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AP - A global poll found solid support in the United States and several other countries for an expanded role for the world body in peacekeeping.

Reuters - Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Wednesday they would press ahead with a new Iraq funding bill, despite a White House veto threat and a cold Senate reaction to a bill that would dole out combat funds in pieces and force a July vote on withdrawing troops.

CQPolitics.com - The controversy over a phone call that six-term New Mexico Republican Sen. Pete V. Domenici made during the 2006 midterm election year to U.S. Attorney David Inglesias — who later became one of the federal prosecutors fired by the Bush administration — has put a smudge on the long-popular lawmaker’s image of integrity.

With an advertising flourish that would grandly and profitably project any new industrial product into the public limelight, the media has latched onto the first term Illinois senator, Barack Obama, labeling him a tasty political commodity much like a bottle of Paul Masson wine. It was Paul Masson who had first introduced his wine