The US government has launched a criminal investigation into CIA interrogations as a declassified report revealed threats to kill a suspect’s children and the use of an electric drill to scare another detainee.

President Barack Obama was forced into an embarrassing apology today after a misplaced quip involving disabled athletics backfired.

Barack Obama and John McCain will urge Americans to go out and vote at the end of one of the most monumental US presidential election campaigns in history today.

US President George Bush said today that despite diving stock markets and fears of global recession, now is not the time for nations to abandon open market policies or approve changes that would threaten free enterprise.

THE American author of a bestselling book attacking Barack Obama as unfit for the presidency was being deported from Kenya yesterday, a criminal investigations official said.

The United States’ failure to pass a financial rescue package would be an “economic catastrophe”, Barack Obama’s spokesman said today.

BARACK OBAMA’S running mate says a campaign advert that mocked Republican presidential candidate John McCain as an out-of-touch, out-of-date computer illiterate was “terrible” and would not have been done had he known about it.

Hillary Clinton apologised after citing the June 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in defending her decision to keep running for the Democratic presidential nomination despite increasingly long odds.

Voters in Pennsylvania will finally choose between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in today’s critical contest in the race to the White House.

Hillary Clinton tried to deflect embarrassment over her exaggerated account of a trip to Bosnia by saying she would have left the church her rival attends because of critical remarks by his pastor.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was today forced to make a personal apology to Barack Obama after government workers snooped into his personal files.

Two contract employees for the US State Department have been fired and a third disciplined for inappropriately looking at the passport file of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, a spokesman said today.

Barack Obama’s campaign apologised to Hillary Clinton today after one of his key foreign policy aides branded the former first lady a desperate “monster”.

US presidential hopeful Barack Obama made a campaign detour to North Carolina to meet with former rival John Edwards, who has yet to make an endorsement in the race for the Democratic nomination.

US Senator Joe Biden faced immediate controversy as he officially entered the presidential race today, after describing Democratic rival Barack Obama as the “first mainstream African-American” who was articulate, bright, clean and good-looking.

TOM DeLAY, once one of the most powerful and feared conservatives in the US Congress, yesterday said he was resigning from the House of Representatives in the wake of two criminal investigations that have dimmed his re-election prospects.

Tom DeLay, once one of the most powerful and feared conservatives in the US Congress, said today he is resigning from the House of Representatives in the wake of two criminal investigations that dimmed his prospects for re-election.