
AP Photos: A look at key moments in Dow history
The Dow Jones industrial average often makes headlines. But let's not forget everything else that happened as the Dow has twisted and turned — from ...

Republican losses obscure US drift to right
Republican angst over presidential election losses obscures the fact that many conservative ideals have prospered for decades. Conservative efforts ...

Calif. GOP pins turnaround hopes on new chairman
As Republicans nationwide reconsider the party's direction, nowhere is their challenge more daunting than in California. The state that produced ...

Bork: Nixon offered next high court vacancy in '73
Robert Bork says President Richard Nixon promised him the next Supreme Court vacancy after Bork complied with Nixon's order to fire Watergate special ...

AP Exclusive: Documents detail Nixon, Clinton ties
In the final months of his life, Richard Nixon quietly advised President Bill Clinton on navigating the post-Cold War world, even offering to serve ...

Obama seeks to reset relationship with Netanyahu
After a long and chilly four years, Barack Obama hopes to reset his relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he makes his ...

McGovern's personal items to be sold in S. Dakota
George McGovern once gave his daughter a bookend made out of soapstone in the shape of a bear — a symbol of the "Terr the bear" nickname the former ...

Hagel pick test of Senate on presidential choices
In the middle of a bitter fight over a Republican president's nominee for defense secretary, a former White House occupant pleaded with senators to ...

Second presidential terms loaded with setbacks
Second presidential terms are never easy — even for George Washington. More often, they're fraught with peril, frequently marred by scandal, failure, ...

Obama gets a second chance at speech for the ages
Sixteen presidents before Barack Obama got a second chance at giving an inaugural address for the ages. Most didn't make much of it.

Ex-postal workers' union head Sombrotto dies at 89
Vincent R. Sombrotto, a labor leader who served as president of the National Association of Letter Carriers for 24 years, has died. He was 89.

Obama using MLK, Lincoln Bibles during oath
President Barack Obama is putting a symbolic twist on a time-honored tradition, taking the oath of office for his second term with his hand placed not ...
Etty Allen, mother of former Va governor, dies
Henriette "Etty" Allen, matriarch of a famed American football family and mother to former Virginia Gov. George F. Allen, has ...

Portraits mark political history, change of guard
Artists often put oil to canvas at this time of year to render the official portrait of a governor or legislative leader who's coming or going from ...