WASHINGTON— If there’s a record crowd at Barack Obama’s inauguration, the world may never know.

A million or more people may show up on the National Mall and along the parade route for the inauguration of the country’s first …

Of all the things President-elect Barack Obama needs right now, one of them surely isn’t a new set of lofty expectations on his well-burdened shoulders. But recent attention to Obama’s on-and-off smoking habit has pinned a new kind of audacious …

The greatest political epic of the year, of course, was the ongoing daily drama of the presidential race. Marked by more thrilling twists than a Steven Spielberg film, Election 2008 proved that Will Smith isn’t the only big-eared guy with …

The latest round of campaign financing reports, which were due Dec. 4, show Minnesota candidates raised some of the largest amounts of cash of the campaign between Oct. 16 and Nov. 24. In Minnesota, with the exception of the undecided …

Roky Truong doesn’t sleep much. Working 50 hours a week on top of a 17-unit course load doesn’t leave a lot of time for shuteye. But Truong, a sophomore at UC Berkeley, needs to cash in on all the waking …

Well into the Senate race recount and a day after Senate hopeful Al Franken’s camp alleged 133 ballots were missing from a Dinkytown precinct, the city of Minneapolis and the secretary of state’s office confirmed it.

At the …

Policy changes facing President-elect Barack Obama are similar to those faced by former President Lyndon B. Johnson, said professors and professionals at a symposium Thursday.

About 20 panelists met at the LBJ Library and Museum to discuss the …

As Barack Obama puts together his administration, more than 20 Harvard Law School classmates dot the ranks of his transition team – solidifying the Crimson connection as his most enduring, yet least-known, personal network.

Eyeing the presidency as …

At the dawn of a new political administration, the United States faces evolving security threats that must be addressed through dynamic intelligence practices, the director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell, said in a speech at the Harvard Kennedy School yesterday. …

The labor and management practices at a California hotel — owned by a company that has close ties to CornellUniversity — are drawing criticism from a hospitality workers union and student groups at several college campuses.

Workers at …