Tim Russert

Toughening their stances as they appealed for votes in economically stricken Ohio, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that they would use the threat of opting out of the North American Free Trade Agreement to substantially renegotiate...

'Pat Philbin, the man who staged a fake FEMA news conference on the California wildfires last week, has lost his promotion because of the event, which begs the question: What does it actually take to get fired from FEMA?" That was the lead story on the...

The more late-night television satirist Stephen Colbert jokes and romps his way through the early campaign season with his almost-real candidacy for president of the United States, the more some folks are intent on taking him seriously. It was no...

Radio and television figures Bob LeMond Jr., 94; leading announcer on CBS radio and television (Jan. 6) Dwight Arlington Hemion, 81; television director and producer who won 18 Emmy Awards for his musical variety specials (Jan. 28) Don Herbert, 72;...

WHEN someone like Tim Russert asks someone like Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), as he did Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," whether a conflict between Congress and the Bush White House will lead to a constitutional crisis, I get the sense that the news...

This year saw showbiz lose Sydney Pollack, Paul Newman, Bettie Page, Cyd Charisse, Charlton Heston, Suzanne Pleshette, Harvey Korman, Van Johnson, Heath Ledger and the Bernies -- Brillstein and Mac -- among others. Cartoonists could be forgiven for waxing...

1. True or false? After the mid-July failure of IndyMac Bank, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson warned that the economy "could be in complete meltdown in two months." a. True. He said that estimate "might even be optimistic." b. False. He reassured the...

It's very late at 30 Rockefeller Center, where it's been dark for hours, the stores long closed. Yet tourists and determined sightseers crowd the entrance, slog into an impossibly long but ever-growing line or just huddle around, camera phones on standby....

Fiction 1. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer ($10.99) 2. The Shack by William P. Young ($14.99) 3. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson ($14) 4. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen ($13.95) 5. Away by Amy Bloom ($14) 6. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer ($10.99)...

Fiction 1. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson ($14) 2. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan ($14) 3. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen ($13.95) 4. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho ($13.95) 5. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan ($13.95) 6. Away by Amy Bloom ($14)...

NBC News has managed to achieve the near-impossible this election season in getting Hillary Rodham Clinton and George Bush to agree on something. That something, however, is antipathy toward NBC News. Through its unusual public criticism of NBC's...

NBC will probably take its time in deciding on a permanent replacement for Tim Russert on "Meet the Press." But the network has decided on a fill-in for at least this week. "Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams will moderate the program Sunday, the...