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John McCain is 71 years old, and his age has provided late-night comics with some easy punch lines. On ''Saturday Night Live,'' he joined in.

Israel got glowing praise from President Bush earlier this week. On Sunday, the Arab world got a stern lecture, on the need to spread freedoms and isolate state sponsors of terror that he said are holding the region back.

Top fundraisers for Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have begun private talks aimed at merging the two candidates' teams.

Attempting to lay a symbolic claim to his party's presidential nomination, Democrat Barack Obama will mark the latest round of primary voting with a rally in Iowa.

Philipina Heintzman, 81, drove 80 miles across the South Dakota prairie to experience history in the making: a woman running for president. That event also marked a campaign unraveling.

When you see Ted Kennedy walking off the Senate floor, you inevitably think of his long Senate career, his relentless political warfare against Republicans, his brushes with death and disaster, and his brothers John and Robert.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts has been hospitalized in Boston after suffering stroke-like symptoms, The Associated Press has learned.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a top Democratic critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, met with the Iraqi prime minister Saturday during a surprise visit to Baghdad.

With Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's candidacy running out of time — and perhaps air — the campaign has taken on a distinctly subdued mood.

Mike Huckabee, interrupted by a loud crash as he spoke to the National Rifle Association, joked that the noise was Barack Obama falling off a chair as he dodged a gun aimed at him.