New York, Sept. 2 : The disclosure that Alaska Governor and Republican vice-president hopeful Sarah Palin’s unmarried teenage daughter is pregnant, is likely to be seen as a test case of what the American voter deems will remain in the private domain, and what will be public.

According to the New York Times, though Republican delegates are rallying around Palin on the issue, they are also citing it as a challenge for the party.

“It’s a challenge, and I just think we have to deal with it. But it’s just not going to hurt her (Sarah palin). This is a family problem that people have,” the paper quoted Katon Dawson, the Republican chairman of South Carolina, as saying.

New York, Sept. 2 : Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s decision to pick a woman – Alaska Governor Sarah Palin – as his running mate for the November 4 presidential poll, suggests that he still needs to take important lessons on gender politics, an article appearing in Fox News, has opined.

According to the article, the view going around that Palin’s selection was based on the premise that she could be an effective counter to New York Senator Hillary Clinton couldn’t be farter from the truth.

New York, Sep. 1: Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s running mate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has been accused of misleading party supporters over a controversial bridge project in her home state.

According to the New York Times, Palin told a cheering audience in Ohio on Friday that she had turned down an offer from the US Congress to build the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere", which would have connected Gravina Island with Ketchikan International, an airport in Alaska''s southeast serving just 200,000 passengers a year.

New York  - The UN Security Council met behind closed doors Thursday to discuss the crisis in Georgia, the first meeting of the powerful body since Russia recognized the independence of the two breakaway provinces at the heart of the military conflict.

Russia's decision on Tuesday to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia, contrary to previous Security Council resolutions, drew swift condemnation from the United States and European Union.

New York, Aug. 28 : A former FBI agent and body language expert has opined that Hillary Clinton may have publicly showed her support for Barack Obama at the recently concluded Democratic convention in Denver, but her body language suggested otherwise.

According to Joe Navarro, there was a mismatch between her verbal support and what she was conveying through her body movements.

CBS quoted him as saying that Clinton''s non-verbals were revealing.

"What we wanted to see was a Churchillian speech, something that would move her candidate to cross that magic fence. And she delivered a speech, but the gestures -- the non-verbals that give us the emotion -- really weren''t there," he said.

New York, Aug. 28 : U. S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s daughter, Alexandra, a respected film maker, is reportedly making a documentary about Republican candidate John McCain.