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The Prelude to Debate Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin generated an unparalleled anticipation for their Vice Presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis. Although the number two position in United States government has been interpreted as a powerless, nominally important supporting role, it was propelled to grand heights by the national media […]

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Pakistani President, Asif Ali Zardari, is the most recent public figure to have a fatwa issued against him. The fatwa, an Islamic legal pronouncement issued by a religious law expert, often calls for the murder of said person.

  WASHINGTON (AP)  After one spectacular failure, the $700 billion financial industry bailout found a second life Wednesday, winning lopsided passage in the Senate and gaining ground in the House, where Republicans opposition softened. Senators loaded the economic rescue bill with tax breaks and other sweeteners before passing it by a wide margin, 74-25, a […]

NewsOne.com is definitely the place to get your breaking news and share with others in your community. BlackPlanet members also like to share news they feel is important and I am taking this opportunity to share something interesting I have learned from them this week. This submission by Khazeem titled “Does this make sense???” simplifies […]

  Thursday night will be one of a few telling moments of Election ’08. On the heels of the nation’s financial despair, the testy battle between John McCain and Barack Obama’s ad messages, and the extreme ineptitude of Gov. Sarah Palin in interviews, the race could turn on its head instantly. When Sarah Palin and […]

WASHINGTON – Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin repeatedly failed to cite a newspaper or magazine when asked what she had read regularly before John McCain picked her as his running mate, saying only that she had read “most of them.”

WASHINGTON — Recently trailing or tied, Democrat Barack Obama now leads Republican John McCain in a trio of the most critical, vote-rich states five weeks before the election, according to presidential poll results released Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — In a bold bid to revive President Bush’s multibillion-dollar financial rescue plan, Senate leaders scheduled a vote for Wednesday night on a version of the bill that adds substantial tax cuts meant to appeal to Republicans when it reaches the House.

The previously urgent bailout plan stalled significantly yesterday as House Republicans — under John McCain’s lead — refused to pass a bill without specified conditions.

Republican John McCain agreed to attend the first presidential debate Friday night even though Congress doesn’t have a bailout deal, reversing an earlier decision to delay the forum until Washington had addressed the financial crisis.