The economy struggled through the first quarter of 2008, weighed down by the housing slump and hesitant consumers, but helped by inventory growth and export sales.
A week before two key primaries, the controversy surrounding his ex-pastor again erupted into a threat to Barack Obama?s ability to unify the Democrats.
AP - The bruised economy limped through the first quarter, growing at just a 0.6 percent pace as housing and credit problems forced people and businesses alike to hunker down.
AP - General Motors Corp. struggled to a $3.3 billion first-quarter loss, due in part to a weak U.S. market, a strike at a major parts supplier and plummeting sales of sport utility vehicles and pickups.
AP - Barack Obama is looking to get his campaign back on track today after making a strong effort to distance himself from his controversial former pastor.
The fighting that erupted in Baghdad's Sadr City last month killed 925 people and wounded 2,605, a top government official said. Most of the casualties were civilians and "criminal elements attacked by us," said Tahseen al-Sheikhly, a spokesman for the Baghdad security crackdown called Operation Enforcing the Law.
The nation's economy continued its sluggish growth in the first quarter, according to a government report Wedneday that showed a slightly better-than-expected gain in economic activity.
Let's not kid ourselves, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was going to be a part of this presidential campaign through November, whether Sen. Barack Obama smacked his former pastor upside the head, or not.
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