presidential hopeful Barack Obama Thursday defended his controversial former pastor as a community leader, ABC News reported. The Illinois senator told the network that the ministry of the ...

Bill Richardson, the nation's only Hispanic governor, backed Barack Obama for president Friday. The New Mexico governor joined Obama at a rally Friday and said the Illinois senator demonstrated his leadership abilities this week with his ...

Senator Obama will fight for better wages, real health care reform, stronger retirement security, fair trade and an end to the outsourcing of good jobs ... Senator Obama will stand with the Teamsters when it comes to fighting for working families, ...

Rival Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama came within a foot of each other just before President Bush's State of the Union speech Monday night and managed not to acknowledge each other, and certainly not touch ... The rivals then ...

"My attitude is Senator Clinton can run as long as she wants," Mr Obama said. Obama told reporters he did not agree with one of his supporters, Senator Patrick Leahy, when he said earlier this week that Mrs Clinton cannot win the nomination ...

Barack Obama's campaign says it won't declare victory in the Democratic presidential nomination race, a shift from an adviser's earlier remarks ... Aides to the Illinois senator have been trying to erase the idea that he would declare victory, ...

But the New York senator also risks losing support among party leaders over her campaign's sharp attacks against the junior senator from Illinois ... Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1984 and a Clinton backer, had told a ...

presidential hopeful Barack Obama and Hollywood actor Brad Pitt are ninth cousins, researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society said ... com said the group also found that Obama's political rival, Hillary Clinton, is related to Pitt's ...

I will be speaking on Saturday about how together we can rally the party behind Senator Obama, she said in an e-mail sent Thursday. The stakes are too high and the task before us too important to do ...

Leahy, a superdelegate and supporter of Barack Obama, acted the same day that Democratic Chairman Howard Dean urged superdelegates to announce their presidential choices by July 1, The Los Angeles Times reported ... She ought to withdraw, and she ...

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An official close to the senator said the announcement will be made during an Obama campaign rally at American University, where he will be joined by Kennedy and his niece, Caroline Kennedy, who also has endorsed Obama ... Kennedy's endorsement of ...

Democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are competing Sunday in party caucuses in Maine ... Obama, a senator from Illinois, swept races in Nebraska, Louisiana, Washington state and Virgin Islands ...

Barack Obama, the likely Democratic U ... The Illinois senator asked former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson to begin screening potential vice presidential picks, Democratic officials ...

These comments do not reflect my feelings about Senator Clinton, whose leadership and public service I have long admired, Powers said in a statement released by Obama's campaign ... Powers said she apologized to both Clinton and Obama, who ...