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Stimulus aside, Obama vows future budget restraint (AP)
President-elect Barack Obama speaks to reporters after a meeting with his top economic advisers at his transition office in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - To a public wary of government spending, President-elect Barack Obama is offering a salve with his massive economic stimulus package: the promise of long-term fiscal discipline.
Publ.Date : Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:02:24 GMT
Democratic opposition to seating Burris cracks (AP)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(R), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi(L) addressing reporters on Capitol Hill on January 5, 2009 in Washington, DC. The new US Congress was convening Tuesday at the dawn of an era of dominance for Barack Obama's Democrats in Washington with lawmakers consumed by the worst economic crisis in generations.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AP - Senate Democrats are looking for ways to defuse the standoff that has denied Roland Burris the vacated Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama of Illinois, but maybe not much longer.
Publ.Date : Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:56:40 GMT
Detainees in Afghanistan seeking right for release (AP)
AP - Four men being held as terror suspects at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan are asking a federal judge for the right to sue for their release — a right already given to detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
Publ.Date : Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:48:19 GMT
CNN: Gupta approached about surgeon general post (AP)
In this Monday, Oct. 8, 2007 file photo, Dr. Sanjay Gupta attends a screening of the environmental documentary 'Planet in Peril,' in New York.  President-elect Barack Obama has approached CNN's chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, to be the country's next surgeon general, the cable news network said Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)AP - President-elect Barack Obama's reported choice for surgeon general, CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, could bring a dose of star power to a job that hasn't had that much clout in decades.
Publ.Date : Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:15:37 GMT
Burris heads into pivotal meeting (Politico)
Politico - Roland Burris heads into a pivotal meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin on Wednesday with an unmistakable sense of momentum.
Publ.Date : Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:59:00 GMT
Ex-Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush won't run for Senate in 2010 (AP)
US President George W. Bush (L) looks on as his brother Florida Governor Jeb Bush speaks in 2006. Former president George H.W. Bush, father of the outgoing US commander-in-chief, on Sunday touted another son Jeb for a future presidential bid.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AP - Former Gov. Jeb Bush announced Tuesday that he won't run for the U.S. Senate in 2010 to replace the retiring Mel Martinez, saying that it was not the right time to return to elected office.
Publ.Date : Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:44:21 GMT
New Congress opens pledging to rescue economy (AP)
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., center, holds a bible as he stands with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, during the mock swearing-in ceremony for  Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I.,  right, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The Capitol rang loud with vows to fix the crisis-ridden economy Tuesday as Congress opened for business at the dawn of a new Democratic era. "We need action and we need action now," said Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Republicans agreed, and pledged cooperation in Congress as well as with President-elect Barack Obama — to a point.
Publ.Date : Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:29:03 GMT
Burris' best bet could be federal court (AP)
Illinois U.S. Senate appointee Roland Burris leaves the U.S. Capitol, seen rear, in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, after he was turned away when he appeared to take his seat. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - If Senate Democrats stick to their refusal to seat Roland Burris as a senator from Illinois, his best bet could be getting a federal judge to force open the Senate's doors.
Publ.Date : Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:58:18 GMT
Experts: Crosswinds a factor in Denver air crash (AP)
Workers move the wreckage of Continental Airlines flight 1404 to a site outside a Continental hangar at Denver International Airport in Denver on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009 from the ravine where it crash landed on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2008. Aviation safety experts said Tuesday, Jan. 6, strong crosswinds likely were a factor in an accident last month that sent a Continental Airlines jet into a bone-jarring veer off a Denver runway and across open, snowy fields before it came to a halt and caught fire. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)AP - It was very windy when a Continental Airlines jet was destroyed while trying to take off in Denver last month, leading aviation safety experts to cite crosswinds as a likely factor in the accident.
Publ.Date : Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:17:38 GMT
Obama names Harvard Law dean solicitor general (AP)
AP - President-elect Barack Obama on Monday chose the dean at his alma mater, Harvard Law School, to represent the United States before the Supreme Court.
Publ.Date : Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:23:42 GMT
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