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He never named Palin in the debate, but he mentioned Gen. Petraeus seven times.

OMAHA, Oct. 5 -- With a month to go before Election Day, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, touched down here Sunday for an unexpected rally in a state that President Bush won by 22 percentage points in 2004.

A bipartisan rebellion in the House killed a $700 billion rescue plan for the nation's financial system yesterday, sending global stock prices plunging, prompting fierce recriminations on the presidential campaign trail and dealing President Bush his worst legislative defeat.

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 29 -- Reacting to the House's defeat of a $700 billion economic rescue proposal Monday, Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain called on Congress to pass a new bill and then sought to blame each other for the deadlock on Capitol Hill.

The first debate between John McCain and Barack Obama, scheduled for tonight, remained in limbo last night after the presidential candidates left a White House meeting without a deal on a $700 billion economic rescue plan.

As the scale of the government's intervention transforms the nation's fiscal landscape, neither presidential candidate seemed ready yesterday to readjust his campaign promises to match a changing reality that could push the federal budget deficit next year toward $1 trillion.

On Tuesday night, as the federal government was seizing control of insurance giant AIG, Sen. Barack Obama was speeding toward a Hollywood fundraiser. The Democratic presidential nominee had 20 minutes before he arrived, he told his economic policy coordinator, and he wanted to spend it receiving...

The Long Beach plant where Boeing workers not so long ago built their last 717 passenger plane is in escrow and will become “the largest independent [film] production facility in the world.” That’s according to the company buying the property, Long Beach Studios, LLC, and also today’s Press-Telegram,

WASHINGTON — The rumble you hear is the laugh in Al Gore’s ample belly. In Florida this morning, John McCain’s top policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, credited McCain with helping create the BlackBerry.

At least, that’s what people who know him might call the man who wants to unseat Laura Richardson They really do call him Mr. Dibs–at least, his students do, and somewhere more than 1,000 of his potential constituents.