Today is Friday, July 24, the 205th day of 2009. There are 160 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 24, 1959, during a visit to Moscow, Vice President Richard Nixon engaged in his famous "Kitchen Debate" with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. (The impromptu exchanges occurred in the kitchen of a model ...

For a long time tonight, the Republicans appeared to be stalling. Two hours into the second day of the Republican National Convention, there has been only the slightest whiff of an attack on Barack Obama, whose name has not been mentioned once. Tonight was supposed to feature Rudy Giuliani and the danger of ceding the White House to the Democrats ...