On paper, Pennsylvania should be a slam-dunk for Barack Obama, but anxieties about the economy and candidate have made for an unpredictable dynamic.

It has been 20 years since Katherine Neville's best-selling thriller 'The Eight,' about the hunt for a chess set that was once Charlemagne's. The sequel, 'The Fire,' arrives today. We compare the novels.

Wall Street isn’t the only place experiencing a sea change. Indeed, a White House that once saw as anathema the government talking prices with drug companies now sees the wisdom of government taking equity stakes in troubled financial institutions to serve the greater good.