AP - Barack Obama, claiming a prize never held by a black American, swept to the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday as thousands of national convention delegates stood and cheered his improbable triumph.

AP - When this campaign ends, after future presidents have come and gone, and when today's young people are grown old, history will remember Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008, as the day a black man became the presidential nominee of a major party.

AP - In an emotional meeting leading up to the Democratic roll call of the states, Hillary Rodham Clinton released her convention delegates Wednesday to vote for certain presidential nominee Barack Obama.

AP - Barack Obama will accept his party's presidential nomination by laying out a case for sweeping political change and illustrating the choice voters face between his candidacy and that of Republican John McCain, a top adviser said Wednesday.

Politico - Barack Obama wins the Democratic presidential nomination tonight, but it’s a formality on top of a formality. Obama secured the delegates he needed back in June, and those delegates actually cast their votes in hotel banquet rooms earlier today.

AP - Former President Clinton, setting aside his own criticism and ambivalence, planned a full-throated endorsement Wednesday of Barack Obama as a leader ready to confront any challenge.

AP - John McCain's potential running mates were in what amounted to a high-stakes waiting game Wednesday as the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting prepared to announce his running mate in the coming days.

AP - A vanquished guest at another's coronation, Hillary Rodham Clinton proved this week she is still a political force — in the short term and for the future.

AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton isn't the only also-ran on the loose in Denver. Four officials who were mentioned as possible running mates for Barack Obama but didn't make it onto the ticket were getting a chance to address the Democratic convention Wednesday night.

AP - Barack Obama's presidential nominating speech will be coming from a Republican veteran of the Iraq war.

Reuters - To shouts of "Yes we can," Democrats nominated Barack Obama on Wednesday as their presidential candidate in a historic first for a black American, sending him into battle against Republican John McCain.

AFP - Democrat Barack Obama Wednesday made history as Democrats formally nominated him by acclamation as the first black presidential nominee of a major political party.

AFP - After a slow procession through battleground states, Barack Obama flew into Denver Wednesday for his historic coronation as the first black presidential nominee of a major US party.

AFP - Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain will speak in New York City on September 11 at a non-partisan forum for public service, organizers said Wednesday.

AFP - Democrats on Wednesday made history by nominating Barack Obama as the first black presidential nominee of a major US party.