With the economy in tatters at home and two wars raging abroad, Sen. Barack Obama's team is preparing for a fast start, should he win the election, to what could be the most challenging and volatile transition between presidents in

A McCain campaign volunteer made up a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and having the letter "B" scratched on her face in what she had said was a politically inspired attack, police said Friday.

Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann is taking a softer tone in a new TV ad after a week of hard knocks for questioning Barack Obama's views on America.

A new survey by the non-partisan group Take Action Minnesota shows that the state's Hmong voters are most concerned about domestic issues this election year.

The leading candidates for Minnesota's U.S. Senate seat colored their statewide televised debate with spirited give-and-take over tax cuts, guns and partisanship.

Rain was falling at Citizens Bank Park on Saturday ahead of Game 3 of the World Series, with thunderstorms possible at night.

The brother of presidential candidate Sen. John McCain says he'll withdraw from campaign activities after calling 911 to complain about traffic. Joe McCain says he's sorry about the call.

In a scramble to lock up the West, Democrat Barack Obama mocked John McCain on Saturday for trying to distance himself from fellow Republican President Bush. McCain touted his Western ties and countered that Obama is a tax-and-spend threat to

Kyiv— Within the framework of their visit to Ukraine, the Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS and the Under Secretary-General of the UN, Peter Piot, together with her majesty Crown Princess of Norway, Mette-Merit, who is

On 23 October, the European Parliament recognised the Ukrainian Holodomor as a crime against humanity. Its plenary session in Strasbourg adopted a resolution commemorating the victims of the Holodomor by an overwhelming majority.

The European Commission defends Peter Mandelson over his links to Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska.

In a shameful attempt to shift the blame for Post Office closures Labour councillor Ian Murray has submitted a formal question to City of Edinburgh Council Leader Jenny Dawe, asking her to explain what steps the Liberal Democrats have taken

300 people have now signed the petition launched by the Liberal Democrats to protect the green belt in and around Braid Hills. Developers plan to build hundreds of new houses on four areas of green belt in South Edinburgh. These

Sharpening his attacks against Nixon, Hulshof said the state couldn't afford the attorney general's proposals.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Stop the War will announce a campaign in defence of the right to protest without police intimidation and victimisation and is supporting injured demonstrators in their actions against the Met for police violence.

Williams and Mahlangu remain in Mlondolozi Female Prison where conditions are terrible. Cells are overcrowded and full of lice, food is extremely limited. The magistrate has delayed their bail application again until 27th October.

As most Americans now know, thanks to the relentless crawls at the bottom of their TV screens, come February a lot of those screens are going to go blank.Congress has decreed that come Feb. 17, 2009, all television broadcasts will

With Barack Obama visiting his ailing grandmother in Hawaii, his wife, Michelle Obama took over campaigning in Ohio Friday. She told a crowd in Akron that her husband 'gets it' on the issues that matter most to the middle class.