The "Me" is teen heartthrob Zac Efron. But it's Christian McKay as Orson Welles who'll make you think Oscar nomination

TIME talks to the former star of The Wire about his iconic portrayal of Omar and his experience working on The Road, which hits theaters Nov. 25

He's already one of the most recognizable faces in American cooking. Now he's turned his knife to the most American of feasts -- Thanksgiving

Skeptical Democrats demand a war tax as Afghanistan's declining security situation raises the financial burden of the U.S. in expanding its commitment there

Bookended by 9/11 and a financial wipeout, the first 10 years of the century will likely go down as the most dispiriting decade Americans have lived through since World War II. Can the next one be better?

A powerful judge has ordered the Executive Branch to stop interfering with his decision to allow a court employee to get health coverage for her wife

Electronic toy hamsters called Zhu Zhu Pets are the breakout hit of the holiday season. Why the fuzzy creatures will clean up at the cash register

Faced with the sudden collapse of its plan to sell Saab to Sweden's Koenigsegg Group AB, a disappointed General Motors must now confront the possibility of shutting Saab down

A showdown is looming between retailers and bargain-hunting shoppers over who will blink first at the cash register this holiday season

A Nevada man whose wife had an affair with Sen. John Ensign said he discovered the relationship after intercepting a text message around Christmas in 2007

Legislators irked for months over Gov. Mark Sanford's summertime vanishing act and his tearful revelation that he was in Argentina for a rendezvous with his lover plan to start debating a measure

India has waited 17 years for the findings of a commission into the riots that began at Ayodhya. In that time, a younger electorate has emerged, for whom communal politics are a thing of the past

Six years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, a new inquiry will seek toshed light on Britain's reasons for going to war -- and the lack of a planfor the aftermath

Britain has always had a slightly uncomfortable relationship with sex. Butyou wouldn't know it by the thousands of visitors at the annual sex expo inLondon

A new study suggests that the East Antarctic ice sheet, which holds about five times as much ice as West Antarctica and Greenland combined, is in decline

On the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, political journalist Dennis Sewell talks to TIME about how the naturalist's big idea has been harnessed for sinister ends

Private-equity firms, such as Blackstone, KKR and Carlyle, have bought thousands of companies over the past decade using mostly debt. In a new book, author Josh Kosman argues that these leveraged acquisitions will produce the next financial meltdown

With employment in double digits and a full recovery a way off, lawmakers are looking for ways to boost employment. It was easier in the early U.S.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to move Albert Camus' ashes to the famed PanthÉon in Paris as a way of revering the writer and philosopher. His critics, however, see more tactical motivations

China may figure more prominently in Washington's strategic calculations, but Indians believe their country will be closer to Washington in the long term