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yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_po/campaign_rdp">Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks to his supporters at his primary election night rally, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008, in Southfield, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)" border="0" />AP - Republican presidential contenders focused their energies on South Carolina’s GOP primary just four days off with still no clear front-runner after a critical Michigan victory for Mitt Romney and with John McCain facing what could be a make-or-break battle.

yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_el_pr/republicans_analysis">Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks to his supporters at his primary election night rally, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008, in Southfield, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)" border="0" />AP - One thing about the Republican presidential race is certain — the nomination won’t be by acclamation.

yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_el_pr/primary_exit_poll">photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=DufhJJ4CAaRsOHBeeHQ.8g--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Former New York City mayor and Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani stands near his bus after speaking January 15 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Republican Mitt Romney revived his flickering White House hopes Tuesday, powering to a Michigan primary victory as worries about the US economy increasingly defined the 2008 election battle(AFP/Getty Images/Matt Stroshane)" border="0" />AP - Mitt Romney owes the Michigan triumph that revived his presidential bid to his ability to win groups his rivals wanted and to find happy, loyal Republicans. John McCain’s defeat may be due to supporters who seemed to evaporate since his last time on the state’s ballot.

yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_ap_interview">John McCain, R-Ariz., greets people in the audience after speaking to the crowd at a watch party campaign event, in Charleston, S.C., Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008, following primary voting in Michigan. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)" border="0" />AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Thursday that despite his second-place finish in Michigan’s GOP primary he intends to win this state’s first-in-the-South contest.

yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_el_pr/romney_ap_interview">Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets his supporters after his speech at his primary election night rally, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008, in Southfield, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)" border="0" />AP - Republican Mitt Romney cast his win in the Michigan primary as "a victory of optimism over Washington-style pessimism," setting the stage for a nomination battle with John McCain and others now likely to extend through the Super Tuesday contests on Feb. 5.

yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_el_pr/huckabee">Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee shakes hands at a campaign rally in Lexington, S.C. Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)" border="0" />AP - Mike Huckabee, nursing a second third-place finish in northern states, looked ahead to the South where he hopes his Arkansas roots and Baptist background will put him back on a winning track in South Carolina.

yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_go_co/food_fight">photo released by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Chris Koch loads 1 of 40 bundles on a C-17 Globemaster III at Baghram Air Base for a Joint Precision Airdrop Delivery System of 40 bundles of humanitarian supplies to a drop zone in Afghanistan, on Monday Jan., 14, 2008. Sgt. Kock is a loadmaster from the 17th Airlift Squadron Charleston Air Force Base S.C., and is deployed to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron in Southwest Asia. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Master Sgt. Andy Dunaway)" border="0" />AP - The Bush administration is fighting congressional efforts to slash the amount of emergency food aid the United States provides around the world, saying the cuts could hurt as many as 8 million people in dire need.

yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_go_ot/cloned_meat">Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005 File picture, Priscilla, a cloned calf, left, stands near her surrogate mother, right, in a pasture owned by Viagen, outside of Austin, Texas. Viagen cloned Priscilla from a tissue sample obtained from a slab of Prime Yield Grade 1 Beef from a slaughterhouse. On Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008, the U.S. food and Drug Administration said meat and milk from cloned animals is as safe as that from their counterparts bred the old-fashioned way. But the government has asked animal cloning companies to continue a voluntary moratorium on sales for a little longer - not for safety reasons, but marketing ones. (AP Photo/Thomas Terry, File)" border="0" />AP - Just over a decade after scientists cloned the first animal, the last major barrier to selling meat and milk from clones has fallen: The U.S. government declared this Food safe Tuesday.

yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080114/wl_sthasia_afp/nepalpoliticselectionsunrestun">photo.default-387x512.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=0GnlUXrDy6mY953AeO0fCQ--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="Ian Martin, the head of the UN peace mission to Nepal. Ethnic unrest in southern Nepal that has blighted the country’s fragile peace process has to be tackled before crucial polls to decide Nepal’s political future, the United Nations said.(AFP/Prakash Mathema)" border="0" />AFP - Ethnic unrest in southern Nepal that has blighted the country’s fragile peace process has to be tackled before crucial polls to decide Nepal’s political future, the United Nations said.

yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_el_pr/democratic_rdp">Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. listens during a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)" border="0" />AP - Democratic presidential rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama blamed aides and campaign surrogates Tuesday night for fueling a campaign controversy over race, jointly pledging on the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. to put the matter behind them.

yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_el_pr/republican_rdp">Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks to his supporters at his primary election night rally, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008, in Southfield, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)" border="0" />AP - Mitt Romney scored his first major primary victory Tuesday, a desperately needed win in his native Michigan that gave his weakened presidential candidacy new life. It set the stage for a wide-open Republican showdown in South Carolina in just four days.

yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_el_pr/republican_analysis">sign stands outside of a Michigan primary election site in Huntington Woods, Mich. Tuesday, Jan.15, 2008 (AP Photo/Amy E. Powers)" border="0" />AP - The Republican race heads south as a complete jumble.

yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080116/ts_alt_afp/usvote2008">photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=CoN4ICrlBnJtuKDbYcgAZQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Republican presidential hopeful former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney greets supporters during a post-primary results rally January 15 in Southfield, Michigan. Romney revived his flickering White House hopes Tuesday, powering to a Michigan primary victory as worries about the US economy increasingly defined the 2008 election battle(AFP/Getty Images/Scott Olson)" border="0" />AFP - Republican Mitt Romney revived his flickering White House hopes Tuesday, powering to a Michigan primary victory as worries about the US economy increasingly defined the 2008 election battle.

yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080116/pl_nm/usa_politics_poll_dc">Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (L) and Senator John McCain (R-AZ) talk on stage during the Fox News/South Carolina Republican Party presidential debate at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina January 10, 2008. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst" border="0" />Reuters - Republican presidential candidates turned their attention to South Carolina on Wednesday with their White House race as wide open as ever with a win by Mitt Romney in Michigan.

yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080116/pl_nm/usa_politics_democrats_dc">photo.default-512x358.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=_D79drtJzo9RTXlAgBYwVQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="Democratic presidential hopefuls, Illinois Senator Barack Obama (L), New York senator Hillary Clinton (C) and former North Carolina senator John Edwards greet the audience before the start of a Democratic presidential debate January 15 in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the unpredictable Democratic battle, Clinton and Obama came together for the debate after calling a fragile truce in a bitter race dispute(AFP/Getty Images/Ethan Miller)" border="0" />Reuters - Democratic presidential contenders Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton promised on Tuesday to put an end to their recent dispute over race and praised each other’s commitment to civil rights.

yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_el_pr/democrats_debate_quotes">photo.default-512x358.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=_D79drtJzo9RTXlAgBYwVQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="Democratic presidential hopefuls, Illinois Senator Barack Obama (L), New York senator Hillary Clinton (C) and former North Carolina senator John Edwards greet the audience before the start of a Democratic presidential debate January 15 in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the unpredictable Democratic battle, Clinton and Obama came together for the debate after calling a fragile truce in a bitter race dispute(AFP/Getty Images/Ethan Miller)" border="0" />AP - Quotes from the Democrats’ debate Tuesday in Las Vegas. Debate sponsor MSNBC excluded Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich.

yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_el_pr/primary_exit_poll_glance">Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney shakes hands with supporters at his Michigan primary night rally in Southfield, Michigan January 15, 2008. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)" border="0" />AP - Highlights from exit polling in Michigan’s presidential primaries Tuesday for The Associated Press and television networks. All figures are final:

yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_el_pr/sharpton_clinton">Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., left, reacts with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, center, and daughter, Chelsea at her Democratic primary election night victory rally in Manchester, N.H., Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)" border="0" />AP - Any dispute over Race between the Democratic presidential candidates is on its way to resolution, former President Bill Clinton said Tuesday on the Rev. Al Sharpton’s radio show.

yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_el_pr/republicans_push_polling">photo.default-341x512.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=Nw8r0zXFJh.i8yf4LXYQ2g--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Republican presidential hopeful, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney Tuesday won the Republican primary in Michigan, the top three US television networks predicted.(AFP/Getty Images/Scott Olson )" border="0" />AP - Automated phone polls disparaging rivals of Republican White House hopeful Mike Huckabee started across this early voting state Tuesday evening and the head of the group making them said that more than 1 million will be made in a three-day span.

yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080116/bs_nm/intel_results_dc">CEO Steve Jobs, left, is shown an Intel chip by Intel CEO Paul Otellini during Jobs’ keynote speech at the MacWorld Conference in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" />Reuters - Intel on Tuesday posted quarterly results and an outlook behind Wall Street targets, sending its shares down 15 percent and stoking concerns about a U.S. recession and further stock market sell-offs.

yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy">advertising in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008. Frugal shoppers cut back on their spending at the nation’s retailers by 0.4 percent in December, wrapping up the weakest sales year since 2002, in a gloomy report that fanned fears of a recession. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)" border="0" />AP - Consumer spending, the critical bulwark that has kept the country out of a recession, is showing signs of cracking. Retail sales plunged by 0.4 percent last month as consumers battered by a sinking housing market, rising unemployment and the credit crunch, handed retailers their worst Christmas in five years.