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Don't get giddy: Obama warns supporters (AFP)AFP - Barack Obama warned supporters against "giddy" complacency Thursday, before plunging into the 19-day home stretch of the White House race with snap polls awarding him yet another debate victory. Full text |
AP - The presidential candidates have spent almost $195 million on television ads so far in this extended primary season, with the Democratic contenders shelling out the bulk at about $136 million, an analysis of political advertising shows.
AP - With voters sour on the status quo, Republican John McCain plans to spend the next five months arguing that he has a history of fighting to reform government and that Democrat Barack Obama talks of change with nothing to show for it.
AP - The Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal prosecutors have gone too far in their use of money laundering charges to combat drug traffickers and organized crime.
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton pushed through South Dakota Monday as an air of finality and resignation began to settle in among her supporters, aides and financial backers.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A senior federal law enforcement official says the FBI is investigating whether federal money was misused when Democratic Congressman Tim Mahoney hired a mistress to work in his office.
The official says federal agents also are examining whether a second affair Mahoney was having with a high-level official in his Florida district was behind his push for federal funds for her county.
The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation.
The FBI is investigating whether Mahoney put his first mistress on the federal payroll so she wouldn't reveal their affair. The official says the other issue is whether Mahoney benefited sexually in return for spending or securing federal money.
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Associated Press writer Lara Jakes Jordan contributed from Washington.
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