Last year, investor Ron Baron paid $103 million for a 40-acre oceanfront estate in East Hampton. Now the view in the Hamptons is changing, in more ways than one.

In another example of the revolving door between government and industry, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker Jr. has hung out a shingle as a strategic adviser to Japanese companies doing business in the U.S.

Apple Corps Ltd. announced the Beatles’ first foray into video games in a deal which will allow fans to play along to the Fab Four’s entire canon from Meet The Beatles to Abbey Road.

Davis Guggenheim is following in his father’s footsteps.

Donald F. McGahn II has put together an unlikely resume. A long-time defender of politicians accused of election law violations, he’s now the chairman of the Federal Election Commission, the group charged with enforcing election laws.

The one thing you can say about Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman is that he’s a survivor.

A conservative religious family in western Michigan, whose vast fortunes derive from auto parts and government security contracts, is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to ban gay marriage in California.

They’re both displaced Brits. They’ve been friends for years. And now they have their own news and opinion websites, one doing very well, the other starting up but making noise.

When the comedian Al Franken launched a Democratic challenge to incumbent Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman two years ago, many viewed it as a joke.

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Senate Republican in history, was found guilty Monday of lying about free home renovations and other gifts from a wealthy contractor looking for political favors.

Sen. Chuck Hagel, the Nebraska Republican who has become a pariah in his own party, has been publicly criticizing John McCain’s vice-presidential pick, while his wife, Lilibet, attended the final presidential debate as Michelle Obama’s guest.

Troubles mount for U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, a Republican from Minnesota seeking re-election.

It could become the most expensive apartment ever sold in New York.

Nate Silver, the Sultan of Stats behind FiveThirtyEight.com, referred to himself as a “poll Nazi” this past week when he criticized the methodology of some pollsters.

Bill Gates isn’t ready to pack it in.

Federal employees are reportedly celebrating the forced resignation of U.S. Special Counsel Scott J. Bloch.

James H. Lambright, head of the Export-Import Bank of the U.S., has been tapped for a top job overseeing the $700-billion financial bailout.

Michele Bachmann, a Republican congresswoman from Minnesota, is doing frantic damage control in the wake of a bumpy appearance on “Hardball with Chris Matthews.”

How to attract young readers to the Old Gray Lady? Signing rock star Bono as a columnist might be a start.

Analysts at Moody’s Investors Service, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Ratings had doubts about many of the mortgage-backed securities they rated, but gave them a thumbs-up because it was so lucrative to do so, according to documents released by a U.S. House panel.