Stimulus package: Big money, huge plans
With Congress moving toward passage of an $800 billion-plus economic stimulus plan, big government is back. The stimulus is bigger than the Pentagon's entire budget. It's more than the U.S....
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CNN’s Gupta in line for surgeon general
President-elect Barack Obama has asked Dr. Sanjay Gupta to be the next U.S. surgeon general, looking to a popular television personality to help provide a public face for his health-care...
Barack Obama’s Chicago home now empty, but a full plate awaits him in Washington
WASHINGTON—An emotional President-elect Barack Obama left his Chicago home and took up temporary residence in a grand Washington hotel on Sunday, his administration-in-waiting already burdened by scandal, war and congressional...
‘Meltdown’ feared at polls
Counting down to an Election Day expected to draw record-shattering turnout, voting-rights watchdogs are sounding the alarm that a repeat of the Florida fiasco of 2000 could occur in any...
Defense bill skids to a halt
President Bush said Friday that he would effectively veto a $696 billion defense bill because it includes a provision that the administration fears could be used to tie up billions...
$46 billion request raises war tab
Setting up another confrontation with congressional Democrats over the war in Iraq, President Bush sent Congress a $45.9 billion emergency funding request Monday for expenses related to U.S. military campaigns....
Senate rejects Iraq pullout plan
In an ominous sign for the Democratic legislative campaign to end the war in Iraq, the Senate on Thursday rejected a resolution that would have required President Bush to begin...
Sunnis threatening to defeat constitution in referendum
There are no red states or blue states. Ballots won't have hanging chads. But Iraq's constitutional battle appears headed for an election day showdown that--similar to recent U.S. presidential elections--will...
N.Y. developer picked to transform downtown L.A.
After struggling for decades to bring urban vitality to a civic center often derided for clearing out after dark, civic leaders last week picked a New York developer to undertake...