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WASHINGTON - More than 10,000 people have signed an online petition urging the Army to let an Iraqi puppy come home with a Minnesota soldier, who fears that "Ratchet" could be killed if left behind.

JUNEAU, Alaska - Gov. Sarah Palin's rural adviser resigned Monday amid criticism of the governor's record on hiring Alaska Natives.

THE POLL: Quinnipiac University poll for The Wall Street Journal and the Web site of The Washington Post, presidential race in Michigan (17 electoral votes).

Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is ahead of Republican rival John McCain in polls taken nationwide and in some states.

The Boston Globe endorsed Democrat Barack Obama on its Web site Monday night:

TOLEDO, Ohio – Barack Obama on Monday sought to take ownership of the central issue of the presidential election, the economy, by rolling out what his campaign billed as a major new “economic rescue plan for the middle class.”

Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama is likely to pick up 364 Electoral College votes, far surpassing the 270 needed to claim the presidency, by winning battleground states including Virginia, Ohio, Florida, and Colorado, online traders say.

John McCain’s campaign is pretty much a shambles right now.

Barack Obama has erased traditional Republican advantages in four key bellwether counties that President George W. Bush won in 2000 and 2004, according to a new Politico/InsiderAdvantage survey. Each county is critical to the outcome in the battleground state where it is located.

CHICAGO - When class lets out for Michelle and Barack Obama's two daughters, their grandmother is there to pick them up.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney, married with a child, declined to say Monday whether he had carried on an affair with a former aide and paid to keep her quiet, then called for an investigation by the House ethics committee into his own conduct.

The Republican National Committee, growing nervous over the prospect of Democrats’ winning a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, is considering tapping into a $5 million line of credit this week to aid an increasing number of vulnerable incumbents, top Republicans say.

TOLEDO, Ohio – Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, introducing Barack Obama at a conference center here, told a crowd of more than 3,000 that they could help bring favorite Democratic bogeyman Bill O’Reilly to tears on Election Day.

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama and Joe Biden won the endorsement Monday of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

Results of a Quinnipiac University poll which asked likely voters in Wisconsin for their views on the presidential race.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Monday released his Economic Rescue Plan for The Middle Class, described by the campaign as "a comprehensive four-part plan to deal with the immediate crisis that builds on proposals he has previously announced and includes several major new ideas."

Sen. Hillary Clinton said Monday that Barack Obama has just about wrapped up a victory in the presidential campaign.

WASHINGTON - It wasn't long ago that illegal immigration was supposed to be a top issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. Terrorism and the Iraq war, which drove the 2004 contest between President Bush and Democrat John Kerry, were expected to be important again this time.

NEW YORK (AFP) - First banks collapsed, then global economic stability -- could the United States' superpower status be the next, biggest victim of the financial crisis?

The plans of presidential candidates are never set in stone, if only because circumstances and the makeup of Congress change after the election. The uncertainty is even deeper in this election because Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain laid out most of their agenda before the government committed up to $700 billion to address the financial crisis.