AP - Sen. Edward Kennedy’s battle with a malignant brain tumor is likely to put a dramatic personal stamp on a health care cause he first championed nearly 40 years ago: The nation’s war on cancer.
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Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush on
Tuesday helped raise about $2.5 million for the man he hopes
will succeed him, but did it in private amid questions about
whether the unpopular president hurts John McCain’s chances in
the November election.
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AP - John McCain prides himself on being a remarkably transparent presidential candidate, with rolling news conferences on his “Straight Talk Express” campaign bus and an open-door policy when it comes to the media.
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AFP - Maintaining US combat troops in Iraq “helps Al-Qaeda” and Washington should pull them from the ravaged country if it wants to see progress in the war on terror, former US anti-terror czar Richard Clarke said Tuesday.
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CQPolitics.com - The 2006 elections provided major gains for Democrats in Ohio, a partisan swing state that had for years been trending Republican.
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AP - President Bush, sounding upbeat as consumer confidence swooned, said Tuesday that the government’s effort to stimulate the economy is just starting to kick in.
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AP - As of Tuesday, May 27, 2008, at least 432 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures May 17 at 10 a.m. EDT.
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Politico - Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” to governing at the expense of candor and competence.
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AP - TITLE: “Responsibility”
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AFP - The Pentagon’s internal watchdog office has warned in a report to Congress made public Tuesday that its auditors are unable to keep pace with a ballooning US defense budget.
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