By Marie-Louise Gumuchian MILAN (Reuters) - An empty plastic bag in hand, Italian shop assistant Stefano G. stands in line with hundreds of others waiting to collect handouts of basic foods he says he can no longer afford. For the last seven...

Barack Obama's message of unity and diplomacy is an appealing one for many Muslim-Americans. But his conspicuous absence from Muslim and Arab-American neighborhoods and mosques this campaign season has some voters feeling slighted.

Since NASA astronauts will need power sources upon their return to the moon to establish a lunar outpost, engineers have explored the possibility of nuclear fission as a power source for the planed lunar colony.

The McCain campaign, in a continuing effort to link Barack Obama to domestic terrorism, released a statement Wednesday from a New York supporter, recounting how his family home was firebombed by the radical 1960s group founded by Obama supporter

Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin told Florida's voters on Monday to expect "rough" campaigning as she seeks to halt a slide in opinion polls in a state that could make or break Sen. John McCain's White House bid.

Republicans are questioning the legitimacy of some of the Obama campaign small contributions and donations from overseas. The Republican National Committee plans to file a complaint on Monday against Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign raising

Today on CBS ’s Face the Nation, Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM) defended Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-AK) new comments that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is “someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country.â

The biggest question is how many will perish and how they will be put out of their misery—in outright closures by regulators scrambling to preserve the dwindling deposit insurance fund or in fire sales made under government pressure.

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I'm sure you've seen a few Campaign 2008 T-shirts and buttons beginning to appear in your neighborhood, school or workplace. Listen, this is a democracy and we're allowed to make spectacles of ourselves. It's...