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President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are using every political tool at their disposal: campaign ads, surrogates, the Internet, and the most traditional tool of all -- the stump speech. NPR's Mara Liasson looks at a typical campaign speech from the president.

Both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are eagerly stumping for votes from suburban soccer moms, NASCAR dads and swing states . But on skid row in downtown Los Angeles, volunteers are helping register an unlikely group of voters -- the homeless.

The New York Times reports Monday that a confidential memo detailing a conversation between President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair shows the president was determined to go to war with Iraq even without evidence of weapons of mass destruction.

Every one of his novels is "a lie that tries to sound like the truth," says Brad Meltzer. The Book of Fate is a thriller about a presidential aide and a 200-year-old code invented by Thomas Jefferson.

NBC's newly appointed chief White House correspondent talks with Dave Davies about his new book, How Barack Obama Won: A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election.

The ten members of the Iraq study group meet in Washington today to debate military and economic strategy on Iraq. Three former foreign policy advisers from different administrations discuss what they think this group should focus on over the next two days.

After the murder of Laken Riley last year by a Venezuelan migrant, Georgia enacted a law meant to crack down on illegal immigration. But a lack of funding is dampening its effect.

An NFL star's indictment on child abuse charges has reignited a national debate about parents using corporal punishment. But how people feel about this issue is tied to some very personal questions.

The song was an instant hit all over the Internet, though not (perhaps) the way its creators intended.

Oxford Dictionaries has updated its offerings with a number of new words, so, naturally, we held a contest to see who could use the most in a single sentence.