NYT: The Facebooker who friended Obama

Last year, Hillary Clinton's chief strategist said Barack Obama’s supporters “look like Facebook.” Chris Hughes takes that as a compliment. The Facebook co-founder's work on the Obama campaign has revolutionized the use of the Web as a political tool.

G-8 leaders face demands on climate, oil

Wall Street faces the bears of summer

Rising unemployment and inflation have market watchers taking back predictions of a stock market rally in the second half of this year.

Crumbling dollar resonates through economy

Best of both worlds set for battle

Collins: Rafael Nadal, the world's best clay court player, will finally dethrone the king of grass courts, Roger Federer, in Sunday's Wimbledon final.

Finalists Federer, Nadal know each other well

French locals indifferent to Brangelina

Residents of Nice, France, where actress Angelina Jolie awaits the birth of her twins, aren't impressed by celebrity. Stars who escape there aren't hounded by autograph-seekers.

Larry Harmon, longtime Bozo the Clown, dies

Some psych patients wait days in ERs

When staffers at a Brooklyn hospital spotted a middle-aged woman lying face-down on a waiting room floor last month, it hardly seemed like cause for alarm.

Cilantro joins salmonella check list

Future space robots may think for themselves

Scientists today can only dream of having a robotic explorer like EVE from the Disney/Pixar film "WALL-E." But some researchers are working on autonomous spacecraft, airships and rovers that can cooperate intelligently while exploring distant worlds.

Bring a bib to America's best barbecue joints

A quest for the top spot makes a heck of a good excuse to get out and explore our country's little towns and back-road byways.

Chinese arrive on historic flights to Taiwan