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Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them.
CAMPAIGN 2008 | NEWS ANALYSIS
In just the past two weeks, Gov. Charlie Crist has reversed on offshore oil drilling, made national news with a historic Everglades land deal to buy U.S. Sugar, and announced his engagement to his glam girlfriend of nine months for a fall wedding.
John McCain calls himself an underdog. That may be an understatement. The GOP presidential candidate trails Democrat Barack Obama in polls, organization and money while trying to succeed a deeply unpopular fellow Republican in a year that favors Democrats.
Caribbean leaders ended a four-day summit by agreeing to launch a Caribbean Development Fund that would provide financial and technical assistance to disadvantaged countries and sectors in the region.
Police said Saturday they are investigating an outbreak of mob violence that a Haitian politician claims resulted in the deaths of two journalists who were considering campaign runs for the Senate.
Ecuador's Constitutional Assembly says it is granting former President Gustavo Noboa amnesty from legal charges that he mishandled the country's foreign debt negotiations.
With at least one of his colleagues criticizing the lack of progress being made by the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Jamaica Prime Minister Bruce Golding is standing behind the regional trade bloc. But that doesn't mean he doesn't have his own criticism.
COLOMBIA
Colombia's president on Thursday called for a referendum to decide if new presidential elections should be held in the wake of a court decision that is questioning the legitimacy of his 2006 re-election.
A former Colombian lawmaker who said she took bribes to enable the re-election of President Alvaro Uribe just got a tough sentence.
FLORIDA GOVERNOR
Charlie Crist, Florida's first bachelor governor in 40 years, popped the question to his girlfriend of nine months on Thursday. She said yes.
MIAMI
A Miami appeals court rebuked the state child-welfare agency Wednesday for removing a 12-year-old boy from his mother because she was homeless, ruling that not having a home for a child does not by itself constitute abuse.
Gov. Charlie Crist won't be sleeping alone in the governor's mansion much longer - he is engaged to a woman he met in New York City last September who quickly captured his heart.
CAMPAIGN 2008 | U.S. HOUSE
Locked in a competitive reelection battle, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart last week touted endorsements from several local unions. But two of the 12 unions on the list say they didn't endorse the Republican incumbent.
FLORIDA HOUSE
One has the state's speaker of the House in his corner. The other has a former U.S. senator backing her bid. Thus, a battle of political name recognition marks the start of the race for the Florida House of Representatives District 110 seat.
MIAMI-DADE SCHOOLS
An AK-47 seized at the Traz Powell football stadium. A Tech 9 machine pistol at Miami Springs High. A shotgun found in a stolen car parked at Northwestern High.
Beth Reinhard is The Miami Herald's political columnist. Born and raised in S. Fla., she has been a reporter since 1991. She joined The Miami Herald in 1998.
CAMPAIGN 2008 | DEMOCRATS
Vanessa Alikhan was at a Democratic ''unity party'' when she overheard another guest indignantly refute the rumor that Barack Obama is Muslim, as if it were a racial slur. She later recounted the conversation to a friend.
There's a great unknown about Sen. John McCain's health plan: How many employers would drop insurance coverage for their workers because of his tax policies?
Home foreclosures will keep rising next year no matter who is elected president in November.
Republican John McCain, who has made support for President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq the centerpiece of his presidential campaign, is getting from help from a veterans group that's launching a national TV ad campaign next week.
Jesse Helms forever changed North Carolina politics and the conservative movement. The former senator did it without ever changing much about himself.
Moving from celebrity to senator isn't exactly an untraveled path. But that doesn't mean comedian Al Franken, who is vying for a Senate seat in Minnesota, will coast to Capitol Hill on a wide, smooth road.
CAMPAIGN 2008 | NEWS ANALYSIS
In just the past two weeks, Gov. Charlie Crist has reversed on offshore oil drilling, made national news with a historic Everglades land deal to buy U.S. Sugar, and announced his engagement to his glam girlfriend of nine months for a fall wedding.
Is Barack Obama close to being shadowed by giant flip-flops and, worse, having the image stick with people all the way to the voting booth?
The State Department on Thursday denied charges by a House committee that it inappropriately encouraged a Texas-based oil company to strike an exploration deal with the Kurdish government in Iraq.
Barack Obama's presidential campaign distanced itself Thursday from a mailer by Georgia Democratic Senate hopeful Vernon Jones that shows them together under Obama's signature slogan: "Yes we can."
Barack Obama is celebrating the 4th of July in Butte, Montana, attending a parade and picnic. It's a state that usually gives its three electoral votes to a Republican. Only two Democrats have carried Montana since 1948.
Only two Democratic presidential candidates have carried Montana since 1948. Barack Obama is betting he can do it in November.
Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86.
COLUMNIST
Andres Oppenheimer
Columnist Andres Oppenheimer, author of five best-sellers on Latin American affairs, comments on the latest events in Latin America and U.S.- Latin American affairs.