The New York Times

The first wild turkey hunting season on Long Island opened on Saturday, but the birds were elusive.

Many sewer systems are frequently overwhelmed, spilling human excrement, medical waste and dangerous industrial chemicals into waterways.

The Senate voted on Saturday to begin full debate of major health care legislation, propelling the bill over a crucial, preliminary hurdle.

Computers using Chrome, which uses “cloud computing,” will not arrive for a year, but it is already seen as a potential challenger to Microsoft.

The country is modernizing rapidly, sometimes too fast, but this spectacular old region still endures.

Virgil Coffman may be older than General Motors, but that didn't stop him from trading in his Monte Carlo for a new Camaro SS.

Team officials spent three days weighing the pros and cons of signing Allen Iverson, a four-time N.B.A. scoring champion with problems in his past.

Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) transforms to a wolf and approaches Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Bella (Kristen Stewart) in The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

Oprah Winfrey will end her daytime talk show in 2011 as she prepares to start a cable channel of her own.

National leaders of the European Union picked Herman Van Rompuy for the new presidency and another low-key candidate for its foreign policy post.

The Mortgage Bankers Association’s quarterly survey found that one in seven homeowners are either late on their payments or are already in foreclusure.

The former mayor had been viewed as a potentially strong challenger to Gov. David A. Paterson in 2010.

Jeanne-Claude collaborated with her husband, Christo, on dozens of environmental arts projects, including “The Gates” in Central Park in 2005.