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Full Text (482 words)Clinton and Obama struck a cordial tone in a one-on-one debate.
The Democratic rivals sparred sporadically but reserved their acrimony for Republicans in a face-off mostly devoted to domestic issues. Both candidates stressed their health-care plans and agreed that tax cuts for the wealthy should expire. The debate came on a day when Obama's campaign reported it had raised $32 million in contributions for January. Both Democrats had banked about $100 million apiece through the end of 2007.
In the Republican race, Romney stepped up his attack on McCain's conservative credentials. Polls suggest Romney is trailing by double digits.
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Bush's budget for 2009 will total more than $3 trillion, the first time that barrier has been broken, a top administration official said. The plan projects big increases in deficits, to some $400 billion.
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An economic-stimulus package passed by the Senate finance panel isn't likely to clear the full Senate. An amendment that funds food stamps and extends jobless insurance is also likely to fail.
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Militant rockets struck a British base in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. A bomb-rigged car in Baghdad blew up, killing at least five people.
Bush said he won't jeopardize security gains in Iraq by a hasty withdrawal, another sign force reductions could slow or stop this summer.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque in southern Afghanistan, killing a deputy provincial governor and five other people. The Taliban claimed responsibility.
A U.S. missile strike by a Predator drone inside Pakistan's tribal area likely killed Abu Laith al-Libi, a senior al Qaeda commander.
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Chinese train service resumed after the worst storms in decades, but hundreds of thousands of migrant workers who tried to go home for Lunar New Year remained stranded.
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A Kenyan policeman killed an opposition lawmaker in what officials called a crime of passion. Protesters, convinced the killing was ethnically related, burned houses in revenge.
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Olmert signaled he has no intention of stepping down as Israel's prime minister after a report criticized the government and military for failures in the 2006 Lebanon war.
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The Mideast and India suffered a second day of telecom woes after two undersea Internet cables in the Mediterranean sustained damage.
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The Supreme Court granted a last-minute reprieve to an Alabama inmate scheduled to die in the first U.S. execution in months.
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More U.S. cities were added to a Homeland Security list of places at high risk of terrorist attacks.
Delays at border crossings were minimal as tougher ID standards for U.S. and Canadian citizens took effect.
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The Western U.S. faces the threat of a water crisis from human- caused climate change, a study concluded.
Crop losses from global warming are likely to be the worst in Africa, India and Pakistan, researchers said.
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Suicides by soldiers rose 20% last year from 2006 despite more mental-health programs, the Army reported.
