Politics

AP - Obama says McCain should be more specific about economic crisis ... Palin expands criticism of Obama to include Rev. Wright; tones down description of Ayers ... Palin, Democrats cite old events to hurl new campaign attacks ... McCain, Obama campaigns woo new Hispanic citizens as key bloc in swing states ... GOP to file fundraising complaint against Obama, ask for audit of campaign funds

Sen. Ted Stevens told a contractor friend that they needed to stick together and "really lay low" to beat an FBI investigation, according to audiotapes played Monday at his corruption trial.

The heightened attacks, initiated over the weekend by the Republican campaign, gathered intensity Monday as Democrats resurrected their opponent's links to a financial scandal two decades ago.

Like it or not, VP candidate Sarah Palin wears her badge of motherhood on her sleeve. Here,  The New York Times Magazine contributor Lisa Belkin looks at how Palin's public discussion of personal issues has got us all talking — about ourselves.

Both candidates believe that gun ownership is an individual constitutional right. But their beliefs about the methods government can use to control the sale and carrying of firearms are starkly different.

At a moment of economic calamity, international perplexity, political failure, and battered morale,  America needs a leader temperamentally, intellectually, and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe.