Martin Frost

An adviser to John McCain's campaign sums up 2008 this way: Republicans are "not going to elect dogcatchers, but we may have the presidency." Pity those Republicans running in the other election, the one in the shadow of the McCain- Barack Obama contest....

Beneath McCain-Obama, red party blues...

Don't call him provincial. True, most of author/filmmaker Paul Auster's work has been set in his beloved New York, but his latest film, "The Inner Life of Martin Frost," comes to America via Portugal. Auster's fourth film appears as part of the Gene...

Political and social stories again take center stage at the San Sebastian film festival -- the oldest and most prestigious in the Spanish-speaking world -- which kicks off Thursday evening. The Iraq conflict gets high-profile attention with Nick...

WASHINGTON — Republicans retained control of both the House and Senate in Tuesday's elections, extending their decade-long domination of Capitol Hill as they swept up victories across the South and unseated Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle of...

WASHINGTON - President Bush and Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts were locked in a nail-biting race early this morning as Ohio emerged as the key battleground in the election. After winning the hotly contested state of Florida, Bush was inching toward a...

Republicans appeared certain to retain control of the U.S. Senate early Wednesday after pulling off key wins in the South, and they had the prospect of widening their current narrow margin by winning several Senate races that were still undecided....

The day Nancy Plosi made history, the day Democrats made her their leader in the House of Representatives, she stepped from the Cannon Caucus Room flashing a high-beam smile that nearly outshone the television floodlights. Congressional leadership...