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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 unanimous vote made Senator Barack Obama the first African-American to become a major party nominee for president.

At least five veterans of the March on Washington in 1963 traveled to Denver this week as Democratic delegates.

Even before he entered public life, Barack Obama began honing his political, mental and emotional skills.

Barack Obama’s speech — and in a way his whole candidacy — might not have been possible had President Lyndon Johnson’s address to Congress in 1965 not been given.

Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. accepted the nomination for vice president with criticism of Senator John McCain.

The Justice Department recommended a reduction in jail time for the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who became a crucial witness against lawmakers and Congressional aides.

Senator John McCain is expected to reveal his choice for vice president at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, at 11 a.m. Friday.

The Democratic National Convention is relying heavily on new media to pass on information about Barack Obama to friends inside the hall and out.

As they prepare for a nomination address in an outdoor football stadium, aides to Barack Obama are feeling pressure to bring a lofty candidacy to ground level.

John F. Kennedy’s 1960 speech is widely regarded as having reassured voters who were wary because he was a young Catholic and hardly a legislative lion in the Senate.

The coverage of sea ice in the Arctic could break the record low from last September, scientists said.

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

Biologists at Harvard have converted cells from a mouse’s pancreas into the insulin-producing cells that are destroyed in diabetes.

A longtime sex offender was sentenced to death for the 2005 kidnapping, torture and murder of a 9-year-old Idaho boy after federal jurors deliberated just three hours.

A second supervisor arrested after a big immigration raid at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville has pleaded guilty to immigration charges.

In response to a federal court ruling, child welfare workers must now obtain court orders in most cases before removing children from their homes after accusations of abuse, officials said.

The agreement settles a lawsuit that alleged discrimination in a school district’s method of electing board members.

The rap mogul Marion Knight, who is known as Suge, was jailed after he was accused of beating his girlfriend while brandishing a knife.

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