US Republican Party News Headlines

AP - Republican candidate John McCain on Wednesday called on Congress to return from its summer recess to address immediately the U.S. energy crisis, though he missed numerous energy-related votes in the Senate last year.

AP - Attention, America: Paris has spoken. Paris Hilton, the blonde, doe-eyed celebrity thrust into the presidential campaign in an ad by Republican candidate John McCain, issued a tart rebuttal Tuesday, albeit in a scantily clad, tongue-in-cheek kind of way.

AP - Will he or won't he? Vice President Dick Cheney is one of the nation's most prominent Republicans, but there are doubts about whether he will attend the GOP convention.

U.S. News & World Report - Expected GOP nominee John McCain may be buried under an avalanche of criticism over his "Celeb" ad that compares the popularity--and heft--of Democratic rival Barack Obama to that of celebutants Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, but his campaign advisers are feeling just fine about the ad's reception.

AP - Republican candidate John McCain's presidential campaign is cynical, not racist, in its efforts to distract voters from real issues, Democratic rival Barack Obama said Saturday.

AP - Dueling delegations pitting Ron Paul's Nevada supporters against those of John McCain vow to take their fight to the Republican National Convention.

AP - Democrat Barack Obama, the first black candidate with a shot at winning the White House, says John McCain and his Republican allies will try to scare them by saying Obama "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."

AFP - The US Republican Party reeled Wednesday from the indictment of its longest-serving senator, which dealt a fresh blow to its hope of limiting expected large-scale losses in congressional elections.

AP - Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe looks strong in his bid for a third term. The Democratic nominee, on the other hand, has a lot of work to do if he wants to pull off an election upset in November.

AP - The indictment of Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens on charges that he lied about accepting gifts from an oil contractor only adds to his party's already bleak electoral prospects in November, and not simply because it could cost the GOP a Senate seat that should be safe.

CQPolitics.com - The indictment Tuesday of longtime Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens puts Republicans in serious jeopardy of losing his Senate seat to the Democrats this year.