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Political football: Obama-McCain dilemma puts big-money NFL players in the middle
AP Sports WriterASHBURN, Va. (AP) _ As the presidential race revs up, political conversations in NFL locker rooms echo those in workplaces nationwide. Taxes. Economy. McCain. Obama. War. Terrorism. White. Black. And a dilemma for these high-paid athletes: principles or...Tags: State Budgets, Major League Baseball, Kansas City Chiefs, Football, Motor Racing
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Boom in voter registration favors Dems, could lead Obama to election win _ if they turn out
Associated Press WritersJACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) _ The surge in new voters that helped propel Barack Obama to his party's presidential nomination is carrying over to the general election — 9 million newly registered voters who are overwhelmingly Democratic and could add...Tags: New Hampshire, Republican Party, The White House, Georgia, Colorado
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Judge: Release some Gitmo detainees
The Swampby James Oliphant In a stinging rebuke to the Bush administration, a federal judge Tuesday ordered the Pentagon to immediately release a small group of Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo Bay into the United States. U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina......Tags: Prisons, Michael Mukasey, Terrorism, Judges, Court Administration
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Analysis: Palin helps herself in debate but a disciplined Biden sticks to his task, too
Associated Press WriterST. LOUIS (AP) _ John McCain's campaign aches needed a tonic. On a day when he abandoned the fight with rival Barack Obama in one battleground state and national polls showed him trailing overall, running mate Sarah Palin put on a debate performance that...Tags: Sarah Palin, Fred Thompson, John McCain, Government, Executive Branch
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A Chinese Muslim in Gitmo legal limbo
Washington BureauWASHINGTON — The United States held him for seven years and then, ultimately, decided that he poses no threat to national security. But he's still sitting in prison at Guantanamo Bay because no other country will take him. Nor will the U.S. let...Tags: Prisons, Michael Mukasey, Terrorism, National Security, Court Administration
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Obama must tread delicately on race issue
So Barack Obama is black enough after all. He has tip-toed around this volatile issue through much of the presidential campaign. As a result, early on he was slow to be embraced by many black people — in and outside of politics. In March, he was...Tags: Republican Party, College of William and Mary, George H.W. Bush, Sociology, Jeremiah Wright
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Sarah Palin is being prepped for prime time
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersSarah Palin arrived at the site of the Republican National Convention on Sunday night and has hardly been seen since. The Alaska governor has not visited her home-state delegation, nor did she make a much-anticipated appearance Tuesday before the...Tags: Republican Party, George H.W. Bush, Dan Quayle, Political Candidates, Regional Authority
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Shame-filled Edwards admits affair with video producer
WASHINGTON - Former presidential candidate John Edwards, who won nationwide praise and sympathy as he campaigned side-by-side with his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, admitted in shame Friday he'd had an extramarital affair with a woman who produced...Tags: California, Political Candidates, Rielle Hunter, Michigan, Cancer
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In his home state, Biden is a regular Joe
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe personification of the white-haired Washington insider, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr. has spent more than half his life in the Senate, seemingly so in love with his own voice that his colleagues must fight to be heard...Tags: Fires, Parliament, The White House, Clarence Thomas, Political Candidates
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On foreign policy, Biden is respected but not always popular
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersSen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. joins the Democratic ticket as an acknowledged foreign policy sage whose 36-year record has won him bipartisan praise as a liberal internationalist who generally hews close to his party's center. But he has sometimes found himself...Tags: Kay Bailey Hutchison, Chuck Hagel, Political Candidates, Wars and Interventions, Nevada
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Truth about Helms
Conservative Republicans adulating Jesse Helms tell us as much about themselves as they do about the late senator. Helms was an unabashed racist and enthusiastic gay basher, one of the vilest political specimens of the past several decades. We're...
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