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President Barack Obama speaks at Xavier University on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina .

“My administration is going to stand with you, and fight alongside you, until the job is done, until New Orleans all the way back.”President Obama

Right-Wing talk show host Glenn Beck,Sarah Palin and other Tea Party functionaries called on America to return to god and traditional values

at the Lincoln Memorial the site of Dr King's "I Have Dream Speech".

Rev.Dr Al Sharpton commemorate the anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington in 1963. The event, billed as "Reclaim the Dream," included a five-mile march that culminated at the Mall

This Week in Politics with Special Guess Host Jerry Pippin is a hard news look at the past week and the upcoming week in the political world with commentary and insight into polling tends.

Small-town Alaska mayor Scott McAdams has won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate.

But the tough part will lie ahead, with McAdams facing a tough bid to upset the Republican winner, Joe "Gunner" Miller or Lisa Murkowski.

While many of the candidates were gathering in Anchorage for the election results, McAdams was in his southeast Alaska hometown, Sitka, presiding over an assembly meeting.

Scott spent his elementary years in Petersburg, and spent his young adult years working as a commercial fishing deckhand around the state. He credits these years as instilling an appreciation for hard work, as well as a deep admiration for Alaska's commercial fishing heritage.

Joe Miller's lead over Sen. Lisa Murkowski slightly narrowed to 1,668 votes with all precincts counted.

We talk with Anne Kilkenny(Sarah Palin's favourite neighbour) in Wasilla,Alaska about the election and Alaskan politics.

Peter Shumlin has claimed victory in Vermont Democratic primary for governor.

Incumbent Senator John McCain won the Republican Senate nomination in the Arizona Senate primary. McCain beat out former Congressman J.D. Hayworth

FREDERICA WILSON wins Meeks old congressional seat.

Senator Lisa Murkowski is trailing challenger Joe Miller, 45,909 51.09% to 43,949 48.91% . Currently, 97.8% of Alaskan precincts are reporting results with a little over 2,000 votes dividing the two candidates.

The the "Palin effect" and Ballot Measure 2, which introduces the abortion issue on a statewide draw single-issue voters and aid conservative Joe Miller.

William Saxbe, a Republican maverick who became the fourth attorney general to serve under President Richard M. Nixon and presided during the Watergate investigation, died Tuesday. He was 94.

In 1960, four African American college students sat down at a Woolworth counter in Greensboro, North Carolina and asked to be served at the “whites only” counter. While they were refused service, their sit-in’s ignited an entire movement challenging racial segregation in the South.

Five states — Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Oklahoma and Vermont — go to the polls Tuesday.

Forty-seven years after the historic March on Washington, Reverend Al Sharpton, President of National Action Network a mass rally and march in Washington, DC on Saturday, August 28, 2010 to RECLAIM THE DREAM.

This Week in Politics is a hard news look at the past week and the upcoming week in the political world with commentary and insight into polling tends.

Alaska Republican Senate candidates Senator Lisa Murkowski and Joe Miller debate Aug 19, 2010. KAKM-TV, Anchorage. Alaska

Dr Al Sharpyon get ready for the Reclaim the Dream March 28 August 2010 in Washington DC

In Australia with three seats still in doubt, Labour is tipped to end up with 72 seats and the Coalition 73, but with new Greens MP Adam Bandt to side with Labour, the parties could end up in a dead heat.

Prime Minister, Ms Gillard is looking form a minority government

Republican Tom Emmer, Democrat Mark Dayton and the Independence Party's Tom Horner debate before the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce ,the group behind business-oriented political fund Minnesota Forward.

Target Corp. donated $150,000 to Minnesota Forward that is running ads backing conservative Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, who opposes same-sex marriage, which has to generated calls to boycott the company

A federal judge in San Francisco decided today that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry ruling California Proposition 8 unconstitutional.

on the 107th day of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the runaway Macondo well has been rendered "static" and now looks very much like

a harmless hole clogged with 13-pound-per-gallon gunk.Sarah Palin endorses businessman Brian Murphy Maryland GOP primary for governor.

Democratic Senate candidates Jeff Greene and Kendrick Meek held their third debate in Orlando

"It may be legal, I support freedom of religion, freedom of speech and I understand that," Greene said

Meek said it shouldn't be an issue in a U.S. Senate race in Florida.

"I'm not going to step in front of the decision that has already been made in New York City. I think it's important when we look at these issues, we're running for the United States Senate here in Florida," Meek said.