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by Mark Silva DENVER -- As the Democratic Party prepares to unleash its presidential nominating convention here, the University of Illinois at Chicago said today that it will release records of Sen. Barack Obama's service to a nonprofit organization...

In response to Obama's nomination, McCain's campaign blasts out an item from its official blogger, Michael Goldfarb, reminding everyone that 40 years ago, Bill Ayers, the Chicago professor and ex-Weatherman radical who was a state Senate constituent,...

by Mark Silva It didn't take Sarah Palin long to pivot from the charming "you-betcha'' sort of "hockey mom'' whom Americans welcomed to the contest to a threatening "gotcha'' sort of rough-housing "pit-bull'' apparently willing to say anything to get........

As promised, it begins. In the wake of McCain's promise of a more aggressive campaign and a toothless NYTimes story on Obama and ex-Weatherman Bill Ayers, Sarah Palin tries to draw some blood. After all, why waste time talking about......

The McCain campaign has long complained (and the Hillary campaign before it) that the press was giving Obama a free ride on various things, especially his association with ex-Weatherman radical Bill Ayers. Today, they get some results: The NYTimes......

With the GOP gearing up an attack on Obama over his associations with Tony Rezko and ex-Weatherman William Ayers and Sarah Palin accusing him of consorting with terrorists and not seeing America the way she does, Dems wonder if......

by Mark Silva Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin may be moving on: From William Ayers, the Chicago college professor and onetime Sixties radical who has worked alongside Barack Obama in modern-day civic affairs, to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright,...

by Mark Silva Sarah Palin, waging the Republican Party's presidential campaign in a state that she and John McCain count on for victory, kept up an assault today on Democratic rival Barack Obama's association with William Ayers, a Chicago education......

by Mark Jacob Q. Why did Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin accuse Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists"? A. She was referring to Obama's association with 1960s radical Bill Ayers, now an education professor at the University of.....

by Mark Silva "Terrorist'' versus corrupt banker: In the game of guilt by association and mutual assured destruction that the two leading candidates for president appear poised to play, both campaigns are reaching back into the past to find someone......

Sarah Palin's claim yesterday that Obama is "palling around with terrorists" and doesn't "see America like you and I see America" gets unfavorable reviews from the factcheckers. AP finds "no evidence" that he's ever "palled around" with a terrorist, that....

One of only a few documented encounters Obama had with ex-radical Bill Ayers was in 1995, when he hosted a dinner at which Hyde Park's outgoing state senator introduced Obama as her chosen successor. Today, on CNN, Obama's chief strategist......