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Romney suspends presidential campaign - Obama raises $7M post Super Tuesday - Dozens sought in mob raids in US, Italy - San Francisco Celebrates Chinese New Year.



Romney suspends presidential campaign
Mitt Romney suspended his faltering presidential campaign on Thursday, effectively sealing the Republican presidential nomination for John McCain. "I must now stand aside, for our party and our country," Romney told conservatives. "If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win.

Obama raises $7M post Super Tuesday
Democrat Barack Obama raised $7.2 million in less than 48 hours post Super Tuesday and rival Hillary Rodham Clinton collected $4 million, giving him a financial edge that's caused consternation within a Clinton campaign clamoring for attention-getting debates. The remarkable outpouring of contributions recorded since Tuesday's contests in 22 states comes on the heels of an eye-popping $32 million raised by Obama in January and the record-shattering $100 million each Obama and Clinton raised in 2007 in their neck-and-neck race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Dozens sought in mob raids in US, Italy
American and Italian authorities arrested dozens of people Thursday in a takedown of the remnants of New York's Gambino crime family also meant to cripple a trans-Atlantic drug trafficking operation run by the Mafia. As part of one of law enforcement's biggest moves against the mob in recent memory, a federal grand jury in New York accused 62 people of ties to the Gambinos and murders, drug trafficking, robberies, extortion, and other crimes dating back to the 1970s.

San Francisco Celebrates Chinese New Year
Watching the stilt walkers, decorated floats and 201-foot-long Golden Dragon "Gum Lung" parade down San Francisco's Kearny Street on Feb. 23 might be the ultimate Chinese New Year experience, but there's much more in store before then - 15 days of citywide festivities that kick off Wednesday. From now until Feb. 24, the Chinese New Year Carnival in San Francisco's Chinatown will be held from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily on Walter U. Lum Place between Washington and Clay streets.

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