THE White House sided with Senator John McCain yesterday and accused The New York Times of repeatedly trying to “drop a bombshell” on Republican presidential nominees to undermine their candidacies.

Hillary Clinton today denied comments at the end of her debate with rival Barack Obama marked the beginning of the end of her tilt at the White House.

The New York Times has welcomed the release today of one of its researchers who has spent 3 years in a Chinese prison.

A US judge has sent a journalist to prison for refusing to divulge her source in the investigation of the leak of an undercover CIA officer’s name.

MANY major newspapers ran graphic photos yesterday of charred bodies of Americans killed in Iraq, while the images were largely shunned by American television as being too graphic.

THE New York Times yesterday named Bill Keller as executive editor, more than a month after the newspaper’s top editors resigned following a plagiarism scandal.