Shelley Berkley

by Michael Muskal Sometimes in the world of politics, speaking off-the-cuff can get you smacked, as the White House learned today, much to its chagrin. Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama's chief of staff, met privately with a delegation from the......

Dina Gottliebova Babbitt, an artist who had been forced to paint portraits of fellow prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp and later sought to recover the artworks from a museum there, died Wednesday in Northern California. Babbitt, 86, died of...

Somehow we missed it until now, but LI USReps Steve Israel and Gary Ackerman both make cameo appearances in a USNWR story about Congressional junketing over the Memorial Day recess. Both took their wives along for the ride, according......

The House approved yesterday a measure to stifle online gambling in the United States by restricting the flow of money to illegal Internet gaming sites. Under the bill, credit-card companies would be forbidden to collect payments for Internet casinos....

CONTINUED ... To understand their skepticism is to understand that the land is contaminated and people here continue to suffer from the fallout of 1,000 or more nuclear test explosions, the last in 1992. It is to understand that Yucca Mountain, which is...