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Democrats Settle Michigan & Florida
The Deal A Death Knell for Clinton's Hopes

Partisan audience became a mob, harassing the Democratic Party's Rules and Bylaws Committee with boos, hisses, cheers and raucous commentary

The lack of decorum in the hall was barely elevated from that of the sidewalk outside the hotel, where several hundred Hillary Clinton supporters chanted "Count every vote!" and waved signs announcing "Count my vote or count me out."

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The contentious committee's rulings gave Clinton a net increase of 24 delegates from the two states, but that number fell far short of the delegate haul she was hoping for

The months long dispute over rogue primaries in Michigan and Florida on Saturday, ended with the decision to seat the delegations but with only half their votes and all but securing the presidential nomination for Sen. Barack Obaman.

The Clinton campaign was satisfied with the Florida resolution, which awarded delegates based on the proportion of the vote. But the campaign took issue with the Michigan case, where Obama had removed his name from the ballot. The compromise, proposed by the Michigan state party, allotted 69 delegates to Clinton and 59 to Obama. Clinton aides argued that Obama should get no votes from the state.

Clinton's backers: We won't 'roll over: Article & Video

Court Says Polygamist Sect’s
468 Children Seized Illegally

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Abuse allegations, starting with a mysterious telephone call & echoed by disgruntled former members, seemingly accepted at face value, with no real evidence.

Decision abruptly threw the largest custody case in recent American history into turmoil.

The unanimous ruling by three judges of the Third Court of Appeals in Austin revoked the state’s custody over the children of 38 mother

For nearly two months, Texas child welfare officials had insisted that conditions at a polygamist group's ranch were so abusive that none of its members should be allowed to keep their children. Case unravels

White House Cult of Deception Exposed

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Scott McClellan's memoir of his years as a White House insider is the most damming book yet on Bush and his leading White House advisors.

Calling Bush a President who veered terribly off course who made up his mind to attack Saddam Hussein and sold the war with propaganda and cherry-picked intelligence.

The leaking of name of the CIA officer Valerie Plame -- to try to discredit war criticism -- also distressed McClellan who now says he was deliberately lied to by those involved and then sent out to give false information to the press, permanently destroying this credibility, More>>

McClellan says President Bush told him he had authorized the leaking of Plame's identity to the press by declassifying NSA documents.


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Mars Landing Successful. Ice Possible.

New Images From Phoenix Lander May Show Martian Ice

Phoenix, a stationary lander, set down in the Martian arctic on May 25 to begin a planned three-month mission to probe its surroundings for buried water ice using a scoop-mounted robotic arm, as well as onboard ovens and wet chemistry lab. The probe's $422 million mission is aimed at determining whether the icy Martian north could have once been habitable for primitive life.

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 Israel plans more settlements

Jordan slams Israeli expansion

Israeli farmers block food for Gaza

Congress investigates oil markets
Race for the Oil in Arctic Seabed

 

UN Demands Iran Come Clean on any Nuclear Bomb Plans

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Iran Warns It May Limit Cooperation With IAEA expressing disappointment over the agency's recent report. IAEA to meet this week.

Last week IAEA disclosed the existence of alleged secret documents that suggest Tehran had interest in designing a nuclear weapon before the program was suspended.

Iran accuses IAEA of ceding to Western pressure and repeated their assertion that there was no such armaments program - that their nuclear program is intended solely for peaceful purposes like generating electricity, details.

Fears that Iran might want to make the bomb are as old as the discovery five years ago that it had assembled the nuts and bolts of a uranium enrichment program. More >>

 

U.S. Africa Command Trims Its Aspirations
The U.S. Africa Command, designed to boost America's image and prevent terrorist inroads on the continent, has scaled back its ambitions after African governments refused to host it and aid groups protested plans to expand the military's role in economic development in the region. More >>
  
   

 

 

 

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Democratic superdelegates to decide the nominee
Sen. Barack Obama leads in the Democratic presidential nomination race in both the popular vote and delegate count, but still lacks the magic number to secure the nomination. Superdelegates vote will be deciding factor. Party leaders want quick decision.

 
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