Day: July 24, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain is scheduled to meet with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, on Friday in Colorado….

Poll: McCain is winning 23 percent of the Hispanic vote compared with 66 percent for Obama.

Obama: “It’s the devil you know versus the devil you don’t.” See also: MTV airs anti-Obama ad

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government’s former point man in the fight against the heroin trade in Afghanistan has accused Afghan President Hamid Karzai of obstructing counter-narcotics efforts and protecting drug lords.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President George W. Bush and India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday discussed the need for leading trading countries to contribute to a breakthrough in the Doha round of world trade talks, the White House said.

CINCINNATI (Reuters) – Ohio military veteran Robert Rigsby believes U.S. presidents need military experience. So does retired autoworker Mike Artz. But even as America wages two wars, neither man can decide whom to support in November’s presidential election.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Thousands of Iraqis who fear being killed because they worked for the American government or military in Iraq will be awarded visas allowing them to settle permanently in the United States, the U.S. embassy said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama has opened a big lead among Hispanic voters, winning support from the vast majority of those who had voted for rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries, according to a poll released Thursday….

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Barack Obama has convinced Arabs and Iranians he will put Israel’s interests first if he becomes U.S. president, after a Middle East tour that ended on Thursday.

Obama camp to use DNC ticketing process as a tool to bring in supporters from all 50 states.