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MIAMI (Reuters) - former President Bill clinton offered faint praise for Democratic presidential candidate Barack obama's energy policy on Sunday, saying he preferred it to that of republican rival john mccain.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack obama on Sunday proposed new steps to tackle speculation in oil markets that some see as a major culprit in the higher fuel costs that U.S. consumers are seeing at the gasoline pump.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Advisers to presidential candidate Barack obama on Sunday will offer ideas for reining in speculation in the oil markets that has contributed to the higher fuel costs U.S. consumers are seeing at the gasoline pump.

Poll finds over four in 10 think obama's candidacy will improve race relations.

Andrew Rasiej, founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, a Web site that focuses on the intersection of politics and technology, talks about the Twitter debate between presidential hopefuls john mccain and Barack obama. He also discusses the forum's upcoming conference.

There's no such thing as a short story when Mark Aronchick is telling it.Like everything in Aronchick's life, words are an energy pool into which the Center City lawyer dives headfirst, coming up for air only when forced to inhale.

Since their respective presidential campaigns began, obama has raised more than twice as much as McCain

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Barack obama on Sunday said as president he would strengthen government oversight of energy traders he blames in large part for the skyrocketing price of oil....

As Sen. Barack obama opens his campaign as the first African american on a major party presidential ticket, nearly half of all Americans say race relations in the country are in bad shape and three in 10 acknowledge feelings of racial prejudice, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Sen. Barack obama told the nation's mayors on Saturday that current urban policy is obsolete and needs to be replaced by a model that focuses on rational metropolitan growth rather than chiefly on inner-city crime and poverty.