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Obama addresses U.S.-European ties in Germany

The Democratic candidate speaks in front of Tiergarten's Victory Column — where Presidents Kennedy, Reagan and Clinton made significant addresses. Full story | Video | NYT analysis

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McCain to meet Dalai Lama

NBC's Brian Williams interviews Obama

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Obama delivers speech before 200,000

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McCain questions speech, forgets Canada

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Obama and the case of the missing 'thesis'

Deep Background: Today Barack Obama made it official. He doesn’t have and can’t release any copies of the thesis-length paper he wrote 25 years ago while a senior at Columbia University.