- Obama: U.S. presidential win 'sent a message to the world'
- Democratic candidate Barack Obama made history on Tuesday by becoming the first black man to be elected president of the United States, saying his win shows the world that "a new dawn of American leadership is at hand."
- Bush calls Obama's win a 'triumph of the American story'
- Barack Obama's election victory represents a "triumph of the American story" that fulfilled a dream for millions of people and made every American proud, U.S. President George W. Bush said in a congratulatory speech Wednesday.
- Obama victory sparks celebration, praise around globe
- World leaders offered praise and citizens celebrated around the globe over the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president.
- Palin blames 'woeful' economic situation for Republican defeat
- Sarah Palin doesn't think she is to blame for the Republican party's election defeat on Tuesday, saying that voters were swayed by a 'woeful' economic situation.
- Democrats make gains in Senate, House
- On the same night their leader was elected president, the Democrats made gains to their majority in the U.S. Senate, but failed to garner a filibuster-proof 60 seats.
- California voters approve gay-marriage ban
- Voters put a stop to same-sex marriage in California, dealing a crushing defeat to gay-rights activists and putting in doubt as many as 18,000 same-sex marriages conducted since a court ruling made them legal this year.
- U.S. voters hit the polls in record numbers
- Barack Obama's resounding election victory in the U.S. presidential election was fuelled by Americans going to the polls in record numbers, with 136.6 million votes cast.
- Harper welcomes Obama victory
- Prime Minister Stephen harper has congratulated Barack Obama on winning the U.S. presidency, saying he's looking forward to "building a strong working relationship" with his administration.
- Stewart, Colbert parody election in real time
- Culminating their satirical coverage of the campaign, Comedy Central's Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert teamed up for a live one-hour comedy special — though Stewart had his Cronkite moment, too.
- Obamamania draws Canadians to Chicago
- A group of Canadians are hoping to witness history in the making on Democratic candidate Barack Obama's turf.
- 1st voter in N.H. town is McGill engineering student
- One of the first voters in the United States to cast a ballot Tuesday in the presidential election was a McGill University engineering student in Montreal who got a lift from his mom to make it to the New Hampshire poll on time.
- Actor Tim Robbins runs into voting trouble on election day
- Many Americans endured long lines to vote in Tuesday's U.S. election, but actor and activist Tim Robbins had to get a court order before he was allowed to cast his vote for president.
- Obama's grandmother dies of cancer
- Barack Obama's grandmother has died of cancer, the U.S. Democratic presidential candidate said in a statement issued Monday, one day before Americans were to decide whether the grandson she helped raise would be elected to the White House.
- McCain, Obama make last campaign sweeps before election day
- U.S. presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama staged a last campaign blitz throughout the country on Monday as polls continued to show the Democratic senator with a solid lead one day before the election.
- Palin cleared by Troopergate investigation
- A report has cleared Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin of ethics violations in the firing of the state's public safety commissioner.
- McCain, Obama to be interviewed on Monday Night Football
- U.S. presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama are scheduled to participate in one-on-one interviews via satellite that would air at halftime of Monday Night Football on the day before the election.
- McCain pitches in SNL skit
- Republican presidential candidate John McCain played himself while Tina Fey played the party's vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live.
- Montreal comedian pranks Sarah Palin
- A Montreal comedian spoke to U.S. Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday by impersonating French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
- Obama denies knowing aunt in U.S. illegally
- Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Saturday he didn't know his aunt was living in the United States illegally and all laws covering the situation should be followed.
- Presidential candidates make final push before election day
- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama appeared to be holding a solid lead in support over Republican rival John McCain as they headed into the final weekend before election day.
- Obama approaches lawmaker about White House post: sources
- Barack Obama's campaign has approached Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel about possibly serving as White House chief of staff, officials said Thursday as the marathon presidential race entered its final, frenzied stretch with a Democratic tilt.
- Amnesty International urges next U.S. leader to close Guantanamo Bay prison
- The head of Amnesty International called for the next U.S. president to close the country's detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within 100 days of his inauguration.
- Bill Clinton heralds Obama as 'America's future' at Fla. rally
- Portraying harmony like never before, former U.S. president Bill Clinton hailed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama at a rally in Kissimmee, Fla., on Wednesday, a power pairing designed to inspire Democrats already smelling victory.
