Denver, Colorado - John Lewis, a black congressman who shared the podium when Martin Luther King Jr delivered his famous I Have A Dream speech, called Thursday for Democrats to "march on the ballot

Washington, Aug. 28 : The three white supremacists with a sniper rifle and high on drugs who were arrested near the Democratic convention in Denver will not face charges even though officials believe that they wanted to assassinate Barack Obama.

The FBI and the US Secret Service carried out an “intensive” investigation into the plot — in which the supremacists talked of shooting Obama as he accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in an open-air sports stadium on Thursday night — but found insufficient evidence of a “true threat”.

Denver, Aug. 28 : Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has insisted that he does not want to dazzle a TV audience estimated to be in the tens of millions with “a bunch of a high-flying rhetoric”, but instead, intends to focus on the kitchen-table economic issues facing American voters.

Denver, Colorado - Barack Obama became the country's first African-American to claim the presidential nomination of a major US party as Democrats Wednesday gave him a strong send-off into battle with presumptive Republican nominee John McCain.

Senator Obama, 47, the son of a white Kansas-born mother and a Kenyan father, was not expected until Thursday to appear at the convention and deliver his formal acceptance speech before a throng of 75,000 at Denver's Invesco Field.

Washington, Aug. 28 : Seeking to destroy Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama’s credibility ahead of the November 4 polls, Republican John McCain’s campaign has launched a new attack on the former’s foreign policy views.

McCain’s advertisement, entitled “Tiny,” is designed to undermine the theme of Democratic convention’s third night, national security.

Denver, Aug. 28 : Former U. S. President Bill Clinton has said that he believes that Afro-American Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama will lead the country like no one else has in the past.

In a ringing endorsement of Haiwaiian-born Obama ahead of the November 4, 2008 presidential election, Clinton said: “Barack Obama is ready to lead America and restore American leadership in the world. Barack Obama is ready to be president of the United States.”