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| FT.com - US and Canada
FT.com - US and Canada
John McCain shook up the US presidential race with the surprising announcement he had picked little known Sarah Palin, the 44-year-old governor of Alaska, as his vice-presidential running mate
Tropical storm Gustav is threatening to interrupt or even postpone the Republican national convention next week, when it is expected to sweep into the Gulf of Mexico as a stark reminder of one of the lowest points of the Bush administration
Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president with a hard-hitting address at a 75,000-seat stadium that blended flashes of the Illinois Senator's soaring rhetoric with a litany of policy proposals intended to ease the lives of a struggling middle class
John McCain was poised to unveil his Republican running mate on Friday as an opinion poll suggested Barack Obama had widened his lead in the US presidential race during this week's Democratic convention
Most appealingly, Obama wants to unite not just his party but his country. Next week, it would be good to be able to say the same of Mr McCain
Whether or not video replay raises the quality of refereeing, it renders US football less gladiatorial and more litigative, writes Christopher Caldwell
European Union regulators are investigating a plan by British Airways, Iberia and American Airlines to co-operate more closely on transatlantic routes to see if it violates the EU's antitrust laws, EU officials said
A new kind of speech that injected a sense of urgency and relevance into Barack Obama's core message of restoring "America's promise" that many felt had been worringly lacking.
The US oil and gas industry began to shut down production in the Gulf of Mexico after forecasters predicted that tropical storm Gustav would be a hurricane when it hit the region
US stocks rose after data showed that the US economy grew much faster in the second quarter than first reported, boosted by a strong increase in international trade, hitting an annualised rate of 3.3 per cent
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