<P>Battling to protect Florida's tourist industry from the effects of the spill has propelled Governor Charlie Crist's bid for re-election. </P>
Americas
<P>Delaware's peach festival presents a ripe opportunity to woo voters ahead of US midterm elections.</P>
<p>A federal judge in the state of California has ordered the state to resume issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples beginning August 18.</p>
<p>Omar Khadr is wearing a suit and a tie for the first time in his life. He stands up and smiles at the jury and says hello. </p>
<p>Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, detained at the age of 15, is the only Westerner still being held at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.</p>
<P>The US President unexpected media briefing about Iran last week was nothing more than business as usual.</P>
<P>We landed at the small airport where there were two planes from the United States. From that area operates the Omega Force that is going after Farc leaders such as the "Mono Jojoy" and others.</P>
<P>The United States aids the Colombian military in its fight against the Farc ... and drug trafficking. Our equipment was carried from the airport to the city with a horse - just so you get an idea of the remoteness of this area.</P>
<p>Two years on from the presidential election, Al Jazeera revisits town in Virginia to gauge the outlook of locals on their economic prospects. </p>
<P>With the race for congress costing candidate's millions of dollars, Barack Obama is out in force to get the cash for his Democrats.</P>
<p>There are places, like the medical examiners office in Tucson, Arizona, where the human cost of migration to the United States is counted.</p>
<P>Argentina spearheading South American attempts to bring sparring parties together.</P>
