It is one thing to outlast hundreds of poker players to win one of the World Series of Poker’s 68 events and the Las Vegas tournament’s coveted gold bracelet.

This McDonald’s worker is clearly feeling a little under appreciated and unsatisfied in his role.

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A MAN pleaded guilty to threatening to kill President Barack Obama and his family.

In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the US, authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that demonstrates a young cartel’s vast reach north of the border.

The daughter of former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has given birth to a son, a magazine has reported.

Voting problems surfaced in several areas today as electors turned out in droves to be confronted with long queues and malfunctioning machines.

DEMOCRAT Joe Biden said he’s debated “an awful lot of tough, smart women” throughout his career and that next month’s vice presidential debate with Republican Sarah Palin will be no exception. But he’d like to know where she stands on issues.

John McCain urged Americans to fight for their country, to make history, and to rid Washington of its “constant partisan rancour” today as he accepted the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.

John McCain will set out his aims for the US presidency as he accepts the Republican Party’s nomination tonight.

BARACK OBAMA hit out at John McCain yesterday over a comment from his campaign manager that the presidential race will be decided more on personalities than on issues.

The controversy over Sarah Palin and her selection as Republican presidential hopeful John McCain's running mate is a "faux media scandal designed to destroy the first female Republican nominee" for vice president, his campaign said today.

Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin will make the most important speech of her life tonight amid controversy surrounding her selection.

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain is an “independent man who thinks for himself”, President George Bush said today.

President George Bush will throw his “enthusiastic support” behind Republican presidential hopeful John McCain as the party’s national convention gets back on track today, the White House said.

Demonstrations near the Republican National Convention site turned violent as protesters harassed delegates, smashed windows, slashed car tyres and hurled bottles.

Americans should come together and help support victims of Hurricane Gustav, the wife of Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said today.

John McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin said today that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter was five months pregnant.

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain urged his party “to act as Americans, not as Republicans” and suspended most of his party’s national convention as Hurricane Gustav approached the US Gulf coast.

Republicans will suspend most of the activities planned for tomorrow’s opening of their national convention because of the threat of Hurricane Gustav, presidential hopeful John McCain announced tonight.

US President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney will skip the Republican National Convention because of mounting concerns about Hurricane Gustav, the White House said today.

Republicans reaffirmed their hard line on abortion but adopted a more-moderate stance toward climate change, reflecting the views of both John McCain and the conservative base.

AMERICAN presidential hopeful Barack Obama texted supporters shortly after 3am on Saturday to announce Senator Joe Biden of Delaware as his vice presidential candidate — in time for the Democratic party’s national convention which begins in Denver today.

Barack Obama cranked up his campaign in the final days before the Democratic convention, drawing closer to naming a running mate and attacking what he said was Republican rival John McCain’s habit of questioning his “character and patriotism”.

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

Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination tonight, becoming the first black candidate to lead a major party into a campaign for the White House.

Hillary Clinton won a lopsided, but largely symbolic victory in Puerto Rico’s presidential primary, the final act in a tumultuous weekend that brought rival Barack Obama tantalisingly close to claiming the Democratic presidential nomination.

Barack Obama has won the Maine caucuses today to sweep all five weekend Democratic contests, gaining new momentum and further narrowing rival Hillary Clinton's delegate lead in their epic battle for the party's presidential nomination.

Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama girded themselves for more fierce battles in their tight race for the Democratic presidential nomination, as Clinton disclosed she lent millions of dollars to her presidential campaign to fuel the costly White House fight.

US President George Bush today told abortion opponents they are pursuing “a noble cause” and making a real difference in the campaign to recruit more Americans to stand on their side.

DOCTORS could soon be prescribing the world’s first race-specific drug amid a storm of controversy.

A writer is so eager to land Josh Hartnett in his planned movie, he's taken out an advertisement in the actor's hometown newspaper to lure him.

RELATIVES of a man being held in the deadly shooting of six deer hunters say they are just as stunned and bewildered by the incident as authorities investigating the case.

A DISPUTE among deer hunters over a tree stand in Wisconsin erupted into a series of shootings that left five people dead and three others injured.

A dispute among deer hunters over a tree stand in north-western Wisconsin erupted in a series of shootings that left five people dead and three others injured, officials said.

A US man who raped and suffocated a topless dancer in 1975 was executed overnight after decades of retrials and appeals.

A history professor accused of fatally slitting her six-month-old daughter’s throat was charged with second-degree murder in the US.

AMID all the hype of the court cases surrounding Operation Amethyst, there has been a lot talk about the horror of the abuse of children.

A student in the US has won the right to wear a T-shirt saying he's straight.

A former revolutionary on the run in the US for 25 years has appeared in court.