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From left, Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., conservation architect May Shaer and Sen.

President Bush spent a second day this week traveling to raise money for Republicans, all out of public view.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain, ridiculing Barack Obama for "the audacity of hopelessness" in his policies on Iraq, said Friday that the entire Middle East could have plunged into war had U.S. ...

Several state workers Thursday said moving from Springfield to Harrisburg like Gov.

The message written by U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.,at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial is seen in Jerusalem, Wednesday, July 23, 2008.

Here is the text of speech delivered by Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday in Berlin, as provided by the Obama campaign.

Support for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama extend to death row Wednesday.

Civil rights groups on Thursday asked Gov. Rod Blagojevich to bar state police from conducting consent searches during traffic stops, citing four years of data that show minorities are searched more often than ...

Corrects size of voter sample to 892 from 2,105 in 2nd and 11th graphs

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Two-thirds of U.S. Hispanic voters support Democrat Barack Obama for president over Republican John McCain and the partisan gap among the United States' fastest growing voter bloc is broader than at any point this decade, a study found.

The nationwide telephone survey by the Pew Hispanic Center released on Thursday said 66 percent of a sample of 892 registered Latino voters polled said they backed Obama, with 23 percent supporting McCain, a senator from Arizona.

The number of AMBER Alerts, publicannouncements of a child's abduction, is falling as police use themonly for kids in the most danger.

The rules in the Obama household for Malia and Sasha are clear-cut:-"No whining, arguing or annoying teasing," their mother, Michelle Obama, told People Magazine.-Make the bed.

Heavy flooding points up need to shore up nation's levees. By SAM HANANEL The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Heavy flooding across the Midwest last month is leading to calls in Congress for more money to ensure ...

AdAge reports : It's official. Sen. Barack Obama's campaign will be among the TV sponsors of NBC Universal's Olympics coverage.

Opponents of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military denounced it as cruel and unpatriotic Wednesday.

Republican John McCain pushed back on Wednesday against Democratic criticism that he misstated when the troop buildup ordered by President Bush began, saying elements were put in place before Bush announced the ...

Senator Barack Obama can expect a warm welcome when he arrives in Germany on Thursday after Chancellor Angela Merkel lauded him as a man of "physical strength". Angela Merkel has said of Obama 'he is a man of ...

JERUSALEM -- About 10 hours before Sen. Barack Obama was due to check in, Avi Levi drove past the King David Hotel here and felt a yellow front-end loader smack the rear of his No.

Conservationists fear that $14 million slashed from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources' budget will lead to job cuts that could result in parks curtailing hours or even closing.

While Illinois legislators took action against the state's "pay to play" reputation, Gov.

Insurance company Amerigroup Corp. announced Tuesday it has agreed in principle to settle a lawsuit accusing it of discriminating against pregnant women and other high-risk patients for $234 million.