Weather Underground

By Jim Tankersley and Andrew Zajac News analysis It wasn't technically an October surprise -- because it should not have been, by any definition, a surprise to the GOP presidential ticket -- but an Alaska investigator's declaration that Gov. Sarah......

A slight explosion on the presidential front. Obama, in an e-mail to supporters, includes a YouTube from campaign manager David Plouffe that accuses McCain of running a "sleaze factory." That's below. McCain campaign response (after the jump) says Obama...

by John McCormick HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - As they are seated in close proximity to each other in what is their final debate, will John McCain bring up Barack Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers at tonight's debate? A top Obama adviser......

by Mark Silva ORLANDO - For a guy portrayed on national television as a "washed up terrorist'' - with some 38 percent of all households in the nation's biggest markets watching last night - William Ayers has been remarkably silent.......

by Mark Silva TAMPA -- John McCain's campaign has played education professor and retired war-protest-bomber Bill Ayers against Barack Obama on the ground, at campaign rallies, on the air, in TV ads, and now on the phone - as part......

by John McCormick, updated Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has won the backing of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a much anticipated endorsement from a Republican with impressive foreign policy credentials. The endorsement came during...

by Frank James The McCain campaign is sending out direct mail in Virginia with images of Sen. Barack Obama and none other than William Ayers, the most famous former radical in America thanks to the Republican message machine. CQ has......

by Mark Silva Willliam Ayers, the Chicago education professor and former leader of the 1960s Weather Underground, has been villified in the presidential campaign underway as a "washed up terrorist'' - with Democrat Barack Obama, who has served on civic......

by Mark Silva After months of self-imposed silence, the "washed up terrorist'' of the 2008 presidential campaign - John McCain's name for Chicago's Bill Ayers - has spoken out. He did so with our friend, Peter Slevin, Chicago-based correspondent for......

Here's a brief and intriguing program note: "GMA" will interview Williams Ayres on tomorrow's show. Ayres? You know - the former Weatherman who became a reasonably visible part of the McCain campaign in the waning days, as it attempted......

by Frank James Bill Ayers, the former 1960s militant who was used to attack President-elect Barack Obama during the campaign, pushed back hard today against the notion that it was legitimate to question Obama's character on the basis that......

by Clarence Page Yes, that's Barack Obama's neighbor, the former Weather Underground bomb thrower Bill Ayers, captured above by my cell phone camera as he spoke to an almost- full sanctuary in a Washington DC church - with very......