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It took 35 years, but it looks like the New York/New Jersey/Brooklyn Nets and the New York Islanders are going to be reunited at the Barclays Center.

This is both a shame, and perhaps, an opportunity for Long Island and the Hub.

A news conference has been scheduled at the new Brooklyn arena for 1 p.m. Wednesday, and every person who would be expected to be on hand for such an announcement...

For all the expectation months ago that foreign policy was the landmine waiting to explode under Mitt Romney’s feet, it didn’t quite happen. It was a foreign policy debate without a major Gerald Ford moment. Mitt Romney didn’t step on that landmine by saying something like what President Ford did, saying that Eastern Europe was not under Russian domination.

But Monday's debate in Boca Raton,...

So the debate season of the 2012 presidential election has drawn to a close, capped by a foreign policy debate that centered mostly on jobs, education, tax policy and deficits in the United States.

Mitt Romney -- who first endured 19 Republican primary debates before doing three with Obama -- delivered an unusually subdued, and early on, stumbling, performance. Several times at Monday's debate...

Did Barack Obama apologize to the Muslim world back in 2009? Mitt Romney says he did.  Obama says he didn’t.

Voters can make that judgment for themselves — and most probably already have. That sort of jousting may be good gotcha politics, but fighting about it does nothing at this point to advance U.S. interests in the world.

Is the United States' influence in the world waning?...

The discussion about the size of our military seems almost to describe an alternate world. Our military is so huge and so well-funded that our budget on this equals the spending of the next 10 countries combined, Obama says.

But the bigger issue is that it's set up in ways that don't make sense. When I was in Iraq in 2004, I was embedded with the Pennsylvania National Guard's 109th Field Artillery...

On Syria, what Romney has said tonight is a bit baffling. It is, more than anything else, a full-throated announcement that Obama is doing exactly the right things, delivered in such a way as to angrily claim Obama isn't doing anything right at all.

And the question of whether the U.S. should have stuck with Hosni Mubarak in Egypt may be one we can't answer for decades. This is the problem...

It’s actually comforting that President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney don’t disagree all that much at the start of their third debate on what the nation should be doing in the Middle East. They’re dancing on the head of a pin to find contrasts.

Things are messy and chaotic in Syria and Libya and elsewhere in the region. But change is like that, particularly when people are throwing off oppressive...

So this is it -- the rubber match in a three-debate presidential battle that most onlookers agree is tied 1-1, after Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney crushed Barack Obama in Denver under the snoozing eye of moderator Jim Lehrer and Obama won the Long Island rematch on points thanks to an odd assist from moderator Candy Crowley.

Tonight's debate in Boca Raton, Fla., is to focus entirely...