New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson today announced he is withdrawing his nomination to be US President-elect Barack Obama’s commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation.

US President-elect Barack Obama intends to name the president of the New York Federal Reserve as his treasury secretary to confront the country’s intense economic turmoil, senior Democratic officials said. The stock market soared on the news.

A spokesman for Hillary Rodham Clinton says the New York senator is still in discussion over whether to accept the US Secretary of State job, though the talks are “very much on track”.

It has been reported by the New York Times that Hillary Clinton has accepted the job of Secretary Of State from Barack Obama.

US president-elect Barack Obama’s former rival Hillary Clinton is being considered as a possible secretary of state in his administration, according to US reports today.

US Democrat Barack Obama quickly took off the gloves and was again battering John McCain as little different from President George Bush as the race for the White House intensified.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton compared herself to under-dog boxer Rocky Balboa today as she continued to insist she will be staying in the close race for her party’s nomination.

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination today after poor finishes in the first two contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Karen McCarthy reports from New Hampshire on the fallout from the presidential primary and the likely direction Republican and Democrat candidates will take as the race to the White House gathers pace

Democrat Barack Obama appeared poised to defeat Hillary Clinton for the second time in less than a week tonight as voters streamed into polling stations in New Hampshire in the US’s first presidential primary election.

The Republican and Democratic US presidential candidates clashed on issues ranging from immigration to healthcare in back-to-back debates three days ahead of the first primary election in the White House race.

IRAQ dominated a debate of eight US Democratic presidential hopefuls in New Hampshire on Sunday as candidates were questioned about foreign policy, immigration reform, gays in the military, health care and the role of Bill Clinton in the next administration.

SETTING up one of the world’s largest cheese plants in the uplands of New Mexico, where the Comanches once hunted the buffalo, was a daunting challenge.

Facing the prospect of a nuclear-armed North Korea, US President George Bush is calling the regime’s claim of a nuclear test a provocative act and has warned Pyongyang against exporting nuclear material.

COLIN Powell announced his decision to step down as US Secretary of State yesterday, marking the end of a period in office dogged by in-fighting.