Barack Obama assailed the Republican ticket on Friday for "stoking anger and division'' after a remarkably hot-tempered week that saw searing attacks from John McCain and Sarah Palin at rallies while their supporters shouted "terrorist" and "traitor

Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. Bad news for republicans.

Congress is looking into allegations that National Security Agency linguists have been eavesdropping on Americans abroad. The congressional oversight committees said Thursday that the Americans targeted included military officers in Iraq

Trying to head off a potentially embarrassing state ethics report on GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report Thursday that clears her of any wrongdoing.

travels to Anchorage to examine the roots of Sarah Palin's spectacular and sudden ascent from the depths of obscurity to the heat of the national spotlight.

The US has reacted angrily after a judge ordered that 17 Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay should be released into the United States.

Jurors this morning heard secretly recorded phone conversations in which Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens told a chief prosecution witness that he didn't believe they had done anything wrong but could expect a fine and possibly some jail time if convicted.

The following unedited responses to our questions provide an opportunity for you to learn more about their policies and plans on the environment.

In a lawsuit filed in Alaska Superior Court, a Republican activist seeks to force Gov. Sarah Palin to produce copies of official correspondence she sent and received on private e-mail accounts.

In the Vice Presidential debate, Sarah Palin presented herself as a "maverick," primarily because she is ignorant to the ways of Washington. Her canned responses, her constant evasions, her inability to discuss the complex problems we face