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MSNBC
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Sen. Barack Obama declared his latest trio of Democratic primary victories Tuesday part of a new majority drawing people from every region and every group behind his call for change.
"This is what change looks like when it happens from the bottom up,"..
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Slate
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Republican presidential candidates are crossing the country promising voters that they'll pick judges who will be "strict constructionists" of the U.S. Constitution. Meanwhile, Republican activists in California are trying to flout the Constitution in ord..
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BBC News
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Gordon Brown has outlined a series of constitutional changes which he says will make the British government a "better servant of the people".
MPs would be given the final say on declaring war and on international treaties and would have a "bigger role"..
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Al Jazeera
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In his first speech as prime minister outside number 10 Downing Street, Brown said: "This will be a new government with new priorities and I have been privileged to have been granted the great opportunity to serve my country.
"As I have travelled roun..
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Yahoo News
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Former US vice president Al Gore on Friday criticized the "trivialities and nonsense" of celebrity gossip in the media and called on people to focus instead on issues like Iraq and climate change.
Gore, who is promoting his new book "The Assault on Rea..
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FOX News
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Republican and Democratic congressional leaders both forecast a change in President Bush's Iraq war policy as the president prepared to sign legislation Friday providing funds for military operations through Sept. 30.
"I think the president's policy is..
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CNN
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U.S. Sen. John McCain says the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech does not change his view that the Constitution guarantees everyone the right to carry a weapon.
"We have to look at what happened here, but it doesn't change my views on the Second Amendm..
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CNN
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Sen. John Kerry and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich met in Washington on Tuesday for a verbal duel about climate change, finding agreement on the problem but vastly different approaches to a solution.
Gingrich said he accepts there is a general cons..
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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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MSNBC
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Even if he wins, the important presidencies are the ones that change the country and its politics, said David Blight of Yale. A President Obama's place in history "would depend so much on whether he truly can develop a new coalition" that creates a new po..
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MSNBC
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Change is coming, that much Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama agree on as they plunge into a five-month campaign for the White House.
The primaries behind them, the presidential rivals were wasting no time drawing the battle line for a fall fight that..
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BBC News
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Climate change campaigner Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The committee cited "their efforts to build up and disseminate knowledge about man-made climate change".
Mr Gor..
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SF Gate
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Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.
"I am deeply hon..
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Guardian Unlimited
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George Bush was castigated by European diplomats and found himself isolated yesterday after a special conference on climate change ended without any progress.
European ministers, diplomats and officials attending the Washington conference were scathing..
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CNN
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday told delegates to a global climate change conference that countries around the world must work together to combat climate change, much as they cooperate against terror and the spread of disease. "No one..
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BBC News
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Delegates from the world's top 16 polluting nations are meeting in Washington to discuss ways of tackling climate change.
The meeting was called by US President George Bush, who said he is looking for a show of leadership on climate change.
Represen..
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BBC News
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The US chief scientist has told the BBC that climate change is now a fact.
Professor John Marburger, who advises President Bush, said it is more than 90% certain that greenhouse gas emissions from mankind are to blame.
The Earth may become "unliveab..
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Yahoo News
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Not all the nation's ills can be blamed on President Bush, Democratic candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday as he called on Americans to change the nature of politics and institute more openness in government.
"Part of the problem here is not just Geor..
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BBC News
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US President George W Bush has announced that his government will host a multinational conference on climate change in Washington next month.
The US has invited the UN, EU and 15 of the world's leading economies to the high-level talks on 27-28 Septemb..
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Washington Post
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Facing crumbling support for the war among their own members, Senate Republican leaders yesterday sought to block bipartisan efforts to force a change in the American military mission in Iraq.
But the GOP leadership's use of a parliamentary tactic requ..
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