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Barring a major upset, Barack Obama will defeat John McCain on Tuesday and become America's first black president. That any doubt remains about his victory is, in many ways, astonishing.
Three days before the election, Barack Obama appears within reach of becoming the nation's first black president. John McCain, the battle-scarred warrior, looks for a Truman-beats-Dewey-style upset.
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain seized on reports of record oil company profits Thursday to criticize Democratic rival Barack Obama for favoring tax breaks for the oil industry.
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The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretc …
The only "agent of change" Princess ever supported was the person who freshened the water in her bowl. So election officials want to know why the dead goldfish was sent voter registration materials.
Joe the Plumber, America's most famous tradesman, said Thursday he doesn't have a license and doesn't need one.
Police in Italy are looking into reports that the Naples mafia plans to carry out its threat to kill the author of the best-selling book "Gomorra," which has been made into a hit movie about mafia brutality.
Who is running for president? In an upstate New York county, hundreds of voters have been sent absentee ballots in which they could vote for "Barack Osama."
Less than a week after the federal government had to bail out American International Group Inc., the company sent executives on a $440,000 retreat to a posh California resort, lawmakers investigating the company's meltdown said Tuesday.
The world economy will slow sharply this year and next, with the United States likely sliding into recession reflecting mounting damage from the most dangerous financial jolt in more than a half-century.
The government's $700 billion plan to rescue the creaking financial system has prompted readers to ask, why can't we just arrest the CEOs responsible for this mess?
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A television news anchor in Maine who looks a lot like Sarah Palin says she's been getting "hate mail and nasty phone calls."
Treasury Secretary Paulson on Friday sketched the outlines of a bold approach to confront the nation's financial crisis. "We're talking hundreds of billions" of dollars, he said.
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Dan, your opinions about how much government intervention in private company ownership terrify me. I can only assume that considering your inability to spell correctly, you are simply uneducated and haven't a clue about how financial markets function, who actually owns companies, what it takes to start a company, the amount of risk involved, and the utter disdain you show for the people who took risk to create something out of nothing in this country. I would strongly encourage you to educate yourself. For example, you should know that executive compensation (which you are so opposed to) is less than 1/10 of 1 percent of expense in those major corporations you hate. So, to blame this "financial mess" on executive comp simply illustrates your total lack of awareness. Is it a problem? Perhaps. Is it even remotely a root cause for this mess? Absolutely not.
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