Republican John McCain -- making the rounds of the morning news shows as polls show him falling behind Democratic rival Barack Obama and his running mate losing the confidence of voters -- sounded either bitter or fatalistic,...

A Colombian soccer player shot and killed a fan for calling him "lousy" on Sunday, days after the player's team lost a local championship, police said. Javier Florez, a midfielder for the Atletico Junior team of the Caribbean city if Barranquilla, ran...

In a batch of Friday evening appointments, President Obama said he is nominating Victoria Reggie Kennedy, the widow of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, to the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The prominent Washington arts...

Adam Nagourney of the New York Times reminds that a couple of rather intriguing political figures are the featured speakers Saturday night at the Gridiron Dinner, the annual Washington insider-ish gathering of the power elite and various hangers on. One...

President Obama, more optimistic that real progress will be made on a global climate change agreement, will go to a key meeting in Copenhagen at a more crucial time, the White House announced late this afternoon. Obama had planned to...

By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff WASHINGTON -- In the first Supreme Court brief of its kind naming President Obama as a defendant, a team of lawyers from Bingham McCutchen, one of Boston's most prestigious law firms, today asked for the...