Sharp criticisms exchanged in Democratic debate

Hello on this Friday, November 16, 2007. I'm Kristin Volk with a UPI Headline Update.

Democratic White House hopefuls went head-to head in Las Vegas last night, debating issues like health care, illegal immigration and the war in Iraq. All eyes were on Senator Hillary Clinton who's been criticized by her opponents recently. She defended her stance against accusations from opponents like Barack Obama and John Edwards who said she avoids taking strong positions on controversial issues. Other candidates like Joe Biden and Chris Dodd disapproved of the bickering, with Dodd saying that when a campaign is about who's angrier or who's yelling louder, the American people turn off.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is no longer under house arrest. Authorities freed her earlier today, just before a top U.S. diplomat arrived there to try to persuade President Pervez Musharraf to end emergency rule. Bhutto, who'd been held since Tuesday to stop her from leading a rally against Musharraf, went on the offensive as soon as she was released. She rejected a new caretaker government appointed to oversee elections in that country slated for January and repeated her vow not to re-open talks with Musharraf.

President Bush is taking holiday airline travel into his owns hands. Yesterday, he announced that planes would be able to fly in military airspace to relieve congestion and cut delays. That means flights can be routed through areas off the Atlantic coast where the Air National Guard and the Air Force conduct exercises. The experiment will start Wednesday and run through the Sunday after Thanksgiving.

In sports, home run king Barry Bonds is facing charges after he was indicted yesterday for lying under oath to a grand jury about his steroid use. The 43-year-old slugger is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. According to the indictment, investigators obtained evidence that Bonds tested positive for anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs during a 2003 raid. Bonds' legal team blasted the Department of Justice for what it called unethical behavior. If convicted, baseball's career leader in home runs, could face up to 30 years in prison.

That's all for now. Check out UPI's weekly White House wrap-up on upi.com today. For all of us at UPI, have a nice weekend.

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[LordofKamarra]

you make me want to cry

[kannon9]

Our news media is controlled by the NWO. We have a sick Oligarchy and both the Republicans and Democrats serve the NWO & Corporations.

Ron Paul is still really a liberaterian. He is endorsing 3rd party candidates particularily Nader.

[kashifen]

He is a bastard King of Pakistan..probabaly he thinks he got pakistan from his unknown father.. No body likes him and it is so since many years but he is such a cunning person one way or the other insisting to stay in rule... His ass should be hit with plenty of lashes and the violence in his rule only due to his presence in Islamabad makes him liable to be hanged like Saddam...

[oxozero]

The media is purposely excluding RON PAUL from these trivial sound bites.

Find out why?..... Google Ron Paul ..... hope for Americia