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With a fearsome Hurricane Ike in its wake, Hanna moved quickly up the East Coast with rain and strong winds.

Steve Schmidt has transformed John McCain’s campaign into an elbows-out, risk-taking, disciplined machine.

With just over eight weeks left until Election Day, the two sides are settling into an unusually broad set of state-by-state face-offs.

Advisers poring over the books of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac concluded that Freddie’s accounting methods had overstated its cushion, officials said.

The barn, a building whose purpose shifted, then faded away, tells a story of how farming has changed markedly.

Leading members of Congress say they do not think the F.B.I. has proved that an Army scientist was the anthrax killer.

Mike Swoboda, the former mayor of a St. Louis suburb who was badly wounded when a gunman opened fire at a City Council meeting, died Saturday of complications connected to his injuries

Washington has a long history of providing financial help to the private sector when the economic or political risk of a corporate collapse appeared too high.

Under the plan, the Treasury Department will buy billions of dollars in new mortgage securities issued by the companies and inject an unknown amount of capital into them.

Gov. Sarah Palin echoed Republican criticism of the size of the companies, while Senator Barack Obama voiced support of the plan but withheld final judgment pending details of the bailout.

Sarah Palin’s offer of friendship sparked hope in many with a stake in the often-marginalized subject of disabilities rights, an issue she has not focused on in Alaska.

Senators John McCain and Barack Obama plan to make a rare joint appearance at ground zero for the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Bob Woodward paints a picture of an administration shrugging off bad news and postponing decisions as the crisis in Iraq deepened.

Without much fanfare or public notice, Senator Barack Obama has embraced a central element of the Republican agenda: the treatment of corporate dividends.

Interviews with pastors point to a firm conclusion: Sarah Palin’s foundation and source of guidance is the Bible.

Lawmakers in some states are looking to sharply reduce the caps on annual interest rates for payday lenders, as the industry is attempting to put the issue on the ballot.

Many Paralympians criticize the U.S. Olympic program for giving them fewer benefits than Olympians receive.

For the moment, Sarah Palin has been elusive when it comes to many reporters’ inquiries.

With their conventions behind them, Senators Barack Obama and John McCain grappled for the mantle of change.

An Edgar Allan Poe scholar is arguing that Poe’s remains belong in Philadelphia, where he wrote many of his most noteworthy works.