Two Tennessee congressman say a half-million-dollar pay raise for the top executive at the Tennessee Valley Authority is excessive.

DES MOINES, Oct. 31 -- As the presidential campaign entered its final weekend, Barack Obama returned to Iowa, the state one adviser described as "hallowed ground" because of the role it played in launching his candidacy, while John McCain spent his second straight day in Ohio, a state he almost c...

"Change," once the buzzword just of presidential candidates, has come to a local race near you.

JACKSON, Mich. -- Almost everything seems to be on the wane in the self-proclaimed birthplace of the Republican Party.

CHASE CITY, Va. Highway 47 winds past Elke's Dog Resort, past the big yard full of old tires and shiny hubcaps, and the barren, barbed-wired fields with horses in the distance. Like many small towns in rural America, this one has a Main Street, which you'll come to soon enough, and right there next...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- He hated the helplessness of watching John McCain's efforts from afar, so Joe White, 62, loaded up his trailer in South Carolina and drove here last weekend. He set up camp in a Wal-Mart parking lot, bought a map of State College and started knocking on strangers' doors -- 25...

Below is an excerpt from "On Faith," an Internet feature sponsored by The Washington Post and Newsweek. Each week, more than 50 figures from the world of faith engage in a conversation about an aspect of religion. This week's question : Is there a religious reason to vote for or against Obama or...

Mukit Hossain has been up since 5 a.m., crisscrossing Northern Virginia in his tiny 10-year-old pickup truck to help turn out the Muslim vote in a presidential campaign that has left many Muslims feeling marginalized. He has stopped five times to pray in the truck, which is covered with political...

SEATTLE -- In Washington state, all the elements are in place to make Nov. 4 feel a lot like Feb. 2. Chris Gregoire and Dino Rossi are running for governor, and polls show a dead heat.

An exasperated Gov. Sarah Palin veered off script at a rally in Florida on Sunday to confront, as she called it, “the whole clothes thing.”