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Nevada Partnership Bill Now Law
May 31st, 2009 By STEVE FRIESS Overriding the governor’s veto, the Nevada legislature voted a domestic partnership registry for same-sex and unmarried couples into law.Battle for Senate Seat Goes to Minnesota’s Top Court
May 31st, 2009 By JOHN SCHWARTZ Oral arguments begin after half a year of arguments between supporters of Al Franken and Norm Coleman, with Republicans’ ability to filibuster at stake.Hospitals Mobilizing to Fight Proposed Charity Care Rules
May 31st, 2009 By ROBERT PEAR Hospitals planned to lobby against a proposal requiring they provide a “minimum level of charitable care” to keep a tax exemption.U.S. Weighs Tactics on Israeli Settlement
May 31st, 2009 By HELENE COOPER Administration officials are debating how to toughen their stance against Israeli settlement expansion ahead of a presidential speech in Cairo.Obama, in Europe, must show diplomatic style works (Reuters)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama makes a second foray into European diplomacy this week facing pressure to demonstrate his consensus-building foreign policy can produce results where his predecessor George W. Bush's go-it-alone style failed.
mps' expenses: General election first, 'clean up' later - Telegraph.co.uk
May 31st, 2009 us election news - Google News Telegraph.co.uk | mps' expenses: General election first, 'clean up' later Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom The truth is he knows the people want an election now so we can give a new government a mandate to resolve all our problems that "he" has created, but he also knows that if he gave us one, he and all his party would be nearly wiped of the map, ... Is Gordon Brown taking us for fools? Up to you to send this mob packing Brown wants Ed Balls as chancellor |
US committed to new approach for hemisphere (AP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
AP - A diplomatic tug-of-war over Cuba's outcast status in the Organization of American States takes center stage at the group's meeting this week in Honduras, testing U.S. efforts to engage the communist nation.
Libs want to limit pre-writ political advertising, Tories call it … - Hill Times (subscription)
May 31st, 2009 us election news - Google NewsLibs want to limit pre-writ political advertising, Tories call it ... Hill Times (subscription), Canada "The Conservative government has stated that it wants to reduce the influence of money in politics, yet it failed to correct this oversight in Bill C-16, which gave us fixed election dates. Canadians expect elections to be decided through a fair ... |
Book traces dramatic rise of 44th US president - msnbc.com
May 31st, 2009 us election news - Google NewsBook traces dramatic rise of 44th US president msnbc.com Election day starts, in the small hours, where the candidate has spent most of his last 626 days: on a plane. Stuck to the gray plastic walls of the pressurized cabin are snapshots of his odyssey across cities and fields, mountains and deserts, ... |
Idle Idol reminiscence - The Sun Daily
May 31st, 2009 us election news - Google NewsIdle Idol reminiscence The Sun Daily, Malaysia Mind you, I'm happy to report that current US President Barack Obama received 69 million votes by himself in the 2008 US election – more than any American Idol contestant has ever achieved. But of course there is a key difference. ... |
U.S. wrestles with new role as owner (Politico)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections Politico - Even as it gets set to announce the bankruptcy of General Motors Monday, the Obama administration is struggling to set parameters on how it will act after taking a 60 percent stake in the new company that emerges – and now that it has become the owner of a significant swath of Corporate America.Effectiveness of attack ads? It depends - Miramichi Leader
May 31st, 2009 us election news - Google News DigitalJournal.com | Effectiveness of attack ads? It depends Miramichi Leader, Canada Not because it's in the best interest of us, the voters who pay the bills. And not because it's in the best interest of the country, whatever that means. Nothing so noble is at the heart of an election call. It's all calculation. ... Conservatives pushing legislative, policy agenda through by fall Slimy ads a (worrisome) tradition Flaherty, Harper don't even know what truth is |
US and Taliban to Redouble Afghan Efforts - New York Times
May 31st, 2009 us election news - Google NewsUS and Taliban to Redouble Afghan Efforts New York Times, United States With the official start of the campaign season just two weeks away, both sides see the election as crucial to the country's future. The election is “the most important governance event of the year, and perhaps in years to come,” Brig. Gen. ... |
US-Cuba talks on immigration to resume (AP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections AP - Cuba has agreed to resume talks with the Obama administration on legal immigration of Cubans to the United States and direct mail service between the two countries in a move welcomed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.Obama takes it slow before upcoming busy week (AP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
AP - It was a leisurely weekend for President Barack Obama, whose schedule is about to kick into high gear for domestic and overseas business.
