Here are some of the hottest and most current stories on Senator Barack Obama’s :

Jack Reed as Obama surrogate (and veep contender?)
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Barack Obama. Today, perhaps coincidentally (and perhaps not), Reed -- whose national profile until now has been equal to the position of his home state as the smallest in the U.S. -- appeared on ABC's "This Week" as a surrogate for the Democrats' presumptive nominee. 

Barack Obama: US election campaign is turning me grey
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Barack Obama has greyed during his campaign for the US presidency. A month before his 47th birthday, the Illinois senator admitted to donors last week that "the grey is coming quick". "By the time I'm sworn in, I will look the part," he added.

The Facebooker Who Friended Obama
New York Times - United States
Mr. Hughes, 24, was one of four founders of Facebook. In early 2007, he left the company to work in Chicago on Senator Obama’s new-media campaign. “It was overwhelming for the first two months,” he recalled. “It took a while to get my bearings.” But in fact, working on the Obama campaign may have moved Mr. Hughes closer to the center of the social networking phenomenon, not farther away.

Clinton's supporters not yet reconciled to vote for Obama
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
 In an ominous sign for Democratic nominee Barack Obama's campaign, a new survey has found that Hillary Clinton's supporters may not cast their ballot for the African American candidate in the November presidential election. A week after Clinton made a public show of unity with Obama after being trounced in a racially devisive contest for the party ticket, the survey suggests supporters of the New York senator are increasingly less likely to follow her lead.

Obama struggles to thread needle on Iraq
AFP -
WASHINGTON — After months vowing to get US troops home from Iraq, Barack Obama has succumbed to the war's political entanglements, struggling to explain his plan in the light of recent security gains. More than five years after the US invasion, the Iraq war is now enmeshing not only the Bush administration which started it, but both men fighting to inherit it, Democratic White House hopeful Obama and Republican John McCain.

For Republicans, the Senate outlook is bad
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Barack Obama's presidential campaign has generated a big boost in Democratic voter registration, especially among African Americans, who make up more than a third of Mississippi's population. Other quirks, such as ethics scandals, are putting more Republican Senate seats at risk than seemed likely a year ago.

From evangelical Christians, good news for McCain and Obama
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
 Barack Obama got good reviews from some conservative quarters after his speech outlining a plan for building upon the faith-based initiative established by President Bush. But John McCain got better news from the right -- signs of a real push by conservative Christian leaders to coalesce on his behalf.

Michelle Obama ties black, white women?
Baltimore Sun - United States
Clinton has been more widely subjected to criticism, to be sure, but she was a candidate and Obama is a candidate's wife. Still, now that Sen. Barack Obama is the presumptive Democratic nominee, Michelle Obama's supporters worry that the attacks will get worse.