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BBC News
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The US Supreme Court is expected to deliver a ruling shortly that could have a far-reaching effect on gun control laws in the United States.
The nine justices have been considering whether a 32-year-old ban on handguns in Washington DC is unconstitutio..
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MSNBC
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He has long supported the death penalty while criticizing the way it is sometimes applied.
As an Illinois legislator, he helped rewrite the state's death penalty system to guard against innocent people being sentenced to die. The new safeguards include..
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MSNBC
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Mr. Obama said Wednesday that he would not send out e-mail to his small-dollar donors asking them to send money to Mrs. Clinton. “Their budgets are tighter,” he said. “They know that I’m going to be working with Senator Clinton, and if they want t..
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MSNBC
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In a CBS News poll two weeks ago, 43 percent of registered voters said they believed he would continue Mr. Bush’s policies, and 21 percent said he would be more conservative in his policies than Mr. Bush. Twenty-eight percent said he would be less conse..
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SF Gate
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The Justice Department overreached in prosecuting a former Bush administration official in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, a federal appeals court said Tuesday as it dismissed some charges and ordered a new trial on others.
The decision overturns t..
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MSNBC
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A night owl, Mr. Obama is known to send e-mail messages well after midnight. Laurence H. Tribe, his Harvard law professor who now serves as an informal adviser, said he received an e-mail message from the candidate at 1:30 a.m. on June 4, when he had rece..
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MSNBC
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With the general election in full gear, Senator John McCain has stepped up efforts to paint his rival, Senator Barack Obama, as what he calls a traditional Democratic tax-and-spend liberal. On Tuesday, for instance, Mr. McCain, addressing a business gathe..
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SF Gate
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People around the globe widely expect the next American president to improve the country's policies toward the rest of the world, especially if Barack Obama is elected, yet they retain a persistently poor image of the U.S., according to a poll released Th..
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SF Gate
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Lawmakers voted to subpoena nine companies responsible for analyzing the most dangerous food entering the country as part of an investigation that gained more urgency with an outbreak of salmonella from tomatoes.
For months, a House Energy and Commerce..
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BBC News
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Libya's leader has strongly criticised US presidential candidate Barack Obama for saying Jerusalem should remain the undivided capital of Israel.
Col Muammar Gaddafi said he was either ignorant of the Middle East conflict or lying to boost his campaign..
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MSNBC
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Poll: More women support Obama
Polling data suggest that women are more likely than men to hold unfavorable views of McCain and to say they support Obama over McCain. But a Pew Research Center survey in late May suggested that the Democratic nomination..
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MSNBC
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Newhouse adds, “Voters are not convinced that McCain represents the change they want and that he’ll be all that different from Bush.” Indeed, according to the poll, 48 percent say it’s likely that Obama will be real change to the country. Just 21..
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SF Gate
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House Democrats came so close to a veto-proof margin for their proposal to give the unemployed an extra three months of benefits.
Taking another shot on the same measure, the goal for Thursday was to pass it by just a majority, not the two-thirds it wo..
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MSNBC
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For all the efforts of Senators John McCain and Barack Obama to portray themselves as willing to break with party orthodoxy to get things done, the economic debate that opened their general election campaign this week previews a classic clash. It is a bat..
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BusinessWeek
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The former President's conduct during the Obama-McCain campaign has strategic importance for his image, legacy, and huge moneymaking ability
Former President Bill Clinton last year earned around $50 million in speaking fees, giving 80% of that to his p..
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SF Gate
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Saved by Senate Republicans, big oil companies dodged an attempt Tuesday to slap them with a windfall profits tax and take away billions of dollars in tax breaks in response to the record gasoline prices that have the nation fuming.
GOP senators shoved..
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BBC News
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Hillary Clinton will withdraw from the race to become the Democratic candidate for the US presidency, and back her rival Barack Obama, her campaign says.
On Tuesday, Mr Obama gained enough delegates to win the nomination, after the final votes of the p..
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MSNBC
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Pro: She has enough experience and political heft to convince voters she could be president at a moment's notice, the "threshold question" for a vice president.
Con: You two don't seem to like each other very much. When you were closing in on the nomin..
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MSNBC
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A day after he clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama said Wednesday that he expected an organized Republican attack on his integrity and patriotism because “it’s very hard for them to talk about where they want to take the..
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MSNBC
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will suspend her campaign and endorse Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday, NBC News confirmed, bringing an end to a ground-breaking presidential race.
Hours after Barack Obama sealed the nomination on Tuesday, Democrats coalesced..
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