Daniel Stone

Four days before the midterm elections, the White House manages the security concerns—and political implications—of a potential terrorist threat.

Sharron Angle and other 2010 candidates are hoping that avoiding the mainstream media can help propel them into office. Is the strategy working?

In California, it won't make much difference who wins the gubernatorial race, at least not right away. Sweep aside each candidate's vision for running California—either as a shipshape business (Whitman) or by returning to the basics of its heyday (Brown)—and what's left is a state severely crippled by institutional ailments that neither candidate will be able to fix in the immediate future.

Realizing the battle for votes might well be over, President Obama spends most of his time in the sprint toward Election Day in friendly states, desperate to make sure his supporters vote.

On Nov. 2, Republicans are likely to regain control of the House and come close to winning back the Senate. But while conservatives are already trumpeting the 2010 midterms as a historic validation of their agenda, the truth, as in 2008, is considerably more nuanced.

Washington may look very different after the midterms. The GOP is favored to win control of the House, which would put John Boehner in the speaker's chair and allow Republicans to head every committee. We offer a look at the would-be power structure.

The "Happy Days" star, who had lung cancer and died of a staph infection, was the father we all wanted to have.

Smart-grid technology can help homeowners cut up to 20 percent of the energy they consume. So what's the delay? Commerce Secretary Gary Locke says the industry isn't moving as fast as the government.

Unlimited election spending is now completely legal. But that doesn't mean all corporations and advocacy groups are eager to get in the water.

Ohio Republican Rich Iott is being attacked for wearing a Nazi uniform. But shouldn't we care about his views, not his attire?

The trans-Alaska Pipeline is the largest conduit of domestic oil, a funnel for crude from the North Slope's Prudhoe Bay to the Port of Valdez. But the Prudhoe wells are drying up—and the prospect of replacing them appears ever more grim.

In the 61 days between the election and the swearing in of a new Congress, Democrats are making their list of realistic priorities.

The Republican icon tells candidates to highlight out-of-control food-stamp usage as evidence that Democrats deserve to lose.

Greener than you'd think—potentially. Fully one fifth of Manhattan is yard space, according to a new study from the City University of New York, and that doesn't include parks and cemeteries.

The Senate candidate may be known for some extreme positions, but on campaign trail she has the ability to connect.

Obama's chief of staff is on his way out—perhaps even by the end of this week. That raises the question of how his departure could change the pace of an administration at a crossroads.

With stagnant poll numbers and a bleak fall looming for his party, President Obama addresses criticism he's lost touch with the country.

Democrats are saying that it took Republicans eight years to dig the current economic hole. And they say that the least they deserve is two more years to get the country out of it.

Essentially, yes. Diplomatic immunity exists to theoretically prevent local legal disputes from interfering with the high-minded work of statecraft. Embassy and consular staff who violate laws may in rare cases face consequences back home, but while in their host countries, they can walk away from a range of crimes. Here's a list.

As critics of Fox News punditry, and egged on by the Internet, the Comedy Central duo launches a pair of counter-rallies to "Restore Sanity" and "Keep Fear Alive."

Several months after it died, it's still hard to tell exactly who, or what, killed the climate and energy bill in the Senate.

The endangered-species list is supposed to offer temporary refuge. In its 37-year history, however, more than a thousand animals have been added and only a few dozen removed (most often because of extinction or miscounts). Part of the problem is the federal government, which admits that it's slow to remove recovered species. That chafes governors, who curb industry to protect the creatures. Now Alaska is pushing for a faster review.

Saying he's as frustrated as anyone else, Obama asks the American people for patience for signs that his economic policies are indeed working.

He could have brought in a fresh voice, but elevating current economic adviser Austan Goolsbee to chair the Council of Economic Advisers signals that the president deeply believes that what he's doing is working.

Jimmy Carter had a series of solar panels installed on the White House. Sometime during the next eight years, they came down and never went back up. Environmental activist Bill McKibben wants them put back up, and has scheduled a West Wing meeting to ask nicely.

Even though Rahm Emanuel has more than a month left to announce if he will leave to run for mayor of Chicago, speculation on who would replace him as Obama's chief of staff, should he go, is already swirling. Here is our short list.

Friday's new economic numbers weren't all bad news. But three days before Labor Day, unemployment is up again, and the pace of the recovery is far short of what the White House had planned.

Many presidents have tried; all have failed. Why the current set of circumstances seems to favor Obama.

Environmentalists don't usually get excited when the planet gets hurt. But the oil and gas platform that caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico may have given new hope to a struggling environmental movement.

After a week of recounting ballots, Sen. Lisa Murkowski told supporters she saw no reasonable path to victory and left her state in the hands of a Tea Party candidate who makes both parties in Washington nervous.