It’s the newest charge against Sen. Barack Obama in the presidential campaign: that he worked, as a young community organizer, with a group now involved in voter registration fraud.

But while this particular accusation may be new, the …

Sen. Barack Obama says in a new ad that he launched his first campaign at the Ramada Inn in Chicago, not the living room of former terrorist William Ayers, as Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says.

The new ad takes …

Calling the diplomacy hasty and incomplete, Sen. John McCAin (R-Ariz.) is criticizing President Bush’s decision to remove North Korea from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, as part of negotiations to get the rogue nation to give up …

Civil rights icon John Lewis compared Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to George Wallace in a posting to Politico’s forum "The Arena," accusing McCain of fostering “an atmosphere of hate” and “hostility” like the one that led to white supremacists’ 1963 bombing …

Senator Barack Obama has taken a commanding lead in the race for president not because of any dramatic gesture, but because of a signature political trait: His caution.

The nation’s economic crisis triggered Obama’s sharp rise in what …

Sarah Palin violated the trust Alaskans placed in her as their governor when she fired a state official who had refused to dismiss her ex-brother-in-law from his job as a state trooper, according a legislative report released Friday night….

President Bush on Friday night announced that he opposed a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling from earlier in the day that made Connecticut the third state — after California and Massachusetts — where same-sex couples can become legally married.

Bush …

Fearing the raw and at times angry emotions of his supporters may damage his campaign, John McCain on Friday urged them to tone down their increasingly personal denunciations of Barack Obama, including one woman who said she had heard that …

Last year, when a Juneau Pentecostal church asked the Alaska state government for cash for a new youth center, Gov. Sarah Palin, who had recently started worshipping at the church, vetoed the legislative appropriation from the capital budget, explaining it …

A wide and bipartisan array of activists, academics and bloggers sent a letter to Barack Obama and John McCain Friday asking that the presidential candidates agree to rules making the next, and last, presidential debate more “of the people.”…