Former President Clinton worked Friday to smooth over comments from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign and its allies that have raised hackles in the black community, a week before Democrats will vote in the South Carolina primary, their first test involving a heavily black electorate. ...more

January 12, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP)- Mike Huckabee's first day as Arkansas governor is remembered most for the Four Hour Crisis. Five minutes before Huckabee was to be sworn in, the disgraced outgoing governor, Jim Guy Tucker, tried to wriggle out of his promise to resign. ...more

December 29, 2007

Stephen Colbert was voted AP Celebrity of the Year by newspaper editors and broadcast producers who said he had the biggest impact on pop culture in 2007. ...more

December 21, 2007

A top adviser to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York said Wednesday that Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's admission of illegal drug use as a young man could threaten his electability and be seized on by Republicans if he won the Democratic presidential nomination. ...more

December 13, 2007

A distraught man wearing what appeared to be a bomb walked into a Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign office Friday and demanded to speak to the candidate during a hostage drama that dragged on for nearly six hours before he peacefully surrendered. ...more

December 1, 2007

This week's Mideast peace conference is unlike any previous U.S. attempt to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because the price of failure has risen dramatically: Radical Islamists could gain the upper hand in Palestinian areas and in an increasingly polarized Middle East. ...more

November 25, 2007

I recently had occasion to discuss the Bush administration's war on terrorism with one of the highest ranking former officials responsible for planning that war. He asked me what I thought the administration's biggest mistake was. ...more

November 11, 2007

The University of Florida student stunned by a police Taser and arrested after his fervent, videotaped outburst at an event with Sen. John Kerry said Thursday that he was only trying to raise "important issues that the media doesn't talk about." ...more

November 2, 2007

The University of Florida student stunned by a police Taser and arrested after his fervent, videotaped outburst at an event with Sen. John Kerry won't go to court if he stays out of trouble during 18 months of probation, prosecutors said Tuesday. ...more

October 31, 2007

One of the memorable moments in Alice's journey through Wonderland is the twisted conversation in which Humpty Dumpty declares, 'When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.' ...more

October 29, 2007