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SF Gate
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Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, the 46-year-old freshman senator from Illinois, ended a 16-month political marathon Tuesday, clinching enough delegates to become the first African American presidential nominee of a major political party.
It was a momento..
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Independent
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Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success..
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SF Gate
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President Bush played down the failure of the Iraqi government to meet political benchmarks set by the U.S. Congress, telling the American Legion on Tuesday that it makes no sense to ignore real military progress despite the Iraqi government's failure to..
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CNN
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President Bush's summit with the leaders of Canada and Mexico is likely to produce additional assurances of what unites them -- and clear signs of what doesn't.
Bush came to this resort town on the Ottawa River to strengthen his ties with Canadian Pri..
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FOX News
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The White House said Friday it will move quickly to find a successor — preferably an American — for departing World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz as the administration sought to rebuild relationships strained by the controversy.
Wolfowitz a day ear..
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CBS News
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Senator John McCain says the House, the Senate and the majority of the American people are all wrong when it comes to Iraq. He set out to prove it last week by walking into the heart of Baghdad. What he said about security after that walk set off front pa..
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FOX News
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A rowdy protest broke out at the American University in Washington, D.C., Tuesday night after White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove delivered a speech on campus, local media reported.
More than a dozen students began throwing things at Rove and h..
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SF Gate
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People across the political and racial spectrums started discussing presidential candidate and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's race after he spoke at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Some insist he is not African American and is unsuited to be a b..
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New Yorker
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The office desk of Joel Surnow—the co-creator and executive producer of “24,” the popular counterterrorism drama on Fox—faces a wall dominated by an American flag in a glass case. A small label reveals that the flag once flew over Baghdad, after t..
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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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MSNBC
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We are six years into a war that has claimed more than 4,000 American lives ... cost nearly a trillion dollars that could have been used to meet urgent needs at home and damaged the reputation of the United States in the eyes of the world,” House Speake..
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MSNBC
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Toward this end, Mr. Edwards called at the time for establishing a more effective program to train Iraqi troops and channeling reconstruction work to Iraqis instead of American contractors. While he called for removing a significant number of American for..
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New York Times
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Once upon a time, it was the United States that urged all nations to obey the letter and the spirit of international treaties and protect human rights and liberties. American leaders denounced secret prisons where people were held without charges, torture..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Diplomatic relations between Britain and the United States over Iran are under increasing strain after Gordon Brown's special security adviser warned that American claims about Tehran's military capability should be taken 'with a pinch of salt'.
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New York Times
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I have this problem. Whenever I try to explain what's happening in American politics-I mean, what's really happening-I wind up sounding a bit like an unhinged conspiracy theorist. But honestly, I'm not. My politics are actually quite moderate. (Most real..
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Washington Post
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I take issue with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on its constant bashing of Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) ["Moran Upsets Jewish Groups Again," Metro, Sept. 15].
AIPAC cannot stomach any criticism of Israel and brands anyone who..
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Washington Post
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Last week's Petraeus-Bush razzle-dazzle seems to have worked its magic inside the Beltway. The American public is not so easily confused.
The general's good-news report from Iraq and the president's token troop-withdrawal plan dampened the growing sens..
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Alter Net
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A new report by the Center for American Progress and the Free Press has the right up-in-arms. Its message: right-wingers' dominance of talkradio is a classic market failure.
On its face, quantifying the conservative domination of talk-radio is about as..
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Alter Net
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The North American Union, an increasingly popular conspiracy theory about a group of shadowy international "elites" who are planning to "replace the United States" with a transnational government, is a manifestation of xenophobia that would do the John Bi..
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Alter Net
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A growing group of American activists and politicians are on a mission to end our Cold War-era embargo on Cuba. They believe that business, not isolation, is a better way to change governments.
A longer version of this story first appeared in the Boise..
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