DENVER (AP) — A pair of lawyers – one Republican, one Democrat – have concluded that John McCain’s 1936 birth outside the continental United States does not disqualify him to be president….
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — They may bicker daily over issues, character and innuendo, but both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama appear to agree on one thing: Democratic voters will coalesce around a nominee and carry him or her to victory in November over Republican John McCain….
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama proposed greater government regulation of the U.S. financial system and a new $30 billion economic stimulus plan on Thursday in response to the housing crisis.
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexico will send 1,500 soldiers and more than 400 federal police this week to quell raging violence just across the border from the U.S. city of El Paso, opening a new front in its war on drug gangs.
Clinton and Obama offer economic policy prescriptions that sharply contrast with McCain’s plan to restore economic stability.
Hundreds of flights were canceled Thursday as mechanics for American Airlines and Delta Airlines inspected wiring in aircraft to ensure the planes met federal safety rules.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Eight of the 10 largest donors so far to the U.S. presidential campaigns are Wall Street banks, led by Goldman Sachs, according to research on Thursday from a political watchdog group.
NEW YORK (AP) — When Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduced Barack Obama before an economic speech Thursday, he made it clear he wasn’t ready to make an endorsement – a prize all the presidential candidates are seeking….
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A controversy over Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s former pastor has not hurt Obama, a new poll found on Thursday, even as more potential trouble surfaced involving his church.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The leading U.S. housing agency has drafted a foreclosure prevention program that could work in tandem with plans created by leading Democratic lawmakers, but it still needs the blessing of the Bush administration, sources familiar with the plan said Thursday.