Obama touts deal as boost to Caterpillar
Even before the deal was completed in Congress, President Barack Obama on Wednesday said evidence already had turned up that his economic rescue plan would improve the lives of American...
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Obama keeps policy at faith-based office
It seemed like a firm campaign promise. Barack Obama pledged to continue President George W. Bush's faith-based office in the White House, but with a key change: Groups receiving federal...
Bush yanks day-old pardon
In a seemingly unprecedented move, President George W. Bush on Wednesday revoked a pardon he had issued just 24 hours earlier for a politically connected real estate developer who defrauded...
Worst of economic pain yet to come, Obama says
President-elect Barack Obama warned Sunday that the nation's economic problems "are going to get worse before they get better," pointing to the fragility of the financial system and to recent...
McCain appeals to Latinos with immigration revamp
John McCain, trailing in the battle for Latino voters, has begun rolling out his strategy for winning that fast-growing bloc and is taking the risky step of placing an immigration...
Bush defends North Korea diplomacy
President Bush, pressed Friday on whether he had been tough enough toward North Korea, defended his search for a diplomatic response to the communist nation's test-firing of seven missiles this...
Snow says he intends to keep shooting from the lip
Three months ago, when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) told a mostly black audience that Republicans were running the House like a "plantation," conservatives accused her of racial divisiveness. But...
Bush: I’ll veto ports bill
President Bush vowed Tuesday to veto any legislation that would block the takeover of shipping operations at six large U.S. seaports by a state-owned Arab company, setting up a major...
IRS is blasted in fraud probes
The government improperly identifies hundreds of thousands of taxpayers every year as potential cheats, forcing them to endure needless delays of up to three years to receive the refunds they...
France had warned CIA on bogus Iraq-nuclear link
More than a year before President Bush declared in his State of the Union speech that Iraq had tried to buy nuclear weapons material in Africa, the French spy service...