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AP - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says that if terrorists detonated a nuclear bomb in a U.S. city while he was president he would retaliate "in a very dramatic and clear way."

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AP - An Iowa county judge's ruling knocking down the state's same-sex marriage ban stirred up the presidential race Friday as Republicans jostled to stake out a position with the state's conservative voters in mind.

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AP - Democrats Bill Richardson, Chris Dodd and Joe Biden on Friday pledged not to campaign in states that hold early nominating contests in violation of party rules, drawing a sharp rebuke from Florida officials who are challenging the system.

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Reuters - Three Democratic White House contenders promised on Friday they would not campaign in states that violate party rules by holding early nominating contests, siding with Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina in a growing dispute over the 2008 election calendar.

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AP - Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, says "hatred" of his rival Hillary Rodham Clinton would motivate Republicans to vote against her in the general election.

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AP - A top Democratic fundraiser whose criminal past has roiled the campaigns of top presidential candidates turned himself in Friday in California, where he had been a fugitive for more than 15 years.

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AP - Internet criticism of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's involvement in the pardon of a castrated rapist and his heavy use of a state airplane disappeared with a mouse click.

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AP - When she can't be in New Hampshire to answer voters' questions in person, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton is phoning it in.

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AP - The motorcade of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney exceeded speed limits and went through stop lights Friday as local law officers escorted him, blue lights flashing, to campaign events in two South Carolina counties.

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AP - Democrat Bill Richardson on Friday became the first presidential candidate to promise not to campaign in states that hold early nominating contests in violation of party rules.

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CQPolitics.com - Glass houses can be such a pain. You just know that Democratic presidential hopefuls John Edwards and Barack Obama would relish mercilessly blasting party rival Hillary Rodham Clinton for taking money from a fugitive, businessman Norman Hsu. The story has all the makings of a sequel to the many and various fundraising battles of Bill Clinton’s presidency.

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AP - Republican Fred Thompson will officially launch his presidential bid Sept. 6 in a Webcast on his campaign site, followed by a five-day tour of early primary states.

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AP - Passengers on a plane leaving New York could see three words in 4-foot block letters painted on an East Village rooftop terrace as they ascended:

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AFP - Tough talking screen star and former senator Fred Thompson said Thursday he would launch his long-awaited 2008 Republican White House bid next week, vowing to shield America from terrorism.

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AP - Republican John McCain will aggressively try to sell support for the unpopular Iraq conflict — and his weakened presidential candidacy — in a September push that will emphasize his war-hero biography and his credentials to be commander in chief.

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