Vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin repeated the McCain campaign's recent themes - mainly bashing Barack Obama on taxes and vowing more domestic oil drilling - in a speech Sunday to a huge crowd that sweltered in an outdoor square at this huge retirement complex. ...more

September 22, 2008

Jerry McCutcheon went to Gov. Sarah Palin's office here last week to request information about the firing of former Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan, the scandal that for weeks has threatened to eclipse the governor's nomination as Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain's running mate. ...more

September 22, 2008

The Obama and McCain campaigns have agreed to an unusual, free-flowing format for the three televised presidential debates, which begin Friday, but the McCain camp fought for and won a much more structured approach for the questioning at the vice presidential debate, advisers to both campaigns said Saturday. ...more

September 21, 2008

WASHINGTON - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is scheduled to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai next week in New York, campaign officials for GOP nominee John McCain confirmed Saturday. ...more

September 20, 2008

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Todd Palin is refusing to testify in an abuse-of-power investigation into his wife, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. ...more

September 18, 2008

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says that paying higher taxes is the patriotic thing to do for wealthier Americans. ...more

September 18, 2008

WASHINGTON - Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used for official business as Alaska's governor, revealing as evidence a few inconsequential personal messages she has received since John McCain selected her as his running mate. ...more

September 17, 2008

Give The Country Credit Regarding "Obama's Race May Be Decider" (Other Views, Sept. 10): ...more

September 17, 2008

The once independent-minded Sen. John McCain has adopted the serve-the-rich policies of President Bush and the divisive tactics of former Bush strategist Karl Rove, Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden said Monday during a campaign stop in Michigan. ...more

September 16, 2008

The vice presidential nominee you aren't hearing so much about, Democrat Joe Biden, is planning a more prominent role to help validate Barack Obama among white working-class voters and criticize the Republican rival he's long called a friend. ...more

September 14, 2008