Obama says he’s shocked, saddened by Tiller death (AP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections AP - President Barack Obama says he is shocked and outraged over the killing of an abortion provider at a Kansas church.Obama ‘Shocked and Outraged’ by Tiller Shooting
May 31st, 2009 44 President Obama issued a statement today condemning the shooting death this morning of Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller. Obama said in a statement, "However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence."Obama still courting Pennsylvania (Politico)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections Politico - Obama topped off months of small rewards Pennsylvania, the state that helped propel him to the presidency, with a big one on Thursday—the administration's announcement that it had selected Pittsburgh to host next year’s G-20 Summit, which will give a big economic boost and international spotlight to the once-industrial city.New line of attack in SCOTUS fight (Politico)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections Politico - “Judicial activism” has been the catchphrase for conservative resistance to Democratic judicial nominees, but some opponents of Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination are injecting another term – “Legal Realism” – into the fight.Iowa presidential campaigning returns (AP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
AP - It's been six months since voters handed Barack Obama the White House, and in the minds of a lot of Iowa activists that means only one thing: It's time to start the campaign again.
Dems differ on ‘wise Latina’ defenses (Politico)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections Politico - As Republicans continue to hammer Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor for a 2001 assertion that’s become known as the “wise Latina” remark, her backers are struggling to come up with a single coherent line of defense.Obama keeps promise with New York date (AFP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
AFP - US President Barack Obama swept First Lady Michelle Obama off to a Broadway show on Saturday night -- to honor a promise made in the heat of his gruelling 2008 campaign.
The vultures circle Brown: I'll fight on, vows PM as backbenchers … - Daily Mail
May 31st, 2009 us election news - Google News Daily Mail | The vultures circle Brown: I'll fight on, vows PM as backbenchers ... Daily Mail, UK 'My plan is to clean up the system and make sure that by the time we have an election, we have shown people that we can clean up the system. My plan is also to get us through this economic downturn.' |
GM prepares for bankruptcy protection announcement (AP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
AP - General Motors Corp. was making final preparations Sunday for its bankruptcy protection announcement after bondholders accepted a sweetened deal, smoothing the way for the company's reorganization.
Obama’s efforts to engage Cuba facing big test (AP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: ElectionsAP - A diplomatic tug-of-war over Cuba's outcast status in the Organization of American States takes center stage at the group's meeting this week in Honduras, testing U.S. efforts to engage the communist nation.
Schumer: Sotomayor `virtually filibuster-proof’ (AP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections AP - A leading Democratic senator says that President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee is "virtually filibuster-proof" when his colleagues look at her record.GOP senators sidestep harsh criticism of Sotomayor (AP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
AP - Leading GOP senators on Sunday offered more subtle criticism of the first Hispanic nominated to the Supreme Court, but passed up the chance to stifle racially charged critiques of Sonia Sotomayor by some fellow Republicans.
Muslims want tangible change on Mideast from Obama (AP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
AP - Respect for Islam, a prescription for Palestinian statehood and assurances of a speedy U.S. pullout from Iraq that's what Muslims from Morocco to Malaysia say they want to hear from President Barack Obama this week when he addresses them from this Arab capital.
