Yesterday, August 05, 2008, 3:27:10 AM
Yesterday, August 05, 2008, 3:27:10 AM
AP - For all the talk about John McCain's hard-hitting politics, Barack Obama is hardly innocent.
Yesterday, August 05, 2008, 3:20:57 AM 
AP - One of the biggest mysteries surrounding the anthrax scare of 2001 — why the anthrax-laced letters were dropped off at a mailbox in New Jersey — may be connected to a sorority chapter at Princeton University.
Yesterday, August 05, 2008, 1:08:25 AM 
AP - Barack Obama put forward a broad energy plan Monday designed to end U.S. reliance on imported oil within 10 years and shore up his standing amid a tightening White House race and high anxiety over gas prices.
Yesterday, August 05, 2008, 1:08:00 AM 
Politico - Sturgis, S.D. - Every summer, nearly half a million motorcyclists descend on Sturgis, an otherwise sleepy town in South Dakota, for a nine-day celebration of all things Harley.
Monday, August 04, 2008, 10:42:51 PM 
AP - Thousands of motorcyclists greeted Republican presidential candidate John McCain with an approving roar Monday as he sought blue-collar and heartland support by visiting a giant motorcycle rally.
Monday, August 04, 2008, 8:17:49 PM 
AP - Sen. Ted Stevens returned home Monday to a cheering crowd, declaring his innocence and insisting his re-election campaign was "full speed ahead."
Monday, August 04, 2008, 6:06:49 PM AP - John McCain and his Republican Party are gleefully mocking Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's suggestion that properly inflated tires could help save oil. The thing is, there's some truth to it.
Monday, August 04, 2008, 5:13:57 PM 
AP - Forget the pearls. Michelle Obama says her best accessory is her husband.
Monday, August 04, 2008, 11:59:57 AM 
AP - Former President Clinton acknowledges there are some things "I wish I hadn't said" during the Democratic presidential nomination fight, but denies he made racist statements about Barack Obama.
Monday, August 04, 2008, 12:51:54 AM 
AP - Alaska is young. Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia have growing populations and many black voters. Montana has seen recent Democratic inroads, and North Dakota has sent only Democrats to Congress since 1986. Indiana borders Barack Obama's home state.
Sunday, August 03, 2008, 10:43:49 PM 
AP - Intensified attacks by Republican John McCain on the character of his Democratic opponent have coincided with Barack Obama losing a nine percentage point advantage in a national poll, which showed the candidates running dead even over the weekend.
Sunday, August 03, 2008, 8:21:25 PM 
AP - An ugly brew of rising unemployment, spiking foreclosures and gyrating energy prices is plaguing the country and making life difficult for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as he tries to right the economy.
Sunday, August 03, 2008, 6:20:03 PM 
AFP - A Mexican convicted of murder in Texas has appealed to the US Supreme Court to stay his execution set for Tuesday so lawmakers can enforce an International Court of Justice order to halt his and other Mexicans' executions.
Sunday, August 03, 2008, 5:28:12 PM AP - Now that Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic nomination for president, he wants convention delegates from Florida and Michigan to have full voting rights at the party's national convention.
Sunday, August 03, 2008, 3:27:18 PM 
AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's supporters lobbied Democratic leaders Sunday to include the failed presidential candidate's ideas on health care, even as officials fine-tuned the party platform for nominee-in-waiting Barack Obama.
Sunday, August 03, 2008, 2:46:22 PM 
AP - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is behind on a dark horse in the Democratic veepstakes: Rep. Chet Edwards of Texas.
Sunday, August 03, 2008, 2:20:00 PM 
Politico - Barack Obama, moving to heal one of his party's deepest wounds, called Sunday for a full seating of the disputed Florida and Michigan delegations at the Democratic National Convention.
Sunday, August 03, 2008, 12:58:00 PM 
AP - A newcomer to Arizona, John McCain used his wife's wealth, ties to powerful Washington figures and, most of all, the emotional power of his five years in a Vietnamese prison to launch his political career 25 years ago.
Sunday, August 03, 2008, 12:19:11 PM 
AP - Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, whose office was a target of the anthrax attacks in 2001, said Sunday the suicide of the government's main suspect does not mean the case is over.
Sunday, August 03, 2008, 12:27:29 AM 
AP - John McCain's campaign has asked Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor for personal documents as the Republican presidential candidate steps up his search for a running mate, The Associated Press has learned.
Saturday, August 02, 2008, 9:34:00 PM Politico - The McCain campaign is vetting Rep. Eric I. Cantor (R-Va.) as a potential vice-presidential candidate, a campaign adviser told Politico on Saturday.
