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Obama Claims Democratic Presidential Nomination

Just a few hours after making political history, Barack Obama returned to a hero’s welcome in Washington.


TWA. Up, Up and Away…. Eventually

Last year Americans wasted a total of 320 million hours waiting for their plane. And this year is predicted to be worse.


Rising Oil Prices: $1000 to Fill an 18-Wheeler

Rising fuel prices are causing transportation companies to shutter and pushing some tuckers to creative forms of protest.


U.S. Workforce Shedding Jobs as Prices Rise

For the fourth month in a row, the economy lost jobs in April… but President Bush is promising that those rebate checks will turn things around.


VA Official Caught Lying to Congress

Email records reveal Veteran’s Administration Mental Health Director lied to Congress about troop mental health care.


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Bush Suspends Iraq Troop Withdrawls

President George Bush announced that after the surge ends this summer there will be no further troop withdrawals from Iraq. The president’s announcement virtually guarantees that the US will be keeping 140,000 troops in Iraq until he leaves office next January.


Straight Talk Express Makes A Stop In Crazytown

Sen John McCain recently openly embraced the endorsement of Texas megachurch leader John Hagee. Televangelists and the Republican party normally go hand-in-hand, but this endorsement is causing McCain considerable heartburn.



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America: At the edge of history once again?

One day this past January, Mary Kim Titla’s parents left their home on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in southeastern Arizona and drove across the desert to Phoenix with a single purpose in mind - getting an up-close glimpse of a long shot named Barack Obama….
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Franken wins endorsement for Senate in Minnesota

ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — Al Franken won a resounding endorsement for the U.S. Senate on Saturday from Minnesota Democrats, quickly dispatching with concerns about jokes that offended some and promising a tough challenge to Republican Sen. Norm Coleman….
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McCain deploying staff, expanding advertising

WASHINGTON (AP) — With his Democratic foe now certain, Republican John McCain is deploying dozens of staffers into battleground states, boasting of improved fundraising and expanding his advertising into some of the most competitive terrain of the general election….
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Clinton ending candidacy, supporting Obama

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton will end on Saturday her historic bid to become the first woman president but Barack Obama said he won’t be hurried into a decision on whether to make her his running mate….
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For Obama, the pros and cons of picking Clinton

WASHINGTON (AP) — Memo to Barack Obama: Now that you’ve named three people to help you pick a running mate, they surely will list the pros and cons of Hillary Rodham Clinton. And no doubt some kibitzers will do the same without your encouragement….
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