Archive for March, 2008

McCain: I learned from Keating Five case (AP)

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington in this March 13, 2008 file photo.  McCain's ethics entanglement with a wealthy banker ultimately convicted of swindling investors was such a disturbing, formative experience in his political career that he compares the scandal in some ways to the five years he was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.   (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)AP - Sen. John McCain’s ethics entanglement with a wealthy banker ultimately convicted of swindling investors was such a disturbing, formative experience in his political career that he compares the scandal in some ways to the five years he was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.


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DOJ urged to investigate passport breach (AP)

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Barack Obama speaking in Pennsylvania on March 17. The State Department said on Thursday it had fired two employees and punished a third for looking at Obama's passport files without authorization(AFP/GETTY IMAGES/File/Jeff Swensen)AP - Senators from both parties on Sunday urged the Department of Justice to investigate the unauthorized searches of the passport files of three presidential candidates by State Department contract workers.


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Findings of Keating Five (AP)

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

AP - Highlights of the Senate ethics committee’s findings on the Keating Five:

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Obama’s rough patch could’ve been worse (AP)

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., right, accompanied by New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, speaks after a rally at the Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Ore., Friday, March 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Barack Obama refers to the past couple of weeks as a tough, turbulent stretch.


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Fed steps bring praise, new scrutiny (AP)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Graphic charts the Federal Funds rate; 2c x 3 inches; 96.3 mm x 76.2 mmAP - The Federal Reserve has taken its boldest action since the Great Depression, invoking rarely used powers in an effort to contain a panic threatening to undermine the economy. The central bank acted with speed the White House and Congress only could envy.


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Patriotism spat tars latest round of Clinton-Obama battle (AFP)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

US Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain is seen in Paris on March 21. The campaigns of the Democratic White House hopefuls braced for fierce confrontation, after former president Bill Clinton appeared to question the patriotism of his wife Hillary's rival, Barack Obama.(AFP/File/Franck Fife)AFP - The campaigns of the two Democratic presidential hopefuls traded fresh assaults Saturday, with a Barack Obama advisor assailing comments by ex-president Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton’s camp lashing back over alleged character attacks.


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Obama adviser faults Bill Clinton speech (AP)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Retired Gen. Merrill 'Tony' McPeak introduces Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., at a rally at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Ore., Friday, March 21, 2008.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Former President Clinton is using divisive tactics and unfairly trying to question Barack Obama’s patriotism, a retired general who has a prominent role in the Democrat’s campaign said Saturday.


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Democrats demand ’straight talk’ on Iraq (AP)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

An Iraqi boy stands in rubble as his father works outside their heavily damaged family home, after they returned home after fleeing violence in 2006, in Latifiyah, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 21, 2008. Latifiyah is inside the infamous 'Sunni Triangle of Death' that has seen heavy fighting in the past years. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed)AP - With U.S. troops entering their sixth year of combat in Iraq, New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez demanded Saturday that President Bush give an honest assessment of the costs of the conflict.


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Bush honors military in Easter message (AP)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

President Bush walks from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 20, 2008, as he departed to spend the weekend at Camp David, Md.  (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - President Bush urged Americans observing Easter Sunday to remember others, particularly in the military, who are far from loved ones on a day “that beckons us homeward.”


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Clinton got along with GOP in Senate (AP)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., left, walks with Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., in the hallway of the Russell Senate office building on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this May 22, 2007, file photo. Clinton arrived in the Senate before she had even surrendered the title of first lady. An anything-but-typical freshman, she surprised skeptics with how well she fit in to a chamber where reputations are usually built over decades. She didn't big-foot colleagues. A junior senator in the minority party, she put her head down and went to work. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in the Senate before she had even surrendered the title of first lady.


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