A man of many talents, former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley perhaps best embodies the modern idea of a Renaissance man. Bradley was an All-American basketball player at Princeton University, then went on to star with the New York Knicks after a stint...

William Warren "Bill" Bradley (born July 28, 1943) is an American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former U.S. Senator from New Jersey and presidential candidate, who opposed Vice President Al Gore for the Democratic Party's...

Bill Bradley, a former presidential hopeful and senator, on Sunday endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president."Barack Obama is building a broad new coalition that brings together Democrats, independents and Republicans by once again making idealism a central focus of our politics," Bradley said in a...

Gallup polling over the past three decades shows Republican front-runners usually win their party's nomination, but Democrats do not. Some elections:1972-DemocratsFebruary 1971: Edmund Muskie, 26 percent; Edward Kennedy, 25; Hubert Humphrey, 21; John Lindsay and George McGovern, each at 5.McGovern won the nomination and lost...

The coroner's reports on the deaths of nine patients trapped in a sweltering hospital in the days following Hurricane Katrina should be made public, a judge ruled Friday.Chief Civil Court Judge Nadine Ramsey ruled in favor of The Times-Picayune, which had sued Orleans Parish Coroner...

The coroner's reports on the deaths of nine patients trapped in a sweltering hospital in the days following Hurricane Katrina should be made public, a judge ruled Friday.Chief Civil Court Judge Nadine Ramsey ruled in favor of The Times-Picayune, which had sued Orleans Parish Coroner...