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Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign announced Sunday that it raised $66 million in August, marking another record fundraising month for the Democrat. The August total tops the $55 million Obama raised last February.

He reached the $66 million mark with help from more than a half million new donors.

Obama's total for August was almost $20 million more than the $47 million Republican rival John McCain raised last month.

Obama's campaign said that with the latest figures he had more than $77 million cash on hand.

The question of whether Sarah Palin has ever been to Iraq pushed Obama aides Saturday to accuse the McCain campaign of outright lies, distortions and distractions to the American people.

Since Republican presidential nominee John McCain tapped the Alaska governor to be his running mate on Aug. 29, questions about her experience have been fueled by her relatively brief tenure in office, as well as a dearth of foreign travel.

Palin made a well-documented trip to Kuwait and Germany last year to visit U.S. troops, and over time, the governor and her staff have revealed she also visited Canada and Mexico. Meanwhile, her aides clarified that a purported visit to Ireland was little more than a refueling stop during her trip to the Middle East.

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who came to the friendly turf of her home state for her first campaign venture without John McCain, told supporters at a farewell rally Saturday that she'd return at the end of the campaign.

'We've got a little travel coming the next 52 days,' Palin, Alaska's governor, told a cheering crowd of more than 2,000 gathered at the city convention center. 'But I'll be home in November and I'd really like to bring my friend,' she said, referring to McCain, the Republican presidential candidate.

Democrats sought on Saturday to drum up support for compromise legislation on offshore drilling, challenging Republicans to break from Bush administration policies that neglect development of alternative energy ...

Democrats sought on Saturday to drum up support for compromise legislation on offshore drilling, challenging Republicans to break from Bush administration policies that neglect development of alternative energy ...

Democrats sought on Saturday to drum up support for compromise legislation on offshore drilling, challenging Republicans to break from Bush administration policies that neglect development of alternative energy ...

Tina Fey is 'likely' to play Gov. Sarah Palin on 'Saturday Night Live,' said a person close to NBC's sketch comedy show.

Fey is 'likely' to return to her former show Saturday to play the Alaskan governor and Sen. John McCain's running mate, a person close to the show told The Associated Press on Friday night. The person requested anonymity because the decision has not been announced officially. No further details were available.

Since Palin's entry onto the national political stage, speculation has been rampant over who might play Palin on the program. Many have commented that Fey resembles her.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden's son Hunter has stopped working as a federal lobbyist, work that had made him a Republican target in the presidential contest.

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said Friday she thinks Barack Obama regrets not making Hillary Rodham Clinton his running mate.

Palin praised Clinton's 'determination, and grit and even grace' during the Democratic primaries, sounding an altogether different note than when she suggested earlier this year that the New York senator was whining about negative press coverage and campaigning in a way that was not advancing the cause of women in politics.

'I think he's regretting not picking her now,' Palin told ABC News.

Republican John McCain has taken a slim lead over Barack Obama, according to an Associated Press-Gfk poll.

John McCain has taken a modest lead over Barack Obama entering the final seven weeks of their presidential contest, buoyed by decisive advantages among suburban and working-class whites and a huge edge in how ...

John McCain is mocked as an out-of-touch, out-of-date computer illiterate in a television commercial out Friday from Barack Obama as the Democrat begins his sharpest barrage yet on McCain's long Washington ...

The U.S. trade gap has hit a 16-month high, the job market is shrinking and exports, a rare item in the economy's plus column lately, may slow.

Sarah Palin proposed NATO membership for Georgia and Ukraine, at risk of putting the U.S. in conflict with Russia, and declared her readiness for high office Thursday as she took a cautious step out of the ...

Sarah Palin says she didn't blink when John McCain asked her to be his running mate. In an interview Thursday with ABC News' Charlie Gibson, the 44-year-old Palin was asked if she felt ready to step in as vice president _ or perhaps even president if something happened to the 72-year-old McCain.

Palin says she has confidence in her readiness: 'You can't blink. You have to be wired in a way of being so committed to the mission, the mission that we're on. ... So I didn't blink then, even when asked to run as his running mate.'

Recalling the nation's unity in a time of peril seven years ago, presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama placed their partisan contest on hold Thursday and spoke as one in honoring of the victims ...

On the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama called on Americans to renew "that spirit of service and that sense of common purpose" that followed the ...

IN THE HEADLINES

Palin welcomed to Alaska after whirlwind 2 weeks of national exposure as McCain's running mate ... Obama says Bill Clinton will campaign for him with emphasis on the economy ... Ron Paul rejects appeal to endorse McCain, urges vote against 'establishment candidates'

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Palin welcomed to Alaska after whirlwind 2 weeks

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) _ Gov. Sarah Palin arrived home to a chanting, cheering crowd, a blur of smiling supporters eager to embrace her after a whirlwind of national scrutiny since she was named Republican presidential nominee John McCain's running mate.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is accusing Republican John McCain's camp of using 'lies and phony outrage and Swift-boat politics' in claiming he used a sexist comment against vice presidential ...

Barack Obama said President Bush isn't acting quickly or forcefully enough to get more U.S. forces into Afghanistan and out of Iraq.