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John Edwards has made it official the former presidential contender and one time challenger to Barack Obama announcing he will through his support behind the current front-runner for the democratic presidential nomination. Edwards made the announce with, at this hour, the campaign in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with Obama at his side. Endorsement the former North Carolina Senator has stayed more about for four month.
"There is one man who knows and understands that this is a time for bold leadership. There is one man that knows how to create the change, the lasting change, that you have to build from the ground up, There is one man who knows in his heart there is time to create one America, not two ... and that man is Barack Obama."
Edwards started his remarks by praising Obama’s rival for the nomination, Hillary Clinton. Endorsement by Edwards come just one day after Clinton defeated Obama by more than two to one margin in West Virginia’s Primary.
President Bush is visiting Israel to mark the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Jewish state. Speaking at a gable celebrating the anniversary of this Israeli-US friendship, the president said two countries share democratic values.
“We believe that the surest way to defeat the enemy’s of hatred is to advance the calls of hope, to the calls of freedom, liberty as the great alternaty to tirny and ter.”
Meanwhile as President Bush visited Israel to help mark the state’s anniversary, a rocket fired from Gaza, exploded in a shopping in Southern Israel, wounding at least ten people. NPR’s Linda Gradstein reports.
An Israel police spokesman said the 122 millimeter Catoser rocket hit the third floor of a shopping center in downtown, Ashkelon, about nine miles from Israel border with Gaza. Among those wounded were a woman and her eight year old daughter, both of who suffered head injuries. A small group, the popular friend of Liberation of Palestine General Command took responsibility for the attacks. The rocket strike came as president Bush rapped up talks with Israel Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert. Speaking before the rocket attack, Omer said Israel would not talary continue its attacks on innocent civilians. Meanwhile in Gaza, hospital officials said Israel troops killed two Hamas gunmen and two civilians in an occasion and an air strike earlier today. Linda Gradstein NPR News, Jerusalem.
Rescuers in China for the first time reaching the area at the epicenter of the week’s massive 7.9 magnitude earthquake. In one area located near the quakes center Chinese media reports rescuers found just 2300 survivors in a town of 10000 people. Authorities say after the death toll the week of devastating earthquake to 15000, those expected the number would go much higher.
On Wall Street today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 66 point to close at 12898. The NASDAQ was up one and a half points today. The S & P 500 added 5 points.
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House lawmakers by a strong, veto- proof majority have past 290 billion dollar farm bill. That may should offer additional subsidies to the nation’s famers as well as food stamps for the pool. In especial projects, lawmakers were able to bring home to their district in an election year. The house signed off on the bill on a 318 - 106 vote despite President Bush’s promise veto. Mr. Bush said the measures too expensive and provides too much aid to wealthy farmers.
Astronomers said they’ve discovered aftermath, those spectacular salor explosion that happened only about hundred years ago, that is a younger supernova known in our galaxy. NPR’s Richard Harris has the story.
We are all made from carbon and similar atoms that were cooked up in supernovas. So astronomers are naturally droned to this extraordinary sulus events. Judging by how common they are in deep space, our own Milky Way galaxy should produce two or three of per century. So far though, astronomers haven’t found nearly that many. The younger supernova known from the Milky Way was about 340 years old, but now, astronomers say they found a remonen of supernova that maybe only a hundred years old. Sky watchers didn’t see it at the time it exploded because it’s near the central of the galaxy, so it was hidden by gas and dust. But it was slues out using the modern tools of astronomy – a radio telescope on the group and an X-ray telescope in orbit around the earth. Richard Harris NPR News.
Labor department reported today the consumer price index, the governments brought, this inflation gained was up scan two tenth of one percent last month. Excluding wald, food and energy that so called coriden inflation rose just one tenth of one percent.
What’s gonna repeating this hours top story John Edwards has made it official, he is endorsing Barack Obama in the democratic race.
I’m Jack Speer, NPR News in Washington.
