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

AP - Obama and Clinton battle in close June 3 South Dakota primary ... Virgin Islands superdelegate supports Clinton, Obama, then Clinton again ... Lieberman will speak to group headed by pastor whose endorsement was rejected by McCain

AP - Barack Obama is considering a visit to Iraq this summer, his first since becoming a presidential candidate.

AP - John McCain's nuclear proposals are largely in line with those of the unpopular President Bush, and even where the two disagree, the Republican presidential candidate has waffled.

AP - The voters of South Dakota look a lot like those who have favored Hillary Rodham Clinton in presidential primaries this year, but her rival, front-runner Barack Obama, has plenty of friends in high places in this rural state.

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 - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said Tuesday the United Nations will investigate allegations by a leading children's charity that U.N. peacekeepers are involved in widespread sexual abuse of children.

AP - A federal courtroom may be the proper place to dispense justice in the terrorism case of confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, two former federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

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 - Democratic lawyers say rules don't allow panel to reseat all Florida, Michigan delegates ... All 3 presidential candidates pledge to seek an end to violence in Darfur if elected ... Obama trails Clinton with key voters but is competitive with those groups against McCain ... Obama picks superdelegates in Colo., Ore. and Guam

Politico - The Democratic race isn’t even formally over, but the political media establishment has already moved on to the next stage.

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 - A Democratic Party rules committee has the authority to seat some delegates from Michigan and Florida but not fully restore the two states as Hillary Rodham Clinton wants, according to party lawyers.