When you’re suspected of having granted favors to a future employer while still in government office, you’re apt to become the focus of a grand jury investigation.

Not since Woodrow Wilson has a sitting American president been awarded the Nobel peace prize.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has turned up the heat on a major Republican fundraiser Elliott B. Broidy.

Jerry Seinfeld, Mae West and Henry Hudson now have at least one thing in common.

William J. Bratton, who helped turn around police departments in New York City and Los Angeles, is turning his attention to international crime fighting.

At the least, some say, the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. was racial profiling.

The former New York senator is working as a paid lobbyist for the World Trade Center Memorial Fund to help the group win approval for a commemorative coin to be used as a fund-raising tool.

AARP, a growing political force as baby boomers age, will be led by an African-American for the first time.

Former U.S. attorney David Iglesias – one of nine U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration in 2006 - has a new job.

Investigators probing Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50-billion scheme are looking at the role played by an investment firm that he co-founded with an old friend from Long Island that recruited hundreds of investors from New York, Boston and Florida.

President-elect Barack Obama has invited V. Gene Robinson, the openly gay Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, to deliver the prayer at the opening inaugural event at the Lincoln Memorial Sunday.

Bernard Madoff may be negotiating a plea deal.

By naming Dennis C. Blair as his nominee for the nation’s top spy post - director of national intelligence - President-elect Barack Obama gets a brainy, retired four-star admiral with an independent streak.

Pursuing efforts to jail Bernard Madoff, federal prosecutors disclosed Thursday that investigators had found about 100 signed checks to friends and relatives, totaling more than $173 million, on the day of his arrest.

Bernard L. Madoff mailed Cartier and Tiffany watches, an emerald ring and a diamond necklace worth a total of at least $1 million to relatives and friends in violation of a court order, and should be immediately jailed because he is a flight risk, prosecutors said in court papers released Wednesday.

It used to be said that behind every successful man is a woman. In the case of President-elect Barack Obama, add his mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, to the mix.

The hedge fund executive who committed suicide in his 22nd-floor office on Madison Avenue was a blue-blood French aristocrat and champion yachtsman entrusted with the money of some of Europe’s wealthiest families.

Former President Bill Clinton has revealed tens of millions in donations to his foundation from foreign nations that Hillary Rodham Clinton may have to negotiate with as secretary of state.

Chicago Schools Chief Arne Duncan, tapped today to be Education Secretary, has powerful friends in common with President-elect Barack Obama.

Historians still talk about the regular folks who tracked mud all over the White House at Andrew Jackson’s inauguration. There is not likely to be any of that at the three-day People’s Inaugural planned by Earl W. Stafford.