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CNN
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Senate candidate Al Franken, dogged by accusations that he failed to file tax returns in California, said Tuesday he will pay about $70,000 in back income taxes in 17 states dating to 2003. Most of the income at issue was from speeches and other paid appe..
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CNN
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Arizona Sen. John McCain, whose White House aspirations went into a nose dive last summer, clinched the Republican Party's presidential nomination Tuesday night with a sweep of GOP contests in four states. "I am very, very grateful and pleased to note tha..
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CNN
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In what could be a pivotal day for the Democratic and Republican White House hopefuls, voters coast to coast will head to the polls in 24 states and American Samoa Tuesday. Super Tuesday is virtually a national primary day, and some of the biggest prizes..
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USA Today
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As British Prime Minister Gordon Brown prepared to visit the United States on Sunday, he said he plans to use the trip to strengthen what Britain already considers its "most important bilateral relationship."
"It is a relationship that is founded on ou..
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Washington Post
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Pressure mounted on the Bush administration yesterday to allow states to impose their own regulations on vehicle emissions.
At a hearing yesterday, officials from California and other states urged the Environmental Protection Agency to grant California..
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FOX News
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Gov. Charlie Crist signed a bill Monday moving Florida's 2008 presidential primary to Jan. 29 and shaking up the race by bypassing a dozen other states set for Feb. 5.
The move puts Florida's primary, which had been scheduled for March, behind only the..
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pressesc.com
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A court in the United States ruled today that the passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 by Congress eliminated the statutory right to challenge an individual's detention in the courts. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represe..
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Think Progress
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Just weeks ago, President Bush insisted that the United States was “absolutely” winning in Iraq. Recently, as the casulties have mounted, he’s toned back his sunny rhetoric slightly, saying the United States was not “winning or losing.” Yet medi..
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USA Today
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Election machine glitches caused delays and jangled nerves in at least three states today as voters began turning out for midterm elections that could set the tone for the last two years of President Bush's term in office...
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BBC News
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Barack Obama has declared himself "the Democratic nominee for president of the United States".
He was speaking to a cheering crowd on the last day of the primary season, after receiving the support of enough delegates to clinch the nomination.
Of th..
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BBC News
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The races for both the Democratic and Republican US presidential nominations could be settled as four states vote in a major round of primary elections.
The main focus is on Ohio and Texas but votes are also taking place in Rhode Island and Vermont...
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BBC News
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US Republican John McCain moved closer to his party's presidential nomination after Super Tuesday's polls, while the Democratic race stayed finely balanced.
Mr McCain won the big states of California and New York, although Mike Huckabee did better than..
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MSNBC
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The Republicans’ delegate selection rules are different. In 8 of the 21 Republican contests, the winner gets the delegates — no dividing up the spoils. What that means is that it is going to be easy for a candidate to build up a big delegate lead on T..
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MSNBC
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Voting experts have raised concerns about at least five states using paperless touch-screen machines, which could make recounts impossible in close races or cases of computer failure. And the rush by states to move up their caucus and primary dates has sh..
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BBC News
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US presidential rivals are set to be out on the stump all day in a frenzied bid for votes for "Super Tuesday" when 24 states hold nominating contests.
Republican John McCain appears to have a clear lead in the national polls over his main challenger Mi..
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MSNBC
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney readied plans to run a “significant” level of television ads in California and other states that vote Tuesday in essentially a national primary, signaling a willingness to aggressively try to derail front-..
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MSNBC
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Some Arab states are worried by a new U.S. intelligence estimate downgrading the near-term threat that Iran will build nuclear weapons. Although Bush and other U.S. officials have said Iran remains a threat, allies with less powerful militaries fear that..
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CNN
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Iowa and New Hampshire have always been first in line -- has gone out the window, and the Republican and Democratic national committees have struggled to keep order.
Folks, this cat is out of the bag, and it's never going to be the same again. And fran..
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MSNBC
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Democratic voters in Iowa and New Hampshire — the states that begin the presidential nominating battle — say Senator Barack Obama and John Edwards are more likely than Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to say what they believe, rather than what they thin..
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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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