A judge ordered a one- to two-day halt to jury deliberations in Sen. Ted Stevens’ corruption trial Friday, the latest setback in a gripping case and one that could delay a verdict until after Election Day.

Republican John McCain on Wednesday implored New Hampshire voters “to come out one more time” on his behalf, as the two-time primary winner tried to stave off a general election loss with sharp criticism of Barack Obama’s tax and spending plans.

Democrat Barack Obama is bouncing from one patch of Republican turf to another this week.

The FBI is investigating whether the community activist group ACORN helped foster voter registration fraud around the nation before the presidential election.

Fresh off their energetic debate, Republican John McCain looks to hold onto traditionally GOP states while Democrat Barack Obama edges into that turf and pours money into TV ads less than three weeks before Election Day.

Sworn to secrecy, Alaska lawmakers have begun reviewing a lengthy and politically sensitive investigative report focusing on whether Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her authority as governor

The National Rifle Association is endorsing Republican presidential nominee John McCain despite differences with the Arizona senator on gun-show rules and campaign finance restrictions.

The son of a Democratic Tennessee state lawmaker charged with hacking the e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has pleaded not guilty.

The Federal Reserve and six other major central banks from around the world slashed interest rates Wednesday in an attempt to prevent a mushrooming financial crisis from becoming a global economic meltdown.

John McCain dismissively called rival Barack Obama “that one,“ Obama mocked McCain’s “Straight Talk Express,“ and both left the debate stage to return to the campaign trail Wednesday.

As stocks plummeted for the second straight day Tuesday despite a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry, several Charlottesville-area congressional candidates said much more must be done to bolster the struggling economy.

The winner of Tuesday night’s presidential debate is the candidate who can best use his performance to boost his standing with voters. For Republican John McCain, that means slowing if not reversing Democrat Barack Obama’s edge in national and swing-state polls.

Republican presidential nominee John McCain and his vice-presidential running mate, Sarah Palin, will appear in Virginia Beach next Monday morning at the resort city’s convention center.

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin expanded her attack on Democrat Barack Obama’s character Monday to include his relationship with an incendiary former pastor as well as his ties to 1960s-era radical Bill Ayers.

Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin on Friday played up her debate performance as polls showed voters judging her Democratic rival, Joe Biden, to be the winner of the only vice presidential face-off of the campaign.

Celebrity backers of Barack Obama will make a final push to register new voters this weekend in Virginia, where polls show the Democrat and Republican John McCain locked in a tight race for president.

With the economy on the brink and elections looming, Congress approved an unprecedented $700 billion government bailout of the battered financial industry on Friday and sent it to President Bush for his certain signature.

An unprecedented government bailout of the financial industry gained ground in the House Friday after a week of tumult on Wall Street and in Washington. Leaders in both political parties expressed optimism that the $700 billion measure would clear Congress by day’s end.

“We are principled in the fact that we believe we ought to stick to American principles, we ought to protect the taxpayer, we need to make sure that private money, private equity can get involved and have Wall Street bail out Wall Street, not on the backs of the taxpayers,“ Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga. said on NBC’s “Today” show.

“The legislation may have failed; the crisis is still with us,“ said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in a news conference after the defeat.
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Virginia House members remain split this morning on a $700 billion bailout measure amid three hours of debate on the bill before a vote this afternoon.

With less than 10 hours until the debate was scheduled to start, the McCain campaign announced that the Arizona senator would travel to the University of Mississippi.

John McCain’s campaign expressed cautious optimism Thursday as congressional Republicans and Democrats agreed in principle on a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry hours before the two presidential candidates were to meet with President Bush on the crisis.

Without government covering corporations’ lost assets, economists fear the economy will collapse

Palin is studying foreign policy ahead of her one debate with Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, a senator with deep credentials on that front. More broadly, the Republican ticket is trying to counter questions exploited by Democrats about her qualifications to serve as vice president and step into the presidency at a moment’s notice if necessary.

Scrambling for a quick accord on the $700 billion bailout, the Bush administration and leading lawmakers have agreed to include mortgage aid and strong congressional oversight along with unprecedented help for failing financial institutions, a key lawmaker said Monday.

Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley won’t face state or federal criminal charges for allegedly sending salacious computer messages to underage male interns, in part because authorities couldn’t prove the authenticity of the chats, officials said Friday

This time, there are no hanging chads.

Looking to capitalize on a suddenly close Minnesota race and reassure voters anxious about economic jitters, Republican presidential hopeful John McCain told a massive crowd Friday that his administration wouldn’t be afraid to ruffle feathers in Washington or on Wall Street.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Friday that “ending the cowboy mentality of the Bush-McCain era” is part of the solution to the country’s financial crisis.