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Obama bypasses public money _ 1st since Watergate
Jun 19 2008, AP

Barack Obama is abandoning public financing for his presidential campaign, reversing his earlier stance in bold certainty he can raise millions more on his own as the first major-party candidate to bypass the tax-checkoff system that was hurried into...

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AP, San Francisco
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Wis. firefighter union chief out over racial slur
AP, Milwaukee
The head of the Wisconsin firefighters union resigned Tuesday over a racist comment he made the day after Barack Obama became the first African-American elected...
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Police: Store owner wounded as he killed 2 robbers
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Cheney, Gonzales indicted in South Texas county
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Gerard Damiano, 'Deep Throat' director, dead at 80
AP, Fort Myers
Gerard Damiano, director of the popular pornographic film “Deep Throat” that lent its name to a Watergate whistleblower, has died. He was 80.
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