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Obama raises $40 million — double Clinton :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Barack Obama (U.S., 44 articles)
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INDIANAPOLIS Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama will go three-on-three against a former Indiana University basketball star and four students, tapping the state's rich basketball tradition in an effort to get out the vote for Indiana's May 6 primary. An 18-year-old high school student who registers 20 people to vote will choose two students to help challenge the Illinois senator on the court, said Kevin Griffis WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama, second to none in the race for campaign cash, raised more than $40 million in March and boosted his vast network of donors to nearly 1.3 million, the campaign announced Thursday. PENSACOLA, Fla. - Sen. John McCain said Wednesday he is in the "embryonic stages" of selecting a running mate and hopes to unveil his choice before the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis in September. " There are millions of reasons to continue this race: people in Pennsylvania, Indiana and North Carolina, and all of the contests yet to come Clinton told reporters Friday. Obama would slaughter McCain, say the pundits, who love citing the 1960 presidential campaign debates in which JFK faced off against Richard Nixon.
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China hopes to close book on unrest by reopening Tibet, putting rioters on trial (World, 45 articles)
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Beijing has sent thousands of police and army troops to the area to maintain an edgy peace, hunt down protest leaders, and cordon-off Buddhist monasteries whose monks led protests that began peacefully on March 10 before turning violent four days later. Tibetan exile groups say 99 people have been killed in a Chinese crackdown on protests against its rule of Tibet over the last few weeks. French athletes and officials promised dissent over Chinese policy after the torch reaches Europe, saying that athletes carrying the torch through Paris would wear badges celebrating free expression.
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Bernanke: Bear Stearns Wasn't a Bailout (Finance, 18 articles)
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WASHINGTON - New York Federal Reserve Bank president Timothy Geithner said capital markets are still "substantially impaired" and policy makers and financial industry leaders must "act forcefully" to stem the crisis. Bernanke and Treasury Department Undersecretary Robert Steel said that the consequences to the U.S. economy and financial system would have been far more serious had the government allowed the nation's fifth largest investment house to go bankrupt. " Given the exceptional pressures on the global economy and financial system, the damage caused by a default by Bear Stearns could have been severe and extremely difficult to contain Bernanke told the Senate Banking Committee.
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Al-Sadr offers to help Iraqi security forces (World, 26 articles)
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Instead of methodically building up their combat power and gradually stepping up operations against renegade militias, al-Maliki's forces lunged into the city, attacking before all of the Iraqi reinforcements had even arrived. Last August, following clashes between Mahdi Army and Iraqi forces in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, Sadr imposed a unilateral cease-fire, largely to improve his movement's image and rebuild his militia into a disciplined force. Rather than being a setback for Iraq, Crocker said the latest firefight between government forces and the Shiite militia led by Moqtada al-Sadr shows Iraqi resolve to deal with a deteriorating security situation in Basra.
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Levine: Blagojevich knew :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Tony Rezko (U.S., 29 articles)
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As questioning of potential jurors wrapped up Tuesday in the corruption trial of political fund-raiser Tony Rezko, a new accusation has surfaced that Rezko paid a $1.5 million bribe in an effort to win a $50 million business deal in Iraq. Dick Mell, was accused in court Monday of complaining he was cut out of the "spoils" from state business a charge the 33rd Ward alderman called " absolutely false. Former Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan hasn't had much to say about his longtime political angel Stuart Levine, the crooked businessman who's the star witness against indicted businessman Tony Rezko.
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