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McCain and Obama battle over military service

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:50
UNION CITY, California (Reuters) - Republican John McCain took aim at presidential rival Barack Obama's lack of military service on Thursday, drawing a rebuke from the Democratic front-runner for his "endless diatribes and schoolyard taunts."

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Democrat urges House vote on Korea, Colombia pacts

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:50
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives would make a big foreign policy blunder if they continued blocking a vote on a free trade agreement with Colombia and deny action on another pact with South Korea, a House Democrat said on Thursday.

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Congress overrides veto, enacts farm law

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:50
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress enacted the $289 billion U.S. farm law on Thursday over a presidential veto, a move that will expand the major nutrition program for poor Americans at a time of rapidly rising grocery prices.

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Former Bush aide Rove again subpoenaed in probe

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:50
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Karl Rove, who had been one of President George W. Bush's top aides, was subpoenaed on Thursday for a second time to testify in a congressional probe of the administration's firing of federal prosecutors.

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McCain rejects pastor's backing after Hitler remark

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:50
UNION CITY, California (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Thursday rejected the endorsement of a Texas preacher after the pastor was discovered to have made derogatory comments about Jews.

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USTR, senators clash over stronger trade tools

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:50
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill to strengthen U.S. tools to enforce trade agreements is unnecessary and could invite retaliation against U.S. farm exports to China, a top U.S. trade official said on Thursday.

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Rice warns of more sanctions on Iran

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:50
PALO ALTO (Reuters) - The United States will aggressively impose more sanctions on Iran as long as it refuses to give up sensitive nuclear work and uses the world's financial system for "terrorism," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday.

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McCain criticizes Obama's lack of military service

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:50
UNION CITY, California (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain opened a new line of attack against Democratic front-runner Barack Obama on Thursday, taking aim at Obama's lack of military service.

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Congress overrides Bush veto, enacts farm law

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:50
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate joined the House on Thursday to override President George W. Bush's veto of the $289 billion farm bill, enacting it as law except for the trade section, which was deleted through a clerical error.

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USTR, senators clash over stronger U.S. trade tools

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:50
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A proposed bill to strengthen U.S. tools to enforce trade agreements is unnecessary and could invite retaliation against U.S. farm exports to China, a top U.S. trade official said on Thursday.

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Senate approves $165 billion in new war money

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:50
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Thursday approved an additional $165 billion to wage war in Iraq and Afghanistan for another year after lawmakers blocked proposed timetables for withdrawing American troops from Iraq.

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Expensive oil due to tight supply: energy secretary

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:50
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman told Congress on Thursday that crude oil prices have reached record-high levels of $135 a barrel because global oil production has failed to keep up with demand.

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Canada aide at heart of Obama leak to quit: media

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:50
OTTAWA (Reuters) - A top Canadian official blamed for triggering the leak of a memo that cast doubt on the sincerity of Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama will quit his job soon, Canadian media reported on Thursday.

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U.S., N.Korean nuclear negotiators to meet next week

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:50
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The lead U.S. and North Korean nuclear negotiators are expected to meet in Beijing next week, a diplomatic source said on Thursday, in a sign Pyongyang may be closer to making a declaration of its atomic programs.

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Clinton campaigns as attention wanders elsewhere

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:50
SUNRISE, Florida (Reuters) - The souvenir vendors outside Hillary Clinton's campaign appearances have added a new button to their wares that reads "Chelsea in 2016" with a picture of the former first daughter.

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To fix error, House to vote again on farm bill

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:50
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives will vote again on sending the $289 billion U.S. farm bill to the White House to clear up an embarrassing clerical error discovered after the bill was vetoed, Democratic leaders said on Thursday.

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Obama focuses on McCain during Florida stop

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:50
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Barack Obama sounded like the Democratic presidential nominee on a visit to the November election battleground of Florida on Wednesday, praising rival Hillary Clinton and targeting Republican foe John McCain.

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Rice: Iran must make "right choice" in nuclear row

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:50
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Iran on Wednesday that if it did not make the "right choice" and abandon sensitive nuclear work it faced more punitive action from the international community.

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Possible vice presidential picks to see McCain

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:50
IRVINE, California (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain will spend time this weekend with three politicians who have been mentioned prominently by Republicans as possible vice presidential running mates.

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Court rejects state's nuclear waste cleanup law

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:50
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday threw out a Washington state law barring the federal government from adding radioactive waste to the Hanford nuclear disposal site until existing contamination is cleaned up.

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