Matthew Sollars

President Barack Obama says that when it comes to keeping the country safe from terror threats "the buck stops with me."

Kirill Gerstein is the latest winner of the Gilmore Artist Award.

Following a long, impassioned debate, the New Jersey state Senate has defeated a measure that would have legalized gay marriage on Thursday.

President Barack Obama says there will be changes to national security procedures to prevent a repeat of the attempted bombing of a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day.

Congressional Democratic leaders will meet will President Obama on Wednesday night to begin work on a final health care reform bill.

Gov. David Paterson will make ethics reform a centerpiece of his State of the State address tomorrow.

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Gov. David Paterson will make ethics reform a centerpiece of his State of the State address tomorrow. His Albany Reform Act includes the creation of a public campaign-finance system for New York.

Good government groups have praised the governor's proposal, but Republican State Senate Minority Leader ...

The suicide bomber who attacked a remote intelligence base in Afghanistan last week, killing seven C.I.A. officers and a Jordanian intelligence officer, worked for the Jordanian intelligence service.

Authorities in Las Vegas say that a man wearing a black trench coat opened fire with a shot gun in the lobby of a federal building. He killed one court officer and wounded another, before being shot to death.

We review some of the remarkable moments in classical music in 2009.

A federal judge dismissed all charges against five Blackwater security guards on Thursday.

A suicide bomber killed eight American civilians in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday.

President Obama says "systemic failure" allowed the attempted attack on a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day.

Home prices rose in October, but only modestly and analysts are concerned the housing market could be headed toward a second round of declines.

Hoping to reassure nervous holiday travelers, President Barack Obama made his first public comments on the failed attempt to bomb an airline on Christmas Day.

The arts world lost  a number of luminaries in 2009. Here is a brief, incomplete list starting first with the classical music world.

The Vatican is defending Pope Benedict's decision to put Pope Pius XII on the path toward sainthood.

Senate Democrats managed to pass a final test vote, clearing the way for passage of their health care reform package early Thursday morning.

Consumer spending and personal income rates increased slightly in November, but new homes sales dropped sharply.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has announced a pollution-reduction settlement with the nation's third largest power producer.