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Iowa's voters caucus on Jan. 3. The state's 1,784 precinct caucus locations will receive Democratic voters who apportion delegates to various candidates. It takes place in public. But Republicans choose the winner by popular vote, putting a candidates name on paper and dropping it in a box.

With only three days before the New Hampshire primary, presidential candidates are rushing around the state so fast it can be hard to catch them. But Friday night, almost all of the Democratic contenders managed to be in the same hall in Milford.

Mark Zuckerberg has pitched Meta's Twitter clone as a more "friendly" place for online discourse. Executives say breaking news and politics will not be the emphasized. But is that realistic?

Riot police fire water cannons and tear gas into crowds gathering for a banned rally in Nairobi, Kenya, on Thursday. Brother Paul Brennan offers an update from Eldoret, where thousands fled.

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank's new book, Homo Politicus offers a humorous "anthropological" study of the people and rules that govern Potomac Land, the place otherwise known as Washington.

Bush administration lawyers told a federal judge Friday that there's no evidence that the CIA violated the judge's order when it destroyed videotapes of interrogations of al-Qaida suspects. Lawyers for detainees said the destruction of the tapes makes them fear that other related materials are not being saved.

The bus was traveling west on Interstate 70 when it crashed into commercial vehicles parked on an exit ramp, the Illinois State Police said.

New Jersey became the first state in more than four decades to abolish the death penalty. Gov. Jon Corzine signed into law a measure that replaced the death sentence with life in prison without parole. The law spares eight men currently on death row.

Updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is one of Congress's top priorities in 2008. FISA, as the law is known, generally tells the president that he must have a court order to spy on Americans in the United States.

We've barely had time to interpret the results of last week's Iowa caucuses, and now it's New Hampshire's turn. What statement — if any — will the voters in the "Live Free or Die" state make Tuesday? How will the independents vote? What will the results mean for the winners — and for the losers? And where do the candidates go from here?