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Senator Barack Obama, who became the first African-American to win a major-party nomination, won a robust endorsement from the man whose wife he had defeated.

An appeals committee at Purdue University has upheld findings of misconduct by Rusi P. Taleyarkhan.

Senator Ted Stevens’s victory came weeks after he was indicted for concealing gifts from an oil services company.

Amid the hoopla for the first female also-ran, Democrats are soft-pedaling Senator Barack Obama’s breakthrough.

Governments are overcoming their wariness of private funds as they struggle to finance public improvements.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton made a soaring appeal to support Senator Barack Obama.

Three U.S. soldiers are expected to be charged for murder in connection with the killing of four Iraqi prisoners.

Barack Obama’s evolution as a politician can be seen as a narrative centered on his party’s conventions.

The Michigan governor said she would hold proceedings next week that could result in the removal of Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick of Detroit, who is accused of perjury, misconduct and assaulting police officers.

The trouble was a failure of a processing system that handles flight plans filed by airlines before their aircraft take off.

Dr. Weller was a tropical-medicine specialist whose tissue-culture research in 1949 made development of the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines possible.

The number of Americans without health insurance dropped by more than a million, to 45.7 million.

The drama of the convention makes it harder for Barack Obama to connect with the economic anxiety of voters.

Senator Obama’s campaign is waging a forceful campaign against a new conservative group running ads linking him to the 1960s radical William Ayers Jr.

A lawyer and former Army officer won a tight Republican primary in Florida and will now face the Democrat who took office when Representative Mark Foley resigned two years ago.

Sixteen years after his father opposed Bill Clinton’s candidacy, Senator Bob Casey Jr. of Pennsylvania said Barack Obama could bring together supporters and opponents of abortion rights.

Who would draw more contempt if he showed up at the Democratic National Convention this week, Joseph I. Lieberman or John Edwards?

An apparently half-baked plot to assassinate Barack Obama has highlighted the question of exactly what and whom to fear.

With some top Clinton fund-raisers still unwilling to work for Senator Barack Obama, the campaign is having trouble keeping up with its ambitious goals.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s aides described a harrowing period in which it appeared that he would not be able to give the convention speech.