The New York Police Department monitored Muslim students at universities far beyond the city limits, including the elite Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, it has emerged.

CAROLINE KENNEDY withdrew her senate bid because of a personal matter unrelated to her ill uncle, rejecting the governor’s attempt to get her to reconsider, a person who worked closely with her said yesterday.

The Democratic Party is “stronger and more vibrant” as a result of Barack Obama becoming the first African American presidential nominee of a major US party, his rival Hillary Clinton said today.

Barack Obama is the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee today and pledged to “bring a new and better day to America”.

United States government prosecutors have warned accounting giant Arthur Andersen it faces criminal charges over the Enron scandal, it emerged today.