July 20, 2008

Barack Obama stopped on a high-profile foreign trip in a country that is increasingly the focus of his clash with John McCain.

Rising test scores highlight a year of ambitious change at the beleaguered Newton Street School in Newark.

The ultimate reassurance about the national economy: If debt stopped Americans from consuming, the pain would go global.

Seth Greenberg, the son of a legendary Upper East Side baker, makes schnecken, lemon bars and more in his Scarsdale home.

Practices that produced record profits for many banks have led millions of Americans to the brink.

Hundreds of items spanning the life of the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, were up for auction at Christie’s this week.

Greg Norman is one step from rewriting his own history, and the record for the oldest golfer to win an Open, leading the 137th British Open by two strokes after three rounds.

The credit crisis has exacerbated a dangerous division between average borrowers and an elite slice of corporations, banks and executives enriched by the mortgage mania.

For years, the Presbyterian Church of Astoria was torn apart by debate over its future. The rifts will be a long time in healing.

With the bases loaded in the 12th inning, José Molina let a just-barely-too-inside fastball from Oakland reliever Lenny DiNardo hit him in the knee.

With gas prices high, more people seem to be catching their waves closer to home.

Narcissism is a deep-seated idea in psychoanalytic literature, but its overuse in the pop culture may have robbed it of meaning.