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...Republicans think they have one advantage though: the national Democratic Party. Since voters here are generally more conservative than in the Northeast, the GOP candidates are eager to tie their Democratic challengers to the national party. Chris Chocola, trying to keep his seat near South Bend, Indiana, attacked Democratic rival Joe Donnelly for an ad the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee aired recently showing flag-draped coffins of soldiers who had died in Iraq...
...connected to the Costa Rica?based company, [an error occurred while processing this directive] with racketeering conspiracy relating to the illegal provision of sports betting in the U.S. Complying with a court order, the firm also suspended services to the U.S., home to 85% of its business. Shares in rival operators tumbled over fears of a U.S. crackdown on firms taking bets from America, where online gaming is ruled illegal. Thanks to fuzzy rules governing offshore operations, U.S. gamblers still stumped up around half the industry's $12 billion in revenue last year. Offshore sports betting - the kind marketed...
...business ties to Abramoff, his friend from their days running the College Republicans in the early 1980s. For a high-profile religious conservative like Reed, the stories of being paid millions by one Indian tribe to run a religious-based antigambling campaign to prevent another tribe from opening a rival casino made him look like something worse than a criminal--a hypocrite. He had once called gambling a "cancer" on the body politic. And the e-mails to Abramoff didn't help, especially those that seemed to suggest that the man who had deplored in print Washington's system...
...million people attended a rally staged in Mexico City by Obrador's supporters last Sunday, and another is planned for July 30. The campaign also plans a massive show of strength to coincide with the announcement of the results. Predictably, tension is rising on the streets between supporters of rival campaigns. Mexico's hot political summer may get even hotter before it cools down...
...BETonSPORTS got too comfy in a legally gray area - its practice of taking bets over the telephone, insists one London-based industry analyst, falls outside U.S. law - it has perhaps not been alone. Shares in rival operators PartyGaming and 888 Holdings plunged on news of the indictments...