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Once they shifted to domestic issues, with all the accompanying numbers, the punches started flying faster.

In sharp contrast to Obama’s rope-a-dope strategy, Biden and Ryan are exchanging punches, close in, and smiling the whole time. Rather than take notes or look down, Biden reacted instantly, so instantly that it got under Ryan's skin. So he got off a good counterpunch: “Mr. Vice President,...

It’s on!

The vice presidential debate started Thursday night on Vice President Joe Biden’s foreign policy turf with a question about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya. After solemnly promising to get the people responsible, Biden pivoted — in a New York minute — to attacking Mitt Romney.

He slammed him for saying he wouldn’t move heaven and earth to get bin Laden, and for taking...

The potential for gaffes and gotchas alone should be enough to make tonight’s vice presidential debate entertaining.

Vice President Joe Biden is a gaffe-meister and Republican challenger Paul Ryan has been tagged for getting his facts wrong often enough to put him at risk of embarrassing gotchas. And, like the sporting events these political debates have come to mimic, some people will tune...

In advance of the vice presidental debate on Thursday night, we've been looking at some cartoons about the two VP candidates - Joe Biden and Paul Ryan.

Click here to see cartoons about Joe Biden.

Click here to see cartoons about Paul Ryan....

Reasons to worry about porous airport security in the New York region just keep piling up.

The latest is that security screeners at Newark International Airport properly executed pat-downs of passengers only 16.7 percent of the time. That means only one in six passengers they searched was patted down the way Transportation Security Administration officials say they should be.

That’s...

What if we admitted that abortion is not the problem?

What if we acknowledged that unwanted pregnancy is the problem, and abortion is a solution to it that most us, to a greater or lesser degree, understand isn’t a good one.

A study was released last week that brings that question into very sharp focus. For five years in St. Louis, more than 9,000 teenage girls and women ages 14 to 45...

And the winner is … Hillside Food Outreach.

The not-for-profit organization that delivers food to families in Westchester, Putnam and Fairfield counties drew more than 250 people and set a record for fundraising at its fourth annual “Dancing With Our Stars” contest Saturday in Danbury, Conn.

The day started like few other Saturdays. I was tired, groggy and in need of more sleep. The...

Next Tuesday, Oct. 16, the presidential candidates will answer questions, town hall-style, from an audience at Hofstra University.

If you were asking, what would be your one most urgent issue for Republican challenger Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama?

Help Newsday set the agenda for the debate by emailing letters@newsday.com. Put “debate” in the subject line, and please include...

The near-obsessive devotion of Nikola Tesla fans around the globe has finally paid off.

According to The New York Times, a deal was struck Friday that will allow Tesla lovers to buy the beloved, bizarre scientist’s Wardenclyffe laboratory in Shoreham from current owner the Agfa Corp.

Wardenclyffe, which Tesla used as his primary work space between 1903 and 1915, has been a cause celebre...

If only President Barack Obama had been able to repair to his corner between questions, sit on a tiny stool, and have his political advisers pepper him with advice as they wiped the sweat off his brow and had him rinse and spit into a bucket, he might have been able to change the trajectory of Wednesday night’s technical knockout by Mitt Romney.

And as well as he did, Romney wasn’t perfect....