Financial Crisis Is Absent From Agendas of Parties, Candidates - Bloomberg
Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. is facing the worst financial crisis since the Depression. You would never know that from the Democrats’ platform in Denver or its Republican counterpart, or from listening to Barack Obama or John McCain . While both

Once a convention outsider, Obama navigated a path to the marquee - International Herald Tribune
CHICAGO : The Democratic National Convention is akin to a longstanding family reunion. And eight years ago, Barack Obama was not on the guest list. He was drained of money and confidence, fresh from a punishing defeat in a congressional primary race

West Side day-care workers are held up by 2 robbers - Chicago Tribune
Two armed men robbed employees of a day-care facility on Chicago’s West Side Tuesday afternoon, but no children were harmed, police said, adding that the children were asleep upstairs when the crime was committed. The two men entered the building in