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Obama: Media response to Iraq remarks overblown (AP)

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., talks to reporters in his campaign charter en route to St. Louis, Mo., Saturday, July 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)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" (AP)
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)

US Republican presidential hopeful John McCain speaks during a press conference at the Federal Police building in Mexico City on July 3, 2008. White House hopefuls Barack Obama and McCain marked the US Independence Day holiday Friday with parades, picnics and odes to patriotism.(AFP/Alfredo Estrella)AP - John McCain calls himself an underdog. That may be an understatement.


Foreclosures to rise whoever wins White House (AP)

In this May 9, 2008 file photo. a foreclosure sign stands outside a home in Denver.  The optimism that surrounds a new president taking office cannot resurrect home values overnight, and presidents have no direct ability to reduce rising mortgage rates. Nevertheless, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain both promise help for homeowners facing foreclosure.  (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)AP - Home foreclosures will keep rising next year no matter who is elected president in November.


Wesley Clark 'moving on' (Politico)

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, talks with former Gen. Wesley Clark, and other generals and flag officers during a military and foreign affairs round table discussion in Washington Wednesday, June 18, 2008.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)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 (AP)
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)

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, speaks at an Independence Day picnic in Butte, Mont., Friday, July 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Christina Almeida)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)

In this Friday, June 13, 2008 file photo, tomatoes ripen on the vine in Hanover County, Va.  Since a salmonella scare has caused many customers to shun what's normally a summer favorite, tomato farmers across the nation have had to plow under their fields and leave their crop to rot in packinghouses. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)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)

Melissa Amschwand-Bellinger shown Wednesday, July 2, 2008  in Houston. Dying of cancer, her husband did everything he was told to make sure his wife would collect on the life insurance policy he had through his employer.  (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)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 (AP)

A member from the international relief group Oxfam personates the likes of Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, center, as he leads other Oxfam members portraying other Group of Eight leaders to belt it out karaoke tunes at Sapporo, northern Japan, on Saturday, July 5, 2008. The G8 leaders, representing the U.S., Japan, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy and Canada, will descend in this northern Japanese island of Hokkaido for the summit meeting to discuss global warming and food crisis, among others. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)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.


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