Sen. Barack Obama has found something that eluded him during the primary season - contrast. ...more

July 13, 2008

WASHINGTON - One momentous case down, another equally historic decision to go. The Supreme Court returns to the bench Monday with 17 cases still unresolved, including its first-ever comprehensive look at the Second Amendment's right to bear arms. ...more

June 15, 2008

The nation's Roman Catholic bishops issued a document Friday warning against what they consider the moral dangers of embryonic stem cell research, saying it treats human beings as commodities and reduces procreation to a manufacturing process. ...more

June 14, 2008

Rudy Giuliani, who sought to make the leap from New York mayor to the White House, bowed out of the Republican presidential contest Wednesday and endorsed front-runner and longtime friend John McCain. ...more

January 31, 2008

For all the hoopla over Barack Obama's post-Iowa bounce, in the end the Democratic primary in New Hampshire turned out to be surprisingly close. ...more

January 10, 2008

There are times when the hustings aura surrounding Rudy Giuliani seems less of a presidential campaign and something more akin to "The Young and The Restless" meets "The Birdcage." ...more

December 27, 2007

Two weeks after Olga Reyes danced at her wedding, her bloated and disfigured body was laid to rest in an open coffin - the victim, her husband and some experts say, of Nicaragua's new no-exceptions ban on abortion. ...more

November 9, 2007

They could compete for strangest bedfellows of 2008. Rudy Giuliani is a supporter of gay and abortion rights who is building his Republican primary campaign around his response to the Sept. 11 attacks. ...more

November 8, 2007

Republican rivals Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney and John McCain sought on Friday to become the favorite of anxious social conservatives, each suggesting he offered the best chance of thwarting abortion rights supporter Rudy Giuliani. ...more

October 20, 2007

Republican Rudy Giuliani distanced himself Friday from anti-gun positions he took when he was a moderate mayor of New York, and asked the National Rifle Association to support his presidential candidacy. ...more

September 22, 2007