Congress and the White House are very close to a deal on raising the limit on US borrowing that would avert an unprecedented default on America’s debt, the top Republican in the Senate said today.

President Barack Obama launched his re-election campaign today in an email to 13 million supporters.

A politically-shaken White House promised a sharper focus on jobs and the economy, but was less sure-footed on health care reform.

REPUBLICANS are rejoicing and Democrats reeling in the wake of Scott Brown’s stunning victory over Martha Coakley in a special Massachusetts Senate election that Brown insists was not simply a referendum on President Barack Obama.

NOTHING is more appropriate than the fact that America will today celebrate the annual public holiday dedicated to the memory of Reverend Martin Luther King.

Barack Obama “will move as quickly as he can” to set up the team who will help him rule America as its first black president, his chief strategist said today.

President-elect Barack Obama spoke to the world from his home city of Chicago as he became the first black president of the United States.

Barack Obama was on course to make history tonight by becoming the first black president of the United States.

Barack Obama will have several different routes to victory in the US presidential election this week, his campaign manager said today.

BARACK OBAMA’S campaign said Democratic voters were piling up imposing early voting totals in battleground states, warning that John McCain must win big on election day to catch up.

Barack Obama called for a “new politics for a new time” as he suggested his campaign was taking the moral high road to the White House today.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised more than $150m in September, a stunning and unprecedented eruption of political giving that has given him a wide spending advantage over rival John McCain.

Republican presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin are "lying about their records", their Democratic rival Barack Obama said.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain has seized on Russia’s invasion of Georgia to call for a muscular series of US-led countermeasures in an apparent bid to underline for American voters his experience in foreign policy and security issues.

Barack Obama will reveal his choice for his potential vice-president in an email and text message to supporters, his campaign said today.

AL GORE says he is backing Barack Obama and will do whatever he can to help him get to the White House.

Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is “the largest grass-roots army in recent political history”, his campaign manager said today.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were making a final bid to appeal to voters in Texas and Ohio tonight ahead of crucial contests which could decide the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.