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President-elect Barack Obama will name Timothy F. Geithner to be his Treasury Secretary, according to a knowledgeable Democrat.

Hillary Rodham Clinton will give up her Senate seat and accept the nomination for secretary of state after talks with President-elect Barack Obama about her role, two confidants said.

Across the globe, basement hackers and amateur mathematicians are competing to improve the program that Netflix uses to recommend DVDs — and to win $1 million in the process.

Long associated with the Dalai Lama and his “middle way,” the exile movement has reached a crossroads.

The revision to a law permitting parents to hand children over to state custody limits its reach to infants.

Most voters still believe the mayor is doing an excellent or good job, but his approval rating has slipped from 68 percent in just a month, the Marist Poll found.

Congress may yet be back next month, but for now the meager results show how postelection sessions often do not work.

When the National Museum of American History reopens, it may begin to shed its reputation as one of the more cramped and confounding corners of the Smithsonian Institution.

Dr. Frederick K. Goodwin, a psychiatrist, earned income from drug makers that he didn’t report on his radio show.

Asian stock markets followed New York’s plunge but then rebounded when Japan’s finance minister said that governments should be prepared to take action.