New York Times

Mark Teixeira seemed like the happiest guy in the room, grinning ear to ear as the Yankees introduced him on Tuesday as their latest big-ticket free agent.

New senators and those re-elected were sworn in today.

Bakhtawar Bhutto, the 18-year-old daughter of the assassinated former prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, has posted a rap song on YouTube expressing her anguish over her mother's death.

A number of municipalities across the country are getting creative and experimenting with incremental, neighborhood- or district-based lending programs that help homeowners pay the up-front capital costs for efficiency or renewable energy projects.

At least 30 people were reported killed at a school where refugees had gathered, and Israeli troops were said to be moving toward the south of Gaza.

Apple said it would begin selling song downloads without anticopying measures and change its pricing structure.

The Fed feared that the economy would be stuck in a painful rut for some time despite its decision to slash rates to record lows.

The secretary of the Senate turned away Roland W. Burris, who was named by the embattled Illinois governor.

As the man who hands out the keys for 165 yellow cabs for a fleet company on West 44th Street, Enrique Sandoval has an interesting take on the New York City cab scene.

Journalists have been barred from the battle zone in Gaza, but they are given full access to sites in Israel hit by Hamas rockets.

An executive with the John Galt Corporation, the subcontractor responsible for demolition and asbestos abatement at the former Deutsche Bank building, was indicted for stealing $1.2 million.

At MacWorld, an Apple executive said more songs would be offered free of the encoding that limits how they can be copied.

Russia’s gas price dispute with Ukraine escalated, disrupting deliveries to the European Union in the midst of a bitter cold spell.

Toyota Motor will idle its plants in Japan for 11 days in February and March to reduce output in the face of steeply declining global vehicle sales, the company said Tuesday.

New members of Congress are sworn in on Tuesday, broadening the moderate coalition of an expanded Democratic majority.

In 2009, for the first time in U.S. history, the parent in charge of the PTA will be a father.

Crude oil prices rose above $50 a barrel, their highest levels in more than a month, and Wall Street rose in early trading.

The Institute for Supply Management said its services sector index rose as new orders and employment picked up. Another report showed pending home sales fell to a 7-year low.

The document compiled by Indian authorities and seen by The Times seems designed to demonstrate that the attackers were sent from Pakistan.

Though never charged with a crime, Muhammad Saad Iqbal spent six years in American custody, during which he says he was taken to Egypt and tortured.