Reuters - The grueling Democratic presidential nominating race moves on Saturday from the campaign trail to a Washington hotel, where party officials will hunt for a compromise over disputed contests in Michigan and Florida.

AP - Call it the political version of how to win the West.

U.S. News & World Report - The Democratic National Committee acted with "proper authority and jurisdiction" earlier this year when it stripped Michigan and Florida of all of their presidential convention delegates as punishment for scheduling their primaries before party rules allowed, a DNC staff analysis has concluded.

AP - With the nomination in sight, Barack Obama is willing to give rival Hillary Rodham Clinton the lion's share of the delegates from Florida and Michigan but is stopping short of her demand to fully recognize the two renegade states.

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