Clinton offers praise, does not concede

Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:57:40 -0500

NEWS
Most say gay marriage private choice
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Six in 10 Americans say the government should not regulate whether gays
and lesbians can marry the people they choose, a survey finds.

Clinton offers praise, does not concede
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Hillary Rodham Clinton, once the Democratic presidential front-runner,
ended a hard-fought primary season Tuesday unable to claim victory but
unwilling to concede defeat.

Senators: Marines bungled video system
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The Marines have mismanaged a four-year effort to develop hidden video
cameras to track insurgents planting roadside bombs, according to a
letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates from two senators.

MONEY

Institutional investors cited in rising oil prices
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The list of culprits to blame for $4 gas and $125 oil keeps getting
longer. Oil-thirsty China and India get most of the blame. The declining
U.S. dollar, tight supplies, geopolitics and hurricanes also are on the
villains list.

Drivers choose cars over trucks as auto sales plunge
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Cars outsold the top-selling Ford F-series truck in May for the first
time since 1992, a sign of the rapid shift in customers' preferences
from trucks and SUVs to small cars that is forcing painful production
cuts and plant closures at General Motors and Ford Motor.