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Obama, Clinton to hold joint fundraisers in NY
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Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, speaks at an Independence Day picnic in Butte, Mont., Friday, July 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Christina Almeida)AP - Now that they're allies, Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will help each other raise money in a series of fundraisers in New York next week.




Employers use federal law to deny benefits
1 hour ago

Melissa Amschwand-Bellinger shown Wednesday, July 2, 2008  in Houston. Dying of cancer, her husband did everything he was told to make sure his wife would collect on the life insurance policy he had through his employer.  (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - Dying of cancer, Thomas Amschwand did everything he was told to make sure his wife would collect on the life insurance policy he had through his employer.




Foreclosures to rise whoever wins White House
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In this May 9, 2008 file photo. a foreclosure sign stands outside a home in Denver.  The optimism that surrounds a new president taking office cannot resurrect home values overnight, and presidents have no direct ability to reduce rising mortgage rates. Nevertheless, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain both promise help for homeowners facing foreclosure.  (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)AP - Home foreclosures will keep rising next year no matter who is elected president in November.




Analysis: McCain struggles to regain footing
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US Republican presidential hopeful John McCain speaks during a press conference at the Federal Police building in Mexico City on July 3, 2008. White House hopefuls Barack Obama and McCain marked the US Independence Day holiday Friday with parades, picnics and odes to patriotism.(AFP/Alfredo Estrella)AP - John McCain calls himself an underdog. That may be an understatement. The GOP presidential candidate trails Democrat Barack Obama in polls, organization and money while trying to succeed a deeply unpopular fellow Republican in a year that favors Democrats. McCain also doesn't seem to have a coherent message let alone much of a strategy despite securing the nomination three months earlier than Obama.




Democrats hit GOP on support for Medicare cuts
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AP - Sen. Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat, accused Republicans of putting seniors and military families at risk by siding with President Bush against a measure to prevent Medicare cuts.

Companies begin quest for oil, gas off Fla. coast
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In this March 28, 2006 file photo, the Discoverer Deep Seas drill ship sits on station off the coast of Louisiana as Chevron drills for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.  If oil or natural gas deposits are found in the newly opened region off Florida's Panhandle, experts say it could further the push to explore other once-protected areas everywhere. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off Florida as cost prohibitive. Politicians feared even the slightest sign of support would be career suicide.




Spitzer call girl drops 'Girls Gone Wild' lawsuit
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This undated image obtained from a MySpace Web page shows Ashley Dupre, the former call girl for ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York. Dupre dropped a $10 million lawsuit claiming 'Girls Gone Wild' founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet. (AP Photo, file)AP - The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet.




Man flying lawn chair lifted by helium balloons
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Kent Couch lifts off from his gas station in Bend, Ore., in his lawn chair rigged with more than 150 giant party balloons, Saturday, July 5, 2008. Couch, 48, is making his third cluster balloon flight and hopes to go more than 200 miles to Idaho before running out of daylight or helium. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)AP - A man has taken flight in a lawn chair hoisted by more than 150 large helium-filled party balloons in a bid to ride the wind from the central Oregon town of Bend all the way to Idaho.




Venus beats Serena for her 5th Wimbledon title
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Venus Williams holds her trophy, after defeating her sister Serena to win the Women's Singles Championship on the Centre Court at Wimbledon, Saturday, July 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)AP - Venus Williams beat sister Serena 7-5, 6-4 Saturday for her fifth Wimbledon title and seventh Grand Slam championship.




Protests as G8 gathers for diplomacy
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An anti-G8 activist is detained by police officers during a march in Sapporo on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido July 5, 2008 ahead of next week's G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit. (Issei Kato/Reuters)Reuters - Leaders of the Group of Eight rich nations meet this week in northern Japan to grapple with a raft of problems from soaring food and fuel prices to African poverty and global warming amid doubts about how much the annual diplomatic pageant can achieve.




Film seen to show Zimbabwe vote rigged
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A young Zimbabwe ruling ZANU (PF) party supporter waves flags for President Robert Mugabe upon his arrival at Harare International airport, July 4, 2008. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)Reuters - A film secretly taken by a Zimbabwe prison guard and smuggled out of the country shows the extent of the rigging that took place for the June 27 presidential run-off vote, the Guardian said on Saturday.




Lebanese leaders close to government deal
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A Lebanese soldier sits on an armoured personnel carrier in front of a giant poster of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora in Beirut May 28, 2008. Lebanese leaders are close to a deal on the formation of a national unity government as stipulated in an agreement that ended the country's political crisis, political sources said on Saturday. (Jamal Saidi/Reuters)Reuters - Lebanese leaders are finalizing a deal on the formation of a national unity government as stipulated in an agreement that ended the country's political crisis, political sources said on Saturday.




Venus downs Serena to win fifth Wimbledon title
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Venus Williams (R) holds her trophy after defeating her sister Serena (L) in their finals match at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London July 5, 2008. (Toby Melville/Reuters)Reuters - Venus Williams survived a fierce onslaught from Serena Williams to win her fifth Wimbledon singles title on Saturday, finally subduing her younger sister 7-5 6-4.




Colombia shows rescue video
15 hours ago

Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt (C) and other hostages wait to board a helicopter during a rescue operation in Colombia July 2, 2008 in this frame grab taken on July 4, 2008. Betancourt, 3 Americans and 11 other hostages, were rescued on Wednesday by the Colombian military after many years in the jungle as captives of leftist guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). (Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Colombia showed a video on Friday of the rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages where their anger turned to ecstasy as theater-trained military agents duped and overpowered leftist rebels.




Former Senator Jesse Helms dies at 86
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Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms is shown in this undated file image. (Robert Padgett/Reuters)Reuters - Jesse Helms, a die-hard anti-communist firebrand who championed a wide range of conservative causes in his 30 years in the U.S. Senate, died early on Friday, aged 86, his foundation said.




Firefighters hold line on two California wildfires
16 hours ago

A firefighter works to extinguish a blaze that burned to the shoulder of Highway 1 during a wildfire in Big Sur, California July 4, 2008. California firefighters held the line overnight on two wildfires burning along the California coast that threatened more than 4,000 homes and other structures, fire officials said on Friday morning. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)Reuters - Exhausted California firefighters worked on Friday to contain two wildfires threatening homes along the coast before sundown, when shifting winds were expected to give the blazes more power.




IEA sees oil easing, then tightening to 2013: report
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Reuters - The situation on the oil market is likely to ease in 2009/2010 as more production comes on-stream, then tighten again through 2013 as output falls and demand rises, the head of the International Energy Agency said.

Iran says offers talks without nuclear freeze
7 hours ago

Two workers at Iran's nuclear facilities in Isfahan. Iran says it is ready to negotiate with world powers on its nuclear programme but without suspending its controversial uranium enrichment work.(AFP/File/Henghameh Fahimi)AFP - Iran is ready to negotiate with world powers on its nuclear programme but without suspending its controversial uranium enrichment work, a government spokesman said Saturday.




British police arrest suspect for murder of French students
2 hours ago

Firefighters cordon off the New Cross flat where French students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez were found dead on July 3. British police have arrested a man in connection with the murder of the two French students who were found brutally stabbed to death in the burnt out flat.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - British police arrested a man on Saturday in connection with the murder of two French students found brutally stabbed to death in a burnt out London flat.




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