Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced yesterday that she’s quitting her job with 18 months left to serve.

Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, 72, a Ronald Reagan appointee who has served since 1988, remains the key to the Supreme Court.

A man who was one of former Senator John Edwards’s closest aides has a deal to write a tell-all book about Edwards’ affair with Rielle Hunter.

Democrat Al Franken has finally been declared the new senator from Minnesota.

Sonia Sotomayor got reversed Monday, as the U.S. Supreme Court turned back a decision she had backed as a federal judge.

On his last day on the Supreme Court, Justice David Souter swore in Julius Genachowski as new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

After telling a federal judge that he had no excuse for his actions, Bernard Madoff was sentenced Monday to 150 years in prison.

Management shifts bring new instability to the U.S. Olympics Committee.

Luis A. Ubinas began a dream job in January 2008.

Monica Conyers, Detroit City Council president pro tem and wife of U.S. Congressman John Conyers, pleaded guilty today to bribery conspiracy.

Three celebrities who died this week can be connected through personal relationships.

The brilliant, bizarre, controversial and tragic little boy who never grew up was one of the greatest and most unique talents who ever lived.

Last December’s executive shakeup at business networking site LinkedIn has shaken out.

Another GOP presidential likely seems to have killed his own potential this week when South Carolina’s Republican Gov. Mark Sanford admitted to a long-term extramarital affair in Argentina.

Sidney Blumenthal, a fierce supporter of both Clintons, will be joining Hillary Rodham Clinton at the State Department, according to news reports.

Whoever leaked the story about Steve Jobs’ liver transplant could hardly have timed it better for Apple.

Dick Cheney has signed a book deal with Threshold Editions, the Simon & Schuster imprint edited by his close friend Mary Matalin.

Did you know Barack Obama can be connected through business and personal relationships to the late rapper Tupac Shakur?

The SEC filed suit Monday against a New York company and four individuals, accusing them of feeding billions to Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.

For Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, the turning point may have come when she had lunch with Jose A. Cabranes in 1976.

Where do financial regulators wind up when they leave their government jobs? A good number go to Davis Polk & Wardwell.

When the economy nosedives, the scams - a la Madoff and Stanford Financial - rise to the surface.

The man some blame for the investments that brought Lehman Brothers Holdings down is getting a second chance to profit from those investments.

Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, under investigation in an alleged $8 billion fraud, is expected to be arraigned today on federal charges.

Monica Conyers is being squeezed by the feds to accept a plea deal before being indicted for bribery.

The $90,000 in cold cash found in William Jefferson’s refrigerator was evidence of an FBI sting operation that flopped, says defense attorney Robert Trout.

The estate of a dead writer who created a fictional wizard named Willy wants $50 million from Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.

In a role reversal of sorts, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is being asked to defend her membership in a private club for women.

Can you find the links that connect the rock band to the Glimmerglass Opera?

Start with Chili Pepper drummer, Chad Smith, who is also in the band Chickenfoot.
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It took a very fat paycheck to lure actor Harrison Ford out of semi-retirement to star in last year’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Hank Greenberg had the right to take $4.3 billion in stock from a retirement bonus plan, his attorney argued at the start of the AIG trial yesterday.

Household finances continue to dog Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut.

A sensational story out of Italy that involves, murder, drugs and sex returned to the media with energy last week with the testimony of one of the accused murders.

What would a Republican-led palace coup be without the involvement of self-admitted dirty trickster Roger J. Stone Jr.?

Yahoo’s new CEO, Carol Bartz, has gone outside the Internet biz once again to restaff the executive suite as the company looks for ways to replace slipping online advertising revenues while challenging rival Google for search engine dominance.

Alaska governor and Republican vice-presidential also-ran Sarah Palin will not, repeat not, be appearing on David Letterman’s late night talk show.

Actor David Carradine, whose body was found hanging in a closet of his Bangkok hotel room on June 4, did not commit suicide, according to celebrity pathologist Michael Baden.

Upon gradation from Yale Law School in 1979, Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s pick to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court, made a surprising career choice.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the fire-and-brimstone race-baiter and former “spiritual advisor” to President Barack Obama, struck a blow for anti-Semitism and against conventional grammar this week.