The Democratic candidate said he would dip into the US’s strategic oil reserves to try to drive down prices, a policy he had previously opposed.
Before flying with his family for a week’s holiday in Hawaii on Friday, Barack Obama expressed concern about taking a break in election year.
The Democrats’ primary battle came back to haunt Hillary Clinton on Thursday, a day before she sets off on a solo campaign swing for Barack Obama.
Hillary Clinton’s virulent attacks on Barack Obama during their primary epic returned to haunt her on Thursday.
MySpace announced on Wednesday it is launching a website devoted to the United States presidential debates.
Barack Obama reversed his position over petrol prices on Monday in the face of polls showing it has emerged as the dominant issue of the election.
The row between the two United States presidential candidates over the use of race as a campaign weapon rumbled through the weekend.
The battle for the White House took a nasty turn on Thursday when John McCain accused Barack Obama of ”playing the race card”.
White House contender Barack Obama said on Monday the faltering United States economy was now in the grip of an ”emergency”.
Barack Obama will convene a panel of advisers on Monday as he shifts his focus from world affairs to the top issue for American voters — the economy.
The United States White House race tightened on Saturday after new opinion polls suggested Barack Obama’s shine was wearing off.
Hedge-fund billionaire Carl Icahn, who has this week been given three seats on the board of Yahoo!, does not, it has been revealed, have a computer.
An emergency plan by the US government to stabilise the nation’s two biggest mortgage finance corporations won cross-party support last week.
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain and his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, are in the final stretch of selecting their running mates.
Barack Obama flew into Baghdad on Monday, officials said, thrusting US strategy in Iraq and troop levels to the centre-stage of the November election.
Republican White House hopeful John McCain on Friday predicted a surge of militant attacks in Iraq at the time of the US election in November.
Barack Obama’s stock has risen further amid reports that anchors of three US networks were planning to catch up with him on his overseas trip.
Americans are sharply divided by race ahead of the first presidential election in which a black candidate will represent a major party.
Barack Obama on Monday pledged to increase United States troops in Afghanistan by a third if he becomes president, sending 10 000 reinforcements.
Barack Obama is overwhelmingly Britain’s choice to be the next US president, five times more popular than his Republican rival, John McCain.
Speculation is running wild that either, or even both, US presidential candidates will pick a woman as running mate.
The United States Republican presidential candidate, John McCain, is attracting millions more dollars in funding than expected.
The US presidential candidates will duel over the economy this week, with Republican John McCain touting proposals he says will stimulate job growth.
John McCain, accorded hero status because of his years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, has hit back against a challenge to his security credentials.
Attack by evangelical leader framed as wholesale rejection of Barack Obama’s views on faith. Suzanne Goldenberg reports.
As Obama woos the churchgoers McCain needs, in Colorado Springs Paul Harris finds the religious right turning into swing voters
As Barack Obama moves his presidential campaign into traditionally Republican states, a new poll shows that race remains a potent issue for voters.
Barack Obama faced widespread condemnation on Friday from both right and left for reneging on a promise on election campaign financing.
The 2008 US presidential elections are playing out in the glow of an internet that has come of age, and the impact was always certain to be profound.
White House hopeful Barack Obama on Wednesday said Republican policies on national security had left Americans less safe and less respected.
He has roused black and young voters as never before, but Barack Obama has to maintain the rest of the Democratic base.
Barack Obama is to send thousands of campaign volunteers across the US in an effort to create one of the most sophisticated political operations.