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Tags Matching 'US'

| Bush Honors Wnba Champs President Bush welcomed the 2007
WNBA champion Phoenix Mercury to
The White House on Monday. (June
23) Tags: Sports bush mercury By: APnews | 
| Obama Blasts Mccain On Flooding,
Levees With widespread flooding in the
Midwest, Barack Obama is attacking
John McCain for opposing a
23-billion-dollar bill that funded
hundreds of projects such as dams,
sewage plants and beach
restoration. (June 22) Tags: News POL US Electioins By: APnews | 
| Bush: Congress Partly To Blame For
Gas Prices President Bush says Democrats in
Congress are blocking his energy
proposals, and thus share blame for
high gasoline prices. In his weekly
radio address, Bush told Congress
to lift its long-standing ban on
offshore oil and gas drilling.
(June 21) Tags: News bush By: APnews | 
| Bush Pleased With Eavesdropping
Bill President Bush praised members of
Congress Friday for reaching a
compromise on legislation to permit
government eavesdropping in the war
on terror. (June 20) Tags: News bush congress By: APnews | 
| Bush Gets Firsthand Look At Flooded
Iowa Cities Carrying the painful lessons of
Hurricane Katrina, President Bush
said on a tour of Midwest flooding
on Thursday that he is listening to
small-town concerns and understands
the exhaustion of rescuers. (June
19) Tags: News bush iowa By: APnews | 
| Gen. Pace Among Medal Of Freedom
Recipients President Bush presented Gen. Peter
Pace with one of the Presidential
Medals of Freedom at a White House
ceremony Thursday. (June 19) Tags: News bush freedom By: APnews | 
| Politicians, Journalists Pay
Tribute To Russert Political leaders joined TV
journalists as they fondly remember
one of their own in tribute to
fallen colleague Tim Russert.
Russert, the NBC 'Meet the Press'
anchor, was eulogized at a memorial
service in Washington D.C. (June
17) Tags: News tim russert funeral By: APnews | 
| President Bush Attends Wake For Tim
Russert President Bush and his wife, Laura,
were among thousands of mourners at
a wake for Tim Russert Tuesday, the
television newsman who died last
Friday. (June 17) Tags: News bush russert By: APnews | 
| Bush To Visit Iowa Flood Site President Bush announced on Tuesday
that he and his team will travel to
Iowa on Thursday to inspect flood
damage. (June 17) Tags: News bush floods By: APnews | 
| Money Minute: Ross Perot, Satellite
Radio, More Billionaire former presidential
candidate Ross Perot has launched a
new Web site to highlight what he
calls the "economic crisis" facing
the country.(June 16) Tags: Business Ross Perot By: APnews |
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NBC's Tim Russert Dies at 58
Friday, June 13, 2008 at 04:45 PM | Read More
AP is reporting that influential Tim Russert, died suddenly Friday in the midst of a presidential campaign he'd covered with trademark intensity. Praise poured in from the biggest names in politics, some recalling their own meltdown moments on his hot seat.
Russert, 58, was a political operative before he was a journalist. He joined NBC a quarter century ago and ended up as the longest-tenured host of the Sunday talk show "Meet the Press."
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Obama claims nomination; is Clinton seeking VP spot?
Tuesday, June 03, 2008 at 09:34 PM | Read More
Cheered by a roaring crowd, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois laid claim to the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night, taking a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of becoming the nation's first black president. Hillary Rodham Clinton maneuvered for the vice presidential spot on his fall ticket without conceding her own defeat. Clinton praised Obama warmly in an appearance before supporters in New York, although she neither acknowledged his victory in their grueling marathon nor offered a concession of any sort.
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Clinton wins Kentucky Democratic Party
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 04:23 PM | Read More
Hillary Rodham Clinton won the Kentucky primary Tuesday, a victory of scant political value in a Democratic presidential race moving inexorably in Barack Obama's direction. The two rivals also collided in Oregon's unique vote-by-mail contest, and Obama predicted he would finish the night with a majority of all delegates at stake in the 56 primaries and caucuses on the campaign calendar.
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Clinton Wins Large in West Virginia
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 05:20 PM | Read More
Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to a large, but largely symbolic victory in working-class West Virginia on Tuesday, handing Barack Obama one of his worst defeats of the campaign but scarcely slowing his march toward the Democratic presidential nomination. The Associated Press made its call based on surveys of voters as they left the polls.
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Clinton Fights On... Superdelegate Time
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 06:31 PM | Read More
Despite an overwhelming defeat in North Carolina and a narrow victory in Indiana, Sen. Hillary Clinton vowed to stay in the race until her party has a nominee.The focus of the Democratic race now turns to the superdelegates, because they outnumber the remaining pledged delegates.
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