Is it right to celebrate a holiday for a religion you don't believe in? I'm not a Muslim, so I've never fasted for Ramadan. And because I'm not a Jew, Rosh Hashanah has been little more to me than the annoying nickname my 1st-grade classmates derived from a song in our music class.

Thanks to pitch-perfect performances by Jeffrey Wright and Adrien Brody, the flawed story of Chess Records somehow manages to sing.

People think of George Bush as being the first evangelical president. But Barack Obama may bring his own evangelical flair to Washington. For all the significant changes Obama is expected to usher in, religion may be one that some people didn't see coming.

Fed up with the political rollercoaster, I'm saving myself for Nov. 5.

Powell's endorsement repudiates both Bush and McCain and could drive undecideds into the Obama column.

In his new Comedy Central show, David Alan Grier gives a winning mixing of candor and absurdity.

The record-shattering $150 million in donations that Sen. Barack Obama raised in September represents only part of the financial advantage the Democratic nominee has amassed entering the final weeks of the presidential contest, newly released campaig

The importance of Dunham in Obama's life has been the stuff of many of his campaign rallies. It's common knowledge that after attending schools in Jakarta, Indonesia, until he was 10 years old, Obama moved back to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham, starting in the fifth grade and lasting until he graduated from high school. Obama has often credited Madelyn Dunham with giving him much of the motivation and the drive he needed to succeed—to in effect become the man he has become. "She poured everything she had into me," he said at the Democratic National Convention in August.

yahooCornered lawmakers knew the plan needed to pass; they just hoped the other guy would float it through.