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John McCain and Barack Obama vow to reform the nation's defense procurement if elected president, yet each is unwilling to take a firm stand against the skyrocketing cost of a plum White House perk: the new Marine One helicopter.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain pledged Friday to help auto workers rebuild their industry and in the process jump-start the entire U.S. economy.
President Bush is dining-and-dashing for cash Friday at private fundraisers in Tucson and Houston to help raise money for two GOP candidates for Congress.
Sen. Barack Obama 's trip to the Middle East and Europe marks his first high-profile step onto the international stage, a campaign-season audition of sorts for a presidential hopeful pledging a new era in diplomacy and an end to the U.S. combat role in Iraq.
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Inferior electrical work by private contractors on U.S. military bases in Iraq is more widespread than the Pentagon has acknowledged, according to a published report.
In some versions of a July 17 story about former Vice President Al Gore's energy proposals, the first name of the president of Securing America's Future Energy, a nonpartisan energy policy group, was misspelled. He is Robbie Diamond, not Robby.
The Bush administration is telling a federal appeals court that it has the authority to detain a Canadian who was captured in Afghanistan when he was 15 and is accused of killing a U.S. soldier.
The Army says it's critical to saving the lives of wounded soldiers. Animal-rights activists call the training cruel and outdated.
President Bush has been a "total failure" in everything from the economy to the war to energy policy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. In an interview on CNN, the California Democrat was asked to respond to video of the president criticizing the Democratic-led Congress for heading into the final 26 days of the legislative session without having passed a single government spending bill.
An Associated Press-Yahoo News poll found differences in how engaged various groups of voters are in the presidential campaign.
President Bush offered federal help and encouragement Thursday to some of the 25,000 firefighters working under a blazing sun to contain wildfires that make up the single largest fire event ever recorded in California.
It's OK to eat all kinds of tomatoes again, the U.S. government declared Thursday - lifting its salmonella warning on the summer favorites amid signs that the record outbreak, while not over, may finally be slowing.
Dr. David Acheson with the Food and Drug Administration says their investigation has shifted.
Dr. David Acheson with the Food and Drug Administration says peppers are not off the FDA's watch list.
Dr. David Acheson with the Food and Drug Administration says officials now consider it safe to eat domestic tomatoes.
During his tenure at the Federal Communications Commission, Jonathan Adelstein has been a fierce critic of government policies that allow big media companies to get bigger. So it came as a surprise when the Democratic commissioner put forth a proposal that would allow the nation's only two satellite radio companies to merge.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman says the German leader will welcome U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama to her office in Berlin next Thursday.
Bush surveys record-breaking Calif. wildfires
