It didn't take long for Barack Obama to make the first mistake of his presidency. In the third sentence of his inaugural speech Tuesday, the newly sworn-in president said, "Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath." While there have been 44 presidential administrations, there have been only 43 presidents; Grover ...

Grover Cleveland's inauguration was big news in Oshkosh, Wis., on March 4, 1885. So was an alarming report that kissing causes death. The Associated Press has been going back through history to find some of its stories as they appeared in the nation ...

John Edwards could have taken the Jim Webb route when NPR grilled him yesterday about his interest in reprising his role as the Democratic vice presidential nominee, but instead he said this: "I am prepared to seriously consider anything, anything he asks me to do for our country." If Barack Obama were to choose Edwards, it would create an unusual ...