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Obama: Media response to Iraq remarks overblown
(AP)
AP - Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them.
Play of the Day: Malia Obama's "best birthday"
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AP - Malia Obama told her parents that spending her 10th birthday helping her father campaign for the presidency far from home and "rocking out" with her family after takeout in a modest hotel room was the best she has ever had.
Analysis: McCain struggles to regain footing
(AP)
AP - John McCain calls himself an underdog. That may be an understatement.
Foreclosures to rise whoever wins White House
(AP)
AP - Home foreclosures will keep rising next year no matter who is elected president in November.
Wesley Clark 'moving on'
(Politico)
Politico - Nearly a week after his controversial “Face the Nation” appearance last Sunday, retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark is taking a break from the presidential campaign — but many Democratic insiders think he has already been crossed off the list of Barack Obama’s potential running mates.
Veterans group plans ad campaign touting Iraq war
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AP - Republican John McCain, who has made support for President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq the centerpiece of his presidential campaign, is getting from help from a veterans group that's launching a national TV ad campaign next week.
Obama, Clinton to hold joint fundraisers in NY
(AP)
AP - Now that they're allies, Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will help each other raise money in a series of fundraisers in New York next week.
Democrats hit GOP on support for Medicare cuts
(AP)
AP - Sen. Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat, accused Republicans of putting seniors and military families at risk by siding with President Bush against a measure to prevent Medicare cuts.
FDA reports more cases of salmonella illnesses
(AP)
AP - The government on Saturday increased the number of people reported being sickened in a record salmonella outbreak in which tomatoes are the leading suspect although investigators are testing other types of fresh produce.
Employers use federal law to deny benefits
(AP)
AP - Dying of cancer, Thomas Amschwand did everything he was told to make sure his wife would collect on the life insurance policy he had through his employer.
1,000 protest G-8 summit in Japan; police arrest 4
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AP - More than 1,000 people marched in northern Japan on Saturday to protest an upcoming summit of the top industrialized countries, and police arrested four protesters after a brief scuffle. No injuries were reported.
