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  1. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks at a town hall meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina August 19, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)
    Obama, VP choice to campaign together Saturday AP - Wed Aug 20, 8:22 AM ET

    RALEIGH, N.C. - Barack Obama and his newly named running mate will campaign together Saturday at the place where the Democratic presidential hopeful formally launched his White House bid.

  2. Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., share a laugh while speaking to reporters during a news conference Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008, in Birmingham, Mich. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
    Sen. Joe Lieberman to speak at GOP convention AP - 25 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate in 2000 and now an independent who is one of John McCain's strongest supporters, will speak at the Republican National Convention, an official said.

  3. Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine addresses a fundraising event at the Science Museum of Virginia on August 14, in Richmond, Virginia. If reports about Barack Obama's vice presidential shortlist are correct, he is thinking about adding foreign policy expertise, heartland appeal or reformist zeal to his White House ticket.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)
    Veep Sheet: Kaine and Obama meet tonight Politico - 1 hour, 35 minutes ago

    After a day of campaigning in Virginia, Barack Obama is overnighting in Richmond tonight as the guest of Gov. Tim Kaine, Politico has learned from Old Dominion sources.

  4. Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R-AZ) waves to the veterans gathered at the 109th Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Orlando, Florida, August 18, 2008. (Scott Audette/Reuters)
    McCain winning in new poll, follows trend Politico - Wed Aug 20, 9:03 AM ET

    John McCain has overtaken Barack Obama in the presidential race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released Wednesday morning.

  5. In a June 7, 2008, file photo Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., talks with, supporters, from left, Renee Lawrence, Marilyn Downing, Terri Franey, all delegates from Carver, Mass., at the Democratic State Convention, in Lowell, Mass. Kerry insists he's as committed to seeking re-election to the Senate this fall as he was to campaigning for the White House four years ago. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds/file)
    Kerry returns to stump 4 years after nomination AP - 27 minutes ago

    WORCESTER, Mass. - The week before the 2004 Democratic National Convention, John Kerry drafted his presidential nomination speech and then set off on a cross-country trip that brought him home to thousands of delegates waiting in Boston.

  6. This photo provided by the Medill News Services shows Ron Paul supporters marching down Constitution Avenue to Capitol Hill in Washington, July 12, 2008, where they held an all-day rally. Paul supporters will hold a second march on Sept. 2 at the Target Center in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Medill News Service, Kathryn Grim)
    Will young Paul, Huckabee backers stay with GOP? AP - 1 hour, 15 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - While this year's presidential election shows signs of drawing in more young voters than any since 1992, the candidates who pulled some of them into the Republican race are long gone — and it's unclear whether they've taken their young supporters with them.

  7. Party time! Convention delegates face the music AP - 1 hour, 53 minutes ago

    In Minnesota, Republicans will be partying to the soothing surf pop of the Beach Boys and classic rock favorites Styx. Democrats in Denver get punk rock and Rage Against the Machine.

  8. Richard Watters checks the market on his computer in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, July 29, 2008. Watters, an African Australian citizen, donated $1,000 to the campaign of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama. Watters entered a fake U.S. passport number, a random jumble of numbers and letters, so the site would take his money. He said he also checked a box stating that he was an American living overseas, 'because I could see it wasn't going anywhere if I didn't do that.' (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
    AP IMPACT: Campaigns take cash, seek details later AP - 1 hour, 36 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - Neither Barack Obama nor John McCain has consistently followed the government's instructions for keeping prohibited foreign money out of their presidential campaigns, and some of that banned money has slipped into Obama's campaign.

  9. In this May 8, 2006 file photo, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, questions the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections during a meeting in Cleveland. Tubbs Jones remained in a hospital Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, a spokeswoman said. No other information was released. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)
    US Rep. Tubbs Jones hospitalized near Cleveland AP - Wed Aug 20, 12:22 AM ET

    EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio - A hospital spokeswoman says U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones has been admitted to a Cleveland-area hospital.

  10. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. signs an egg carton during a visit to the Greensboro Farmer's Curb Market in Greensboro, N.C., Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
    Conventions blend money, parties, ethics rules AP - 1 hour, 7 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - Barack Obama and John McCain have burnished images as politicians who keep special interests at arms' length, yet there won't be much stiff-arming at their nominating conventions.

  11. More women are having fewer children, if at all AP - Tue Aug 19, 1:29 AM ET

    WASHINGTON - More women in their early 40s are childless, and those who are having children are having fewer than ever before, the Census Bureau said Monday.

  12. Poland and the United States have signed a deal to deploy part of a US missile shield on Polish territory in the face of deep Russian anger.(AFP Graphic/Anibal Maiz)
    US, Poland sign missile shield deal amid Russian opposition AFP - 17 minutes ago

    WARSAW (AFP) - Warsaw and Washington signed a deal Wednesday to deploy a US missile shield in Poland, in the face of deep anger and threats of retaliation from Moscow.

  13. Hillary Clinton campaigns for Barack Obama in Nevada. US political junkies will be casting nervous glances at their mobile phones this week, with Democratic White House pick Obama promising to name his running mate by text message and email.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Ethan Miller)
    Nader predicts Obama to pick Clinton Politico - Tue Aug 19, 7:49 PM ET

    Count Ralph Nader as unimpressed by the crop of supposed finalists to be Barack Obama’s running mate.

  14. An oil tanker nears the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Marine Terminal in Valdez, Alaska, August, 9 2008. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
    47 companies bid on Gulf offshore oil leases AP - Tue Aug 19, 4:33 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Dozens of energy companies bid Tuesday to explore nearly two million acres of the western Gulf of Mexico for oil and natural gas, but no offers were made for 90 percent of the acreage on the auction block.

  15. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice holds a news conference during a NATO foreign ministers meeting at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels, August 19, 2008. (Francois Lenoir/Reuters)
    Rice says Russia becoming an outlaw in Georgia Reuters - Tue Aug 19, 8:04 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia is becoming the outlaw in the conflict with Georgia, wreaking wanton destruction on its small neighbor and trying to strangle it, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday.

  16. US Senator Joe Biden stands near an airplane as soldiers unload humanitarian aid for refugees from the South Ossetian conflict zone in Tbilisi August 17, 2008. Speculation about vice presidential picks for Barack Obama and John McCain hit top gear Wednesday as the candidates revved up their political machines for the decisive phase of the White House race.(AFP/File/Vano Shlamov)
    VP stakes accelerate to a gallup AFP - 7 minutes ago

    MARTINSVILLE, Virginia (AFP) - Speculation about vice presidential picks for Barack Obama and John McCain hit top gear Wednesday as the candidates revved up their political machines for the decisive phase of the White House race.

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