McCain gains on Obama among voters in 4 key states, polls show
25 Jul 2008 7:00am GMT The Republican leads in Colorado, is close in Minnesota and narrowing the gap in Michigan and Wisconsin, the surveys say. The Democrat's 'post-primary bubble . . . is leaking a bit.' Republican presidential candidate John McCain is tightening the presidential race against Democratic rival Barack Obama in four key states, according to polls released this morning.
The veep question
25 Jul 2008 7:00am GMT Democrats:
After Hurricane Dolly, watching the water rise
25 Jul 2008 7:00am GMT Levees held, but many areas in southern Texas were still soaked by the Category 2 storm. Fifteen counties are declared disaster areas. After a night of anxious pacing, when it seemed like Hurricane Dolly had decided to park and pelt them with rain, the Guevara family went to bed thinking the worst was over.
In Berlin, Obama speaks to more than 200,000
25 Jul 2008 7:00am GMT His rhetoric is sweeping. McCain's campaign calls the event presumptuous. He has drawn record-breaking crowds to rallies all over the United States. But it took a trip to Germany for Barack Obama to attract his biggest audience of all: More than 200,000 people packed into a central Berlin park on Thursday to hear Obama call for closer ties between Europe and America.
New torture memo from 2002 is disclosed
25 Jul 2008 7:00am GMT Interrogators would be on safe ground if they had an 'honest belief' that suspects would suffer no 'prolonged mental harm,' the Justice Department told the CIA. The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture laws if they believed "in good faith" that harsh techniques used to break prisoners' will would not cause "prolonged...