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  1. E-mail from VA worker says to avoid PTSD diagnosis AP - Thu May 15, 5:31 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.8

    WASHINGTON - An internal e-mail written by a Veterans Affairs Department employee suggested avoiding a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder for veterans and instead considering a diagnosis that might result in a lower disability payment.

  2. Contractors, insurance firms gouging taxpayers, panel says AP - Thu May 15, 2:28 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.7

    WASHINGTON - A poorly run Pentagon program for providing workman's compensation for civilian employees in Iraq and Afghanistan has allowed defense contractors and insurance companies to gouge American taxpayers, a House committee said Thursday.

  3. Senate votes to roll back media ownership rule AP - 1 hour, 11 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.6

    WASHINGTON - The Senate Thursday night voted to nullify a Federal Communications Commission rule that allows media companies to own a newspaper and a television station in the same market.

  4. A view of the US Capitol. The US House of Representatives Thursday rejected 163 billion dollars in emergency spending for Iraq and Afghanistan, in a largely symbolic twist in a fierce political battle over war funding.(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)
    US House Republicans block war funding bill AFP - Thu May 15, 6:55 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.6

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US House of Representatives Thursday rejected 163 billion dollars in emergency spending for Iraq and Afghanistan, in an unexpected but symbolic twist to a fierce political battle over war funding.

  5. A U.S. soldier takes up position to secure the site of a bomb attack that targeted Sunni Islamic political party headquarters, which police said killed three people and wounded 23 others in Baghdad's Yarmouk district, May 14, 2008. (Mushtaq Muhammed/Reuters)
    House defeats $162.5 bln in new war funds Reuters - Thu May 15, 4:30 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday defeated legislation that would have funded the war in Iraq for another year, in a surprise move that the Senate could overturn.

  6. Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama speaks at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan. Obama and Hillary Clinton continue the battle for their party's presidential nomination and face-off in the Kentucky and Oregon primaries on May 20.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)
    Perfect timing: Obama's super show-stoppers Politico - Fri May 16, 5:40 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    With her deep party ties, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was supposed to own the superdelegate primary.

  7. In this Feb. 27, 2008, file photo Republican presidential hopeful, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks at a press conference with Rev. John Hagee, an influential Texas televangelist who endorsed John McCain. Hagee apologized to Catholics Tuesday, May 13, 2008, for his stinging criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and for having 'emphasized the darkest chapters in the history of Catholic and Protestant relations with the Jews.'   (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
    ON DEADLINE: Preachers a problem for McCain too AP - Thu May 15, 5:16 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - This could be the campaign of loudmouth preacher problems, and not only for Barack Obama. While The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is poster pastor for the type, Republican John McCain's right-wing ecclesiastical stable has a record of ranting, too.

  8. Obama's learning rules of the game Politico - Thu May 15, 5:30 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.2

    Early on in the election process, Barack Obama decided he did not much like the election process.

  9. Farm workers of the Ocean Mists Farms harvest artichokes outside Castroville in Salinas Valley, California April 4, 2008. (Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters)
    Congress says can override Bush farm bill veto Reuters - Thu May 15, 3:17 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.2

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate gave final congressional approval on Thursday to a $289 billion farm bill that expands programs to help feed poor Americans, and lawmakers said Congress could easily override a presidential veto.

  10. A U.S. officer walks in front of a column of armoured vehicles from Bravo Company (Bulldogs), 1-502 Infantry Battalion during a patrol on the edge of the Shi'ite-dominated Baghdad neighbourhood of Shulla May 12, 2008. (Oleg Popov/Reuters)
    U.S. House sets Iraq troop pullout goal for end-2009 Reuters - Thu May 15, 3:47 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.1

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives defied President George W. Bush by passing legislation on Thursday that would set the end of 2009 as the goal for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.

  11. Senate Appropriations Committee members Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., left, and Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., confer on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 15, 2008, during the committee's hearing on markup of the 2008 supplemental appropriations bill. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)
    Republicans abandon Bush on food, energy issues AP - Thu May 15, 5:20 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.0

    WASHINGTON - Congress responded speedily to voters' angst over rising grocery prices and $4-a-gallon gasoline Thursday, bucking President Bush's veto threats with lopsided votes to boost food stamps and farm subsidies — after ordering Bush to quit pouring oil into the nation's emergency reserves.

