Monday’s turnover of responsibility to the Iraqis for security in Anbar Province allows John McCain to argue that he was the first to come up with the winning strategy.

The announcement was coming as Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in the region to signal support for Georgia and other nations neighboring Russia.

Mr. Beale was among the first to recognize the transformation of America’s rural landscape from farms to a mixture of farms, industry and vacation homes.

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales mishandled highly classified information, a report concluded.

The Defense Department said it transferred one prisoner to Pakistan and two to Afghanistan.

The Environmental Protection Agency killed a federal plan to build the world’s largest water pump in the Mississippi River Delta.

Marc Eliot’s book is predicated on the idea that Ronald Reagan is best understood as “a serial populist” and that his career in government had its roots in his long acting career.

Gov. Sarah Palin has set off a fierce argument among women about whether she has the time to take on the vice presidency.

As people began learning about Gov. Sarah Palin, they were piecing together a portrait of her family life.

Republicans rallied around Gov. Sarah Palin, but the disclosure of her teenage daughter’s pregnancy brought uncertainty.

The disclosure that Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter was pregnant was one of several revelations that called into question how well John McCain had screened her.

The handover of the Iraqi province, once a stronghold of the Sunni insurgency, marked a long-delayed milestone.

As water approached the top of the floodwalls in New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers set to work.

Nobody likes the way the terrorist watch lists work. Not the federal government, not the airlines and certainly not the innocent travelers who are flagged and delayed at the airport.

Many of the thousands of protesters in St. Paul were demonstrating against the war in Iraq, and some of them battled with the police.

The Iraqi government will assume responsibility for paying and employing citizen patrols known as Awakening Councils, American military officials said.

The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Thomas M. Hoenig, said that for economies to work best, institutions must be allowed to fail.

Mr. Guthman was a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper reporter and editor and an aide to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy during the civil rights struggles of the early 1960s.

With one eye on Hurricane Gustav, Senators Barack Obama and Joseph R. Biden Jr. vowed that it was not a day for partisan politics.

In an abbreviated session, Republicans appealed to delegates to help victims of Hurricane Gustav, and the schedule for the rest of the convention remained fluid.