U.S. presidential contenders are making a final push for votes with one week to go until the first test of the 2008 election campaign, the Iowa presidential caucuses on January 3. VOA National correspondent Jim Malone has a preview from Washington.

Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama holds a 2-1 advantage over his rival Hillary Clinton among the Democrats looking to cast ballots in Illinois State's on 5th February.

Americans and Europeans agree that Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton would make the best US President of the current contenders for the post, according to a poll made public on Friday.

Today, I’d like to speak to you about Iran. I want to address two questions many of you are asking. Is war with Iran inevitable? And can we avoid the other stark alternative – an Iran armed with nuclear weapons?

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says she will resume her campaign schedule after a peaceful ending of a hostage situation in one of her campaign offices in the state of New Hampshire.

The race for the United States Republican presidential nomination has turned personal in the latest candidates' debate. The former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, has accused Rudy Giuliani of providing sanctuary for illegal immigrants while he was mayor of New York City.

Tom Tancredo justified his presidential campaign's TV ad connecting illegal immigration to terrorism.

Democratic Party presidential candidates faced off in Las Vegas Thursday, as Senator Hillary Clinton accused her rivals of distorting her record. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan reports from Los Angeles, the race is heating up in the weeks before the start of party caucuses and primary elections.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told Google employees on Wednesday his meteoric rise in politics mirrored the company's emergence as the lifeblood of the Internet and he surprised his hosts by answering a geeky engineering question

Barack Obama who runs for U.S. president tries to reform the death penalty law. While an Illinois state senator, Obama was key in getting the state's notorious death penalty laws changed, including a requirement that in most cases police interrogations involving capital crimes must be recorded.

Voters tired of the long election campaign should spare a thought for Americans who are enduring a presidential contest that has already dragged on for more than nine months - and polling day is still a year away.

Democrat were described by Rudy Giuliani as impractical, while the presidential hopeful republican considered himself as realist on foreign policy with experience at the negotiating table.