Hurley's World

According to advisers, one task for Mr. Biden will be to doggedly portray Mr. McCain as a handmaiden for President Bush who would continue his policies.

A new poll indicates that some delegates to the Democratic National Convention hold lingering concerns about Barack Obama’s experience level.

Race can be a means for Barack Obama to talk about reconciliation — of America with its past, its ideals and the world.

To the Editor:.

To the Editor:.

Caroline Kennedy has been a detective, gathering information, asking questions and learning exhaustive details about some of the nation’s top Democrats.

It would be naïve to suggest that race won’t figure in the election. But the danger for Democrats is that dark prophecies of prejudice could be self-fulfilling.

Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden is preparing to join a select club of women who have been catapulted from relative privacy to the world stage.

Executive changes at the software maker SAP have fed an irresistible narrative in financial markets: the software egghead is yielding to the uncompromising money maker.

Campaign officials acknowledged the connection between the Bidens and MBNA, the enormous financial services company based in Delaware.

The tenth edition of the Carnival of Central and Eastern European Genealogy has been posted at Jessica's Genejournal.

The Department of Defense has identified 575 American service members who have died as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom, which is centered in Afghanistan. It confirmed the death of the following American on Sunday:.

A McCain-Lieberman ticket may have a better prospect of winning than the more conventional alternatives.

Russia's parliament meets to debate recognising the independence of Georgia's two breakaway provinces.

Eight people are killed in a rocket attack on a politician's home in north-west Pakistan, police say.

Tropical Storm Julio drenched the resort-studded southern Baja California peninsula with heavy rains Sunday as authorities evacuated more than 2,500 families living along riverbeds near the coast.

Many doctors are resisting offering their patients a procedure that is now legal.

Whatever you want to call a publisher's recent withdrawal of a novel about the prophet Muhammad's bride, don't call it censorship.

Democrats are urging Barack Obama to use the next four days to address weaknesses in his candidacy and lingering divisions from the primary fight.

Democrats are urging Barack Obama to use the next four days to address weaknesses in his candidacy and lingering divisions from the primary fight.