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WATERTOWN, S.D., May 16 -- Sen. Barack Obama pushed back Friday against President Bush's implicit criticism of his approach to foreign policy, condemning his administration for not capturing Osama bin Laden and blaming its Iraq war policy for strengthening and emboldening Iran.

A controversial Bush administration nominee to the Federal election Commission withdrew from consideration yesterday, providing a likely breakthrough to an impasse that has sidelined the political watchdog agency at the height of the primary season.

LOUISVILLE, May 16 -- Sen. John McCain, once derided as one of the "premier flag-carriers for the enemies of the Second Amendment" by the National Rifle Association, enthusiastically embraced the group's pro-gun agenda at its annual convention here Friday.

Mike Huckabee, interrupted by a loud crash as he spoke to the National Rifle Association, joked that the noise was Barack Obama falling off a chair as he dodged a gun aimed at him.

US Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama's comments come one day after president compared those who would negotiate with terrorists and radicals to appeasers of Nazi Germany before World War II

Sen. John McCain, once derided as one of the "premier flag-carriers for the enemies of the Second Amendment" by the National Rifle Association, enthusiastically embraced the group's pro-gun agenda at its annual convention here Friday.

President Bush's contentious nominee for the Federal election Commission removed his name from consideration Friday, potentially ending a lengthy stalemate that had paralyzed the work of the agency.

After expelling four advisers in the last week over concerns about their outside entanglements, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Friday that his presidential campaign was beginning a new "vetting process" intended to end the embarrassments over staff ties to private interests, foreign governments or independent political groups.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Philipina Heintzman, 81, drove 80 miles across the South Dakota prairie to experience history in the making: a woman running for president, something she never dreamed as a child that she would live to see....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- As head of the deep-pocketed Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, New York Sen. Charles Schumer hand-picked his party's nominee to take on Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith, the last Republican standing on the West Coast....