David Horsey

Charley Hoffman's quick start gave him a two-shot lead over U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson after three rounds of the RBC Heritage on Saturday at Hilton Head Island, S.C. Hoffman had four birdies on his first five holes to shoot a bogey-free five-...

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| Auto Racing--Formula One, Bahrain Grand Prix, 6:30 a.m. (NBCSN); NASCAR Sprint Cup, STP 400, 11:30 a.m. (FOX); American Le Mans Series, Long Beach Grand Prix, Noon (ABC); Indy Racing League, Indy Lights Grand Prix of Long Beach,...

President Barack Obama wants to invest an initial $110 billion in a study of the human brain that could have benefits as great as those achieved by the Human Genome Project. Maybe the first study should be done on the one-track minds of tea party...

Andy Murray erased a championship point Sunday and rallied past David Ferrer, 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (1), in a grueling, dramatic final in the Sony Open at Key Biscayne, Fla. One point from defeat in the last set, Murray skipped a forehand off the baseline to...

|TV SPORTS| Tennis--Australian Open, men’s semifinal, same-day tape, 11 a.m. (ESPN2); women’s championship, 2 a.m. (ESPN2) Cycling--Tour Down Under, Stage 4, same-day tape, 2:30 p.m. (NBCSN) NBA Basketball--Minnesota Timberwolves at...

In the mid-1980s when I was a graduate student in England, my parents came to visit and my mother ended up getting a first-hand look at socialized medicine. It was dad and mom's one-and-only trip to Europe -- a very big deal -- and I wanted to show...

Every two years, the Olympics roll around and amazing specimens of humanity like Michael Phelps make the rest of us feel like tree sloths. The Winter Olympics are bad enough -- downhill racers streaking like rockets, snowboarders and ski jumpers...

Surrounded by dozens of supporters at an evening campaign rally in Madison on May 30, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, the Democratic candidate for governor in Wisconsin's tumultuous recall election, had something encouraging to tell the crowd: The fact his...

If money is the mother's milk of politics, then America's big corporations are Big Mama, and Big Baby is the Republican Party suckling at the enormous bosom of business. Democrats, meanwhile, are abandoned brats scrounging for nourishment wherever they...

TV SPORTS Little League Baseball-Mid-Atlantic Regional semifinals 10 a.m., 2 p.m. (ESPN); West Regional semifinals, 4 and 10 p.m. (ESPN2); Southeast Region final, 7 p.m. (ESPN) Tennis-ATP World Tour, Rogers Cup, 11 a.m. (ESPN2); WTA Rogers Cup, 6 p.m....