Alistair Darling says he is willing to take "some pretty big steps" to stabilise the banking system, amid fears of more bank failures.

Gordon Brown completes his ministerial reshuffle and there is no job for prominent backbencher Jon Cruddas.

A Bridge of Years, by Robert Charles WilsonLife During Wartime, by Lucius ShepardWatchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave GibbonsScience fiction, almost by definition, takes place in the realm of the odd, using any number of tricks and speculations with the

St. Louis County voters will be asked Nov. 4 to approve a half-cent sales tax increase to provide funds for public transportation €" sustaining the current Metro transit system and providing for future expansion of MetroLink light rail.

Seldom, if ever, has the American economy gone through a week like the one just passed.

The study recommends various creative approaches to tackle the long-standing Kashmir conflict that remains unresolved by India and Pakistan trying to impose their preferred solutions. Though undertaken by a Delhi-based think tank, its officials describe the study as Indo-Pak study

India has never been a threat to Pakistan. I, for one, and our democratic government is not scared of Indian influence abroad,' Zardari told Wall Street Journal in an interview.

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Today's Daily Kos Research 2000 tracking poll has Obama up over McCain 52-40, no change from yesterday. All trackers are data from three days prior to posting, with the R2K numbers from today (yesterday's numbers in parentheses) and the other

The real reason to talk about Sarah Palin is that John McCain is boring. George Will: I knew Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt was a friend of mine. And Senator McCain, you're no Teddy Roosevelt. Frank Rich: After the debate, Republicans

Even if you were not alive to see it in 1964, you may well have heard of the "Daisy ad," the most famous (or infamous) political television ad of all time. President Johnson ran the ad only once; it was

Where will the candidates be today? Barack Obama Asheville, North Carolina Asheville High School Memorial Stadium 2:00 pm (EDT) Joe Biden No public events scheduled today [Michelle Obama and Jill Biden have no public events scheduled] John McCain Resting Sarah

We posted this morning about the 60+ voter and how the poll numbers dramatically changed after Black Monday (9/15). All the other age demos are solidly Obama MCCAIN OBAMA BARR NADER OTHER UND 18-29 28 64 0 1 2 5

Obama's coming out with a new ad Monday, and playing nice and reaching across the aisle won't be the themes of the day. Discussion of this ad and the Obama campaign's promise of a harder hitting stategy is underway in

We often say that John McCain is running for George Bush's third term, and yesterday we learned that he plans to do it by running Bush's first campaign...the campaign where Bush assaulted John McCain's character: Sen. John McCain and his

Last cycle, the Secretary of State Project did tremendous work in raising money and awareness for several contested SoS races across the country. These unheralded but crucial state-level office-holders are crucial for protecting the voting franchise. Corrupt Republicans like Ken