A lucky band of ground zero construction workers scored a $250,000 prize in a Christmas Eve Mega Millions lottery drawing, picking five of six numbers correctly, the New York Lottery says.
The Associated Press has won the political version of musical chairs, beating out Fox News, Bloomberg and National Public Radio to win the coveted front row, center seat of the White House briefing room left vacant by Helen Thomas' retirement in June, the White House Correspondents Association announced Sunday.
"It was the Sun wot won it" claimed the bumptious newspaper in a famous headline the day after the 1992 UK election surprisingly returned Conservative Prime Minister John Major to power.
CNN's Max Foster takes a look at the highlights and feisty point-scoring of the last televised British leaders debate.
At an auction at a gallery in New York recently, a piece of artwork sold for a higher price than had been anticipated by the auctioneers: $4,080.
What could be the last autograph signed by President Kennedy was sold recently at an auction of items linked to his assassination in Texas.
Former senator Edward Brooke receives the Congressional Gold Medal from President Obama.
Edward Brooke, the first African-American elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote, was honored Wednesday with a Congressional Gold Medal.
One of the great puzzles this summer has been why President Obama seemed to have underestimated the intensity of the counter-mobilization he would face in proposing health care reform.
A timeline of the tragedies and the happier moments that shaped Sen. Ted Kennedy's life and career.
A bell tolled atop Boston's Faneuil Hall on Thursday as the body of Sen. Edward Kennedy passed through the streets, while mourners lined up outside his late brother's presidential library for a chance to say goodbye.
Is the anger in American politics edging towards violence?
Former President John F. Kennedy saw a proposed ban on above-ground nuclear tests as a way to thaw U.S.-Soviet relations after the Cuban Missile Crisis, according to recordings released Thursday.
Here are 15 ways to bring back the art of having fun (without any electronic thingamajigs).
President Barack Obama, our newly inaugurated 44th president, showed the millions watching around the world and the freezing millions there in person on the Mall why he won the election -- and why so many believe he can lead us in these troubled times.
Now that he is president-elect, Barack Obama must start thinking about what to do with Joe Biden.
Through Election Night, CNN.com users can customize their online election tracking through the site's "Your Races" feature.
March 30, 1981. Arguably the most powerful man in the world is shot.
CNN's Ed Henry reports on what real people in Ohio are saying about the GOP choices for Vice President.
With Sen. John McCain touring Pennsylvania with his good friend and the state's popular former governor, Tom Ridge, the buzz is inevitably building about the Republican presidential candidate's choice for running mate.
A key member of Sen. Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, Jim Johnson, is stepping down after criticism over a mortgage he received, the Obama campaign said Wednesday.
Time.com: How to Pick a Veepupdated: Thu Jun 12 2008 02:00:00
There's no right way to choose a No. 2. McCain and Obama have to decide what matters most: heft, diversity, party unity, regional balance, buzz -- or a combination of all five
As former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney tries to distinguish himself from his Republican rivals in the race for president, he's also distancing himself from President Bush.
Once when French President Charles de Gaulle heard an aide describe someone as "indispensable," the general replied: "The graveyards are full of indispensable men.''
Delta Air Lines is considering dissolving its discount unit Song, although it looks to incorporate many successful elements of that fleet successful, according to a news report published Friday.
The first televised debate between presidential candidates, which took place 45 years ago Monday, not only had a major effect on the 1960 election, it changed America politics for good.
On the eve of a crucial Supreme Court ruling on music piracy, a leading industry group claimed this week that the global black market for stolen music discs reached $4.6 billion last year -- or one in three CDs.
The following is a partial transcript of the debate between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry held Thursday night at the University of Miami. The topic of the debate is foreign affairs, and the moderator is Jim Lehrer of PBS:
Former President Bill Clinton addressed the Democratic National Convention Monday night. This is a transcript of his speech.
Hours before daybreak today, mourners started lining up at the Botanical Gardens on Capitol Hill. They'll remain there all day -- swelling in number from hundreds to thousands, and eventually to hundreds of thousands -- as they wait to pay respects to Ronald Reagan, whose casket will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda starting this evening.
Mission to Mars: Bush's vision
His opponents say he's two-faced. Or too fresh-faced. Or too obsessed with saving face. But there's one thing even they can't contest: Bill Clinton is no new face.
DON'T DOFF your designer dinner jacket just yet, but be warned: The long, glittery banquet may be coming to a close, the waiters serving the final candied course. The watchwords of the Eighties -- ...
-- Have we learned anything in the quarter century since the last great war on poverty was conceived? After all, that war was lost, and poverty in the U.S. is just as ugly and sprawling now as it w...
In a year with so many candidates, choosing which campaign buttons to store in the attic can be even more difficult than predicting the next President. The election will be decided in November, but...
Fortune: NOW HEAR THISupdated: Mon Nov 23 1987 00:01:00
LEONARD GREEN, 54, partner in the leveraged buyout firm of Gibbons Green van Amerongen, on observing the market crash, which he thinks returned stock prices to more reasonable levels: ''It's like w...
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