Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton deferred her own dreams on Tuesday night and delivered an emphatic plea at the Democratic National Convention to unite behind Senator Barack Obama.
For Senator Barack Obama, the question is whether the drama of the convention is overwhelming the task of connecting with the economic anxiety of voters.
AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has urged fellow Democrats to work for Barack Obama's election as president, telling them "we are on the same team and none of us can sit on the sidelines."
AP - Russia stunned the West on Tuesday by recognizing the independence claims of two Georgian breakaway regions, and U.S. warships plied the waters off of Georgia in a gambit the Kremlin saw as gunboat diplomacy.
AP - An electronic communication failure Tuesday at a Federal Aviation Administration facility that processes flight plans for the eastern half of the U.S. caused mass delays around the country. The Northeast was hardest hit.
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