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Full Text (445 words)Edwards's exit leaves rivals coveting his donors and supporters.
His departure might sway the Democratic outcome on Super Tuesday as Obama could pick up Edwards's backers in states such as California, while Clinton may benefit from his support in the South. The former senator didn't endorse a candidate. Meanwhile, McCain faces an internecine battle due to his low standing among many fellow Republicans, potentially fracturing the party. Giuliani, as expected, pulled out of the race, and candidates scrambled to woo his well- heeled supporters.
McCain and Romney sparred on the economy and Iraq at a California debate. Schwarzenegger is expected to endorse the Arizona senator today.
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A Senate panel cleared a broader stimulus measure than passed by the House and it now heads for a showdown in the full chamber. Bush urged the Senate to pass the House plan. Separately, he prodded lawmakers to act soon on his trade agenda to boost growth and said he is open to helping workers hurt by global competition.
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Olmert emerged relatively unscathed in a report that criticized the Israeli government and army for shortcomings in handling the 2006 war in Lebanon, a conclusion that staves off calls for his resignation and boosts U.S. peace efforts.
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Democrats accused Mukasey of potentially allowing waterboarding to be used in the future after he said he couldn't render an opinion about the interrogation technique during a Senate hearing.
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Pakistan and the U.S. are intensifying their hunt for a Taliban commander who they fear could widen al Qaeda's sanctuary in Islamabad's remote tribal regions.
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A contaminated anticancer drug underscores the problems plaguing the Chinese drug industry amid efforts by Western firms to outsource manufacturing there.
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A military study contends stress, not traumatic brain injuries, is tied to maladies affecting U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq.
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Police in India said they broke up an illegal organ-transplant ring, an extensive network involving an element of "medical tourism."
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The State Department retreated from comments made by its chief African envoy describing violence in Kenya as "ethnic cleansing."
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Abbas rejected Hamas demands for control of the breached Egypt border crossing and told the militant group to end its "coup" in Gaza.
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The Italian Senate speaker's bid to form an interim government faces a challenge persuading Berlusconi to drop calls for snap elections.
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Research suggests using a stent-graft device to repair an aortic aneurysm, but a surgical procedure may offer a more permanent fix.
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Australia will formally apologize to thousands of Aborigines forcibly removed from their families under a six-decade policy ended in the 1970s.
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Died: Robert M. Ball, 93, considered father of Medicare, on Tuesday.
