Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project  —  The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency's director, Leon E. Panetta …

EXCLUSIVE: Palin plans to stay in politics  —  Brushing aside the criticisms of pundits and politicos, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said she plans to jump immediately back into the national political fray — stumping for conservative issues and even Democrats — after she prematurely vacates her elected post at month's end.

Teen Girl Falls In Open Manhole While Texting  —  Alexa Longueira Suffers Deep Cuts, Bruises After Landing In Raw Sewage, Blames DEP For Leaving Hole Unattended  —  NEW YORK (CBS) ― It was an accident waiting to happen — an open sewer and a 15-year-old girl who was texting while she walked.

Rebuilding Something Better  —  Nearly six months ago, my administration took office amid the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression.  At the time, we were losing, on average, 700,000 jobs a month.  And many feared that our financial system was on the verge of collapse.

Why tide against Sanford ebbed  —  Governor's wife, political realities helped put calls for resignation to rest  —  The shock had subsided.  —  Then Gov. Mark Sanford set the scandal ablaze again, saying he considered his Argentine lover his “soul mate” and saw her more often than he originally had said.

She Broke the G.O.P. and Now She Owns It  —  SARAH PALIN and Al Sharpton don't ordinarily have much in common, but they achieved a rare harmonic convergence at Michael Jackson's memorial service.  When Sharpton told the singer's children it was their daddy's adversaries, not their daddy …

Glenn Reynolds on the hidden cost of national health care  —  Lots of people are beginning to question the cost of President Barack Obama's healthcare “reform” plans, and with good reason.  (Just compare the original projections for Medicare with what it wound up costing in reality).

Twitter Nabs a Legal Eagle from Google  —  Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service, has stolen a prominent Google lawyer.  —  The startup has hired Alexander Macgillivray, associate general counsel for products and intellectual property at Google, to be its general counsel, according to a person with knowledge of the hiring.

In Supreme Court Pick Sotomayor, an Insider's Rise Meets an Outsider's Doubts  —  In Sotomayor, an Insider's Achievements Meet an Outsider's Insecurities  —  Within weeks of arriving in New Haven as a law student in the fall of 1976, Sonia Sotomayor fell in with a few first-year classmates whose ascent …