There was no cataclysm that defined the summer, but the average temperature, 77.8 degrees, was a record.

Marking the formal end of combat operations, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said history would judge if the war was worth it.

Joe Miller, a challenger backed by Tea Party activists, won the Republican primary.

The value-added formula to evaluate teachers is gaining acceptance, and critics, across America.

Marking the formal end of combat operations, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said history would judge if the war was worth it.

Carl P. Paladino is connecting with voters’ anger and worrying Rick A. Lazio’s supporters.

The organization and leadership of the miners will be essential to their rescue, officials said.

In an address from the Oval Office, President Obama said that the nation had met its responsibility to Iraq and would now turn to domestic concerns.

Researchers say that touch screens are the start of a trend to make computers more open to human gestures.

For young performers joining the city’s ballet companies, one of the main thrills is often just standing still onstage.

A sudden intervention to shore up the deeply troubled Kabul Bank prompted fears about the integrity of the Afghan financial system.

The export growth is propelled by higher prices for many products, including wheat, whose prices have skyrocketed as drought and heat decimated crops in Russia.

The new battleground for stations is the morning, with news broadcasts going on air at 4:30 a.m. or earlier.

Teenagers in western New York sideswiped a worshiper with a vehicle and fired a gun, the authorities said.

After losing his lower jaw to cancer, the film critic, who can’t eat, has written a cookbook that is an ode to the rice cooker.

Senator Lisa Murkowski conceded in her Republican primary race to Joe Miller, a lawyer from Fairbanks backed by Tea Party activists and Sarah Palin.

Illnesses at girls’ schools were caused by poison gas, officials said, but how it was delivered — and whether the poisonings were deliberate — remained a mystery.

Fourth-seeded Jelena Jankovic outlasted a Romanian qualifier and Novak Djokovic rallied to beat a fellow Serbian.

Republicans and President Obama are open to tax cuts. The question is what kind can put people back to work.

An e-mail and bulletin warned about rape in a remote Congolese area much earlier than officials originally said.