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DENVER — Team Clinton is doing damage control on a series of comments by Hillary Clinton about the former first couple’s wealth. Former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday defended his wife as “not out of touch,” and lashed out at the criticism during an appearance at the Clinton Global Initiative America conference. With Hillary and Chelsea Clinton looking on from the audience of a hotel ballroom, he explained that Hillary Clinton’s comment two weeks ago that the couple was “dead broke” when they left the White House was “factually true.” He also criticized reporters for not including context in stories...

Debate day in Orangeburg The first in the nation Democratic Presidential debate will be held today in the Martin Luther King, Jr. auditorium on the campus of South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, SC. By CHARLENE SLAUGHTERT&D Special AssignmentsStanding, from left, Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John Edwards, Chris Dodd and Bill Richardson.That is the order in which the candidates will stand during tonight's Democratic presidential debate.With an elaborate backdrop of the American flag behind them, in the richest red, white and blue imaginable, the first-in-the nation presidential debate seemed more real than ever as...