Obama tells Virginians to vote on economics, not biographyDemocrat Barack Obama campaigned Wednesday in a conservative stretch of this swing state that's key to his election strategy, telling voters who are more in line with Republican John McCain on social issues that they should vote for Obama because of their economic woes.
Obama steps up anti-McCain message in his TV adsBarack Obama stepped up his hard-edged ad campaign Wednesday, launching two tough commercials against Republican presidential rival John McCain.
Poll: Obama holds significant lead over McCain among young female votersBarack Obama has a 30-point lead over John McCain among registered female voters aged 18 through 27, according to a poll released Wednesday.
US Rep. Tubbs Jones of Ohio dies after hemorrhageDemocratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress and a strong critic of the Iraq war, died Wednesday after a brain hemorrhage, a hospital spokeswoman said.
FEMA phones hacked; calls made to Mideast, AsiaA hacker broke into a Homeland Security Department telephone system over the weekend and racked up about $12,000 in calls to the Middle East and Asia.
Bush says New Orleans is on its way backPresident Bush said Wednesday that "hope is coming back" to New Orleans with the help of $126 billion in disaster aid poured into the Gulf Coast region over three years after Hurricane Katrina.
Stevens' bid to move trial to Alaska rejectedA federal judge has turned down Sen. Ted Stevens' request to move his corruption trial to Alaska, tying the 84-year-old Alaska Republican to a Washington courtroom at the height of his re-election campaign 3,500 miles away.
Companies bid millions to tap Western Gulf
McCain chides a newly feisty Obama as 'testy'
Obama tells Virginians to vote on economics, not biography
Vitter may get to use campaign cash for legal fees
Documents: US strike aided bin Laden-Taliban ties
Gulf energy lease sale bids
Investigators find no wrongdoing in Giant Sequoia tree cutting
The whereabouts of the potential veep picks
Lieberman to speak at Republican convention
Senators: FBI rules could target innocent people
White House missing as many as 225 days of e-mail
Officials: Deal calls for troop pullback in Iraq
McCain reports spending $32 million in July
Washington state voters get a rematch for governor
Political convention planners going green

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