WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Hopes for last-minute ads disparaging his Democratic rival have dimmed for Republican John McCain partly because of the U.S. financial crisis, strategists say.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Overall spending in the 2008 U.S. election by independent groups, such 2004's Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, is down dramatically, political observers say.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. teen singing idol Joe Jonas and country music star Taylor Swift are no longer dating, a source told Usmagazine.com.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- As the Republican and Democratic vice presidential nominees prepared for their debate. independent political groups unleashed a slew of attack ads.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. presidential candidate John McCain demanded an apology from Barack Obama, saying his rival's comment about putting lipstick on a pig is a sexist slur.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate an ad campaign against him, Politico reported.
CHICAGO, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Documents in a library at the University of Illinois may shed light on Barack Obama's ties to an education project founded by former Weatherman Bill Ayers.
WASHINGTON, July 1 (UPI) -- GOP Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign accepted nearly $70,000 from donors of a group whose tactics he condemned four years ago, an analysis shows.
WASHINGTON, June 29 (UPI) -- Vietnam veterans who served on Swift boats say a vessel they associate with honor has taken on a new meaning in politics, and they want that changed.
WASHINGTON, June 27 (UPI) -- Veterans say billionaire T. Boone Pickens backed off on a $1 million bet against claims disparaging 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry's military service.
WASHINGTON, June 23 (UPI) -- The publisher of a best-selling 2004 attack on U.S. Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam service record is readying a similarly negative book on Sen. Barack Obama.
WASHINGTON, June 22 (UPI) -- The battle between U.S. Sen. John Kerry and the Texas oilman who financed political attacks against him in 2004 has been rejoined, Kerry's supporters say.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- The Swift Boat Veterans and the MoveOn.org Voter Fund have settled with the Federal Election Commission for political activities during the 2004 U.S. elections.
TRENTON, N.J., Oct. 31 (UPI) -- A commercial in which a Tony Soprano-style mobster calls U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey his "boy" has angered Italian-American groups.
LITTLE CREEK, Va., July 10 (UPI) -- The United States has employed a group of Vietnam War veterans as informal advisers for the Navy's new Swift boat program in Iraq.