- Skinheads accused in Obama plot to remain jailed
- Two white supremacists accused of plotting to kill U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will remain in jail following a decision by a federal magistrate in Memphis, Tenn., on Thursday.
- Obama brings message to prime time
- Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama hit American airwaves Wednesday night to present voters with his campaign's closing pitch, just six days before the election.
- McCain slams Obama over foreign policy experience
- Eager to boost his support six days before the U.S. presidential election, Republican presidential candidate John McCain sharply criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama's foreign and fiscal policy and questioned his relationship with a Palestinian-rights advocate.
- Republican ticket calls on Stevens to step down after conviction
- Both U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin have called for the resignation of fellow Republican Ted Stevens, a day after a federal court convicted the Alaskan senator on seven felony charges.
- Obama assassination likely wouldn't have happened: authorities
- Two white supremacists charged with plotting to behead black people across the country and assassinate Barack Obama while wearing top hats and tuxes were likely too disorganized to carry out the plot, authorities said.
- U.S. authorities report racist plot to assassinate Obama
- Two white supremacists allegedly plotted to go on a national killing rampage, shooting and decapitating black people and ultimately targeting U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, federal authorities said Monday.
- Tensions between McCain, Palin camps starting to show: report
- With eight days to go until the U.S. election, there are reports of infighting between aides to Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his running mate Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin.
- Palin pipeline terms curbed bids, favoured Canadian company: report
- Gov. Sarah Palin's signature accomplishment — a contract to build a 2,760-kilometre pipeline to bring natural gas to the Lower 48 states from Alaska — emerged from a flawed bidding process that narrowed the field to a company with ties to her administration, an Associated Press investigation shows.
- Democrats will dominate Washington with Obama, McCain warns
- Republican presidential nominee John McCain, trailing in the polls, raised the prospect Saturday of a complete Democratic takeover of Washington as a reason to elect him over Democrat Barack Obama in 10 days.
- Troopergate investigation hears testimony from Palin
- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin testified for two hours Friday in an abuse-of-power investigation that has been a distraction to her Republican vice-presidential campaign.
- 'Gravely ill' grandmother might not make it to election day: Obama
- Barack Obama's ailing grandmother might not live to see if her grandson is elected to the White House, the U.S. Democratic presidential candidate said Friday as he took a break from the campaign to visit her in Hawaii.
- Palin's pricey wardrobe defended
- While the $150,000 US price tag for Sarah Palin's new wardrobe and styling continues to generate controversy, some are coming to the defence of the Republican vice-presidential candidate.
- Palin expenses questioned, Biden takes heat for 'crisis' comments
- Vice-presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden are coming under attack for actions and statements they made, with less than two weeks away from election day.
- Powell would play key role in White House, Obama pledges
- Barack Obama says Colin Powell, who endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate in the race to the White House, would become one of his advisers if he wins next month's U.S. election.
- Powell endorses Obama for president
- Colin Powell, a Republican who was President George W. Bush's first secretary of state, endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for U.S. president Sunday and criticized the tone of Republican John McCain's campaign.
- McCain and Obama spar over NAFTA and 'old, washed-up terrorist'
- U.S. presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama squared off in their third and final debate Wednesday night, an event some observers saw as McCain's last chance to turn his political fortunes around.
- McCain proposes $52.5-billion US economic plan
- U.S. Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain said Tuesday he would as president order the Treasury Department to guarantee 100 per cent of all savings for six straight months.
- Palin abused power: ethics report
- Sarah Palin abused her power as Alaska's governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, according to an ethics probe report released Friday.
- President Osama? U.S. election ballot misspells Obama's name
- A typographical error on a New York county absentee ballot gives voters there the option of electing "Barack Osama" as president in the upcoming U.S. election, instead of Barack Obama.
- McCain campaign releases its own report on Troopergate
- Trying to head off a potentially embarrassing state ethics report on Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report Thursday that clears her of any wrongdoing.
- Todd Palin defends his role in wife's administration
- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's husband defended his role as a close adviser to his wife Wednesday but was adamant that he didn't meddle in her administration to try to settle a family dispute.
- McCain, Obama spar over economy problems, cures in 2nd debate
- Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain spent much of their second presidential debate Tuesday night arguing over how best to protect American jobs, homes and health care in the face of a floundering U.S. economy.
- McCain calls Obama a liar
- Republican presidential candidate John McCain continued his attack on Barack Obama's credibility Monday, calling his Democratic opponent a liar.
