Frank James

(Updated at 2:28 p.m. EDT and combined with some material from previous posts.) by John McCormick and Naftali Bendavid DENVER – Democrat John Edwards formally dropped from the Democratic nomination...

by Frank James A quick guided tour of some of the morning's most important, most interesting, or both, Washington-related stories. Sen. John McCain narrowly won the Florida Republican primary, the...

by Frank James The Associated Press is reporting that John Edwards is dropping his White House bid. It's hard to know what the impact will be. Some of Edwards's support...

by Frank James and Jason George So what does it mean that Sen. Hillary Clinton "won" the Democratic Primary in Florida? Not much, since none of the Democratic presidential candidates...

(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) by Frank James Sen. Barack Obama was asked today on his campaign plane about what appeared to many witnesses at last night's State of the Union...

by Frank James If you were a Republican watching President Bush's State of the Union speech last night, there's a good chance the feelings in you that Bush evoked could...

(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Updated on 1/29/2008 at 10:20 am with MSNBC material. by Frank James So President Bush has delivered his last State of the Union. And what...

by Frank James President Bush's final State of the Union speech is scheduled to start in less than an hour. Your devoted Swamp reporter is in the House Press Gallery...

Then First Lady Rosalynn Carter next to serial killer John Wayne Gacy in May 1978. Tribune file photo. by Frank James The photo that emerged last week of President Bill...

by Frank James Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize laureate who dubbed former President Bill Clinton the nation's "first black president" because of his affinity for African-Americans and theirs for him,...