AP - Barack Obama, standing where no black has ever stood before, swept to the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday as thousands of national convention delegates cheered his improbable triumph.
Reuters - U.S. Sen. Barack Obama won the
Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday, making history
as the first black candidate picked to lead a major American
political party.
AP - Union bosses in this region of rural Mississippi have long grumbled that the largest factories here hire illegal immigrants, and that the immigrants were starting to get more overtime and supervisory positions.