Archive for April, 2008

Obama says he looked to basketball in his youth (AP)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. waves to students as he arrives at Washington Jefferson College in Washington, Pa., Tuesday, April 15, 2008, for a town hall-style meeting. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Barack Obama says growing up without a father led him to play basketball and the game offered him a chance to identify racially in Hawaii, a state without a large black population.


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Pope arrives in U.S., says ashamed by sex abuse (Reuters)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

President Bush (R) walks with Pope Benedict XVI at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, outside Washington, April 15, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)Reuters - Pope Benedict arrived in Washington
on Tuesday for his first papal visit to the United States due
to include a United Nations address and discussions about a
sexual abuse scandal that left him “deeply ashamed.”


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Bush to pitch climate change strategy in Rose Garden speech (AP)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

AP - President Bush plans to outline on Wednesday the way he thinks the United States can stop the growth of greenhouse gas emissions and issue a challenge to lawmakers on climate change legislation.

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Biden: McCain would put urgent global issues on back burner (AP)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

AP - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden says Republican Sen. John McCain would continue President Bush’s practice of pursuing the war in Iraq at the expense of other urgent global issues.

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Lawmakers quarrel over tax policy (AP)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

AP - Tax Day, said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, is viewed by many as “sort of a national anti-holiday” and Tuesday’s debate in Congress on tax policy was more confrontation than celebration.

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McCain calls for summer-long suspension of gas tax (AP)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., delivers a speech during a campaign event at Carnegie Mellon University, Tuesday, April 15, 2008, in Pittsburgh. McCain called Tuesday for the federal government to free people from paying gasoline taxes this summer and ensure that college students can secure loans this fall, proposals aimed at stemming the public's pain now from the troubled economy. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Republican Sen. John McCain on Tuesday called for a summer-long suspension of the federal gasoline tax and several tax cuts as the likely presidential nominee sought to stem the public’s pain from a troubled economy.


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NKoreans with religious ties face peril (AP)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak. The country's new conservative president left Tuesday for summit meetings in the United States and Japan, promising a new era of AP - A federal commission said Tuesday that North Korean refugees suspected of meeting with religious groups in China are often marked for harsh interrogation, torture and long detention without trial after Beijing forces them to return to the North.


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Specter queries White House hopefuls on judges (AP)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

AP - Republican Sen. Arlen Specter has a suggested question for Wednesday’s Democratic presidential debate: Ask the candidates if they support faster confirmation of judicial nominations.

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Lawmakers: Airwaves sale should aid public safety (AP)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff (Photo: Steve Maller)AP - Republicans on a congressional panel Tuesday said the Federal Communications Commission should re-auction a block of public airwaves to the highest bidder and turn the proceeds over to public safety professionals to build a nationwide emergency communications network.


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Bloomberg Backers Still Not Taking No for an Answer (CQPolitics.com)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

CQPolitics.com - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has repeatedly denied any interest in making an independent run for president, but that has not stopped his supporters from raising and spending a significant sum of money during the first quarter of 2008.

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