By Matthew Tully If ever a city needed the kind of hope and rebirth presidential candidates love to talk about, here it is. This Northwest Indiana city, with its massive steel mill and equally massive problems, welcomed Sen. Barack Obama, our latest messenger of hope, to a high school with a 41 percent graduation rate Thursday morning. "I'm runn ...read more

At his last stop of the day on the Indiana bus tour, Barack spoke to a crowd of almost 3,000 people in Lafayette. Check out this clip of Barack talking about the state of the race: Click here to find out how you can vote early for Barack Obama in Indiana! ...read more

Barack Obama today assailed hefty pay for corporate bosses and touted legislation he proposed that would give shareholders nonbinding votes on executives' ...Obama Pushes Plan to Check Executive Pay Newsroom AmericaObama Calls for Checks on Executive Pay The Associated PressObama Chides McCain on CEO Pay Wall Street Journal BlogsShortNews.com ...read more

Barack Obama "has been weathering a small storm lately in "the LGBT community'' for being too tight-lipped with gay and lesbian news media,'' The Advocate ...Obama Speaks to Gay Community in 'Advocate' Interview Gay WiredObama: I'll end don't-ask, don't-tell New York Daily NewsBarack Obama to make military life more tolerable ...read more

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is demanding that company shareholders have a say in how much executives get paid as he pushes his populist message. ...read more

By Jim Kuhnhenn Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is demanding that company shareholders have a say in how much executives get paid as he pushes his populist message. Obama, in remarks he planned to make to reporters Friday morning, wants Congress to pass legislation he has sponsored that would require corporations to have a nonbindi ...read more