Politico - Republican faithful have grumbled in recent weeks about the lack of a consistent message from John McCain’s campaign on key issues, leading observers to wonder what McCain’s top advisers are thinking.

AP - John McCain's presidential campaign on Wednesday released a withering television ad comparing Barack Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, suggesting the Democratic contender is little more than a vapid but widely recognized media concoction.

AP - Dueling delegations pitting Ron Paul's Nevada supporters against those of John McCain vow to take their fight to the Republican National Convention.

AP - John McCain wants the presidential campaign to be about Barack Obama — that's why he talks about him so much.

AP - Democrat Barack Obama, the first black candidate with a shot at winning the White House, says John McCain and his Republican allies will try to scare them by saying Obama "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."

Reuters - Canada's trade minister said he was hopeful that the World Trade Organization would restart talks after they collapsed on Tuesday, but said officials would first need to smooth out some stumbling blocks.

AFP - The US Republican Party reeled Wednesday from the indictment of its longest-serving senator, which dealt a fresh blow to its hope of limiting expected large-scale losses in congressional elections.

AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain tried to strike a balance at a town hall meeting Tuesday between the independence he boasts of and his avowed conservatism.

AP - Obama says 'reckless' GOP economic policies hammer middle class, would continue under McCain ... Analysis: McCain eager to reassure anxious conservatives he won't raise taxes

AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says he's offering fundamental change from what he calls "reckless" Republican economic policies that have hammered middle-class families.

Reuters - Peace talks on ethnically- divided Cyprus this September offer possibly the best chance in years for a deal that has been eluding the island for decades, a senior United Nations envoy said on Tuesday.

AP - Al-Qaida in Iraq is increasingly embracing extortion and kidnapping to finance its operations as cash carried in by its dwindling foreign fighter network is drying up, according to U.S. intelligence and documents captured in Iraq.

AP - Iraq's coffers are bulging with oil money, yet some Baghdad residents go without electricity for much of the day and others get drinking water tainted with sewage.

AP - Just when it looked like things couldn't get much worse for Republicans in this election year, they did.