John Lewis

Barack Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night with a scathing assessment of John McCain and a searing indictment of the Bush administration, promising to repair "the broken politics of Washington" and preside over a more...

The mayoral pair travels like brother and sister — trading light jabs, well used to each other's company on what has amounted to a 45-year road. From a 1963 moment on the long lawn of Washington to the chief office of Hartford to this mile-high...

Surrounded by an enormous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama promised a clean break from the "broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush" on Thursday night as he embarked on the final lap of his audacious bid to become the nation'...

DENVER - So many Americans thought this moment would never come. On the trail, they would see Barack Obama in some small-town diner, and they would lean in close, to tell of a Birmingham childhood fractured by race. Sometimes as his "change" caravan...

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Now Mother Jones reports on how McCain said he'd look for wise advice to Rep. John Lewis, left,the Georgia Democrat who's been a leading figure in the civil-rights movement. Fair enough: the Arizona senator likes to cross the partisan......

The presidential candidates were on stage together for just a moment, but John McCain and Barack Obama offered an arresting contrast Saturday night both stylistically and on sensitive issues, most sharply on abortion. In the two-hour forum at Orange...

Presidential contenders Barack Obama and John McCain differed sharply on abortion Saturday, with McCain saying a baby's human rights begin "at conception," while Obama restated his support for legalized abortion. Appearing on the same stage for the first...

Just when you thought the presidential race was hitting the summer doldrums, here come the dueling political paper backs: Random House Inc. is releasing mass market editions of Sen. Barack Obama's "The Audacity of Hope" (Vintage) and Sen. John McCain's...

WASHINGTON Rep. John Lewis of Georgia says a mix-up on a terrorist watch list is still wreaking havoc on his air travel five years after the problem arose. The 11-term Democratic congressman wrote to the House Homeland Security Committee this week that...

A longtime member of Congress known across the U.S. as a hero of the civil-rights movement says a mix-up on a terrorist-watch list is wreaking havoc on his air travel five years after the problem arose. The 11-term Democrat, Rep. John Lewis of Georgia,...

ATLANTA — What if this happened almost every time you traveled? You finally make it through the long airport security line, shedding your shoes, your belt and unpacking your laptop only to be stopped by a security guard who says that a notation on...