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Friday, 3rd October,2008
HAITI - CANARY IN THE COALMINE
This week, Video journalist Aaron Lewis is in the Caribbean nation of Haiti reporting on a crippling food shortage.
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Wednesday, 1st October,2008MCCAIN STRUGGLES AS CRISIS BOOSTS OBAMA
The financial crisis convulsing US Congress, Wall Street and the economy is a dramatic real-time test of presidential calibre - and Obama appears to be winning.
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Tuesday, 30th September,2008WHITE HOUSE HOPEFULS BACK US BAILOUT
Barack Obama says it is an "outrage" that taxpayers have to bail out Wall Street, but agreed with John McCain that a deal is vital to rescue the economy.
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Monday, 29th September,2008THE DEATH OF THE AMERICAN DREAM?
America's financial meltdown has created a new breed of homeless. Now, some once-affluent Americans are being forced to sleep in their cars in a car park.
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Monday, 22nd September,2008MCCAIN, OBAMA GIRD FOR DEBATE CLASH
Barack Obama and John McCain clash on Friday in the first of three crucial one-on-one debates, which have the potential to make or wreck their rival challenges for the White House.
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Friday, 19th September,2008PALIN PICK PUSHES US WOMEN'S GROUP TO OBAMA
Prominent US women's rights groups have backed Democrat Barack Obama for the White House and slammed his Republican rival John McCain for trying to lure women voters by choosing Sarah Palin as a running mate.
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Wednesday, 17th September,2008INTERVIEW WITH MARTIN WALKER
We speak with political commentator Martin Walker about the Republican campaign and how the party will handle the struggling US economy.
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Wednesday, 17th September,2008OBAMA BLASTS REPUBLICANS ON ECONOMY
US Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama has laid into the economic policies of the Republican opposition and Republican rival John McCain has called for a regulatory overhaul of the battered financial sector as Americans awoke to the disappearance of two Wall Street giants.
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Tuesday, 16th September,2008DAKOTA’S BLACK GOLD RUSH
North Dakota is experiencing an oil boom, with farmers suddenly finding their land having plenty of oil underneath.
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Monday, 15th September,2008BILL CLINTON PREDICTS 'HANDY' OBAMA WIN
Former US president Bill Clinton predicted today Barack Obama would beat John McCain "handily" in November's election as he prepared to campaign on behalf of his successor as Democratic leader.
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Monday, 15th September,2008MCCAIN GETS GRILLED ON TALKSHOW
John McCain got a rough ride on the plush couch of a top US talk show, forced to deny his negative attacks on White House foe Barack Obama amounted to "lies".
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Monday, 15th September,2008REPUBLICANS HIT BACK AT 'LIE' CLAIMS
John McCain's camp has hit back after Barack Obama's campaign charged his White House bid was based on "disgusting lies", accusing Democrats of reeling in "full throated panic".
IN DEPTH: Dateline's coverage of the US elections
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Tuesday, 9th September,2008BIDEN TO FACE OFF WITH PALIN
Democrat Joe Biden says he faced "an awful lot of tough, smart women" during his career and next month's vice-presidential debate with Republican Sarah Palin will be no exception.
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Tuesday, 9th September,2008MCCAIN PROMOTES HIS 'TEAM OF MAVERICKS'
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain has labelled rival Barack Obama a free spending Democrat, and is telling voters they should send a "team of mavericks" to the White House.
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Monday, 8th September,2008AMERICA'S HOUSING CRISIS
With two of America's mortgage giants taken over by the government to avoid a financial meltdown, Dateline investigates the US housing crisis.
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