Reuters political reporter Jon Decker had finished an interview with MSNBC around 10:30 a.m. when he saw Barney and his handler. After getting permission to pet the dog, Decker said Barney snapped and chomped down on his right index finger
ABC News: The sharp-tongued, sharp-elbowed, keenly intelligent veteran of the Clinton White House is said to have ambitions to some day be Speaker of the House. But he also has a keen sense of “duty.”
WBBM: Chicago is no stranger to the foreign press, but those journalists are here in almost unprecedented numbers right now to cover Barack Obama’s historic run for the White House, and what is likely to be an amazing scene Tuesday
AP: Democrat Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain battled for the White House in an election that challenged attitudes about race as surely as it gauged sentiments about the battered economy and the war in Iraq.
Fox News: The civil rights activist reportedly said that “Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades” would lose some of their influence with Obama in the White House, and that “decades of putting Israel’s interests first” would come to
AP: John McCain accused Barack Obama of compiling “the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate” Friday night in an intense first debate of their close campaign for the White House. The Democrat shot back, “Mostly that’s just
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AP: President Bush brought the two men fighting to succeed him to a historic White House huddle on how to sell a deal to lawmakers who were still resisting.
AP: Democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week, conceding defeat in a months-long battle with the White House and Republicans set off by $4 a
Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll, conducted in conjunction with Stanford University.
AP: President Bush has marked seven years since the 9/11 attacks with a moment of silence on the South Lawn of the White House. It’s something he’s done every year since the attacks.
Washington Post: David Gregory, the NBC newsman and White House correspondent who also hosts a program on MSNBC, will take over during such events as this fall’s presidential and vice presidential debates and election night.
MSNBC: Gov. Sarah Palin has a strong anti-abortion record, and her selection was praised warmly by social conservatives whose support McCain needs to prevail in the campaign for the White House.
Director Rory Kennedy talks with Harry Smith about her new film, “Thank You, Mr. President” the story of veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas. See it Monday, Aug. 18 at 9 P.M. on HBO.
A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein.
AP: White House hopeful Barack Obama said in Paris on Friday that Iran should not wait for the new US president to be elected to resolve its dispute with the West over its nuclear programme.
AP: “It doesn’t get better than this. Country music in the Rose Garden celebrating baseball.”
AP: Barack Obama and Bill Clinton ended their silence Monday, with the Democratic presidential candidate reaching out and asking the former president to help him win the White House.
Terry McAuliffe appears to look ahead to the next Clinton presidential campaign.
Fox News: A Democratic congressman who was accused of suggesting that Al Qaeda may want to harm a prominent White House official told FOX News he meant “no ill” by the comment. Massachusetts Rep. Bill Delahunt made the remark Thursday
USA Today: Sen. Joe Lieberman, the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee who now represents Connecticut as an Independent, says he was among those who encouraged Democratic Sen. Barack Obama to run for the White House.
AP: White House contender Barack Obama Sunday demanded fathers, especially black men, shoulder their responsibility to heal broken families and restore hope in crime-ridden communities.
