-
Gov. Janet Napolitano of Arizona and Penny Pritzker, a businesswoman, also emerged as cabinet contenders.
-
The New York Police Department wants the F.B.I. and the government to loosen their approach to the law that governs electronic surveillance.
-
The Big Three automakers left Washington empty-handed after two days of pleading for a financial lifeline.
-
As the stock market tumbled to its lowest level in nearly six years, Wall Street traders and many ordinary Americans were asking the same question: Where, oh where is the bottom?
-
As the first high-profile Japanese baseball prospect to spurn his nation’s leagues to entertain offers from the U.S., Junichi Tazawa has strained relations between leagues on two continents.
-
With Barack Obama’s election, the city is basking in a moment of triumph that goes well beyond politics.
-
Longtime North Korea watchers say recent public moves by the country fit a familiar and consistent pattern, and that they may even signal an upturn in relations with the United States.
-
Annette Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award for nonfiction for “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,” while Peter Matthiessen won the fiction award for “Shadow Country.”
-
Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to the MacArthur Foundation.
-
A federal jury in Manhattan on Wednesday convicted Alberto W. Vilar on 12 counts of fraud.
-
Iran has produced enough nuclear material to make a single atom bomb, though it is unclear if the country has achieved the necessary technical advances to create a bomb.
-
A new report suggests that a living mammoth could perhaps be regenerated from DNA extracted from clumps of the animal’s hair.
-
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg described the $400 rebate checks promised to hundreds of thousands of homeowners as “up in the air.”
-
The Dow fell below 8,000 as concern spread that the economy might be facing a chronic and debilitating decline in prices.
-
Some of the nation’s biggest companies are pushing Congress to roll back rules requiring them to put more money into their pension funds.
-
As a critic in Britain and later for The New York Times, Mr. Barnes helped bring dance to a broad audience with an exuberant style.
-
A certain sense of desperation seems to be creeping across eastern Congo as more territory slips into a jumbled world between government and rebel control.
-
Conservatives and liberals alike have repeatedly denounced Islamic courts as poor substitutes for British jurisprudence.
-
Less than a year after the Los Angeles County Museum of Art opened a museum named for Eli Broad, Mr. Broad is considering opening his own museum just down the street.
-
The Tarim mummies have become protagonists in a political dispute over who should control the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
-
The shrieks, cries and shouts of N.B.A. players trying to persuade referees they were fouled are now as much sounds of the game as the squeaking of sneakers.
-
A man accused of murder sees his fortunes turn when electronic evidence, including records collected from his MetroCard use, validates his alibi in court.
-
The heads of the Big Three automakers pleaded for emergency government aid to stave off potential collapse, but it appeared they had not persuaded enough lawmakers to move quickly on a bailout.
-
Barack Obama’s transition team has signaled to Eric H. Holder Jr. that he will be chosen as attorney general, but no final decision has been made, people involved in the process said.
-
Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, convicted last month on federal ethics charges, lost his bid for a seventh term, giving Democrats at least 58 seats in the Senate.
-
Prosecutors will file new charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani, whose well-documented interrogation has made his case a focal point in debates about Guantánamo.
-
A regional piracy-monitoring agency in Singapore said maritime attacks in Asia in the first nine months of the year dropped 11 percent compared to 2007 and 32 percent from 2006.
-
The dismissals come as estimates of Iraqi corruption have soared.
-
Google's voice search service for the iPhone may signify an inflection point -- speech recognition that is more useful than typing.
-
The Smithsonian Institution held the first public board meeting in its 162-year history on Monday. The first question: “Why did you not all resign?”
-
The Municipal Art Society put forward ideas for a revitalized amusement area as part of its Imagine Coney initiative.
-
Even those who agree with the mayor's plan for a surcharge on plastic bags at stores say that weaning off such a useful item could be particularly difficult.
-
A combination of factors including unemployment and injury has forced many veterans into foreclosure.
-
The Detroit automakers and the United Automobile Workers face criticism as they push for a bailout.
-
Aides said Barack Obama would not formally offer Hillary Rodham Clinton a post unless he was satisfied that Bill Clinton’s activities would not pose a conflict.
-
Yahoo said Mr. Yang, who helped build the company into an Internet giant, would step down from his role as chief executive.
-
In New Hampshire, where frugality is prized, a town’s new library has thousands of books, but it needs a budget so it can open without a local tax increase.
-
Upon taking office, President-elect Barack Obama will be forced to weigh presidential power and civil liberties.
-
A last-minute Bush administration proposal addresses objections to abortion on religious or moral grounds.
-
As newspapers shrink, rival operations have arisen in several cities, forcing the papers to follow their lead.
-
The charges were the first to arise from a host of state and federal investigations into the legitimacy of disability payments at the Long Island Rail Road.
-
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg does not have the power to halt the $400 homeowners' rebate checks, the city's top budget official admitted on Monday.
-
Obama advisers were said to be reviewing Bill Clinton’s finances and activities to see whether they would preclude the appointment of his wife as secretary of state.
-
“TRL,” the afternoon video show that has been an MTV flagship for 10 years, came to an end on Sunday night with the network’s version of a New Orleans funeral.
-
The number of Americans studying in China increased by 25 percent last year, according to a new report.
-
Most of the 600 trailer homes at Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Los Angeles went up in flames, leaving residents to mourn the loss of their homes but also, of their community.
-
Experts say the foreign carmakers could take control of the industry and its supplier network more quickly than is understood.
-
Archaeologists have found evidence of the 138th pyramid in Cairo, but these monuments to Egypt’s early ingenuity are also an ever-present symbol of faded glory.
-
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he would guarantee the safety of Mullah Muhammad Omar for peace talks.
-
Rising unemployment and sharp drops in tax revenue are forcing states to face service cuts, hiring freezes, tax increases, or all of these.