Saturday, August 02, 2008, 8:37:12 PM 
AP - Democratic candidate Barack Obama on Saturday backed away from rival John McCain's challenge for a series of joint appearances, agreeing only to the standard three debates in the fall.
Saturday, August 02, 2008, 5:48:14 PM 
AP - Republican candidate John McCain's presidential campaign is cynical, not racist, in its efforts to distract voters from real issues, Democratic rival Barack Obama said Saturday.
Saturday, August 02, 2008, 1:50:50 PM 
Reuters - President George W. Bush discussed the collapse of world trade talks with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Saturday, expressing disappointment over the failure and reaffirming his commitment to reaching agreement, the White House said.
Saturday, August 02, 2008, 12:21:48 PM AP - At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white.
Saturday, August 02, 2008, 12:21:17 PM 
AP - It is a tradition at many kitchen tables to yell at the newspaper. At John McCain's kitchen table, it is becoming a tradition to yell at one paper in particular: The New York Times.
Saturday, August 02, 2008, 11:21:06 AM 
AP - The Democratic-controlled Congress is working to overcome years of neglect by the Bush administration of agencies intended to safeguard the health of the public, especially children, a leading Democrat said Saturday.
Saturday, August 02, 2008, 7:55:04 AM 
AP - Five lives and millions of dollars later, the anthrax-by-mail mystery may be solved, but the way the post office and many government agencies handle the mail has undergone major changes.
Saturday, August 02, 2008, 12:08:08 AM 
AP - John McCain, the father of private school students, criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama on Friday for choosing private over public school for his kids.
Friday, August 01, 2008, 6:17:35 PM 
Reuters - The U.S. Congress began a five-week recess on Friday, leaving unresolved how to ease the surge in gasoline prices that is certain to be an issue until the November elections and beyond.
Friday, August 01, 2008, 6:00:18 PM 
AP - Republican John McCain on Friday defended his campaign's new Web ad mocking Barack Obama as a presumptuous messianic figure, saying it was important to "display a sense of humor" in the presidential contest.
Friday, August 01, 2008, 5:41:18 PM 
AP - In so doing, the Republican made at least two political calculations.
Friday, August 01, 2008, 2:11:40 PM 
AP - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama has put his fundraising team to work helping raise unlimited donations from big donors for the cash-hungry Democratic National Convention.
Friday, August 01, 2008, 12:56:00 PM 
Politico - Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats adjourned the House and turned off the light and killed the microphones, but Republicans are still on the floor talking gas prices.
Friday, August 01, 2008, 11:40:48 AM 
AP - Four months after losing his case at the Supreme Court, a Mexican citizen facing execution next week in Texas asked the justices Friday for a last-minute reprieve.
Friday, August 01, 2008, 10:20:08 AM 
AP - Trading charges anew over who was guilty of injecting race into the presidential debate, a subject unlikely to fade away, the campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama also blamed each other Friday for its increasingly negative tone.
Thursday, July 31, 2008, 11:33:33 PM 
AP - The U.N. Security Council approved another year of peacekeeping in Sudan's bloodied Darfur region Thursday night, but the U.S. abstained from a vote that reflected sharp divisions over genocide charges against the Sudanese president.
Thursday, July 31, 2008, 11:12:06 PM 
AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama seized on a record oil company profit to argue that rival John McCain offers only tax breaks for Big Oil and "short-term gimmicks" to consumers struggling with soaring gasoline prices.
Thursday, July 31, 2008, 10:14:00 PM Politico - The House ethics panel announced Thursday that it would review Rep. Charles B. Rangel's lease of four rent-stabilized apartments in a Harlem high-rise as well as his use of congressional letterhead to contact potential donors to an educational center that bears his name.
Thursday, July 31, 2008, 10:04:30 PM Reuters - Legislation aimed at curbing credit card billing practices that surprise borrowers with unexpected interest rate increases and fees was approved on Thursday by a U.S. House of Representatives committee.
Thursday, July 31, 2008, 8:25:44 PM AP - Country music star John Rich wants like-minded voters to join him in "Raising McCain."
Thursday, July 31, 2008, 7:44:40 PM 
AP - A small jet crashed Thursday while preparing to land at a regional airport in Minnesota, killing at least eight people, including casino and construction executives.
