Tate, a freshman in international affairs at Georgetown University, and other students spent Saturday afternoon asking themselves these questions as they canvassed Sully neighborhoods to raise support for Sen. Barack Obama.

The technology to turn oil shale into conventional oil is not available yet, said Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance representatives at lectures this week at the U.

The U.S. Senate gave the House of Representatives another chance to vote in favor of a plan to bail out the banking industry.

President George W. Bush reappointed U professor Thure Cerling to a discussion panel that reviews the efforts to create a nuclear waste repository in Nevada.

Vice-presidential candidates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin will debate tonight at 7 p.m., in what will be one of Palin's first live, unscripted, give-and-take appearances on national TV.

n a surprising series of developments, the U.S. House of Representatives struck down a $700 billion bailout of the banking industry in a vote of 228 to 205 Monday afternoon.

Sen. Joe Biden assured the National Jewish Democratic Council on Tuesday that the Obama-Biden ticket is committed to Israel, and urged Jewish-Americans to ignore smear tactics suggesting Obama is Muslim.

McCain spoke Monday afternoon at a rally on the steps of the Delaware County Court House in Media, a small suburb of Philadelphia. He was joined by Sarah Palin, his vice-presidential candidate, and a slew of senators.

Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala., and Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., fielded political questions posed by journalists and students at Georgetown's Young Voters Forum on Thursday.

As part of a weekend visit to Virginia, Biden spoke to a crowd of several hundred.