  12. A taxi driver fills his car at a gas station in New York, April 24, 2008. (Joshua Lott/Reuters)
    Gas prices hurt but tax holiday no solution: poll Reuters - Thu May 15, 10:28 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.0

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sixty nine percent of Americans see gasoline prices as a serious problem for their families but only 41 percent favor a temporary repeal of the gasoline tax as proposed by presidential candidates John McCain and Hillary Clinton, a poll released on Thursday said.

  13. Ron Paul revolution sees second wind Politico - Thu May 15, 6:32 AM ET Avg. Rating: 3.9

    As an author, Ron Paul has accomplished something he failed to do as a Republican presidential candidate: finish first. His new book, "The Revolution: A Manifesto," has topped The New York Times best-seller list and the Amazon sales chart. It has also helped rally his grass-roots following long after John McCain clinched the GOP presidential nomination.

  14. Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., talks to reporters on his campaign charter en route to Chicago, Wednesday, May 14, 2008. 'The same kinds of tactics that the Republican Party has been employing over the last several election cycles just aren't going to work this time,' he said about republican attack ads.  'I mean, they did everything they could, right? They ran Wright. They ran Obama. In Louisiana, they ran Pelosi. The same way that in previous election cycles they had run Hillary or other folks they thought would scare off voters. It didn't work.'  (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
    Obama warns Republicans about critical ads AP - Fri May 16, 4:22 AM ET Avg. Rating: 3.9

    CHICAGO - Perhaps no one took greater comfort in the Republican Party's third straight loss of a long-held House seat this week than Barack Obama, who says the results point to clear limits in the effectiveness of attack ads he expects this fall.

  15. Colombian pleads not guilty to US drug charges AP - Thu May 15, 5:11 PM ET Avg. Rating: 3.8

    WASHINGTON - Days after being hurriedly extradited from Colombian prisons, a group of right-wing paramilitaries expressed surprise Thursday as they stood in a U.S. courtroom, flanked by armed marshals and wearing bright orange jumpsuits and slippers.

  16. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks as former Democratic challenger John Edwards (L) listens at a rally with supporters in the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan May 14, 2008. (Jeff Haynes/Reuters)
    Steelworkers endorse Obama for president AP - Thu May 15, 11:22 AM ET Avg. Rating: 3.6

    WASHINGTON - The United Steelworkers union endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president Thursday, giving the Illinois senator a powerful advocate in attracting blue-collar voters.

  17. U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton acknowledges a supporter during her West Virginia Presidential Primary night rally in Charleston, West Virginia, May 13, 2008. REUTERS/Jason Reed
    Florida, Michigan delegates cannot save Clinton AP - 2 hours, 56 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 3.5

    WASHINGTON - Sorry, Sen. Clinton. Michigan and Florida can't save your campaign. Interviews with those considering how to handle the two states' banished convention delegates found little interest in the former first lady's best-case scenario.

  18. Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, speaks as he is joined by former Democratic presidential rival John Edwards at a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., Wednesday, May 14, 2008.   Edwards endorsed Obama. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
    Unions turn toward Democratic front-runner Obama AP - Thu May 15, 7:13 PM ET Avg. Rating: 3.4

    WASHINGTON - The union tide is turning toward Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama, but cracks are showing inside the labor movement as its leaders grapple with internal and external strife as the nomination race drags on.

  19. Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks from the porch during a campaign event at Jones' Farm in Bath, S.D., Thursday, May 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
    Clinton scolds McCain for opposing farm bill AP - Thu May 15, 8:51 PM ET Avg. Rating: 3.3

    BATH, S.D. - Hillary Rodham Clinton scolded John McCain Thursday for opposing the farm bill, attempting to maintain the sense that she is already competing against the certain Republican presidential nominee even as her chances of winning the Democratic nomination dim.

  20. This undated photo provided by the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shows the Democratic presidential hopeful, Obama, in New York City, while a student at Columbia University. Obama received his B.A. degree in political science in 1983 from Columbia. (AP Photo/Obama Presidential Campaign, File)
    Old friends recall Obama's years in LA, NY AP - Thu May 15, 6:18 PM ET Avg. Rating: 3.3

    NEW YORK - The way Sohale Siddiqi remembers it, he and his old roommate were walking his pug Charlie on Broadway when a large, scary bum approached them, stomping on the ground near the dog's head.