AP - U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens' political fate could be up to his colleagues if a jury decides the Senate's longest-serving Republican has violated the law.

AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that Republican John McCain "doesn't have the temperament to be president."

AP - Don Young, Alaska's lone congressman for the last 35 years, remained locked in a tight race with the lieutenant governor Wednesday, a day after the state's primary election, and the winner may not be decided for days.

AP - A black delegate for Hillary Rodham Clinton says she was called an "Uncle Tom" by Illinois Senate President Emil Jones, one of Barack Obama's political mentors.

AP - Sen. Joe Biden will pursue two campaigns at once this fall: his race for the White House as Barack Obama's running mate and his quest for re-election to the Senate.

AFP - Barack Obama Saturday unveiled veteran Senate colleague Joseph Biden as his running mate for the White House, calling him an all-American leader as Biden lost no time in furiously baiting their Republican adversary John McCain.

AFP - Barack Obama Saturday named veteran Senate colleague Joseph Biden as his vice presidential running mate, adding foreign policy heft -- but also a loose tongue -- to his ticket in the battle against Republican John McCain.

AP - FBI scientists early on had — but destroyed — the unique strain of anthrax used in the deadly 2001 attacks that years later would lead them to Dr. Bruce Ivins, the government's top suspect in the nation's biggest bioterror case.