May 2008


President Bush is accompanied by Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and his wife Cindy, seen reflected on the car,  before Bush boards Air Force One at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, after Bush attended a private campaign fundraising event for McCain in Phoenix, Tuesday, May 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - John McCain’s nuclear proposals are largely in line with those of the unpopular President Bush, and even where the two disagree, the Republican presidential candidate has waffled.


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Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama talks to students and invited guests during a town hall-style meeting in Thornton, Colo., Wednesday, May 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)AP - Call it the political version of how to win the West.


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AP - Federal Reserve Governor Frederic Mishkin will leave at the end of August and return to teaching at Columbia University, the central bank announced Wednesday. His departure means yet another empty seat on the Fed as it battles housing, credit and financial debacles.

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Two commuter trains collided and derailed during the evening rush hour outside Boston on Wednesday, trapping and killing the operator of one train and injuring several passengers, authorities said.

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For two hours Saturday, the New Springville Church will pay 50 cents of every gallon of gas sold at a local 7-Eleven, MyFOXOrlando.com reported

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Love it, hate it or simply laugh at it, sales of the much-maligned meat product Spam are on the rise as families are forced to stretch their food budgets.

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Francis S. Collins, who for more than a decade has overseen virtually every major federal research initiative in the fast-paced field of genetic science, will step down as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health, effective Aug. 1.

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The Supreme Court this week made big news because it hardly changed the law at all.

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The former chief military prosecutor for terrorism trials at Guantanamo Bay thinks the Defense Department has punished him for testifying publicly that he faced political pressure to speed up the cases and to use evidence derived from torture.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, May 28 — President Bush acknowledged that his administration is “learning as we go” in building democracy in Iraq, as he used his final military academy commencement address on Wednesday to ruminate on some lessons from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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