| Regulators scolded on medically unfit truckers (AP) | AP - House lawmakers scolded federal regulators Thursday for failing to implement recommendations made in 2001 that were designed to keep medically unfit commercial truck and bus drivers off the nation's highways.
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| Obama to Berlin: 'This is our moment' (Politico) | | Politico - BERLIN – Echoing presidents who came before him, Barack Obama used this city that symbolizes the fall of Communism to seek a renewal of the European-American alliance, calling for fresh cooperation to face down modern-day threats. | | 5h 13min 41sec ago | |
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| EPA: Few volunteering to cut greenhouse gases (AP) | AP - Voluntary pollution-reduction programs touted by the Bush administration as part of the solution to global warming have "limited potential" to reduce greenhouse gases, according to an internal government watchdog.
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| Obama scraps visit to wounded US troops in Germany (AP) | AP - Sen. Barack Obama scrapped plans to visit wounded members of the armed forces in Germany as part of his overseas trip, a decision his campaign said was made because the Democratic presidential candidate thought it would be inappropriate on a campaign-funded journey.
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| US voters greet Obama trip with praise, skepticism (AP) | AP - Calculated political ploy. Timely foreign outreach. A dash of each? Ask voters across the country about Barack Obama's image-packed week of foreign travel and you'll get a mix of admiration, suspicion, even a couple of bored shrugs.
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| Voters greet Obama trip with praise, skepticism (AP) | AP - Calculated political ploy. Timely foreign outreach. A dash of each? Ask voters across the country about Barack Obama's image-packed week of foreign travel and you'll get a mix of admiration, suspicion, even a couple of bored shrugs.
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| Secret Service wants more money for candidates (AP) | | AP - The Secret Service has asked for an extra $9.5 million to cover unexpected costs of protecting the presidential candidates during what has turned into an historic year for the agency's campaign security job. | | 6h 57min 7sec ago | | |
| Hagel chides candidates on Iraq (AP) | AP - Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, fresh from an Iraq trip with Democrat Barack Obama, said the presidential candidates should focus on the war's future and stop arguing over the success of last year's troop surge.
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| Hagel chides McCain on Iraq (AP) | AP - Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, fresh from an Iraq trip with Democrat Barack Obama, said the presidential candidates should focus on the war's future and stop arguing over the success of last year's troop surge.
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| Obama addresses huge, adoring crowd in Berlin (AP) | AP - Cheered by an enormous international crowd, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Thursday summoned Europeans and Americans together to "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it" as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago.
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| Obama scraps visit to wounded troops (AP) | AP - Sen. Barack Obama scrapped plans to visit wounded members of the armed forces in Germany as part of his overseas trip, a decision his spokesman said was made because the Democratic presidential candidate thought it would be inappropriate on a campaign-funded journey.
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| Poll: Split on New Yorker cover (AP) | | AP - Add one more item to the long list of disagreements between Democrats and Republicans: Whether it was appropriate for The New Yorker magazine to publish a cover satirizing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife as fist-bumping radicals. | | 8h 49min 31sec ago | |
| McCain to meet Dalai Lama (AFP) | AFP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Thursday that he would hold talks on Friday with the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader.
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| Obama promises to 'remake the world' (Politico) | Politico - Addressing tens of thousands of elated Europeans massed in Berlin at twilight, presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama promised Thursday that he would work to unite Christians, Muslims and Jews in a safer, more united world.
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| McCain visits German restaurant in Ohio (AP) | AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain had his own German experience Thursday — at a restaurant in Ohio. He asserted that he was happy to devote his time this week to touring the nation's heartland.
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