Jack Reed

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) _ The wife of Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel plans to endorse Democrat Barack Obama. Lilibet Hagel has scheduled a 10 a.m. news conference in Alexandria, Va., on Tuesday with Susan Eisenhower, the granddaughter of Republican President...

FILMS " Righteous Kill," 2008 "Ratatouille," 2007 "Romeo and Juliet," 1996 "Tommy Boy," 1995 "Presumed Innocent," 1990 "Best Seller," 1987 "The Belly of the Architect," 1987 "Legal Eagles," 1986 "F/X," 1986 "Silverado," 1985 "Cocoon," 1985...

by Frank James The conventional wisdom in Washington is that one reason the Bush Administration's proposal to buy toxic assets from financial institutions failed in the House earlier this week is because of bad marketing. The administration allowed the...

by Mark Silva So it is the Senate that goes first with the bailout -- some call it rescue -- of the nation's bad-mortgage-clogged banking institutions, with a vote tonight of 74-25. The Senate's strong and bipartisan approval of a......

Liberal Democrats are in agony over bailing out Wall Street. Conservative Republicans are in agony over massive government intervention in what they like to call the free market. Yet neither side wants to be blamed if the financial system implodes. It...

The McDonogh boys soccer team spent the first half unsuccessfully trying to find the one crack in visiting Archbishop Curley's bunkered-down defense yesterday. The frustration ended just two minutes into the second half with sophomore forward Julian...

Through weeks of market crisis and in high-stakes negotiations, the Treasury secretary and Fed chairman have had prominent profiles and drawn pointed criticism. Now the Securities and Exchange Commission, which put an unprecedented temporary ban on short-...

Throughout his excellent private detective series and his superlative stand-alone mysteries, Mystic River and Shudder Island, Dennis Lehane has explored how individuals become who they are. This theme is also the bedrock of The Given Day, Lehane's most...

Throughout his excellent private detective series and his superlative stand-alone mysteries, Mystic River and Shudder Island, Dennis Lehane has explored how individuals become who they are. This theme is also the bedrock of The Given Day, Lehane's most...

So, Obama, after a stopover to visit with troops and play some hoops in Kuwait, has now landed in Afghanistan, which apparently will precede Iraq on his foreign trip over the next week. A couple of good things have......

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's regulator is blocking as much as $24 million in "golden parachute" severance payments to the companies' ousted chief executives. The Federal Housing Finance Agency notified former Fannie CEO Daniel Mudd and former Freddie CEO...

Barack Obama, riding a message of change, swept aside a Democratic dynasty and two centuries of history Wednesday to become the first African American to lead a major political party into the fall campaign for the White House. The vote was by acclamation...