Mike Dorning

by Michael Finnegan MANCHESTER, N.H. — An Iowa straw poll that traditionally has served as an early benchmark in the Republican presidential nomination race lost much of its luster today,...

by Mike Dorning There's a lot of interest in Sen. Barack Obama's speech yesterday about a "quite riot" of despair among poor blacks. Here's my story about it in today's...

Sen. Barack Obama's announcement Wednesday that he has raised nearly as much money as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton this year, bringing in $25 million for his presidential bid from a...

Two of the Democratic Party's leading presidential candidates came to an emotionally evocative touchstone of the civil rights movement Sunday seeking to strengthen their bonds with African-American voters and tie...

House Speaker Dennis Hastert testified Tuesday before an ethics subcommittee investigating conflicting accounts of his handling of complaints about a Republican congressman's suggestive messages to underage male congressional pages. The...

Last week's disclosure that U.S. Rep. Danny Davis visited Sri Lanka in 2005 turned a local spotlight on the island nation's recent history of violence and raised questions about why...

Two Illinois cities were among four sites chosen Tuesday as finalists for a $1 billion federal initiative to build the world's first virtually pollution-free coal-fired electric power plant. The cities...