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On Oct. 8, 1956, New York Yankees pitcher Don Larsen retired one Brooklyn Dodger after another for nine straight innings until a final called strike distinguished his performance as the [...]

Some see the glass as half full, others as half empty. Some remember Elvis as the svelte, pelvis-thrusting, rock balladeer who transformed popular music. Others recall only the Elvis who [...]

After decades of voicing strong opposition to the idea of testing for steroid use, the Major League Baseball Players Association has agreed to random testing of major-leaguers in 2003. The [...]

Power may be a natural aphrodisiac, but this week the passions seemed to turn narcissistic, both among those seeking power and those who have fallen from it. Democratic potential presidential [...]

The foundation was laid at the June meeting in Dallas of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The 60 million-member Catholic Church in the United States now is moving [...]

The New York Times reported July 1 on passage of corporate-reform legislation sponsored by Rep. Mike Oxley (R-Ohio), and a pension-reform bill sponsored by John Boehner (R-Ohio), as having occurred [...]

With major League Baseball (MLB) players briefly having laid down the rawhide and pine for the midseason All-Star Game, Democrats and Republicans marked their own return from the Fourth of [...]

The celebration of Independence Day took on new meaning this year in the horrific light of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 as public celebrations were surrounded with stepped-up security [...]

Once again, things did not seem to be quite aboveboard. In this case, it was the Brazilian ad agency DPZ that was caught on the wrong side of the lie. [...]

With less than 140 days remaining before Election Day 2002, congressional Republicans and Democrats pushed legislation and pulled no punches in trying to control the small acre of land that [...]

With unusually blissful bipartisanship the joint House and Senate Intelligence Committee closed-door hearings to examine the events leading up to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 were officially launched. Agreeing [...]

It may not be a sign of the coming Apocalypse that Anna Nicole Smith, best known for becoming betrothed to an antediluvian billionaire and unabashedly undressing for Playboy, will be [...]

For a moment it appeared to be a redefining turn in the presidency of George W. Bush. Was there really evidence the administration was aware that passenger planes were about [...]

With former president Jimmy Carter having sneaked into the headlines by sucking up to one of the last remaining communist dictators, and national TV networks bending over backward to court [...]

If the scrubbed and smiling octogenarians in wheelchairs did not give it away, and the herds of citizens carrying placards with the monikers of health-organizations and interest groups were of [...]

Florida is at the center of another contentious battle, but this time it is pulp and not chad that is at issue. On April 24, consumer advocates from the Center [...]

As Secretary of State Colin Powell concluded his tortuous jaunt through the Middle East, President George W. Bush traveled to the Virginia Military Institute to deliver remarks to the George [...]

Even as the April 15 tax deadline loomed over the heads of anxious and confused Americans, their representatives in Washington could not gather enough votes to pass the Taxpayer Protection [...]

Less than a week after the celebration of Good Friday, marking the crucifixion of Jesus, one of Christianity's holiest sites was enveloped in the rising tension and violence crippling the [...]

It surprised only the most verdant rookie that the passage of the new campaign-finance law already has failed to control runaway fund raising and has provided both loopholes and excuses [...]

The vernal equinox may mark the official beginning of spring and the thawing of winter but, in Washington, a chill remained evident as Congress wrangled about everything except the shape [...]

Critics attempted to caricature President George W. Bush as an affable idiot, but the former Texas governor used the elitist presumptions to his advantage. Instead of affecting complexity and taking [...]

The late H.L. Mencken probably got it right when he wrote that the making of predictions, like the writing of fugues, is fatal to all except the absolute genius. This [...]

As he got ready to depart for foreign soil, political opponents and members of the press continued to question whether campaign donations had played a part in the decisionmaking of [...]

At a moment in U.S. history when slaking one's thirst with a frosty tankard of beer, purchasing a new sofa and changing telephone carriers were being draped with the flag [...]

Michael LaRock has learned an invaluable lesson about hubris. So confident was he of his abilities to stay one step ahead of the police -- he already had escaped from [...]

They said he had an accent and a speaking style that some modern Torquemada might use to interrogate Taliban prisoners if it weren't certain to violate the Geneva Convention. But [...]

In the beginning was the word, and the word was Enron. Fresh from the work period in their home districts, congressmen returned to Washington (with their lists of donations returned [...]

With the implosion of the Taliban, the dissolution of al-Qaeda forces and the curtain coming down on the military engagement in the Afghanistan theater, the media have turned delightedly to [...]

When Churchill, an endangered North American right whale, became entangled in fishing gear, the U.S. Coast Guard tried to come to its rescue. Authorities made six unsuccessful attempts to free [...]

The axiom may not be poetic, but it usually is true: Never let your mouth write a check that your posterior can't cover. On one hand, ABC did carry through [...]

Believing he had conceived an ingenious way to unite his concern for animal hunger and a love of woodland walking, sometime-inventor Mike Madden set out with his new bird-feeding hat. [...]

Long gone are the days when Americans emerged from their Thanksgiving catatonia by throwing themselves into a holiday torrent of ribbons, bows and credit-card debt. With many Americans still clinging [...]

In the beginning it was just a simple tete-a-tete, a casual dinner with French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to be hosted by British Prime Minister [...]

It certainly would not be a claim out of left field to assert that one-time St. Louis Cardinal Bob Gibson ranks as one of baseball's great pitchers, in part because [...]

With less than two weeks before voters head to the polls for off-year elections, Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), gathered reporters in [...]

President George W. Bush has chosen a number of forums in which to enunciate U.S. objectives of the war on terrorism. Whether it was in front of a joint session [...]

Once upon a time ground-up human remains, bird dung and baking soda shared no imaginable commonality and hardly ever struck fear into the hearts of our countrymen. But all now [...]

As many Americans lazily slipped into their recliners for the final regular game of the baseball season, or spent a crisp autumn afternoon watching football, U.S. fighters and bombers continued [...]

The president's confession of Oval Office peccadilloes has astounded some on Capitol Hill who stood by their man as the scandal played out. So what can they say now? Since [...]

Media critics long have believed liberalism tips the scales of fair reporting, so Insight has checked the leaning of a number of major news-bureau chiefs to find out the truth. [...]

Linda Tripp became a household name by taping Monica Lewinsky's love-struck ramblings. How the 20-year bureaucrat got tangled in such a sticky web is some tale. In the beginning her [...]

As the term draws to a close, all members of the 105th Congress can expect some heavy-handed marks in their report cards during the coming election year -- or maybe [...]

For all the change experienced in the wide world of professional sports during this century, minor-league baseball has managed to retain continuity, simplicity and fun. There is a mysterious continuity [...]

The question of who should run the nation's capital is an old one. A control board is struggling under Congress' watchful eye finally to bring the city's affairs into order. [...]

Unions are donating millions to help the Democrats retake the House and leading efforts to counter legislation that would limit organized labor's ability to influence politics. As the 105th Congress […]

Despite the Soviet's collapse and the Communist Chinese threat, America's reds are celebrating the book that started it all. `Pink Kitsch' is Marxism's latest mutation. Remove the rough edges from [...]

Surveys of TV viewers are critical for advertisers, but the spread of cable programming and the Internet is making it even tougher to find out what's really popular. You did […]

Polls have become a driving force in American politics as politicians and journalists try to track popular will. But are they accurate and objective? The truth is: not always. A [...]

A relative newcomer to the Teamsters' upper ranks hopes to preserve the Carey regime despite scandal by defeating James P. Hoffa Jr., one of the union's best-known figures. By failing [...]