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For all the hope and excitement Obama's candidacy is generating, some of his field workers, phone-bank volunteers and campaign surrogates are encountering a raw racism and hostility that have gone largely unnoticed -- and unreported -- this election season.

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Mom-and-pop service stations are running into a problem as gasoline marches toward $4 a gallon: Thousands of old-fashioned pumps can't register more than $3.99 on their spinning mechanical dials.

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Still on Windows XP? Me too. So we'll both want to be sure to install Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), which should be available from Microsoft   by the time   you read this. ...

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Before you drop your letters or bill payments in the mail, you may want to double check the amount of postage you have on it.

The cost to send a first class letter goes from 41-cents to 42-cents today.

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Among the group of illegal immigrants there were also two 13-year-old girls, three women and a mentally disabled man, according to a spokesman of the Department of Public Safety.

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Long Island congressman Peter King slammed fellow Republicans for "posturing" by pressuring his close friend Rep. Vito Fossella about resigning amid revelations of Fossella's drunken-driving arrest and secret love child. "To me, it's putting a knife in the back of a good guy who's made a mistake," said King (R-Seaford).

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President Bush wants more money for the war in Iraq. Virginia Sen. Jim Webb wants a new GI Bill to give troops coming home from war a free college education.

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West Virginia holds its Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday. Recent polls show Hillary Clinton with a wide lead over Barack Obama.

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