Washington, Nov. 22 : US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has chided John McCain for invoking her name in attacking Barack Obama on the campaign trail.

“It was a compliment in some ways to have him use me. I mean, it was really almost bankrupt that he would have to resort to something — most people don''t even know who I am,” Pelosi told reporters during her weekly press conference on Friday.

Washington  - Republican John McCain picked up the final prize of the US presidential election on Wednesday, winning the hotly contested battleground of Missouri by a narrow margin.

More than two weeks after the vote, results showed him beating president-elect Barack Obama there by fewer than 4,000 votes.

The Missouri secretary of state's office showed 1,445,812 votes for McCain and running mate Sarah Palin, to 1,441,910 votes for national winner Obama and his running mate Joe Biden.

The state brings the final tally in the electoral college to 365 for Obama to 173 for McCain.

Chicago, Nov. 18: Losing Republican presidential candidate and Arizona Senator John McCain has revealed that he is ready to help President-elect Barack Obama fix America up.

McCain is said to have conveyed this message to Obama when the two of them met here on Monday afternoon to discuss ways to work together in the future.

Both met in Obama''s transition headquarters in Chicago and were assisted by Rahm Emanuel, Obama''s incoming White House chief of staff, and South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, McCain''s close friend, Fox News reports.

Washington  - US president-elect Barack Obama and former opponent Senator John McCain pledged to "launch a new era" on Monday during their first meeting since the election.

Obama hosted McCain at his transition team headquarters in Chicago and met privately after appearing for photographs. They later issued a joint statement promising to work together on government reform and across Republican and Democratic party lines to tackle the nation's economic problems.

Washington  - US president-elect Barack Obama and his former opponent, Senator John McCain, met on Monday for the first time since the election, pledging to work together to meet the country's challenges.

Obama hosted McCain at his transition team headquarters in Chicago to have a "good conversation about how we can work together to fix up the country," the president-elect said.

Washington, Nov. 15 : Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, has said that his boss affectionately called reporters "little jerks," but in the case of reporters from the Time''s, he actually meant it.

According to Davis, he was particularly annoyed with James Carney and Michael Scherer.

On the "Time" magazine interview where McCain was non-responsive, leading journalists to conclude he was unhappy with his own campaign, Davis was quoted by Politico as saying: “He didn’t want to do that interview, he thought they were being jerks.”