AP - Barack Obama has done poorly in the Democratic primaries with women, Catholics and others who will be pivotal in this fall's presidential election. Yet early polling shows that with several of these groups, he's competitive when matched against Republican John McCain.

AP - On a recent Saturday afternoon in small-town northern Mississippi, a little-known conservative Democratic congressman went door-knocking and restaurant-hopping as if his own career were at stake.

AP - The airplane came to a stop, the door opened and out popped Tony Blair. At the bottom of the stairs to greet the former British prime minister on Saturday was Sen. John Kerry, looking every part the diplomat.

AP - McCain: Talk with China over halting nuclear bomb material and with Russia to reduce nukes ... Campaign says Obama made a mistake in saying great uncle liberated Nazi camp at Auschwitz ... Obama says McCain would continue Bush policies that fed housing crisis ... McCain, Bush campaign together — in private — amid complex relationship of pitfalls, benefits ... Wyoming superdelegate commits to Obama ... Bill Clinton says Puerto Rico is key to wife's claim to popular vote

AP - Barack Obama has done poorly in the Democratic primaries with women, Catholics and others who will be pivotal in this fall's presidential election. Yet early polling shows that with several of these groups, he's competitive when matched against Republican John McCain.

AP - McCain offers plan to reduce nuclear weapons ... Bush joins McCain for fundraising — in private ... Conservative group's ads press Senate Republicans and Democrats to vote against climate bill ... Looking toward fall, Obama signals he'll fight for Western states that went to GOP in 2004

AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton ended a three-day campaign swing across Puerto Rico the same way many Americans mark Memorial Day — with family, friends and a salute to the sacrifices of military men and women.