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Soon after accepting the post of CIA director two years ago, Michael V. Hayden set an unusual goal for his scandal-beset agency: virtual invisibility.

LITTLE ROCK -- After less than an hour visiting a housing assistance agency, President Bush and his motorcade sped to a private home here last Tuesday to make a quick appearance -- and deliver a whole lot of money -- for the Republican Party.

BUTTE, Mont., July 4 -- With Sen. John mccain taking the holiday off, Sen. Barack obama wrapped up a week-long swing through Republican America swathed in the pageantry of a Fourth of July parade and family picnic, trying to mesh his theme of activist change with an emphasis on family and...

Jesse Helms, the North Carolina Republican senator whose uncompromising conservatism made him one of America's leading crusaders against communism, liberalism, tax increases, abortion, homosexuality, affirmative action and court-ordered busing to integrate schools, died yesterday at Mayview...

An anarchist group claims it has plans that will help it create chaos at the convention.

Whether it's parties or limos, stuffed toy elephants or hors d'oeuvres, some entrepreneurs are cashing in. But will all the profits pay off the costs?

AP - Is Barack obama close to being shadowed by giant flip-flops and, worse, having the image stick with people all the way to the voting booth?

Democrat Barack obama's appeal to  centrist voters has further opened the door to Republican claims his message of change only applies to the positions he has taken in the past.

It was a family Fourth of July for Democrat Barack obama as his wife, daughters, sister and other relatives helped him make an Independence Day play for this reliably conservative state.

"Compromise, hell!" Jesse Helms screamed in a 1959 editorial that captured what would become the legacy of his Senate career and his place in the conservative movement.