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McCain, Obama argue over town hall meetings (U.S., 29 articles)
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McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said in an e-mail that the Obama side had instead offered to take part in only one town hall before the Democratic nominating convention in Denver in late August. John McCain, on the way to a town hall meeting in Nashua, N.H., said this morning in Boston that the need for such forums was made clear by the furor over remarks he made about the Iraq war. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain's tax policies have given him an edge as the better man for the economy, various Wall Street experts said at this week's Reuters Investment Outlook Summit. Reports of rising inflation and weak gains in wages kept the paycheck struggles of Americans at the center of the presidential campaign Friday. KAUKAUNA, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Thursday accused Republican John McCain of mischaracterizing his tax plan and said most Americans would not see taxes go up. Obama says he would raise taxes on Americans making $250,000 a year or more and raise the capital gains tax for those in higher income brackets while exempting small investors.
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Stocks rally as oil prices slip (Finance, 20 articles)
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Short-term Treasury prices rose after being pounded earlier this week on fears that the Federal Reserve would be forced to raise interest rates to combat inflation. NEW YORK - Wall Street ended a turbulent week with a sharp gain today after government readings on inflation and a drop in oil prices eased worries about the effect of rising prices on consumers. The Labor Department reported Friday that consumer prices rose by 0.6 percent last month, the biggest one-month increase since last November, as gasoline costs surged by 5.7 percent.
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Yahoo seeks Google's aid after Microsoft talks die (Finance, 31 articles)
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Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it is entering a non-exclusive partnership on search advertising with archrival Google, hours after saying any chance of a deal with software maker Microsoft is dead. Google and Yahoo said Thursday that they had reached an agreement under which Google would deliver ads next to some of Yahoo's search results and on some of its Web sites in the United States and Canada. Yahoo said in a statement Thursday that weeks of talks about Microsoft's proposal to buy just Yahoo's search business had ended without a resolution.
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Bush Says Iran Spurns New Offer on Uranium (World, 12 articles)
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PARIS - After Iran yesterday rejected a six-nation offer of incentives to stop enriching uranium, President Bush and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France jointly warned Tehran against proceeding toward a nuclear bomb. EU policy chief Javier Solana has said the new package of incentives offered by world powers to Iran to halt nuclear enrichment is "full of opportunities". Mr Solana, who made the offer in Tehran, said the six powers were ready to help develop Iran's nuclear energy programme for peaceful purposes.
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EU grapples with Irish 'No' vote (World, 20 articles)
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I. The defeat of the treaty, by a margin of 53.4 percent to 46.6 percent, was the result of a highly organized "no" campaign that had played to Irish voters' deepest visceral fears about the European Union. Gordon Brown, Britain's prime minister, has ordered the completion of the UK's ratification of the Lisbon treaty on Wednesday, in spite of the Irish No vote and demands from the opposition Conservatives that the process be halted. Paris tried on Friday to put a brave face on Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon treaty, which threatens to derail France's six-month presidency of the European Union beginning in July.
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