As Republicans feud, President Barack Obama this week takes his re-election blueprint of economic justice, direct and unfiltered, to the voters.

Republican frontrunner faces dirty tricks and a 'bare-knuckles' contest in South Carolina.

Republicans are strategising to win more votes from the demographically critical US Hispanic group, without alienating the party's conservative base.

Barack Obama faces a divided legislature, with the Republicans in control of the House of Representatives.

The conservatives who now dominate the party of the American right may come to rue losing their moderate wing.

The US Congress is launching official YouTube channels where members of the House and Senate can create videos of floor speeches or hearings.

US presidential candidate Barack Obama urged lawmakers on Tuesday to return to the negotiating table to work on a financial rescue deal.

As the Democratic primary contest heads to its climax, the Republicans are firing the opening shots of an election barrage to come against their probable White House opponent, Barack Obama. Republican John McCain and his colleagues already see Hillary Clinton's campaign as mortally wounded.

Barack Obama on Thursday gave the clearest hint yet that he may consider Hillary Clinton as his vice-presidential running mate in the November election for the White House. With the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination close to finished as a contest, Obama began looking beyond his battles with Clinton to the one with the Republican John McCain.