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  • Obama beats McCain in Europe donations (AP)

    US Democratic presidential hopeful, Barack Obama, waves as he arrives to make a speech in front of the Victory Column in Berlin. Obama was due in Paris on Friday a day after telling a vast crowd of 200,000 people in Berlin that Americans and Europeans must tear down walls between estranged allies, races and faiths, in a soaring challenge to a new political generation.(AFP/DDP/Michael Kappeler)AP - Barack Obama's campaign has received roughly 10 times more money from declared U.S. donors living in Germany, France and Britain than his Republican rival, reflecting his popularity in Europe as he makes his first tour of the continent as the presumed Democratic nominee.


  • Analysis: Bush's policy shifts affect Obama (AP)

    President Bush speaks about the USAID Freedom Agenda, Thursday, July 24, 2008, in the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - Barack Obama wants to sound like the voice of reason on U.S. foreign policy — the guy who would abandon Bush administration policies he sees as shortsighted, self-defeating or just plain wrong. Problem is, George Bush keeps beating him to it.


  • Allies of Phoenix mayor fight recall effort (AP)

    Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, center, talks to the media before boarding a new Metro light rail train in Phoenix, in this July 10, 2008 file photo. Anna Gaines, a retired teacher, is leading an effort to recall Gordon, because, she said, illegal immigrants are committing crimes in Phoenix and Gordon isn't doing enough to fix the problem.  (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - It's a political oddity: a TV commercial extolling the public safety record of a sitting mayor, except the spot isn't soliciting votes and the politician's name isn't scheduled to appear on the November ballot.


  • Obama urges Europeans, Americans to defeat terror (AP)

    People wait for Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama to deliver his speech at the victory column (Siegessaeule) in Berlin July 24, 2008. (Michael Dalder/Reuters)AP - Cheered by an enormous international crowd, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Thursday summoned Europeans and Americans together to "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it" as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago.


  • McCain struggles to overcome economy gap (Politico)

    Politico - Uncertain economic times have returned Americans to a pre-Sept. 11 mindset, according to recent polling, placing John McCain at a disadvantage on pocketbook issues reminiscent of the failed presidential reelection campaigns of George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter.

  • AP Exclusive: Secret Service wants more money (AP)

    A Secret Service agent watches as US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) addresses a National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) conference in Washington, June 28, 2008. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION (USA)AP - The Secret Service has asked for an extra $9.5 million to cover unexpected costs of protecting the presidential candidates during what has turned into an historic year for the agency's campaign security job.



 


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