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A reporter sees parallels to Katrina in a visit to inundated Texas city, three weeks after it was hit by Ike

A new TIME/CNN poll shows John McCain still struggling in states won by George W. Bush in 2004

As the highest court in the U.S. begins its 2008 term on Oct. 6, TIME breaks down four significant cases to watch

A study of individuals who change their sex highlights the role of discrimination in the low salaries of females

Crowded out by the economy and other issues, billionaires stop funding a campaign to put education front and center in the presidential election

As the real-estate led financial crisis deepens, experts accuse rags-to-riches theology of creating subprime-interest victims

Paydays are safe - for now - but small businesses are hurting

A four-page proposal grew to 400 to achieve passage as Obama won Democratic accolades while Republicans grumbled about McCain

The abuses Chucky Taylor is accused of committing were perpetrated in Liberia. Prosecuting them on U.S. soil could make the trial a legal landmark

Klein: Palin Was Fine, but This Debate Was No Contest

The Senate passes an amended rescue plan, throwing the ball back into the House Republicans' court

She was intended to galvanize legions of women voters, but Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has lately been infuriating them instead. What happened?

Biden's Debate Challenge: Keeping His Mouth Shut

The candidate's bold moves may have energized his campaign temporarily, but at the expense of a coherent overall message

In addition to all his other troubles, John McCain is having a problem with the conservative wing of Arizona's Republican Party

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, like his predecessor Donald Rumsfeld, believes the greatest threat to the U.S. military is its own sclerotic bureaucracy

A seven-state survey of the grass-roots anger and confusion generated by the proposed bailout

Federal officials arrested more than 300 members of a previously lesser known criminal gang during a summer crackdown, twice as many as last year, and arrested nearly 1,500 gang members nationwide, immigration authorities said Wednesday

A new TIME poll shows that the Democratic candidate has reached the benchmark 50% threshold, and that women have returned in large numbers

In part, because it's being sold so poorly. Here's how the government should be talking about the "Consumer Protection Act."

Nearly every political and economic leader in the U.S. supported the bailout bill. Americans still didn't want it. Why?

John McCain and Barack Obama are both selling theories about what kind of leader America needs in the 21st century. But the financial crisis yanked their notions out of the lab and tested them in real time, under a magnifying glass

All the talk of bipartisanship turned into a flurry of finger-pointing and recriminations after the Administration's controversial financial markets rescue plan goes down in defeat in the House

As the House fails to pass the financial-rescue package, regulators will be forced to revert to a piecemeal approach. And that could cost taxpayers more

The ability of a U.S. missile shield to intercept an incoming missile has long been in question, but right now the Pentagon is struggling even to launch fake 'enemy' missiles to test the system

A proposed Pennsylvania ban on lighting up anywhere on university property is drawing strong opposition

No one wants to take credit for the plan that might save the US economy

Newsweek's Osborn Elliott reinvigorated the news magazine and rekindled America's spirit of volunteerism