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With the bailout vote in the rearview mirror and the stock market still spiraling downward, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) found a new target Tuesday, questioning why insurance giant American International Group took executives to an exclusive resort, less than week after the federal government bailed out the struggling company.

ATLANTA - Federal officials have asked election officials in six states to investigate whether social security number checks are being improperly run on people registering to vote.

DETROIT (Reuters) - The United Auto Workers union launched a $3 million advertising campaign on Tuesday to spur Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign, with less than a month to the U.S. election on November 4.

WASHINGTON - Days after it got a federal bailout, American International Group Inc. spent $440,000 on a posh California retreat for its executives, complete with spa treatments, banquets and golf outings, according to lawmakers investigating the company's meltdown.

WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. John McCain served on the advisory board to the U.S. chapter of an international group linked to ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America in the 1980s.

Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama widened his lead over Republican presidential rival John McCain in two national polls and is maintaining an edge in two daily tracking polls with less than a month to go before the election.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Democratic registration has surged by 13 percent and Republican ranks have shrunk by 1 percent as a record 8.6 million people in battleground Pennsylvania registered to vote in the presidential election.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - It's one of Republican presidential candidate John McCain's most surefire applause lines, a vow to veto pork barrel spending like the road and bridge projects that lawmakers hold dear.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Barack Obama's campaign is citing the University of South Carolina's speaking invitations to William Ayers and Republican Gov. Mark Sanford's role as school trustee to counter GOP efforts to link the presidential candidate to the 1960s radical.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama battled over taxes and the best way to help struggling American workers on Tuesday during a sometimes tense presidential debate that highlighted a wide gap in their economic approaches.

With exactly four weeks to go before Election Day, CQ Politics' Balance of Power scorecards for the Senate and House of Representatives establish one certainty -- that the Democrats will maintain control of both chambers when the 111th Congress is sworn in come January -- and the very strong likelihood that the Democrats will expand the majorities they won by dominating the 2006 elections.

THE POLL: Washington Post-ABC News poll of 772 likely Ohio voters (20 electoral votes).

WASHINGTON - A U.S. military officer warned Pentagon officials that an American detainee was being driven nearly insane by months of punishing isolation and sensory deprivation in a U.S. military brig, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

DETROIT - United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger said Tuesday the union would run $3 million worth of advertising criticizing Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his economic policies in four key states.

The decision by John McCain’s campaign to yank field staff out of Michigan could pull the carpet from under the state’s two vulnerable House Republicans and leave them in serious political jeopardy, statewide GOP operatives said.

When Politico’s Ryan Grim approached Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) after the evening of the Senate bailout vote, the reporter didn’t even get his question out.

According to an analysis released Tuesday of the 2008 women’s vote, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s impact on the presidential campaign is “settling out” and has not enabled John McCain to shrink the traditional gender gap favoring Democrats.

At the start of this presidential campaign, there were many who believed — and hoped — health care reform had recovered from its 1993 thrashing and would rise anew to become a deciding issue in 2008.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's practice of charging the state when she stays in her home must be reviewed to determine if she should pay taxes on the payments, state Finance Director Kim Garnero said Tuesday.

Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Kari Durell, a 38-year-old waitress, had her doubts about Barack Obama after reading wild Internet rumors that he trained with al-Qaeda terrorists as a child. She's voting for him anyway.