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Noriega touts solution to immigration debate
Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Rick Noriega unveiled an immigration reform plan Wednesday that is very similar to a measure that died in the Senate last year largely because of opposition from Republican U.S. ...
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Tenn. Democrat beats lawyer who linked him to KKK - AP
A racially charged Democratic primary campaign ended Thursday with an incumbent congressman trouncing the opponent who ran an ad linking him to the Ku Klux Klan.
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Tuke wins Democratic Senate primary in Tennessee
Former Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Bob Tuke has won the U.S. Senate primary to challenge Republican Sen.
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Paris Hilton energy plan hot to congressman
John McCain may have linked Barak Obama to celebrity Paris Hilton. But a Texas congressman sees correlations between energy plans proposed by his GOP colleagues and one pitched by the blonde socialite.
State granted 30-year deferment for levee construction
Gov. Bobby Jindal and Gen. Douglas O'Dell announced that the state with be granted a 30-year deferment of the nearly $2 billion that the state and New Orleans area parishes would have been forced to pay in ...
Chambliss prepared for battle in November
Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss said now that Democrats have selected his opponent he fully expects the party to come after him with guns blazing.
McCain to give Stevens money to Pa. 9/11 memorial
Republican presidential candidate John McCain will give $5,000 that his campaign received from indicted Sen.
McCain says he'd push Congress to vote on energy
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks to reporters after a tour of Merillat Industries Wednesday, Aug.
Border agents unevenly spread on boundary
YAHOO! Story published at magicvalley.com on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 Last modified on Wednesday, August 6, 2008 2:45 PM MDT U.S. Border Patrol agent Santos Flores walks in front of the old border fence, back ...
Jenkins ends Ryun's political comeback Eds: ...
Former Rep. Jim Ryun's attempt at a political comeback ended early Wednesday when he lost to State Treasurer Lynn Jenkins in the GOP primary in the 2nd Congressional District.
Gasoline costs, energy rivet candidates' attention
To understand why Barack Obama and John McCain are emphasizing solutions to the country's energy woes and have scrambled to change their positions, look no further than the voters' distress over $4-a-gallon ...
Ladders, buoys considered for deadly border canal
The agency that is lining a border waterway with concrete agreed Tuesday to consider adding ladders and buoys to prevent migrants from drowning when they illegally cross from Mexico into Southern California.
Detroit mayor's mother leads in Mich. House race
Supporters of Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich., react to early primary returns shown on television at her primary night election party Detroit, Mich., Tuesday, Aug.
Bush asked to call Congress back on energy issues
Republican Sen. Arlen Specter on Tuesday became the first U.S. senator to formally ask President George W. Bush to call Congress back from its August recess to pass legislation that will help lower high oil and ...
Iraq's oil-fueled surplus could hit $80B
Iraq is raking in more money from oil exports than it is spending, amassing a projected four-year budget surplus of up to $80 billion, U.S. auditors reported Tuesday.
Will he or won't he? Vice President Dick Cheney is one of the nation's most prominent Republicans, but there are doubts about whether he will attend the GOP convention.
Mo. governor's candidates starting from SW Mo.
Republican gubernatorial candidates Kenny Hulshof and Sarah Steelman both are springing from southwest Missouri in their final campaign push.
Energy: House Republicans recognize that drilling for our own oil has become the issue this election year.
McCain visiting motorcycle rally, nuke power plant
Republican presidential candidate John McCain hopes to enhance his appeal to blue-collar voters and those in the Northern Plains by visiting a giant motorcycle rally in South Dakota.
Bush tells troops Iraq no longer 'hopeless'
President Bush said Monday that U.S. troops going to Iraq soon will find a country dramatically different from the one that was "hopeless" before his troop buildup.