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One week after Sen. Hillary Clinton made a public show of unity with Sen. Barack Obama, a new survey suggests supporters of the New York senator are increasingly less likely to follow her lead.

About half a million people are expected Friday on the National Mall in Washington for the nation's birthday celebration, but they may be shocked at what they see.

President Bush traveled to the home of Thomas Jefferson Friday to help swear in new U.S. citizens as part of Independence Day celebrations.

Sen. John McCain's campaign again called Sen. Barack Obama a flip-flopper after the Democratic candidate held a do-over news conference to clarify his remarks on the Iraq war.

Former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, a North Carolina Republican who became an icon to conservatives, died Friday at the age of 86, a senior congressional source told CNN.

When Barack Obama comes to London, I am certain that 50,000 people will turn out to cheer him on,'' a British executive assured me when I visited the British capital recently.

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Barack Obama called a second news conference in a single day in North Dakota Thursday to reiterate that he is not changing his position on withdrawing all combat troops from Iraq.

The State Department inspector general Thursday blasted the security of U.S. passport files, saying the repeated access of over 100 celebrities' files had gone undetected and unpunished.

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President Bush will attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing on August 8, the White House announced Thursday.

Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday the country has "often fallen short" of caring for war veterans during the Bush administration.

A recent swearing-in ceremony for new citizens in Miami Beach, Florida, was more than a cause for celebration.

The White House said Thursday that neither it nor the State Department gave Sen. John McCain advance word of a rescue mission in Colombia while he was in the country.

Less than two years after reports of decrepit conditions at the nation's most prominent military hospital, a groundbreaking ceremony will be held Thursday for the new Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Sen. John McCain's campaign was on the verge of making big mistakes before it announced a major power shift, Republican strategist Ed Rollins said.

There was no way you could miss the point -- they wouldn't let you. Last week Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama held their first joint campaign rally, in a town called Unity, in a field outside the Unity Elementary School.

Sen. John McCain's campaign announced a shake-up at the top Wednesday, in the wake of growing Republican concern about its ability to compete against Sen. Barack Obama.

President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged that June was a difficult month for American and allied troops in Afghanistan, saying the higher death toll was because troops are taking the fight to Taliban militants.