Big corporations give him money. Presidential candidates seek his endorsement. He has influential friends in Congress and the governor's mansion.

Embattled and embarrassed by the confession he fathered a child from an extramarital affair, New York Rep. Vito Fossella is facing public calls to resign.

Call it the Billionaire meets Boris - a lesson on how to run a world class city.

Forget the Empire State Building. Some New York tourists are eager to see the city's other landmarks: Carrie's stoop, Charlotte's gallery and that restaurant where Samantha threw a martini in a boyfriend's face.

One-time U.S. Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork has settled a lawsuit against the Yale Club after he fell stepping onto a platform to speak.

Raechelle Romero was always running from something, starting at 15: from tough relationships with her dad and stepmother, foster homes, abusive boyfriends.

The dossier spills over into two drawers of files full of hand-scribbled notes, maps marked with sharp black dots - and snapshots of a shadowy figure, scattering bird seed.

Time magazine has published another one of those silly and meaningless lists some in the media occasionally and irritatingly compile to validate their self-importance. It is the 100 “most influential people in the world.” I didn’t make it, but then I don’t make other lists like People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive,” which must be an oversight.

Inside a classroom at the high school in East Baltimore, the boys relish taunting and terrorizing their teacher.

T ax and tax. Spend and spend. Elect and elect!” New Deal architect Harry Hopkins may not have actually spoken those words, but they have nonetheless been the working motto of Democrats for 75 years.