The competition between television journalists Tim Russert and George Stephanopoulos continues with parallel interviews of the Democratic candidates this Sunday.

With national news media gorging on around-the-clock coverage of the intensifying race for the White House, and the interest in Indiana’s Democratic primary at an historic high, it’s hard to miss the fact that this is an election year.

Chinese President Hu Jintao broke with the stereotype of the country's communist rulers being dull and wooden on Friday, smiling, gesturing and even cracking a joke in a rare news conference with foreign media.

BASRA, Iraq — Behind a false wall in a house in a posh neighborhood of Basra, there is a clue that the rogue militias who used to rule this city haven’t completely vanished.

Being one of a very small group of reporters who attended both the Texas Republican and Democratic convention — in fact there were only three others that I know, one each from the Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle and the Associated Press — I got