"Woodrow Wilson" (Knopf, 704 pages, $35), By John Milton Cooper Jr.: Soon after he was elected president in 1912, Woodrow Wilson told a former colleague at Princeton University that all of his preparation for office was in the domestic sphere and it would be "an irony of ...

President Barack Obama is not the first sitting U.S. president to receive the Nobel Peace Prize — Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt were the first two, and he joins a long list of Americans whose efforts have drawn the attention of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. U.S. winners of the ...

CARSON CITY — The state Housing Division — caught in the middle of the battle between Gov. Jim Gibbons and the Legislature for control of the stateÕs stimulus funds — began releasing this week $10.5 million in stimulus money to weatherize homes. The division will send the ...