Is Gordon Brown taking us for fools? - Daily Mail
May 31st, 2009 us election news - Google News Times Online | Is Gordon Brown taking us for fools? Daily Mail, UK Brown's line on not calling an election is that he has a duty to clean up Westminster first. Before the mps' expenses row, he said he had to get the economy back on track first. It's simple: he'd be slaughtered. But if he waits 12 months from now, ... Gordon Brown sets out reform of politics and Parliament and ... Gordon Brown: 'I'm Staying On In The Job' mps without constituency support should resign now |
At Blue Hill, It’s President and Mrs. Foodie
May 31st, 2009 44 By Garance Franke-Ruta President and Michelle Obama can cross another restaurant off their foodie must-visit list. In Manhattan on Saturday to see a production of the Tony-nominated August Wilson play "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," President Obama and his wife Michelle, wearing a chic black dress and carrying a blue clutch, first traveled to Greenwich Village for a meal at cozy, romantic Blue Hill on Washington Place. The visit to the unobtrusive, below-street level restaurant can be read as yet another sign that the Obamas are serious diners fond of top-notch restaurants that, coincidentally, also deliver a distinct agricultural political message. Blue Hill is known in New York as one of the city's premier farm-to-table dining spots, and the former speakeasy space has been described by New York magazine as possibly "the best low-profile restaurant in town." Diners can opt for a regular menu of Hudson-Valley grown and -raised dishesThe Obamas’ Big Apple Escape: Dinner and a Show
May 31st, 2009 44 Associated Press President Obama made good Saturday night on a campaign promise to his wife, Michelle, jetting to New York to take in an August Wilson play on Broadway. Obama said in a statement to the media that he had promised his wife "during the campaign that I would take her to a Broadway show after it was all finished." Once in New York, the couple dined for a little more than two hours at Blue Hill, a Greenwich Village restaurant, before heading to the Belasco Theater for its revival of "Joe Turner's Come and Gone." They then returned home to the White House. The play is about black America in the early 1900s, with residents of a boardinghouse recalling their migration from the sharecropping farms of the South to the industrialized North. As the presidential motorcade drove up Sixth Avenue to the theater, crowds of people, at times aboutCourt Choice Brings Issue of ‘Identity’ Back Out
May 31st, 2009 By PETER BAKER With President Obama’s pick of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, identity politics in America is back with a vengeance.Layton says he won't force summer election - CTV.ca
May 31st, 2009 us election news - Google News Globe and Mail | Layton says he won't force summer election CTV.ca, Canada "I don't think Canadians would want us to (force an election)," Layton said. "What they would want us to do is get their pensions protected, get the EI system fixed. So that's exactly what we've been doing and we'll continue to do that. ... NDP returns union cash, Tories want probe Rae campaigns for NS Liberals, says best way to govern is from centre Rick's Rants Monday June 1st/09 |
Obama’s Face (That’s Him?) Rules the Web
May 31st, 2009 By RANDY KENNEDY Perhaps not since John F. Kennedy has a presidency so fanned the flames of painterly ardor among artists.McConnell: Need time to review Sotomayor’s record (AP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections AP - The Senate's top Republican says the debate over President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court nominee should not begin with a deadline for a vote, as the president wants.Afghan presidential hopeful vows to create PM post (Reuters)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
Reuters - Afghan presidential hopeful and former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah said he would revise Afghanistan's constitution to install a prime minister and boost the powers of parliament if he wins elections in August.
Obama’s efforts to engage Cuba facing big test (AP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections AP - A diplomatic tug-of-war over Cuba's outcast status in the Organization of American States takes center stage at the group's meeting this week in Honduras, testing U.S. efforts to engage the communist nation.First couple’s NY date: a campaign promise kept (AP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
AP - President Barack Obama made good on a campaign promise to his most important supporter Saturday night his wife, Michelle.
Costs top $50M as Minn. Senate fight trudges on (AP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections AP - Senate foes Al Franken and Norm Coleman stepped off Minnesota's campaign trail last November after sinking $37 million into commercials, consultants and statewide tours.Berlusconi to talk regulation with Obama before G8 (Reuters)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections Reuters - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who currently chairs the G8 group of industrial nations, said on Sunday he would meet U.S. President Barack Obama on June 15 to discuss new rules to regulate the world economy.GOP senator: Sotomayor not better than a white man (AP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections AP - A GOP senator on the committee that will consider Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination says her early life of hardship is praiseworthy. But it doesn't make her better than he or other white men.Leahy: Sotomayor hearings will be on his schedule (AP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections AP - The top Democrat overseeing President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee says he will set his own schedule for Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings.Geithner calls for closer economic ties with China (AP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
AP - After years of acrimonious economic relations with China, the U.S. insists it wants to turn the page and develop closer ties with the world's third largest economy.
Official: US-Cuba talks on immigration to resume (AP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
AP - Cuba has agreed to resume talks with the Obama administration on legal immigration of Cubans to the United States and direct mail service between the two countries, a State Department official said Sunday.
Hutchison: Keep respectful the debate over nominee (AP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections AP - Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison says the debate over Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination should be respectful and based on her record not on labels applied to the federal judge.Geithner sees hopeful signs in US economy (AP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: ElectionsAP - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the U.S. financial system is in much better shape these days and there is more stability in the overall economy.
GOP senator: Stop calling Sotomayor a ‘racist’ (AP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
AP - The top Republican involved in the confirmation hearings for President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee says he would prefer his colleagues refrain from calling Sonia Sotomayor a racist.
Iranian officials defuse bomb in plane toilet (AFP)
May 31st, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
AFP - Iranian security officials defused a bomb planted on a domestic passenger plane, officials said on Sunday, the latest incident of violence ahead of next month's presidential election.