Gov. Sarah Palin has a following of women in Alaska who are as dedicated to her as other women were to a very different version of the modern female politician, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton....

Representative Charles B. Rangel has owned a villa in the Dominican Republic since 1988, but never reported rental income on his tax returns....

Asif Ali Zardari will start his tenure as Pakistan’s president burdened by unproven corruption allegations....

For the first time, scientists have recorded individual brain cells fetching a spontaneous memory....

Evacuees continued to stream home after a hurricane scare that left it with little serious damage but knocked out power to tens of thousands of homes....

The Giants opened the season with a beating of the Washington Redskins and looked as dominant as the team that stunned the New England Patriots just months ago....

The co-owner of Coney Island's famous amusement park said it would "cease operations permanently" on Sept. 7 because it could not reach an agreement with the property owner....

Partly by his nature and partly by calculation, John McCain is sounding a call to topple the establishment....

This year’s Republican convention hardly measures up to the belligerence of Pat Buchanan in 1992, but some of the same refrains are playing in the background....

Republicans have been looking for hints on whether John McCain’s tone will be one of go-it-alone or let’s-negotiate....