The day before the West Virginia primary, presumptive Republican nominee John McCain, assured of victory here, courted independent voters on the nation's Left Coast. As coal miners in West Virginia and elsewhere produced the coal that provides half the nation's electric power, McCain called for a mandatory limit on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. > Read More

The state of Israel was born 60 years ago today - or, more precisely, it was reborn about 2,000 years after its people had been forcibly dispersed by the Roman Empire. > Read More

Congress' swift approval of a $168 billion economic stimulus package sends a strong signal to worried consumers and wobbly financial markets that the federal government is capable of taking swift action when it feels it has to. > Read More