Hillary Style

It was an odd gathering of lawmakers in the hidebound conventions of New York's Senate chamber that early June day.

In his struggle to change the nation's health care system, Barack Obama again faces certain obstacles that almost stopped his amazing march to the presidency.

With time running short, a judge in Miami wants an update on settlement talks in the U.S. effort to obtain names of thousands of suspected American tax evaders from Swiss bank UBS AG.

Six days had passed since Iran 's disputed June 12 election, but the fury that brought three million people onto the streets the previous Monday showed no sign of abating.

The United States and Britain said Wednesday they are committed to remaining in Afghanistan, despite increased military casualties and declining public support for the war effort.

WASHINGTON: The US secretary of state has called on Iran to free political detainees following reports that many are being abused by the authorities.

Political observers and some voters have made much ado in the past week about fundraisers by the two announced Democratic candidates for governor, one in a Manhattan penthouse and another at a fish fry in Alabama.

At what could be described as a surreal sentencing hearing, inexplicably held 4 1/2 years after Paul pled guilty to violating SEC Reg 10 5 in March, 2005 and eight years after Paul was indicted, the Assistant US Attorney advised the Court for the first time that it provided inaccurate information regarding losses to shareholders.

An American client of UBS AG pleaded guilty on Tuesday to using Swiss bank accounts to hide more than $8 million from U.S. tax authorities and said a Swiss government official received $45,000 to help cover up the fraud.