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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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