file photo, City employees embrace outside of Costa Mesa City Hall after a maintenance worker jumped to his death in Costa Mesa, Calif.  Huy Pham, a 29-year-old city maintenance worker, was about to be laid off when he climbed to the top of the city hall here and threw himself onto the sidewalk below. The public suicide sent shock waves through this suburban Orange County community and prompted bitter finger-pointing at elected officials who voted to pink slip more than 200 city workers to fend off a looming deficit. As cities and counties across the country grapple with shrinking budgets and soaring pension costs, how will they handle a workforce that long saw in the public sector a stable living and now finds itself at risk. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Kevin Sullivan)   MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUTAP - Gov. Jerry Brown cut off budget negotiations Tuesday with Republican lawmakers, effectively ending his plan to ask Californians to vote on tax extensions in a June special election and creating uncertainty about what steps he and the Legislature will take to close the rest of California's deficit.


Presidency change spurs questions over FLDS future (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 06:32 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2010 file photo, Warren Jeffs sits in the Third District Court in Salt Lake City. An elder in Jeffs' polygamous sect is moving to replace the jailed leader as head of his southern Utah-based church.  Forty-one-year-old William E. Jessop filed papers Monday, March 28, 2011, with the Utah Department of Commerce to be president of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints. (AP Photo/Trent Nelson, Pool, File)AP - The future of a 10,000-strong southern Utah-based polygamous church remained uncertain Tuesday, a day after a new president replaced its jailed leader.


Obama hopes Gaddafi will ultimately step down (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 06:23 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the objective of a U.S. and allied military campaign is to apply steady pressure on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi so he will "ultimately step down" from power.

Obama to ABC News: 'Libya was a unique situation' (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 04:28 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama says he doesn't know if the circumstances that led him to intervene militarily in Libya could be duplicated anyplace else. That comment seems to rule out U.S. involvement in Syria, which is experiencing a wave of popular dissent.

NATO commander: It is 'premature' to talk of Libya exit strategy (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 03:51 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - NATO's Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that the military alliance will take over full operations of the current campaign there, including the protection of civilians, in the next 48 hours.

Democrat urges White House push ahead on Korea deal (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 03:18 PM PDT

Reuters - A senior Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday urged the Obama administration to prod Republicans into action on a free trade pact with South Korea by "immediately" sending Congress a draft implementing bill.

Renewed US missile barrage amid Libya talks (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 02:58 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodam Clinton listens to a question during a news conference after the Libya Conference at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in London Tuesday  March 29, 2011. World powers agreed Tuesday that Moammar Gadhafi should step down after 42 years as Libya's ruler but did not discuss arming the rebels who are seeking to oust him. (AP Photo/Toby Melville, Pool)AP - Stepping up attacks far from the frontline fighting, a U.S. Navy ship fired 22 Tomahawk cruise missiles at weapon storage sites around Tripoli on Tuesday, a day after President Barack Obama said the U.S. was moving into more of a backseat role in the Libya military campaign.


Abortion foes push vote on Ohio 'heartbeat bill' (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 02:39 PM PDT

AP - Backers of an Ohio bill that could impose a restrictive abortion limit are telling reticent state lawmakers to embrace potential legal challenges.

Troop deployments cost NC extra seat in Congress (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 02:13 PM PDT

AP - North Carolina is losing out on a congressional seat and future tax dollars because so many of its military personnel were deployed during the U.S. Census and counted in population totals for other states, according to an Associated Press review.

Democrats blame Tea Party for budget impasse (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 02:11 PM PDT

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid on Capitol Hill, November 16, 2010. REUTERS/Jim YoungReuters - Democrats accused Republicans on Tuesday of walking away from budget talks that would cut spending and avoid a looming government shutdown for fear of angering grass-roots Tea Party conservatives.


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