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Today was a bad day on Wall Street for IndyMac Bancorp Inc.

As a matter of fact, so was yesterday. And Monday.

The stock, traded on the New York Stock Exchange as IMB, closed at 38 cents a share. That’s a nearly [...]

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A new strategy memo on the presidential campaign released today by Democracy Corps and the polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner finds that Republican John McCain beats Democrat Barack Obama when the economic debate is positive, but Obama wins [...]

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Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts made a dramatic return to the Senate this afternoon to help Democrats pass legislation that would prevent a 10.6 percent cut in Medicare payments to physicians.

It was his first visit to the Capitol since [...]

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Taxpayers for Common Sense, a budget watchdog group, released an analysis this morning of the 260 laws enacted by the current Congress since it took office in January 2007.
According to the group, 74 of the laws “were naming post offices and many more [...]

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Hillary Rodham Clinton will attend a breakfast fundraiser for Barack Obama Thursday in Manhattan.

New York’s junior senator will be making her appearance at a Women for Obama event.

It will mark her second joint appearance with the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee.

They also campaigned [...]

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What’s a few million dollars out of a $39.9 billion budget?

Congresswoman Nita Lowey, D-Harrison, has joined with other members of the House Appropriations Committee and some lawmakers not on the panel in setting aside $180 million for 104 projects in their [...]

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In her letter to donors sent out earlier today, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton assured them she won’t use their money to repay any of the $11.4 million in loans she gave to her unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic presidential [...]

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 The three major national committees of the Republican Party raised $13 million more than their three counterparts run by the Democrats during the first 16 months of this election cycle, the Federal Election Commission reported today.

The reporting period covers Jan. [...]

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Barack Obama’s presidential campaign announced this afternoon it will have staff in all 50 states.

“The network of volunteers and the infrastructure built up during the historic primary season—on behalf of all the Democratic campaigns—have given us an enormous and unprecedented [...]

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Maybe you missed it.

New York’s senior senator did not endorse Barack Obama at the National Building Museum in Washington yesterday.

Sen. Chuck Schumer was there to commend Sen. Hillary Clinton for endorsing Obama, but he waited a day to make his own announcement.

Several days ago [...]