With China’s once-a-decade leadership transition nearing, Communist Party leaders are pushing back against what some see as military officials’ intrusion into policy and politics.
Mitt Romney has held his advantage among the white working-class while President Obama has maintained the support of women, the Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News polls found.
Dispatching the personal representative of its paramount leader to Damascus, Iran moved to reframe the conflict as part of a battle with the United States and others.
A deal to create luxury condominiums promises to reinvent the Woolworth Building’s neo-Gothic tower as a rarefied residential address.
Synchronized swimmers — like the Russians who dominated Tuesday’s duet contest, with their thick makeup and gelatin-shellacked hair — sometimes have trouble convincing skeptics of their sport’s difficulty.
Mr. Hamlisch, the singularly productive composer of musicals like “A Chorus Line” and songs like “The Way We Were,” won Oscars, Grammys, Emmys, a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize.