Michelle Obama declared "I love this country" Monday as she sought to reassure the nation that she and her husband Barack share Americans' bedrock values and belief in a dream of a better future.

A prosecutor made a surprising offer Friday to Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick: resign by Sept. 3 in exchange for the dismissal of one of two assault charges.

GRESHAM, Ore. - Hours before being greeted by the biggest crowd of his campaign, Democrat Barack Obama quietly told a small group of seniors Sunday that Republican John McCain would threaten the Social Security they depend on because he supports privatizing the program.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Hillary Rodham Clinton was jolted Thursday by the defection of one of her longtime superdelegate supporters, a former national party chairman who urged fellow Democrats to "reject the old negative politics" and unify behind Barack Obama.

MARION, Ind. - Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton turned up the rhetoric Saturday in their increasingly heated primary battle as she issued a new debate challenge and he complained of a race that's largely been reduced to trivia while working families feel economic pain.

Many House Democrats said Tuesday that they will remain neutral in the Democratic presidential primary for the time being, hopeful that the nomination will be resolved by the voters, not the corps of nearly 800 superdelegates who hold the balance of power.

WASHINGTON - Imagine, for just a minute, the pain of America's first black president. Not Barack Obama — Bill Clinton. That's about the only explanation for Clinton's lack of brotherly behavior lately: He's in pain.

"I have been frustrated by how the church has been described a 'separatist' church -- this is a terrific, welcoming church ... that has a record of helping the homeless and dealing with HIV/AIDS," Obama told the Chicago Sun-Times.