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MEXICO CITY - Mexican lawmakers handed federal investigators a box of evidence on Tuesday that they claim shows that two of President Vicente Fox's stepsons were involved in fraud and illicit enrichment through real estate deals. The action by a special congressional committee came less then two months before the July 2 presidential elections, in which Felipe Calderon of Fox's Conservative National Action Party is fighting a tight race against leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Many of the committee's most vocal accusers are from Lopez Obrador's leftist Democratic Revolution Party, and some National Action lawmakers call the accusations an attempt...

Mexico's first lady says she will seek presidency Mexico City, Feb 10 (EFE).- First Lady Marta Sahagun's confirmation that she will seek the nation's presidency in 2006 has roiled the waters of Mexican politics and prompted a top jurist to say that if she does indeed become a candidate, her husband, incumbent Vicente Fox, should resign before the end of his term. Asked in a television interview Monday night if she would run - a possibility much debated in the media and on the streets in recent weeks - Sahagun replied: "Speaking truthfully, as we say we should, the...