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RALEIGH, N.C. - Barack Obama and his newly named running mate will campaign together Saturday at the place where the Democratic presidential hopeful formally launched his White House bid.

WASHINGTON - They survived war, but for some Iraq and Afghanistan veterans going to work back home isn't easy, either.

Count Ralph Nader as unimpressed by the crop of supposed finalists to be Barack Obama’s running mate.

WASHINGTON - The political landscape is littered with Democrats whose campaigns have been hurt by questions about their patriotism. Barack Obama wants to avoid the same fate.

WASHINGTON - When Barack Obama announces his choice for vice president, the real payoff may come during the next few months — one text message at a time.

A Cleveland television station is reporting that Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio) was hospitalized Tuesday night after police found her unconscious behind the wheel of a moving car.

CRAWFORD, Texas (AFP) - The White House on Tuesday flatly rejected Russian charges that NATO was being "biased" in the Georgia conflict, and renewed US demands that Moscow withdraw its forces immediately.

Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama and John McCain are locked in a tight battle for president, with the Democrat capitalizing on voter concern over the economy and energy and the Republican benefiting from his experience and success in neutralizing the issue of the unpopular Iraq war.

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama and John McCain have burnished images as politicians who keep special interests at arms' length, yet there won't be much stiff-arming at their nominating conventions.

ABOARD THE CHEVRON GENESIS - Republican presidential candidate John McCain visited this oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday to call for increased offshore drilling that he claims would lower the cost of food and heating homes.

RALEIGH, N.C. - Barack Obama and his newly named running mate will campaign together Saturday at the place where the Democratic presidential hopeful formally launched his White House bid.

A Cleveland television station is reporting that Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio) was hospitalized Tuesday night after police found her unconscious behind the wheel of a moving car.

Count Ralph Nader as unimpressed by the crop of supposed finalists to be Barack Obama’s running mate.

WASHINGTON - When Barack Obama announces his choice for vice president, the real payoff may come during the next few months — one text message at a time.

WASHINGTON - The political landscape is littered with Democrats whose campaigns have been hurt by questions about their patriotism. Barack Obama wants to avoid the same fate.

CRAWFORD, Texas (AFP) - The White House on Tuesday flatly rejected Russian charges that NATO was being "biased" in the Georgia conflict, and renewed US demands that Moscow withdraw its forces immediately.

Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama and John McCain are locked in a tight battle for president, with the Democrat capitalizing on voter concern over the economy and energy and the Republican benefiting from his experience and success in neutralizing the issue of the unpopular Iraq war.

Her first name is Joan. Her last name is a mystery.

RALEIGH, N.C. - A combative Barack Obama said Tuesday that Republican John McCain "doesn't know what he's up against" in this election and challenged his rival to stop questioning his character and patriotism.

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama and John McCain have burnished images as politicians who keep special interests at arms' length, yet there won't be much stiff-arming at their nominating conventions.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Poll workers will not be allowed to take voting machines home for safekeeping in the days before the November presidential election because the practice known as "sleepovers" is an unacceptable security risk, the state elections chief said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON - They survived war, but for some Iraq and Afghanistan veterans going to work back home isn't easy, either.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - An Iranian missile test aimed at putting a dummy satellite into orbit failed, a US defense official said Tuesday.

WARSAW (AFP) - In a clear swipe at Russia, Poland's President Lech Kaczynski on Tuesday said his country would not give in to threats over its deal with Washington to deploy US missile silos on Polish soil.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States warned Georgia against a fight with Russia, a senior U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday as Washington demanded Moscow withdraw its forces more quickly from the former Soviet republic.

WASHINGTON - A Bush administration rule barring states and local governments from requiring more air pollution monitoring is illegal, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

Obama tries to push back McCain's shots at his character, without impugning McCain's, in a speech to veterans today. In particular, he's demanding that McCain call him a patriot -- forcing the direct question to a candidate who, at times, shies away from his own harsh attacks; and pressing a storyline Obama likes: That McCain is Mr. Negative.

ORLANDO, Florida (AFP) - If reports about Barack Obama's vice presidential shortlist are correct, he is thinking about adding foreign policy expertise, heartland appeal or reformist zeal to his White House ticket.

LAS VEGAS - Americans have trekked West in search of riches for more than 150 years — and Barack Obama is doing the same.

WASHINGTON - Neither Barack Obama nor John McCain has consistently followed the government's instructions for keeping prohibited foreign money out of their presidential campaigns, and some of that banned money has slipped into Obama's campaign.