Edwards gives long-awaited endorsement to Obama
Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a move designed to help solidify support for the party's likely presidential nominee even as Hillary Rodham Clinton refuses to give up her long-shot candidacy. Nations:[U.S.] People:[Barack Obama][John Edwards][Hillary Clinton] Activities:[US Election 2008] 2008-05-14 China intensifies quake rescue but hopes dim
China ordered fresh waves of helicopters and aid into earthquake-devastated areas as severed roads, aftershocks and the sheer magnitude of 15,000 or more dead defied increasingly desperate rescue efforts. People:[Wen Jiabao] Activities:[2008 China Earthquake] 2008-05-14 China Races to Save Quake Victims
On Jianshe Street in the devastated center of the town of Dujiangyan, amid mud and trash and slabs of concrete sheared from building facades, a group of young soldiers in green-gray raincoats stand in a semicircle, chests out and arms interlocked. They face off against the mourners and gawkers who have come to watch the bodies being carried out of the pile of tangled gray debris that was once the Xinjian Elementary School. Nations:[China] People:[Wen Jiabao][Hu Jintao] Activities:[2008 China Earthquake] 2008-05-14 Rescuers reach epicenter of China earthquake
Rescuers arrived for the first time in the epicenter of China's massive earthquake, scouring flattened mountain villages for thousands of victims and distributing air-dropped supplies to survivors. Nations:[China] People:[Wen Jiabao][Hu Jintao] Activities:[2008 China Earthquake] 2008-05-14 Over 50,000 dead, missing or buried in China quake
More than 50,000 people are dead, missing or buried under rubble after China's devastating earthquake, officials said Wednesday as the full horror of the disaster began to emerge. People:[Wen Jiabao] Activities:[2008 China Earthquake] 2008-05-14 US foreclosure filings surge 65 percent in April
More U.S. homeowners fell behind on mortgage payments last month, driving the number of homes facing foreclosure up 65 percent versus the same month last year and contributing to a deepening slide in home values, a research company said Tuesday. Nations:[U.S.] Activities:[2007 Global Credit Crunch] 2008-05-14 Clinton's W.Va. victory does little to slow Obama
Hours after being routed by Hillary Rodham Clinton in West Virginia, Barack Obama picked up two more superdelegates, offering fresh recognition from Democratic leaders of his inevitable nomination. Nations:[U.S.] People:[Barack Obama][John McCain][Hillary Clinton] Activities:[US Election 2008] 2008-05-14 China says troops rush to plus dangerous cracks in dam
Chinese state media says troops are rushing to plug "extremely dangerous" cracks in a dam upriver from an earthquake-hit city. Activities:[2008 China Earthquake] 2008-05-14 Determined Clinton wins W.Va., says race not over
Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to a large but largely symbolic victory in working-class West Virginia on Tuesday, handing Barack Obama one of his worst defeats of the campaign yet scarcely slowing his march toward the Democratic presidential nomination. Nations:[U.S.] People:[Barack Obama][John McCain][Hillary Clinton] Activities:[US Election 2008] 2008-05-13 Death toll from China quake soars past 13,000
The death toll in China's earthquake climbed past 13,000 on Tuesday and looked likely to rise much higher after media said some 19,000 people were buried in rubble in just one area. Nations:[China] People:[Wen Jiabao] Activities:[2008 China Earthquake] 2008-05-13 UN warns of 'second catastrophe' in Myanmar
The United Nations warned Tuesday that Myanmar faced a "second catastrophe" after its devastating cyclone, unless the junta immediately allows massive air and sea deliveries of aid. People:[Ban Ki-moon][Condoleezza Rice] Activities:[2008 Myanmar Cyclone] 2008-05-13 Death toll in China earthquake exceeds 12,000
 The toll of the dead and missing soared as rescue workers dug through flattened schools and homes on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to find survivors of China's worst earthquake in three decades. Nations:[China] People:[Wen Jiabao][Hu Jintao] Activities:[2008 China Earthquake] 2008-05-13
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