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Top candidates profit from book deals (AP)

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., acknowledges supporters after a democratic presidential debate Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007, in Des Moines, Iowa as Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., talks with Democratic National CommitteecChairman Howard Dean, left. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - The top-tier presidential candidates have some personal finance numbers in common — six- or seven-figure book deals.


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Analysis: Do the Dems have a Goldilocks? (AP)

Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., talk on stage during a break in the ABC News Democratic candidates debate, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007, at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is too experienced, Sen. Barack Obama too raw. Listening to Democrats give their Goldilocks view of the 2008 presidential campaign must make voters wonder: Will any candidate be just right for the White House?


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Army too stretched if Iraq buildup lasts (AP)

Soldiers of the Army's 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, rest as they have arrive to a US military Base Warhorse in Baqouba, Iraq, 60 kilometers (35 miles) north east of Baghdad, Tuesday, March 13, 2007. More than 700 additional U.S. troops arrived in Iraq's increasingly volatile Diyala province on Tuesday, to try to quell burgeoning violence just northeast of Baghdad during a security crackdown there. (AP Photo/Lauren Frayer)

  • AP - Sapped by nearly six years of war, the Army has nearly exhausted its fighting force and its options if the Bush administration decides to extend the Iraq buildup beyond next spring.


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    Rove keeps up heat on Clinton (AP)

    In this photograph provided by 'Meet the Press,' White House political adviser Karl Rove appears on 'Meet the Press'' Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007, at the NBC studios in Washington. (AP Photo/Meet The Press, Alex Wong)AP - Master GOP strategist Karl Rove won't let up in his attacks on Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton, but the intriguing question is why.


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    Biden airs ad in Iowa (AP)

  • AP - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden aired his first campaign advertisement Sunday, casting himself as the only candidate with a viable strategy for a sustainable peace in Iraq.
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    Bush seeks neighborly agenda (AP)

    Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, left, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, center, and President Bush, right, talk in Heiligendamm, Germany, on June 8, 2007, in this file photo. Bush will interrupt his Texas vacation this year and travel to Canada next week to bolster ties with Harper and Calderon. (AP Photo/CP, Fred Chartrand, files)AP - President Bush, tending to relations with two border nations, will try to give a boost Monday to his partnerships with the like-minded leaders of Canada and Mexico.


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    Dems warm to Alaska prospects in 2008 (AP)

    Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, center, flanked by Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, left, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, gestures during a news conference in Anchorage, Alaska, in this Oct. 13, 2006 file photo. The state's entire delegation is under an ethical cloud, something Congressional historians say is unprecedented. Alaska's small but powerful congressional delegation is under an ethical cloud, something historians say is unprecedented. And that may be ending a modern-day gold rush that sent billions of federal dollars to the state. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)

  • AP - When it comes to representing Alaska in Congress, the longstanding rule is that Democrats need not apply.


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    N.C. waitress applauds minimum wage hike (AP)

    Hillary Clinton supporter Susan Bremer rallys for her candidate outside the Iowa Federation of Labor AFL-CIO Presidential Forum Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2007, in Waterloo, Iowa. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

  • AP - A North Carolina waitress on Saturday lauded the Democratic-initiated increase in the minimum wage, saying in the party's weekly radio address that the extra money will have a ripple effect on millions of lives.


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    FEMA: Dean prep far exceeds Katrina (AP)

    David Paulison, Administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), briefs reporters on federal preparations for Hurricane Dean at the National Response Coordination Center in Washington Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

  • AP - The government has contracts it can quickly take "off the shelf" for buses, ambulances and relocation camps and has improved communications should Hurricane Dean strike Texas, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Sunday.


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    Gov't supports business in investor case (AP)

  • AP - The Bush administration on Wednesday took the side of defendant companies in a Supreme Court case that could determine the fate of other investor lawsuits including one stemming from the Enron scandal.

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