2011年5月17日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Gingrich urges talk about his personal failings (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 04:06 AM PDT

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks during the Kiwanis Club luncheon, Monday, May 16, 2011, in Dubuque, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich says he has sought God's forgiveness for his personal failings and hopes that evangelical voters take time to talk to him about his two divorces and his affair with the woman who is now his third wife.


X factor: 5 questions for the GOP race (Politico)

Posted: 17 May 2011 02:40 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 2, 2011 file photo, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks in Lakewood, Colo. The more Republicans get to know their potential presidential candidates, the less happy they are with their choices. Some 45 percent in an AP-GfK poll say they're dissatisfied with the GOP candidates who have declared or are thought to be serious about running, up from 33 percent just two months ago. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)Politico - A growing list of serious Republicans have now passed on the 2012 election, and so has Donald Trump.


Obama tries to fire up frustrated supporters (AP)

Posted: 16 May 2011 06:58 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks during a Democratic National Committee event, Monday, May 16, 2011, in Washington.  (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Angling for a second term, President Barack Obama tried to fire up supporters Monday night, saying failure to get everything they want as fast as they want should motivate and not dissuade them.


US, Obama's image sour in Muslim nations: poll (AFP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 04:15 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama walks the West Wing colonnade to the Oval Office at the White House, Washington, DC, on May 16. The image of the United States has soured in Muslim nations in the past year, says a poll released two days before Obama is due to deliver a speech on the pro-democracy revolts sweeping the Arab world.(AFP/File/Mike Theiler)AFP - The image of the United States has soured in Muslim nations in the past year, says a poll released two days before President Barack Obama is due to deliver a speech on the pro-democracy revolts sweeping the Arab world.


Senate blocks bill repealing $2B in oil tax breaks (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 04:00 PM PDT

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, center, joined at right by Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., arrives to speaks with reporters following a weekly Republican policy luncheon, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 17, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The Senate blocked a bill Tuesday that would repeal about $2 billion a year in tax breaks for the five biggest oil companies, a Democratic response to $4-a-gallon gasoline that might fare better when Congress and the White House negotiate a deal later this year to increase the government's ability to borrow.


US rep complains of naval ship's Cesar Chavez name (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 03:46 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. Navy's plan to name a cargo ship after the late farmworker activist Cesar Chavez drew sharp criticism from a California Republican congressman who on Tuesday said the decision was unfair to military war heroes.

Willie Nelson endorses Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson (Daily Caller)

Posted: 17 May 2011 03:05 PM PDT

Daily Caller - Former New Mexico Governor and presidential candidate Gary Johnson has scored an endorsement from none other than Willie Nelson, the Johnson campaign announced Tuesday afternoon.

Santorum: McCain doesn't understand interrogation (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 05:07 PM PDT

Possible 2012 presidential hopeful, former Republican U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, talks with GOP activist Sue Carrol, Thursday, May 12, 2011 in Salem, N.H., as he works to lay the ground work in the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - Former Sen. Rick Santorum said Tuesday that Sen. John McCain, who spent 5 1/2 years enduring brutal treatment at the hands of his North Vietnamese captors, doesn't know how effective waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques can be. The Republican presidential contender insisted the tactics led the United States to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.


SPIN METER: On health care, it's Newt vs. Newt (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 04:55 PM PDT

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks during the Kiwanis Club luncheon, Monday, May 16, 2011, in Dubuque, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - An official presidential candidate for less than a week, Newt Gingrich already finds himself in hot water with conservatives for suggesting he supports health care mandates while at the same time deriding a Republican budget proposal that would replace Medicare with vouchers.


Egypt's Rocky Transition to Democracy: By the Numbers (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 17 May 2011 04:41 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - With long-time Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak forced out of power, the transition period to Presidential elections this fall has proved challenging for the military-led Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. Headed by Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the junta has had to contend with rising sectarian violence and demands from activists for a greater stake in the country's political future.

APNewsBreak: Giffords set to undergo skull surgery (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 04:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 2010 file photo provided by the office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., Giffords poses for a photo. Still recovering from a gunshot wound to the head, Giffords was at Kennedy Space Center on Monday, May 16, 2011, to witness husband Mark Kelly and his five crewmates blast off and head to the International Space Station.  (AP Photo/Office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, File)AP - Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will undergo surgery on Wednesday to replace a piece of her skull removed by doctors after she was shot in January. The surgery was confirmed to The Associated Press by a person familiar with Giffords' care. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the information has not officially been released.


US Senate blocks bill targeting oil firm subsidies (AFP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 04:29 PM PDT

A sign showing the price for gasoline is displayed at a Shell gas station in April 2011 in San Francisco, California. The US Senate on Tuesday defeated a bill taking aim at some $2 billion in annual subsidies to some of the world's largest and most profitable oil companies amid deep voter anger at high gasoline prices.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Paul Morris)AFP - The US Senate on Tuesday defeated a bill taking aim at some $2 billion in annual subsidies to some of the world's largest and most profitable oil companies amid deep voter anger at high gasoline prices.


Gingrich hits rough patch early in White House run (Reuters)

Posted: 17 May 2011 04:28 PM PDT

Reuters - Republican Newt Gingrich has hit a rough patch early in his U.S. presidential campaign, coming under sharp attack from an unexpected flank -- fellow conservatives.

Lawmakers angry with Pakistan warn of cuts in aid (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 03:01 PM PDT

U.S. Senator John Kerry speaks during a press conference at the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 15, 2011. U.S. Sen. John Kerry says the U.S. relationship with Pakistan is at a 'critical moment' because of the killing of Osama bin Laden. But he also said that bin Laden's death may present a new opportunity for reconciliation with the Taliban in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - Congressional Republicans and Democrats warned Pakistan on Tuesday that billions of dollars in American aid are at stake if Islamabad doesn't step up its efforts against terrorists, a clear sign of the growing exasperation after the U.S. takedown of Osama bin Laden deep inside Pakistan.


Obama administration wants rebate on electric cars (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 02:47 PM PDT

AP - U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told a group of Nissan executives and workers on Tuesday that the Obama administration wants consumers to be able to get a tax rebate at dealerships when they buy electric cars.

Gingriches owed as much as $500k to Tiffany's (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 02:39 PM PDT

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks during the Kiwanis Club luncheon, Monday, May 16, 2011, in Dubuque, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich's family at one point owed as much as a half million dollars to luxury jeweler Tiffany's, according to disclosures his wife filed in her former job as a Capitol Hill staffer.


Geithner: U.S. must deal with budget woes or pay more (Reuters)

Posted: 17 May 2011 02:25 PM PDT

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner speaks at the Harvard Club in New York May 17, 2011. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonReuters - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Tuesday the country's debt situation was so severe that Congress must deal with it or face the risk the country will be charged much higher interest rates to borrow.


Thompson considerations loom in Wis. Senate race (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 02:20 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2007, file photo is former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson in Henderson, Nev. U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan said Tuesday, May 17, 2011, he will not run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Democrat Herb Kohl, a decision that may open the door to a bid by Thompson. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)AP - U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan's decision not to run for Wisconsin's soon-to-be open Senate seat cleared the path Tuesday for other Republicans eyeing a race that will help determine the balance of power in the Senate. Until Tommy Thompson got in the way.


Senators step up oil blame game with refiner probe (Reuters)

Posted: 17 May 2011 02:15 PM PDT

A gasoline silo at a refinery in New Jersey, in a file photo. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonReuters - Democratic senators called for a federal probe to determine if U.S. refiners are cutting gasoline production to keep pump prices high, the latest in a series of political measures seeking to combat $4-a-gallon gasoline that critics say is largely political theater.


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