Western News Roundup

WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) -- John McCain on Sunday was briefed on Tropical Storm Fay, which scuttled a political fundraiser and is threatening to...


WASHINGTON - Jed Layton, a University of Utah student journalist, wonders what his name would look like if it appeared in a Chinese newspaper. He...


WASHINGTON - Federal elections have largely been the domain of big corporate campaign donors, of political action committees giving heavily to...


Despite hope that Barack Obama will buoy Democratic candidates in Idaho races, the party failed to field candidates in nearly 40 percent of...


BELLEVILLE, Pa. (AP) -- The folks in this picturesque mountain community with red barns and Amish buggies have been voting overwhelmingly...


ESPANOLA, N.M. (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday urged her supporters to work as hard for the election of her former rival, Democratic...


WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) -- John McCain, campaigning in Florida, has visited an emergency operations center near Orlando....


RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Democrat Barack Obama met Sunday with Texas oil baron and longtime conservative activist T. Boone Pickens to discuss...


TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Right guy, wrong time....


Democrats appear all but certain to expand their 51-49 Senate majority this year. Republicans are defending 23 Senate seats, including five left open...


WASHINGTON (AP) -- Even the top Republican in charge of the party's Senate campaigns concedes that the GOP will lose seats this year - the only...


Thank you, Zeke, for telling it like it is. I heard the Republicans are willing to concede the election to the Democrats so they won't have to clean...


Coloradans who were granted credentials to hear Barack Obama speak on closing night of the Democratic National Convention started picking up their...


ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- An old lawsuit on record at the city courthouse reveals a moment of friction between John McCain's mother and his...


LAS CRUCES — The inaugural Domenici Policy Conference — an event meant to commemorate Pete Domenici's career in the U.S. Senate —...


LAS CRUCES — It was an 8 percentage-point margin that first vaulted Republican Pete V. Domenici into the ranks of the U.S. Senate in 1972.


NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- When Republican John McCain suggested his running mate could support abortion rights and Democrat Barack Obama gave...


ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- An old lawsuit on record at the city courthouse reveals a moment of friction between John McCain's mother and his...


ALBUQUERQUE (AP) -- Attorney General Gary King urged New Mexico's congressional delegation to take a leading role to remedy the loss of land...


WASHINGTON (AP) -- Even the top Republican in charge of the party's Senate campaigns concedes that the GOP will lose seats this year - the only...