Archive for April, 2008

Gun rights, gun deaths divide Pennsylvania voters (AP)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Philadelphia police officers examine handguns after a news conference held by Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., regarding the 'Groceries for Guns Exchange' program Thursday, May 3, 2007, in Philadelphia. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are gingerly threading their way between two of the most politically charged numbers in Pennsylvania: the state's almost 1 million licensed hunters and Philadelphia's nearly one-a-day rate of gun murders. Gun control arouses deep emotions in the state. (AP Photo/George Widman)AP - Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are gingerly threading their way between two of the most politically charged numbers in Pennsylvania: the state’s almost 1 million licensed hunters and Philadelphia’s nearly one-a-day rate of gun murders.


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Obama pays homage to US workers, as elitism row rages (AFP)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

US Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama, seen here about to board a plane at Dulles International Aiport in Chantilly, Virginia, touted his kinship with the working class, trying quell a row over elitism dogging his campaign a week before Pennsylvania's crucial Democratic primary.(AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)AFP - Barack Obama Tuesday touted his kinship with workers and veterans, trying to quell a row over elitism rocking his campaign, a week before the next Democratic primary clash.


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AP Interview: Frank threatens tough mortgage rules (AP)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass, takes question during an interview with The Associated Press, Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at the AP bureau in Washington. Frank said an effort to let bankruptcy judges rewrite mortgages for strapped borrowers will not make it through Congress this year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Congressional Democrats and President Bush will agree on a bill to help half a million or more struggling homeowners get into lower cost mortgages, but it won’t be through the bankruptcy courts, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee predicted Tuesday.


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Clinton sketches agenda for first 100 days as president (AP)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., addresses the Newspaper Association of America convention, Tuesday, April 15, 2008, in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton is sketching an agenda for her first 100 days in office that includes the beginning of a troop withdrawal from Iraq and signing legislation that President Bush vetoed.


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Patrick Kennedy says personal struggles help him in Congress (AP)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., meets reporters outside D.C. Superior Court in Washington Tuesday, June 13, 2006, after he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of prescription drugs.  Kennedy, who says his personal struggles to recover from depression, alcoholism and substance abuse have made him a more compelling advocate in Congress for improved mental health care coverage, played a leading role winning House passage in March 2008 on a bill to expand coverage for people needing mental health and addiction treatment.  (AP Photo/Nick Wass, File)AP - Rep. Patrick Kennedy says his personal struggles to recover from depression, alcoholism and substance abuse have made him a more compelling advocate in Congress for improved mental health care coverage.


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Bush, Ban discuss Zimbabwe stand-off (AFP)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Zimbabwe's riot policemen walk on a street in Harare outside the High Court. US President George W. Bush and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday discussed the political stand-off in Zimbabwe ahead of UN Security Council meetings on Africa(AFP/Alexander Joe)AFP - US President George W. Bush and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday discussed the political stand-off in Zimbabwe ahead of UN Security Council meetings on Africa, the White House said.


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Penn race unchanged by Obama remark (Politico)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., addresses the Alliance for American Manufacturing, Monday, April 14, 2008, during a campaign stop  in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)Politico - Barack Obama’s “bitter” comment may have had little immediate impact in the Democratic primary race in Pennsylvania, according to a poll out this morning.


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McCain airs first general election ads in Ohio, Pennsylvania (AP)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) smiles during a roundtable of local business owners at a campaign stop in the Brooklyn borough in New York April 10, 2008. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)AP - TITLE: “Ignite.”


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Frank: Trailing Democrat should drop out (AP)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass, takes question during an interview with The Associated Press, Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at the AP bureau in Washington. Frank said an effort to let bankruptcy judges rewrite mortgages for strapped borrowers will not make it through Congress this year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Rep. Barney Frank said the trailing Democratic presidential candidate should drop out of the race by no later than June 3 — the date of the two last Democratic primaries — even if it is the candidate he supports, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.


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Israel says Syria arming Hezbollah despite UN resolution (AFP)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Lebanese girls and supporters of Hezbollah, clad in military fatigues, hold models of rockets as they walk past a portrait of former Hezbollah chief Abbas Mussawi during a parade in the southern village of Saksakiyeh, 2007. Syria is supplying Lebanon's Hezbollah militia with rockets in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has charged.(AFP/File/Mahmoud Zayat)AFP - Syria is supplying Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia with rockets in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak charged on Tuesday.


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