Politics
Veterans group plans ad campaign touting Iraq war
Republican John McCain, who has made support for President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq the centerpiece of his presidential campaign, is getting from help from veterans that's launching a national TV ad campaign next week.
Obama: Response to Iraq remarks overblown
Barack Obama said Saturday that he was surprised at how the media has "finely calibrated" his recent words on Iraq, and denied that he intends to anything but end the war if he is elected.
Obama, Clinton to hold joint fundraisers in NY
Now that they're allies, Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will help each other raise money in a series of fundraisers in New York next week.
Democrats hit GOP on support for Medicare cuts
Sen. Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat, accused Republicans of putting seniors and military families at risk by siding with President Bush against a measure to prevent Medicare cuts.
Bush honors troops, new Americans in radio address
President Bush, serving almost seven years as a wartime president, marked the nation's 232nd birthday by honoring the U.S. armed forces and celebrating the citizenship of new Americans.
FDA reports more cases of salmonella illnesses
The government on Saturday increased the number of people reported being sickened in a record salmonella outbreak in which tomatoes are the leading suspect although investigators are testing other types of fresh produce.
Analysis: McCain struggles to regain footing
John McCain calls himself an underdog. That may be an understatement. The GOP presidential candidate trails Democrat Barack Obama in polls, organization and money while trying to succeed a deeply unpopular fellow Republican in a year that favors Democrats. McCain also doesn't seem to have a coherent message let alone much of a strategy despite securing the nomination three months earlier than Obama.
Challenges abound for Bush at last economic summit
The problems do not get any easier as President Bush attends his final summit with leaders of industrialized democracies.
Employers use federal law to deny benefits
Dying of cancer, Thomas Amschwand did everything he was told to make sure his wife would collect on the life insurance policy he had through his employer.
Presidential candidates' housing plans at a glance
Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama envision the Federal Housing Administration backing new, cheaper mortgages for distressed homeowners who otherwise would have difficulty refinancing into more secure government-insured loans with lower monthly payments. For the plans to work, lenders would have to be willing to take a substantial loss by reducing the amount owed on the loan in the hope they could recoup more money through refinancing than through a costly foreclosure and resale.
Foreclosures to rise whoever wins White House
Home foreclosures will keep rising next year no matter who is elected president in November.
Jesse Helms: Polarizer, not a compromiser
"Compromise, hell!" Jesse Helms screamed in a 1959 editorial that captured what would become the legacy of his Senate career and his place in the conservative movement.
Today on the presidential campaign trail
IN THE HEADLINES
Franken tries the switch from comic to Congress
Moving from celebrity to senator isn't exactly an untraveled path. But that doesn't mean comedian Al Franken, who is vying for a Senate seat in Minnesota, will coast to Capitol Hill on a wide, smooth road.
Obama and family spend Fourth of July in Montana
It was a family Fourth of July for Democrat Barack Obama as his wife, daughters, sister and other relatives helped him make an Independence Day play for this reliably conservative state.
Analysis: Obama's centrist emphasis gives GOP ammo
Is Barack Obama close to being shadowed by giant flip-flops and, worse, having the image stick with people all the way to the voting booth?
Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86
Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86.
Obama visits traditionally Republican Montana
Barack Obama is celebrating the 4th of July in Butte, Montana, attending a parade and picnic. It's a state that usually gives its three electoral votes to a Republican. Only two Democrats have carried Montana since 1948. Republicans typically take it for granted and Democrats usually write if off. But this year, Obama is spending a sizeable amount of time and money to try to win it.
Bush welcomes new US citizens
President Bush invoked the memory of Thomas Jefferson Friday in welcoming new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony at Monticello, saying "I'll be proud to call you a fellow American."
Obama looks to turn Montana blue in the fall
Only two Democratic presidential candidates have carried Montana since 1948. Barack Obama is betting he can do it in November.