A man wanted in connection with the hijacking of a Pan Am flight to Cuba nearly 41 years ago was arrested in New York on Sunday, a Justice Department official said. Luis Armando Pena Soltren was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport for...

The Huffington Post The GOP called for the check Wednesday night, having had enough of the fight over an extension of unemployment benefits that the party had held up for several weeks. While the Senate was stuck in parliamentary limbo, some 200,000...

By JESSE McKINLEY The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — As the dust settled from Tuesday’s elections, one of next year’s potentially bruising campaigns came into focus on Wednesday as Carly Fiorina, a former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard and...

By Bill Scher The Campaign for America’s Future Chamber of Commerce (the real one) moves towards supporting Kerry-Graham climate compromise. Politico quotes top Chamber lobbyist: “Senators Kerry and Graham have set forth a positive, practical and...

by Kathlene Carney Bodega Bay Life There’s a family of bobcats living in our Bodega Bay neighborhood. Over the past couple of months, I’ve seen at least one a day. Our neighbors saw four a few weeks ago. They’re usually walking along in the coastal...

By Bill Shaikin Los Angeles Times Hideki Matsui drives in six runs to help New York eliminate Philadelphia in six games and claim first championship in nine years. The grand opening year for the new Yankee Stadium concluded in grand fashion, in the...