San Francisco - Google CEO Eric Schmidt is to endorse Barack Obama and start campaigning for him, he told the Wall Street Journal Monday.

Washington, Oct. 20 : Democrat Barack Obama has expanded his national lead over Republican John McCain in the US presidential race to six percentage points, according to a new poll.

Obama now leads McCain 50 per cent to 44 per cent among likely US voters in the latest three-day tracking poll, up from Obama''s three-point advantage on Sunday, reports The Telegraph.

The results come after Obama was endorsed by Republican former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

New York, Oct. 20: The American electorate, by and large, continues to remain ill-informed about the health status of both Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain and his Democratic rival Barack Obama, besides their respective running mates.

According to medical experts, the gaps and paucity of information on the medical history of the two candidates has left the electorate with insufficient information to fully judge their suitability for the White House and the responsibilities that go with it.

New York - Every electoral campaign has its popular catch phrases that remain in our collective memory. In the US presidential campaign one of the catchiest is the Republicans' "drill, baby, drill."

The party of candidate John McCain has turned the phrase into a slogan for the extraction of oil and natural gas within the United States. The country's energy problem is of great importance, and has emerged as one of the great challenges facing the next US president.

Washington, Oct. 20: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has added over 150 million dollars in September to his campaign kitty.

His campaign released this figure on Sunday, a day before it must file a detailed report of its monthly finances with the Federal Election Commission.

According to a FOX News report, Obama''s money is fueling a vast campaign operation in an expanding field of competitive states. It also has underwritten a wave of both national and targeted video advertising unseen before in a presidential contest.

Washington, Oct. 20 : Aides to Barack Obama and John McCain are being briefed on national security threats well before inauguration day.

For the first time in American history, according to Fox News, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is vetting members of the next administration in an effort to make sure that staff members of John McCain or Barack Obama are ready to handle any national security threats, which ever one of them takes over as president.