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Yahoo! Daily News Digest: Politics News for Monday, December 10, 2007 12:00 AM PSTGOP hopefuls temper anti-immigrant talkhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=3093&e=1&u=/ap/20071210/ap_po/republicans_spanish_debateAP - Sun, 09 Dec 2007 10:15 pm PSTThe Republican presidential candidates sought to embrace Hispanics in a Spanish language debate Sunday, striving to mark common ground with a growing voter bloc while softening the anti-illegal immigration rhetoric that has marked their past encounters.Oprah campaigns for Obama in SC and NHhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=3093&e=2&u=/ap/20071210/ap_po/oprah_obamaAP - Sun, 09 Dec 2007 10:47 pm PSTThe Oprah and Obama tour hit South Carolina Sunday, with the talk show host and medial mogul exhorting nearly 30,000 to ignore Barack Obama's detractors and help him capture the Democratic nomination and the presidency.GOP debate excerptshttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=3093&e=3&u=/ap/20071210/ap_po/republicans_spanish_debate_quotesAP - Sun, 09 Dec 2007 07:27 pm PSTSome excerpts from Sunday's debate for Spanish-language audiences between Republican presidential hopefuls. Tom Tancredo, a long-shot candidate who has made a tough stance on immigration the centerpiece of his campaign, refused to attend.Clinton volunteer asked to resignhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=3093&e=4&u=/ap/20071210/ap_po/clinton_obama_religionAP - Sun, 09 Dec 2007 04:20 pm PSTHillary Rodham Clinton's campaign on Sunday requested the resignation of a second Iowa volunteer coordinator who forwarded a hoax e-mail saying Barack Obama is a Muslim possibly intent on destroying the United States.N.H. is campaign central for Republicanshttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=3093&e=5&u=/ap/20071209/ap_po/republican_race_new_hampshireAP - Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:18 am PSTNew Hampshire has become the hot spot for action in the Republican presidential race, just like Iowa is for the Democrats.Giuliani defends questionable expenseshttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=6&u=/ap/20071209/ap_on_el_pr/giulianiAP - Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:33 am PSTFormer New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Sunday defended the expenses incurred by his security detail as he was beginning an extramarital affair with current wife Judith Nathan, saying police made the decision after she received threats.GOP expected to keep seats in Ohio, Va.http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=684&e=7&u=/ap/20071209/ap_on_el_ho/congressional_electionsAP - Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:21 pm PSTRepublicans are favored to keep two conservative congressional districts in Ohio and Virginia in special elections Tuesday to fill the seats of two recently deceased incumbents.Biden wants special counsel in tape casehttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&e=8&u=/ap/20071210/ap_on_go_co/cia_videotapesAP - Sun, 09 Dec 2007 10:49 pm PSTA Senate Democratic leader said Sunday the attorney general should appoint a special counsel to investigate the CIA's destruction of videotaped interrogations of two suspected terrorists.Fed seems poised to lower interest rateshttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=513&e=9&u=/ap/20071209/ap_on_go_ot/fed_interest_ratesAP - Sun, 09 Dec 2007 08:12 am PSTWhat a difference in economic conditions since the Federal Reserve last met in October. Credit has become harder to obtain, Wall Street has convulsed again and the housing slump has intensified. And policymakers at the central bank now appear to have changed their minds about the need to drop interest rates again.US Supreme Court to take cases of Americans detained in Iraqhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1521&e=10&u=/afp/20071208/pl_afp/usiraqjusticeAFP - Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:37 am PSTThe US Supreme Court said Friday it will review in coming months the cases of two Americans detained in Iraq, who want their cases handled under American law.US pushes green trade proposal in Balihttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&e=11&u=/ap/20071209/ap_on_re_as/bali_green_tradeAP - Sun, 09 Dec 2007 01:38 am PSTA joint U.S.-European Union proposal to liberalize trade in green goods and services such as solar panels would boost the availability of technology to battle glboal warming, a top U.S. trade official said Sunday.You received this email because you subscribed to Yahoo! Alerts.

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