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Obama gains superdelegates; Clinton loans $6.4M to campaign - (U.S., 97 articles)
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Other advisers said in interviews that her campaign was deep in debt and nearly broke, raising questions about what kind of campaign she can run going forward, although the campaign said it was running ads in Oregon and West Virginia. Mrs. Clinton won a close race in New Jersey, where voters said that the economy was the most important issue in deciding how to cast their vote, according to exit polls. Democratic primary voters overwhelmingly said that a candidate's ability to bring about needed change was the most important factor in the way they voted, and those voters supported Mr. Obama in large numbers. They said they expected fund-raising to become even harder; one adviser said the campaign was essentially broke, and several others refused to say whether Mrs. Clinton had lent the campaign money from her personal account to keep it afloat. INDIANAPOLIS Senator Barack Obama won a decisive victory in the North Carolina primary, righting his presidential bid after the rockiest stretch of his campaign, while Senator Hillary Clinton eked out a narrow win in Indiana to keep her campaign alive. A campaign aide said Clinton gave her campaign another $5 million on April 11, more than a week before the Pennsylvania primary.
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US increases cyclone aid for Myanmar (World, 23 articles)
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BANGKOK - A powerful cyclone that destroyed a vast swath of coastal Myanmar and left many thousands of people dead prompted the country's military leaders to allow some foreign aid groups to deliver relief supplies on Tuesday. The Pentagon readied people and equipment for an aid mission to cyclone-stricken Myanmar, but the top U.S. diplomat in the Asian nation said its military junta was "paranoid" about accepting American help. State media said Saturday's cyclone killed at least 22,980 people and left 42,119 missing, but U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes said the death toll could rise " very significantly.
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Horse racing is beauty, tragedy - (U.S., 18 articles)
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The tragic fate of filly Eight Belles, who broke both front ankles at the Kentucky Derby on Saturday and had to be euthanized on the track, shows what a cruel sport horse racing is. The filly's demise was especially sobering for casual fans, whose only contact with horse racing is through one of the Triple Crown races. But the ill-fated filly was not the only thoroughbred whose career took an abrupt and ugly turn on the first Saturday in May - she just happened to be the only one whose death was witnessed by millions of people.
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An inside look at Microsoft's raised Yahoo bid :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Business (Finance, 19 articles)
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Ballmer had verbally offered to pay $33 per share, or $47.5 billion, up from an initial bid valued at $44.6 billion, or $31 per share. Shareholders, furious over the company's failure to seal a deal with Microsoft, are contemplating their next moves, including throwing out CEO Jerry Yang and the rest of the company's board. Over the weekend, Microsoft withdrew its three-month-old unsolicited bid for Yahoo Inc. after seeing the impasse with Yahoo's board over a mutually acceptable sales price.
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Oil prices steady in Asian trading after record near $124 - (Finance, 22 articles)
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Oil prices at first waffled Wednesday as traders were torn between relief that crude and gasoline supplies are rising and worries about rising demand and falling distillate stockpiles. Wall Street tumbled Wednesday as the price of a barrel of oil soared to a record near $124 and touched off concerns that the stock market's recent gains might have been premature as consumers grapple with rising energy and food costs. The day that U.S. oil prices hit an all-time peak of $123.93 a barrel, Democrats moved to act on soaring gasoline pump prices, which are a growing political liability in the November presidential election.
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