John McCain risks becoming the top choice of Democrats for the GOP nomination.

When asked about AlGore's negative characteristics, 36 percent said that he's boring, followed by 32 percent who said he was too close to President Clinton and his scandals.

This week brought news that an inexpensive generic drug is remarkably effective in reducing congestive heart failure.

For the lucky winner, a minuscule shift in House and Senate seats could make a massive difference in how he will be able to govern.

Atied Senate, where any one vote can make all the difference in the world, and where one vacancy, even for a short time, can turn the body upside down, is an unstable institution.

By holding, in a split decision, that all the so-called "undercounted votes" in Florida must be counted, the court has virtually guaranteed that there can be no conclusion to the Florida election story until well after Dec. 12, the date that Congress has fixed for the selection of an incontestable slate of delegates.

Any hopes of a Unita victory died along with Jonas Savimbi in a bloody battle between his rebels and the MPLA.