Obama wins three more primaries

Hello on this Wednesday, the 13 day of February 2008. I'm Kristin Volk with a UPI Headline Update.

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is now the winner of eight consecutive nominating contests. That's after he swept the Mid-Atlantic primaries yesterday, winning Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC. The Illinois senator's success has reportedly put him ahead of his rival, Senator Hillary Clinton in the number of delegates earned. Obama apparently has 1,215 delegates and Clinton has 1,190. A candidate must receive 2,025 delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination.

And Republican White House hopeful John McCain has beat out former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee in all three of yesterday's GOP primaries. The former governor is vowing to stay in the race, pledging to be a solid, conservative, pro-life candidate as an alternative to McCain.

A man who's suspected in some of the deadliest terror attacks around the world and is now dead. Imad Mughniyeh reportedly died in an explosion in Syria earlier today. Mughniyeh was a Hezbollah commander who was considered to be a role model for Osama bin Laden. Hezbollah is blaming Israel for the man's death, but Israeli officials are denying involvement. Mughniyeh was suspected in the 1983 bombing on the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon and the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847.

Pro-baseball pitcher Roger Clemens is facing his accusers today at a congressional panel who've accused him of using steroids. That panel is examining performance-enhancing drug-use in baseball. Clemens' former trainer, Brian McNamee will be there along with Charlie Scheeler, an investigator for that eye-opening report that alleged dozens of players had used the drugs. McNamee says he injected Clemens with performance enhancers.

That's all for now. Check out a new feature from the Medill News Service on upi.com called "Dads on Duty."

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[xmanxman80]

For God sake, there is no relation between the terrorist Ossama ben Laden and the Resistance of Hizballa... Hizballa is Shiite while Qaeda is Sunni!no relation between them, ever!

[bigjelmapro]

Yay, the terrorist Mughniyeh is dead. Hope he rots in hell.

[H3ZBO11AH]

Imad moghiniyye R.I.P

HEZBOLLAH FOR EVER ! ! !

[H3ZBO11AH]

Imad moghiniyye R.I.P

HEZBOLLAH FOR EVER ! ! !

[chucky362]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­haha

[najibazz]

do u want to know who s imad moghiniyye?? imad is the one who fucked israel in 2006's war..and we r not talking about airplanes that bombard buildings, coz a 16 years old child can do this.. i m talking about the military war bitchs.. from 25 years u want to kill him, and while he s infront of u .. and u couldn't until now.. and why israel didn t admit it??? why ?? coz she s fucking coward .. face to face she s just a bitch

[danielsemperfi]

Who cares about imad mughniyeh, that fucking coward. I don't care who killed him. I HOPE it was Israel.

[thenewrapstyle]

you'll be dead from aids any day now, you gay bastard. hahahaha, nice name douchebag.

[arnouche]

Good Job... thank a lot for Mossad, the best secret agency...

The next one on the list is the infame Nashrallah !! Target him and shoot him well please.

He catches himself, because he is afraid of dead...

[xFBIx]

ATT LEBOinAUSTRALIA,,, now its ur mums pussy turn to die,, lak nasrallah 3a albakkkkk