Democrat Sen. Barack Obama seized on heightened concerns about the economy Monday in North Carolina, tying Sen. John McCain to the Bush administration's recent record of soaring gasoline prices and slumping employment. ...more

June 10, 2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the most successful female presidential candidate in U.S. history, officially ended her campaign Saturday with a forceful promise to help elect Sen. Barack Obama - and the declaration that, even though she had failed to "shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling," a gender barrier had been crossed. ...more

June 8, 2008

Now that a would-be first female president is ending her quest for the White House, the race is more about women than ever before. ...more

June 7, 2008

Republican Sen. John McCain wasted no time Tuesday night in launching his first general-election broadside against Sen. Barack Obama, casting the Democrat as an out-of-touch liberal who offers a false promise of change. ...more

June 4, 2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won another overwhelming victory over Sen. Barack Obama on Sunday - this time in Puerto Rico - even as many Democrats, including some of her supporters, suggested it would be best if she dropped her threat to battle on past the end of the primary voting Tuesday. ...more

June 2, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and his wife, Michelle, announced Saturday they would leave their longtime Chicago church, Trinity United Church of Christ, after racially charged comments by a visiting pastor last week dragged the presidential candidate into yet another controversy over religion and race. ...more

June 1, 2008

Reverberations from the Sunday sermon of a Roman Catholic priest who mocked Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton at Sen. Barack Obama's home church here continued to spread Friday, after the priest offered an apology and the archbishop of Chicago gave him a public reprimand for "partisan campaigning." ...more

May 31, 2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's prospects of persuading Democratic officials to override party rules and recognize all delegates selected in the Florida and Michigan primaries suffered a setback Wednesday after lawyers for the party ruled that no more than half of those delegations could be legally recognized. ...more

May 29, 2008

Although Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her advisers insist that she is determined to win the Democratic nomination, former President Clinton, for one, has begun privately musing about a different outcome for her: As Sen. Barack Obama's running mate. ...more

May 23, 2008

Even as Sen. Barack Obama's supporters were saying the dispute over the Florida and Michigan convention delegates no longer matters, that dispute intensified Thursday with a new lawsuit and threat of a convention floor fight. ...more

May 23, 2008