AP - Colorado gubernatorial hopeful Dan Maes' murky past in law enforcement in neighboring Kansas has become the latest distraction in his gaffe-ridden campaign.

AP - President Barack Obama and the first family took advantage of brilliant New England weather Friday to go biking on Martha's Vineyard.

AP - Rape. Scientology. Greedy bankers. Armed militias. A love story gone wrong.

AP - It says something when the most exciting moment of a presidential vacation is a trip to the bookstore.

Reuters - Australia's two major parties wooed independent lawmakers on Sunday after an inconclusive election left the nation facing its first hung parliament since 1940 and set financial markets up for a sharp sell-off.

AFP - International Hip-Hop star Wycleff Jean has been excluded from Haiti's November presidential election following a long deliberation by the country's electoral council.

AP - Americans increasingly are convinced — incorrectly — that President Barack Obama is a Muslim, and a growing number are thoroughly confused about his religion.

AP - Republican candidates around the country seized on President Barack Obama's support for the right of Muslims to build a mosque near ground zero, assailing him as an elitist who is insensitive to the families of the Sept. 11 victims.

AFP - With an eye on Afghanistan and the next US presidential election, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he hoped to leave in 2011 as he will know by then if the war strategy is working.

AP - President Barack Obama and his family cruised the waters off their Florida Panhandle hotel on Sunday, offering a portrait of a family on vacation to boost a region struggling with the economic damage wrought by the nation's worst oil spill.