- Biden, Palin debate with confidence, avoid gaffes
- The highly anticipated U.S. vice-presidential debate ranged from expansive to intimate Thursday night, highlighting the candidates' views on everything from the economy and the war in Iraq to same-sex rights and family values.
- Alaska judge allows probe to continue in Palin 'troopergate' case
- An Alaska judge refused on Thursday to block an investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power in firing her public safety commissioner.
- Voter opinion of Palin declining ahead of VP debate: polls
- Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is readying for Thursday's faceoff with Democratic rival Joe Biden as new polls indicate growing doubt over whether she is ready for what the job might hold.
- 52.4 million watch U.S. presidential debate, far from record
- The first debate between John McCain and Barack Obama, seen by an estimated 52.4 million viewers Friday, was one of the first events of the U.S. presidential campaign that was not a huge TV hit.
- Financial crisis, foreign policy dominate U.S. presidential debate
- Contenders for the U.S. presidency went head-to-head Friday night in a highly anticipated debate that took the U.S. financial-sector meltdown as a first and lengthy topic, with both men agreeing that Congress must act fast to stave off a bigger crisis.
- McCain agrees to attend U.S. presidential debate
- Republican presidential candidate John McCain will attend the first presidential debate as scheduled on Friday night, said McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers in statement.
- Debate still off until consensus reached, McCain campaign says
- Republican candidate John McCain still will not participate in a presidential debate set for Friday unless a consensus is reached between Congress and the U.S. administration on a $700-billion US bailout of the financial industry, a spokesman said.
- Obama, McCain called to White House for financial crisis talks
- U.S. President George W. Bush has invited both presidential candidates to the White House Thursday to hold emergency talks on the country's economic crisis.
- Palin meets with world leaders
- Sarah Palin met her first world leaders Tuesday, a tightly controlled crash course on foreign policy for the Republican vice-presidential candidate who has been outside North America just once.
- U.S. Democrats call for more regulation, homeowner aid in bailout
- Additional government aid for homeowners and enhanced regulatory measures must be included in legislation providing a $700 billion bailout for the U.S. financial system, Senate Democrats said on Monday.
- Hackers crack Palin e-mail as Alaska gov. becomes web star
- U.S. Republican party officials want to know how hackers broke into one of vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin's internet e-mail accounts and messages, and family photographs on the web.
- Palin's husband refuses to testify in probe
- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's husband has refused to testify in the investigation of his wife's alleged abuse of power, and a key lawmaker said Thursday that unco-operative witnesses are effectively sidetracking the probe until after election day.
- Commission needed to study U.S. financial crisis: McCain
- U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Tuesday called for a high-level commission to study the current economic crisis and claimed that a corrupt and excessive Wall Street had betrayed American workers.
- Obama, McCain weigh in on Wall Street mayhem
- Both the Republican and Democratic party candidates in the U.S. presidential election say the current crisis on Wall Street shows the need for better regulation of the financial industry.
- Bush to meet Obama, McCain to discuss bailout plan
- U.S. President George W. Bush is set to meet with presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain on Thursday morning to discuss an expected $700-billion bailout plan for Wall Street.
- Alaskan lawmakers OK 'Troopergate' subpoena for Palin's husband
- The investigator looking into whether Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power in trying to get her former brother-in-law fired has been granted his request to subpoena Palin's husband.
- Palin declares readiness for job in TV interview
- Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin proposed NATO membership for Georgia and Ukraine and declared her readiness for high office in an ABC News interview Thursday.
- McCain has the lead in U.S. election race: poll
- Republican nominee John McCain has taken the lead from his Democratic party counterpart, Barack Obama, in the U.S. presidential race, according to a new poll by USA Today and Gallup.
- 'I will not let you down,' McCain says in convention speech
- Republican presidential nominee John McCain accepted his party's nomination Thursday night with a speech that portrayed the Vietnam veteran as a bipartisan reformer bent on changing the status quo of Washington.
- McCain, Obama draw equal TV audiences
- John McCain attracted roughly the same number of viewers to his Republican convention acceptance speech Thursday as Obama did before the Democrats last week, according to Nielsen Media Research.
- Palin roasts Obama in rousing convention speech
- Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin accepted her party's nomination for the position to thunderous applause Wednesday night in the opening remarks of her highly anticipated convention speech.
