Mark Silva

Call it equal time. After weeks of torture-by-late-night-humor for Republican Sarah Palin, "Saturday Night Live" unleashed its comedic claws upon Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden this weekend. Well, sort...

Turning out the vote is one thing. Turning out the candidate? Quite another. And it turns out the Republican National Committee has spent a pretty penny -- more than $150,000...

Sarah Palin may be hot. "You are way hotter in person," actor Alec Baldwin told the Republican nominee for vice president in her debut appearance this weekend on "Saturday Night...

Pearl Saleh is a "snowbird," dividing her seasons between the southern-Chicago suburb of Olympia Fields and a South Florida retreat in Boynton Beach. Saleh, 75, an ardent supporter of Democrat...

With the White House and congressional leaders struggling to resurrect a rescue of the nation's struggling financial markets, they are searching for ways to sweeten the deal for reluctant lawmakers....

Whatever you want to call the $700 billion federal banking rescue plan the House rejected Monday, please don't call it a bailout. At least some of the politicians don't. It's...

Brace yourself for a wild time on Wall Street in the days ahead, after Monday's smackdown of a $700 billion bank bailout plan sent fearful investors racing for the exits....

A day that began optimistically devolved into a night of partisan bickering, finger-pointing and more negotiations, as Democratic supporters of the $700 billion Bush administration bailout plan accused Republicans of...

As much as they agree on the historic financial-market bailout that Congress is fashioning -- especially conditions that must come with it -- presidential nominees Barack Obama and John McCain...

With a little more than four months left in his term, the influence of President George W. Bush may already be waning to a level that leaves Bush with little...