Dozens dead, millions without power in Sandy's wake

PITTSBURGH | The most devastating storm in decades to hit the country's most densely populated region upended man and nature as it rolled back the clock on 21st-century lives, cutting off modern communication and leaving millions without power Tuesday as thousands who fled their water-menace…

Stephen King, JFK and lost Boomer dreams

Stories about time travel generally share one trait: They believe, by implication or open statement, that yesterday remains a malleable canvas, if only you could access it.

AP Essay: Stephen King, JFK and lost Boomer dreams

Stories about time travel generally share one trait: They believe, by implication or open statement, that yesterday remains a malleable canvas, if only you could access it. "The past," author William Faulkner once wrote, "is never dead. It's not even past."

Images of 2010 gobbled up by a nation of watchers

There it was, gazed upon by millions in horror, anger and pure fascination: a grainy, sputtering image of the deep blue sea and its interloper – the bubbling brown goo that was spewing into the water from the depths of the planet.

Analysis: For Woods, sorry and sorry again

NEW YORK | This was one spotlight he never sought, probably never dreamed of, and most definitely avoided for as long as humanly possible. When Tiger Woods claimed the stage for his TV apology -- and make no mistake, it was a stage, pure and simple -- his mission was to be authentic and sincere.

'Star Trek': Are the hardcore fans onto something?

It took just a few seconds of footage -- a single trailer, dropped from the heavens with great fanfare -- for the hue and cry to rise on Trekmovie.com, the top fan site for J.J. Abrams' new "Star Trek" movie. By the hundreds they weighed in, a contentious cacophony that would have jammed eve…

A moment in history: The American story renewed

WASHINGTON | Some countries are founded upon ethnicity, others upon geography. Some are created from conquest or carved out by faraway rulers. But America is different: It was created from whole cloth -- a story built by a people who just keep adding chapters as they go along.

The kitchen table: Anatomy of a metaphor

The rooms of the modern American household have always crept into campaigns. Politics makes strange bedfellows, for one. The living-room war ended Lyndon Johnson's political career. And everyone keeps saying the economy's headed for the toilet.

140 years later, Lincoln lives on

GETTYSBURG, Pa. | The front door opens, and Abraham Lincoln appears -- tall, lanky, just a bit melancholy. He smiles gently, assesses his visitor for a good five seconds. Then he draws in a breath and slowly, deliberately, he speaks.

Service puts dear ones' faces on U.S. stamps, but what of Washington and Lincoln?

NEW YORK -- America's first postage stamps appeared in 1847 -- rough, unperforated squares of ink and paper that depicted George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. The portraits in miniature oozed gravitas and, in their quiet way, nudged along a growing national identity.