Thursday, July 31, 2008, 7:15:18 PM 
AP - A federal judge on Thursday rejected President Bush's contention that senior White House advisers are immune from subpoenas, siding with Congress' power to investigate the executive branch and handing a victory to Democrats probing the dismissal of nine federal prosecutors.
Thursday, July 31, 2008, 5:44:04 PM 
AP - How many governors endorse one candidate for president and then even before the election leave the door open to working in his opponent's administration? One so far: Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Thursday, July 31, 2008, 5:22:21 PM 
AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain expressed pride Thursday in a new campaign ad that compares Barack Obama to a pair of Hollywood celebrities, but defended his Democratic opponent after a voter said Obama "terrifies me."
Thursday, July 31, 2008, 2:36:09 PM 
AP - Three months before Election Day, John McCain's stepped up aggression begs the question: Will voters vote for the scold?
Thursday, July 31, 2008, 6:29:34 AM 
Reuters - The European Union's trade chief Peter Mandelson said on Wednesday the United States helped to bring down global trade talks this week when its negotiators shunned a compromise proposal at a key juncture in the talks.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 11:32:54 PM 
AP - The salmonella strain linked to a nationwide outbreak has been found in irrigation water and in a sample from a batch of serrano peppers at a Mexican farm, federal health officials said Wednesday.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 10:01:19 PM 
AP - Those 75,000 Democrats who will pack a football stadium for Barack Obama's convention speech won't be there just to whoop and holler on television. They'll form the world's largest phone bank to boost voter registration — fired-up supporters using computer targeting the campaign has spent months putting together.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 9:39:43 PM AP - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama said Wednesday his Republican rival John McCain "thinks we're on the right track," drawing a chorus of boos from a swing state audience vocal about the status quo.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 9:32:14 PM 
AP - Barack Obama's presidential campaign said Wednesday that a new rhyme by supporter and rapper Ludacris is "outrageously offensive" to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Republican Sen. John McCain and President Bush.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 9:20:16 PM 
Reuters - Legislation to give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration broad authority to regulate cigarettes and other forms of tobacco cleared the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 7:57:00 PM 
Politico - Republican faithful have grumbled in recent weeks about the lack of a consistent message from John McCain’s campaign on key issues, leading observers to wonder what McCain’s top advisers are thinking.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 6:37:39 PM AP - TITLE: "Celeb"
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 4:47:05 PM Reuters - A partisan election-year battle over high gasoline prices and a Republican push to open more U.S. coastal waters and federal land to oil and gas drilling has brought work in the U.S. Senate to a halt.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 4:45:57 PM 
AP - Republican Ronald Reagan raised taxes and survived to serve another presidential term. His successor, George H.W. Bush, raised taxes and did not.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 4:44:06 PM 
AP - Barack Obama is claiming a link to the Wild West — Wild Bill Hickok, to be precise.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 4:39:02 PM AP - The salmonella strain linked to a nationwide outbreak has been found in irrigation water and a serrano pepper at a Mexican farm, federal health officials said Wednesday.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 4:36:34 PM 
AP - Democatic presidential contender Barack Obama said Wednesday his Republican rival "thinks we're on the right track," drawing a chorus of boos from a swing state audience vocal about the status quo.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 3:18:02 PM 
AP - The U.N. Security Council voted Wednesday to end an 8-year-long peacekeeping mission between Eritrea and Ethiopia despite continuing tensions, a move that the United Nations' chief has warned could lead to a new war.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 3:10:29 PM 
AP - Details can bedevil any presidential candidate. Republican John McCain announced this week that he backs an anti-affirmative action referendum that has drawn sharp debate in Arizona, his home state. Then he added a curious note: He doesn't know that much about it.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 1:10:35 PM 
Reuters - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was taken to a prison cell in The Hague on Wednesday to face trial at a U.N. war crimes tribunal on charges of genocide during the 1992-95 Bosnia war.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 8:25:00 AM Politico - With none of the fanfare that usually attends a landmark bill becoming law, President Bush signed the huge housing rescue bill just after 7 a.m. Wednesday, shortly after he arrived in the Oval Office.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 6:41:27 AM 
AP - Flooding and poor harvests have caused North Korea's worst food crisis since the late 1990s and have put millions at risk, the United Nations' food agency said Wednesday.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 7:19:55 PM 
AP - As speculation swirls, Barack Obama and John McCain are knuckling down to the work of choosing running mates with their nominating conventions just weeks away.
Friday, July 25, 2008, 4:53:24 PM 
AP - It's a pretty good crowd for a summer Friday morning at Kennedy Center. From stage right (where else?) Justice Antonin Scalia enters.
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