Elections

AP - Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them.

Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Saturday his plan to end the Iraq war was unchanged and he was puzzled by the sharp reaction to his statement this week that he might "refine" his timetable for withdrawing U.S. combat troops.

AP - Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them.

Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Saturday his plan to end the Iraq war was unchanged and he was puzzled by the sharp reaction to his statement this week that he might "refine" his timetable for withdrawing U.S. combat troops.

AP - Now that they're allies, Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will help each other raise money in a series of fundraisers in New York next week.

AP - John McCain calls himself an underdog. That may be an understatement.

AP - Home foreclosures will keep rising next year no matter who is elected president in November.

AP - Moving from celebrity to senator isn't exactly an untraveled path. But that doesn't mean comedian Al Franken, who is vying for a Senate seat in Minnesota, will coast to Capitol Hill on a wide, smooth road.

AP - Moving from celebrity to senator isn't exactly an untraveled path. But that doesn't mean comedian Al Franken, who is vying for a Senate seat in Minnesota, will coast to Capitol Hill on a wide, smooth road.

AP - Moving from celebrity to senator isn't exactly an untraveled path. But that doesn't mean comedian Al Franken, who is vying for a Senate seat in Minnesota, will coast to Capitol Hill on a wide, smooth road.

AP - Obama, family spend Fourth of July in red-state Montana, celebrate daughter's 10th birthday ... Florida Gov. Crist, possible running mate for John McCain, engaged to marry ... Obama woos Montana and its 3 electoral votes despite state's history of voting Republican ...

AP - Obama, family spend Fourth of July in red-state Montana, celebrate daughter's 10th birthday ... Florida Gov. Crist, possible running mate for John McCain, engaged to marry ... Obama woos Montana and its 3 electoral votes despite state's history of voting Republican ...

AP - Obama, family spend Fourth of July in red-state Montana, celebrate daughter's 10th birthday ... Florida Gov. Crist, possible running mate for John McCain, engaged to marry ... Obama woos Montana and its 3 electoral votes despite state's history of voting Republican ...