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Enthusiasm Strong as President Bush Promotes Unwavering, Confident Leadership at Ohio Rally Great American Ball ParkCincinnati, Ohio THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. (Applause.) Thank you all for coming. I am here to ask for your vote, and I am here to ask for your help. (Applause.) We have come to the great city of Cincinnati, Ohio, asking for you to turn your friends and neighbors out to the polls on Tuesday. With your help, we will carry Ohio again and win a great victory on Tuesday. (Applause.) Perhaps the most important reason of all to put me back into office...

Sunday, October 31, 2004President Bush Rallies Floridians for Final 48 Hour Get Out the Vote Push Legends FieldTampa, Florida THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all for coming. (Applause.) We really appreciate you coming out on a Sunday afternoon. I'm here to ask for your vote, and I'm here to ask for your help. (Applause.) Find your friends and neighbors and tell them we have a duty to vote, and get them going to the polls. (Applause.) Turn the Republicans out, turn the independents out, find discerning Democrats, like my friend, the former mayor of Tampa, who is a Bush supporter, Dick...

WASHINGTON - Cynthia Moore — single mother, moderate Democrat — is the living embodiment of one of Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites)'s biggest challenges in the presidential race. There are things she doesn't like about President Bush (news - web sites), she says, but the president will get her vote on Nov. 2 because she thinks he'll do a better job of protecting her two daughters. "Terrorism is something that scares me," says Moore, 34, of Watkins Glen, N.Y. "I like the security of knowing that if I was to get on a plane with my little girls,...

WASHINGTON - House Republicans pushed through legislation Tuesday aimed at reducing frivolous lawsuits. The Republicans prodded Democrats with statements by the Democratic presidential team of John Kerry (news - web sites) and John Edwards (news - web sites) in favor of tougher sanctions against lawyers who abuse the system. Most Democrats were not persuaded, and voted against the bill. They said it went too far in limiting access to the courts and was a campaign-season distraction from more important matters before Congress. The bill passed, 229-174, sending it to an uncertain fate in the Senate. Democrats did succeed in blocking...

The Palestinian Authority has declared a week of solidarity with a young singer from the West Bank who is participating in this year's Superstar television show, the Arabic version of the popular British show Pop Idol and the American Star Search. The move has enraged some Palestinians who say there is no room for entertainment when Israel is continuing its military operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Huge screens will be placed in the main squares in Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Gaza City to encourage the people to support Ammar Hassan, a singer from the West Bank who is...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Winding up her summer tour across Europe, rhythm and blues singer Bonnie Raitt (news) drew thunderous applause at the Stockholm Jazz Festival for dedicating a classic to U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites). "We're gonna sing this for George Bush because he's out of here, people!" Raitt crowed Tuesday night before she launched into the opening licks of "Your Good Thing (Is About to End)," a cover that was featured on her 1979 album "The Glow." The song, penned by Isaac Hayes and David Porter, has been sung by several notable performers, including Mable...

PITTSBURGH - Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites), with rockers Jon Bon Jovi and blink-182 in tow, is courting the college crowd that typically shuns the voting booth, hoping unease about the Iraq (news - web sites) war and jobs propels millions of 18-to-24-year-olds to the polls in November. "We need you to become involved in this race as never before," the presumptive Democratic nominee implored a noisy crowd of more than 5,000 at the University of Pittsburgh Friday. The rally was Kerry's fifth college appearance in a week and reflected the campaign's sense that a new activism is...

LONDON (Reuters) - European scientists begin last ditch attempts on Wednesday to contact the missing Beagle 2 Mars probe that might have crashed during its Christmas Day touchdown. The first fully European mission to the planet was designed to answer the question "Is there life on Mars?" but efforts to contact it have failed -- in contrast to a U.S. probe that began sending back pictures of the planet's surface this week. Scientists searching for the British-built Beagle said hopes were riding on its mother ship picking up a signal at around 7:15 a.m. EST on Wednesday when it passes...

After a decades-long scientific quest, scientists analyzing data from the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft have at last found critical evidence the instrument was built to search for – the presence of water-related carbonate minerals on the surface of Mars. However, the discovery also potentially contradicts what scientists had hoped to prove: the past existence of large bodies of liquid water on Mars, such as oceans and seas. In a report to be published in the August 22 issue of the journal Science, Arizona State University planetary geologists Joshua Bandfield, Timothy Glotch and Philip Christensen...

1 April-Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today he hoped United Nations weapons inspectors would eventually return to Iraq, noting that their work had merely been suspended. Speaking to reporters upon arriving at UN Headquarters in New York, the Secretary-General said that if any weapons of mass destruction were to be found, the inspectors should go back to test them. "I hope the time will come when they will be able to do that," he added. Asked about what consequences it might have for the legitimacy of military action if such weapons are not found, the Secretary-General noted that, although the issue...

Two war veterans sat at a Rhode Island tavern, raising their shots of whiskey up high, offering a toast as Iraqis awoke to falling American bombs. "Here's to very few fatalities and a very quick victory," Ken Sullivan and Harry Church said from Art's Tavern in Portsmouth... "I'm all for it," said Vince Diamonde of New York City, the place hardest hit by the Sept. 11 attacks. "You had to live here to understand it. We lost everything you can imagine." Hopes for a Quick End: Americans Cheer, Pray, Sob, Fume Over Start of War

Democrats pin 2004 hopes on folksy charmer By Andrew Buncombe in Robbins, North Carolina 10 November 2002 Like many in Robbins, Cecil Hackney has a ready solution for a bruised and bewildered Democratic Party looking for someone to lead them to victory – North Carolina's Senator John Edwards. "I think he could be the next president, given the state of things now," said Mr Hackney. "I think Johnny could hop in there and we'd see. He would be good. He is a good man." Though not a household figure, Mr Edwards has been a name on the lips of Washington...