- McCain 'ready to lead this nation': Bush
- Republican presidential hopeful John McCain showed great courage by jeopardizing his bid for the White House in order to support the war in Iraq and is "ready to lead this nation," U.S. President George W. Bush said Tuesday.
- Palin thoroughly vetted: McCain
- Republican John McCain said Tuesday he's satisfied that Sarah Palin's background was properly checked out before the Alaska governor joined the Republican ticket.
- GOP convention kicks off with appeal for Gustav aid
- Republicans staged a subdued opening to their storm-shadowed national convention on Monday, seeking aid for the Gulf Coast victims of Hurricane Gustav as well as support to send John McCain to the White House.
- McCain names female Alaska governor as surprise VP pick
- Hoping to steal some thunder from Barack Obama's Democratic nomination, Republican presidential hopeful John McCain introduced Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate at a rally in Dayton, Ohio on Friday.
- Obama: 'America, we are a better country than this'
- U.S. Senator Barack Obama formally accepted the Democratic party's presidential nomination Thursday evening in one of the most significant addresses of what has been an intensely scrutinized U.S. election campaign.
- History made as Obama officially nominated for president
- A historic moment happened late Wednesday afternoon in Denver as Barack Obama officially became the Democratic Party's candidate for U.S. president.
- 'Obama is my candidate,' Hillary Clinton tells Democratic delegates
- Hillary Clinton took the stage at the Democratic convention Tuesday night to make an impassioned plea to her supporters to rally behind her rival Barack Obama and propel him to the White House.
- Tears flow as Ted Kennedy takes stage at Democratic convention
- There was a huge outpouring of emotion for Ted Kennedy at the Democratic National Convention Monday night as the ailing senator took the stage and addressed the crowd.
- Obama introduces running mate Joe Biden
- Democratic party presidential nominee Barack Obama has picked Senator Joe Biden as his running mate.
- McCain takes heat over another U.S. housing crisis ... his own
- The race for the White House just widened to include a few more addresses other than 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. this week after Republican presidential hopeful John McCain acknowledged in an interview he did not know how many homes he and his billionaire heiress wife currently own.
- Obama shifts position on offshore drilling
- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday he would be willing to support limited additional offshore oil drilling if that's what it takes to enact a comprehensive policy to foster fuel-efficient autos and develop alternate energy sources.
- McCain campaign accuses Obama of playing race card
- The campaign of John McCain accused Barack Obama of playing the race card when he said Republicans will try to scare voters away by saying the Democratic presidential candidate "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
- McCain's visit with Dalai Lama sparks criticism from China
- China expressed "deep concern" on Monday over U.S. presidential contender John McCain's meeting with the Dalai Lama, saying the spiritual leader is trying to split the country and "disrupt social stability" in Tibet.
- Obama's policies could have plunged Middle East into war: McCain
- Republican presidential candidate John McCain, ridiculing Barack Obama for "the audacity of hopelessness" in his policies on Iraq, said Friday that the entire Middle East could have plunged into war had U.S. troops been withdrawn as his rival advocated.
- 'New walls' must come down, Obama tells thousands in Berlin
- Europeans and Americans must work together to protect their common security by tearing down the walls that divide them, U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama told thousands gathered in Berlin on Thursday in the first formal speech of his foreign tour.
- Vanity Fair plays tit for tat with New Yorker with McCain cartoon
- After The New Yorker's controversial cartoon satirizing Barack Obama and his wife, Vanity Fair has posted a cover online that pokes fun at rival presidential candidate John McCain.
- Obama campaign says New Yorker cartoon goes too far
- The New Yorker Magazine has stirred up controversy in the U.S. for a satirical cover that shows Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama dressed as a Muslim and his wife as a terrorist.
- Jesse Jackson apologizes for 'crude' Obama comment
- Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday to Barack Obama for making a "regretfully crude" comment about the Democratic presidential hopeful during what he thought was a private conversation.
- 'Our paths have merged,' Clinton tells Obama rally
- Hillary Clinton shared the stage with former rival Barack Obama on Friday, relaying the message that a Democratic president is "essential for America."
- Canada, U.S. 'firm and fast friends,' McCain says in Ottawa
- Canada and the U.S. have a "shared destiny" in expanding free trade, maintaining security and combating climate change, presidential candidate John McCain told an audience in Ottawa on Friday.
- Clinton drops out of U.S. presidential race
- Hillary Clinton has ended her bid for the White House and formally endorsed Barack Obama in a speech at the National Building Museum in Washington.
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