On ?Meet the Press,? Colin L. Powell called Barack Obama a ?transformational figure? and said that John McCain?s campaign had gone ?too far? in its attacks.
AP - Freddie Mac secretly paid a Republican consulting firm $2 million to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance giant and its sister company, Fannie Mae, three years before the government took control to prevent their collapse.
AP - Colin Powell, a Republican who was President Bush's first secretary of state, endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president Sunday and criticized the tone of Republican John McCain's campaign.
AP - The vast sums of money Barack Obama is raising for the presidential campaign risk the post-Watergate financing reforms, Republican rival John McCain charged Sunday.
Sen. John McCain said today he's "very happy" with the way his campaign is going, despite his status in the polls. "I love being the underdog," the Republican candidate said. "You know, every time that I've gotten ahead, somehow I've messed it up." Sen. Barack Obama leads McCain by 6 points, according to CNN's latest average of national polls.
Cole Puffinburger, who was abducted Wednesday in what authorities are calling a drug-related kidnapping, has been found safe in Las Vegas, Nevada, a police spokesman told CNN early Sunday.
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