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In a speech on his judicial philosophy delivered Tuesday in a chapel at North Carolina's Wake Forest University, Sen. John McCain sought to burnish his conservative credentials with a broadside against "the common and systematic abuse of our federal courts by the people we entrust with judicial power" and a promise of "better judges" in the mold of Supreme Court justices John G. Roberts and Samuel Alito. | 8A.
Hagan and Dole cruise to primary wins for U.S. Senate | 9A.
ONLINE Iran cancels Iraq security talks with Iran called off further Iraq security talks with Washington until U.S. forces stop their crackdown on Shiite militias, but the military brought more air power into the fight Monday and escalated its accusations of Iranian backing for extremists.
The latest flare-up has put Iraq's government in a bind as it seeks to stamp out armed Shiite gangs but worries about angering Shiite heavyweight Iran, which has close ties to the core of Iraq's political leadership.
Washington has long accused Iran of arming and training some Shiite militia factions. The accusations were sharpened Monday as the military said detainees described being trained at bases outside Tehran by militants from Hezbollah, an Iranian-aided faction based in Lebanon. LOTTERIES South
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(Sunday night) Governor candidates talk transportation The N.C. gubernatorial candidates were asked via e-mail about what they would do to position North Carolina for federal transportation funds and how that would affect Brunswick County.
Democrat Beverly Perdue, N.C. lieutenant governorPerdue said she would like to transform what she called the "bureaucratic bottleneck" that is the Department of Transportation into a "21st Century professional organization."
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