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  • Wall Street meltdown wallops Main Street

    Wall Street meltdown wallops Main Street

    September 20, 2008

    The most serious financial crisis since the 1930s exploded this week, plunging global markets into a meltdown, pushing credit card rates up, threatening life savings and pensions, hiking the jobless rate, and sending John McCain and...

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  • Liar, Liar

    Liar, Liar

    September 20, 2008

    Part 2Independent watchdog groups and, increasingly, mainstream media are debunking what many call an unprecedented number of distortions and smears put forward by John McCain as he attempts to lie his way into the White House....

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  • Latino voters key to Obama win in battleground states

    Latino voters key to Obama win in battleground states

    September 19, 2008

    The historic Nov. 4th presidential election is less than two months away, and a monumental battle is heating up in a few crucial swing states, as some nine million Latino voters prepare to cast their ballot,...

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  • Texans struggle with Ike

    Texans struggle with Ike

    September 18, 2008 By James Thompson

    HOUSTON — As the death toll rose to 47 from Hurricane Ike, the Bush administration attempts seem like a re-run of the disaster relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina survivors. Already stories abound of poor FEMA response...

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  • Michigan, Ohio fight GOP dirty tricks

    Michigan, Ohio fight GOP dirty tricks

    September 18, 2008

    The Obama campaign filed a lawsuit Sept. 16 to block an apparent Republican Party effort in Michigan to use home foreclosure lists to exclude registered voters in the Detroit area from casting ballots this November. At...

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