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Barack Obama with Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
Obama may pick a vice president with more national security experience.
A painting by John Trumbull portraying the Battle of Bunker's Hill during the Revolutionary War. (John Trumbull, "The Battle of Bunker's Hill", Yale University Art Gallery/Art Resource)
New research shines a fresh light on the war for independence and the men who fought it.
Paul Ehrlich (James D. Wilson/Getty Images)
Population expert Paul Ehrlich says we must see the links in our planet's ills.
Thomas Fingar, head of the National Intelligence Council. (Jeffrey MacMillan for USN&WR)
The classified study looks at the national security implications of global warming.
Bill Hogan in the Judiciary Committee hearing room and hallway outside before the hearing on "Laptop searches and other violations of Privacy faced by Americans Returning from Overseas Travel". (Charlie Archambault for USN&WR)
A controversial customs practice creates a legal backlash.
Phyllis Lyon, left, and her partner Del Martin, right, sit for a photograph at their home in San Francisco,. Martin, 87, and Lyon, 84, longtime lesbian activists who have been together for more than five decades, have become symbols for the movement to grant same-sex couples the right to marry. The pair also were plaintiffs in the California Supreme Court case that led to the legalization of gay marriage. Mayor Gavin Newsom plans to officiate at the couple's wedding at City Hall on June 16, the day when gay marriage becomes legal in California. (Eric Risberg/AP)
The GOP candidate speaks out against same-sex unions in California.
Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., closes his eyes a the pastors leads a prayer for him at First Emanuel Baptist Church in New Orleans. (Alex Brandon/AP)
A new survey suggests the complex role of faith in the race for the White House.
Cement foundations and empty streets are all that remains in parts of the once bustling Lower Ninth Ward.
Three years after Katrina, residents are finding new reasons to hope.
Indonesian demonstrators hold anti US and anti Israel banners during a protest in Jakarta 10 June 2007, against 40 years of Israel's military offensive in Palestine territories. Thousands of Indonesian Muslims shouted anti-US and anti-Israeli slogans and waved Palestinian flags. (Bay Ismoyo/AFP/Getty Images)
Both candidates would face perilous threats on Day 1.
This 1979 file photo provided by the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shows the presidential hopeful, Obama, in 1979 during his high school graduation in Hawaii with his maternal grandparents, Stanley Armour Dunham and his wife Madelyn Payne, both natives of Kansas. Growing up as a young man of mixed race, Obama benefited from the spirit of tolerance that defined Hawaii's racial climate. His childhood in the country's idealized melting pot was far from painless, though. (Obama Presidential Campaign/AP)
Growing up with the "Aloha Spirit" helped make him the candidate he is today.
David Iglesias (Jeffrey MacMillan For USN&WR)
A conversation with former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias on the scandals in the Department of Justice.
Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, a legal adviser for the Defense Department's Office of Military Commissions, speaks during a press conference at the Pentagon. (Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)
Thomas Hartmann discusses military commissions on the eve of a 9/11 arraignment.
Images of diverse agricultural production and farming in the Sauri Millenium village, September 10, 2007 in Kisumu, Kenya. The pictures illustrate succesful production based on five years of initial structured financing of rural communities which allows small farmers to reach sustainability and the ability to support themselves. (Brent Stirton/Getty Images)
Ideas range from improving aid programs to taking a break on biofuels.
Sunrise at Manzanar National Historic Site in California. (Kevin Horan/Aurora for USN&WR)
As Japanese-American former residents of the camps age, their cause becomes more pressing.
Some think Olympics host Bob Costas would be best to replace Tim Russert on Meet the Press.
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Workers stack papaya at the National Food Distribution Center in Heredia, Costa Rica, Tuesday, April 29, 2008. The rising cost of petroleum have caused increases in food prices in Costa Rica. The U.N. will set up a top-level task force to tackle the global food crisis, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. (AP Photo/Kent Gilbert)
With prices around the world rising, the food crisis shows no signs of abating.
The destroyed section of the Pentagon after the terrorist attack of September 11. Smoke is rising. The US Capitol is on the left, in the background. (Jim Lo Scalzo for USN&WR)
When the Pentagon was hit on 9/11, rescue and government agencies sprung to action.
Cement foundations and empty streets are all that remains in parts of the once bustling Lower Ninth Ward.
Nearly three years after Hurricane Katrina, the city is slowly rebuilding.
Rescuers carry an injured man from a collapsed building in Beichuan county. An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan and Beichuan counties of southwest China's Sichuan province on May 12, with the death toll expected to perhaps reach 50,000, according to Chinese officials. Unknown numbers of people remain trapped or missing. (Wang Jiaowen/AP)
A 7.9 temblor has left thousands dead and more missing.
Bonnie Erbe
He took the cowardly route by not resigning from Bush; will he try to redeem himself with Obama?
Michael Barone
The raid that freed the hostages recalls the Israelis at Entebbe, while the FBI looks inept.
John W. Mashek
Can we please move on to more substantive issues like the wars, taxes, energy costs, and so on?
Mortimer Zuckerman
The bill before Congress reflects how good government intentions are perverted by interest group politics.
Ken Walsh (Charlie Archambault for USN&WR)
Having covered the White House for U.S. News full time since 1986, Ken Walsh brings perspective and insight to his magazine column.
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A photograph of Lt. Cmdr. John S. McCain III taken during an interview with U.S.News & World Report after his release from captivity in Vietnam. (Thomas J. O'Halloran for USN&WR/Courtesy Library of Congress)
In this first-person account originally published in U.S. News in 1973, the eventual senator describes five harrowing years spent in captivity.
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