Day: May 20, 2008

Tests taken after Senator Edward M. Kennedy suffered a seizure indicated that he has a type of cancer called a malignant glioma.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama raised more than $31 million dollars in campaign donations in April, his campaign reported on Tuesday.

Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer announced a total ban on the slaughter at meat plants of cows too sick or weak to stand.

AP – Preliminary results from an exit poll conducted for The Associated Press and television networks in Kentucky’s Democratic presidential primary Tuesday and a phone poll during the past week in Oregon’s vote-by-mail primary:

A federal appeals court panel ruled against a law that made it a crime to perform an abortion procedure.

AP – Race played a decisive role in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s lopsided victory in Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary in Kentucky, the latest contest to emphasize how fierce her rivalry against Barack Obama has become among party voters.

April was Hillary Clinton’s second-best fundraising month. See also: McCain’s best month

AP – Democrats controlling Congress unveiled an election-year fiscal blueprint Tuesday that puts the federal budget mostly on autopilot, leaving the winner of November’s presidential election with a set of enormous challenges.

AP – Hillary Rodham Clinton won the Kentucky primary Tuesday, a victory of scant political value in a Democratic presidential race moving inexorably in Barack Obama’s direction.

AP – The Bush administration is taking steps to ensure student lenders don’t walk away from the federal loan program, including offering to buy up student loans and make capital available to lenders.