WASHINGTON – Key Senate Democrats led by Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle met Wednesday in one of several recent closed-door meetings to develop their position on Iraq and its president, Saddam Hussein. They emerged without an official statement, but earlier in the day Daschle offered a clue into their discussions: …

LOS ANGELES – Medical schools were once the bastion of traditional medicine, based in well-researched scientific techniques. But nowadays the scalpel is making way for the acupuncture needle. Once considered far outside the medical mainstream, non-Western techniques like acupuncture have broken through traditional barriers. Now alternative healing techniques like yoga …

The Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Boston Marathon bombing case brings the debate about the death penalty to a whole different level. Sure you’ll always have people who are for the death penalty and people who are not. But I think we should look at Islamic terrorists — whose only mission in life …

Whitney Houston|Disney Book|George Soros|Amanda Peet|Elaine Stritch Is Whitney Back? Ask Clive The rumblings have been coming for some time: Whitney Houston is joining forces again with record company impresario Clive Davis. An announcement is said to be forthcoming. Davis, of course, led Whitney to her tremendous successes before drugs and …

A lot of people think President Bush should apologize for this whole Iraqi prisoner mess. Funny, but I don’t remember hearing anyone say the deviants who strung up those four American contractors inFallujah (search)should apologize. Or for that U.S. military convoy that was blown to bits checking out a supposedly …

Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. “The Factor” begins election coverage.That is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points Memo.” As we did with the Iraq war, we will provide you with the absolute best election coverage for the next four months because just the facts will …

I was kind of done yapping about my book “More Than Money” — even though I’ve been delighted by the wonderful cards, letters and e-mails I continue getting from so many of you on it becoming a New York Times best-seller — that is, until I received this particular e-mail …

The latest from the Political Grapevine: Rallying to ReturnRiot police in the Philippines were called to the country’s presidential palace today where more than 200 Filipinos protested the situation in Iraq. This after 3,000 Filipinos marched last week. Thing is, Filipinos weren’t protesting to stay out of Iraq. They were …

Every time people tell me there’s no media bias, I usestories such as mine on Jimmy Carter to illustrate just the opposite. The official media loves Carter and some have dumped on me for not sharing that love. That’s fine. But here’s what isn’t: Pretending you’re serving your readers or …

Some big-time support for [U.N. Secretary General] Kofi Annan, that is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points Memo.” Are you ready for this? The Bush administration doesn’t want the U.N. chief to resign. Ambassador John Danforth (search) says, “We, America, are expressing confidence in the Secretary-General and in his …