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/ 1 November 2008
John McCain on Friday seized on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s star power in Ohio, a state critical to his hopes of clawing back Barack Obama’s lead.
Obama and McCain differ on the uses of American power, but who is the hawk and who is the dove, asks David E Sanger.
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/ 1 November 2008
It wasn’t easy. I didn’t get my absentee ballot in time so I called the consulate in Johannesburg to see what I could do.
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/ 1 November 2008
Sharp falls in consumer spending in the US and Germany deepened fears of a global recession as markets ended one of their most traumatic months.
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/ 31 October 2008
Barack Obama’s campaign says Democratic voters are piling up imposing early voting totals in battleground states.
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/ 31 October 2008
The risk of conflict will increase in the next two decades as China, India and Russia become major powers and competition for resources grows.
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/ 31 October 2008
Barack Obama and John McCain are embarking on a frenzied, multi-state blitz over the final days of the election campaign.
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/ 31 October 2008
Not long ago it was fashionable to say that American elections didn’t matter much to the rest of the world. After eight years of George W Bush…
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/ 30 October 2008
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama buried the hatchet and joined forces on Wednesday to deliver a rousing call for change six days from the US election.
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/ 30 October 2008
Rising fuel costs make electric golf carts an unusual alternative to cars.
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/ 29 October 2008
John McCain renewed his attacks on Barack Obama’s ties to a 1960s radical on Wednesday as he targeted voters in the key battleground state of Florida.
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/ 29 October 2008
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama launches an unprecedented television blitz on Wednesday to push his economic message on US networks.
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/ 29 October 2008
Microsoft on Tuesday gave the world a peek at a coming generation of software crafted to quell complaints about its Vista operating system.
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/ 29 October 2008
Lev David: This one’s about why I think Sarah Palin deserves a place on the world stage, no matter the result of the United States Presidential Race.
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/ 28 October 2008
White House frontrunner Barack Obama on Monday traded blows with John McCain over how to repair the stricken United States economy.
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/ 28 October 2008
Smaller US banks have objected that they could be vulnerable to government-funded predatory takeovers as their larger rivals enjoy cash injections.
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/ 27 October 2008
Barack Obama was on Monday set to present his "closing argument" to voters as his epic White House duel with John McCain entered its final week.
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/ 27 October 2008
Tony Hillerman, author of the acclaimed Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels died on Sunday of pulmonary failure. He was 83.
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/ 27 October 2008
Tony Hillerman, author of the acclaimed Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels died on Sunday of pulmonary failure. He was 83.
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/ 27 October 2008
A new global deal on climate change will come too late to save most of the world’s coral reefs, according to a United States study.
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/ 27 October 2008
The manipulation and intimidation that African-Americans must face in order to cast a vote will only get worse this year.
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/ 27 October 2008
Democrats are gazing at a radical new dawn while Republicans are ready to attack the victor, writes Jonathan Freedland.
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/ 26 October 2008
Chicago police asked the FBI on Saturday to help find the missing seven-year-old nephew of Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Hudson.
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/ 26 October 2008
Democrat Barack Obama’s lead over Republican rival John McCain has dropped to five points, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll.
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/ 26 October 2008
The International Monetary Fund’s board on Saturday cleared managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn of harassment, favoritism and abuse of power.
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/ 26 October 2008
It used to be called the ”most expensive album never made” and many of Axl Rose’s fans had long given up hope of it ever seeing the light of day.
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/ 25 October 2008
He is among the biggest influences on modern popular music and has spent five years at the heart of an unresolved media firestorm.
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/ 25 October 2008
To astronauts, it will sound uncannily like Hal, the soft-voiced computer that turns nasty in Stanley Kubrick’s film, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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/ 25 October 2008
The US navy will inspect hundreds of fighter jets built by Boeing after discovering ”fatigue cracks” on more than a dozen aircraft deployed overseas.
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/ 25 October 2008
John McCain, fighting for traction 11 days before the presidential election, said on Friday he has a tough battle against Barack Obama in Colorado.
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/ 25 October 2008
A John McCain campaign volunteer admitted she made up a story of being robbed and having the letter ”B” carved into her cheek by an assailant.
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/ 25 October 2008
The mother and brother of Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Hudson were found shot to death in the mother’s Chicago home on Friday.