As he prepares to take office, President-elect Barack Obama is relying on a small team of advisers who will lead his transition operation and help choose the members of his administration.
Israeli intelligence and military officials are increasingly pushing for the assault on Gaza to continue until it assures the eventual downfall of Hamas amid assertions that the 10 days of military bombardment have crippled the Islamist party's ability ...
Following is Al Franken's statement on the Minnesota state Canvassing Board's decision to certify Senate recount. The latest on the presidential transition and other political news from Washington and around the nation.
By David Ellis, CNNMoney.com staff writer NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Lawmakers took a hard look Monday at the alleged $50 billion investment scam engineered by Bernard Madoff that has sent shock waves across the nation's already fragile financial ...
By NICK BUNKLEY DETROIT - Vehicle sales in the United States tumbled more than 35 percent in December, dragging the Detroit automakers’ full-year totals down to their lowest levels in nearly half a century.
By Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP By John Fritze and Mimi Hall, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama, on his first day back here, began meeting with congressional leaders Monday to discuss a $775 billion economic recovery plan that he said ...
Roland W. Burris talked to reporters at news conference at Midway Airport in Chicago on Monday before leaving for Washington. By KAREN ANN CULLOTTA and MONICA DAVEY CHICAGO - Even as Senate leaders continued to challenge his appointment to the seat ...
WASHINGTON, DC -- Despite differences in age, background and region, all six candidates vying to be the next chairman of the Republican National Committee agreed on almost everything at today's candidate forum here.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson insists he will be cleared of wrongdoing in a federal investigation, after withdrawing his nomination for commerce secretary in Barack Obama's administration.
Now that Apple has acknowledged Steve Jobs' health issues, it may have to do so repeatedly in the future. By finally deciding to talk about Steve Jobs' health, Apple may have opened a Pandora's Box.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Former eBay Inc Chief Executive Meg Whitman has resigned from three corporate boards for personal reasons, a turn-of-the-year move that would free her to run for governor of California.
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - US President George W. Bush will designate nearly 200000 square miles (518000 sq km) of the Pacific ocean on Tuesday as a protected region, White House officials said, making the areas hands-off for oil ...
AP Jan. 5: US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, right, and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani look on during a ceremony marking the opening of the new US Embassy in Baghdad.
David Cameron took the side of savers hit by tumbling interest rates yesterday and promised to abolish tax on the savings income of all basic-rate taxpayers.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President-elect Joe Biden will visit Southwest Asia later this week as part of a congressional fact-finding tour, his office announced on Monday.
ANCHORAGE (AP) - Alaska State Troopers have arrested the mother of Bristol Palin's boyfriend on drug charges. Sherry L. Johnston was arrested Thursday after troopers served a search warrant on a Wasilla home.
By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff When Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan was passed over for the presidency of Harvard University nearly two years ago, law students and faculty threw a party in her honor to celebrate her staying on.
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Inc., said it plans to publish a memoir by US first lady Laura Bush in 2010. Associated Press US first lady Laura Bush, shown at a television interview last month.
A Massachusetts native will be the official White House photographer for President-elect Barack Obama. Pete Souza is now a photojournalism professor at Ohio University after working at the Chicago Tribune.
GIBSON, La. (AP) - Authorities searched a southern Louisiana marsh by boat Monday for clues that might determine what caused a helicopter crash that killed eight people bound for an offshore oil platform.
President-elect Barack Obama's decision to fill the nation's top intelligence jobs with two men short on direct experience in intelligence gathering surprised the spy community and signaled the Democrat's intention for a clean break from Bush administration policies.
President-elect Barack Obama, commencing face-to-face consultations with congressional leaders Monday, is embracing an unexpectedly large tax cut of up to $300 billion.
As Israel seized control of much of Gaza Strip on Monday, President George W. Bush said he understands Israel's desire to protect itself from the militant group Hamas.
A prosecutor says disgraced financier Bernard Madoff violated bail conditions by mailing about $1 million worth of jewelry and other assets to relatives, and wants him jailed.
Caution returned to Wall Street Monday as investors gave back some gains from last week's rally even as they found some encouragement from a report on construction spending.
Police in Ohio have arrested a 22-year-old man in connection with the death of a Dayton mother and the kidnapping of her 4-year-old son, who was later abandoned at a highway rest stop. His father says the boy is still terrified.
Griffin B. Bell, the shrewd lawyer who grew up with Jimmy Carter and became U.S. attorney general after Carter was elected president, died at an Atlanta hospital Monday. He was 90.
The Obama family has arrived in Washington. and a source says that there's a good chance that the first family could ultimately decide to get two dogs at once.
A former South Carolina policeman who fired shots from a Georgia motel while holding his infant son and two women hostage surrendered peacefully Monday after a 13-hour standoff.
The recession figures to tone down the flashiness of this week's International Consumer Electronics Show, but the lineup of innovative products likely will measure up to those of past years.
