President Barack Obama continued to promote his economic stimulus plan, Monday night, as he faced a room of reporters for his first prime-time news conference. Before taking his first question, Obama admitted his $838 billion plan is “not perfect” but said it needed to be passed before the...

Here’s a list of what got cut from the Senate stimulus plan. Overview: Eliminations: Head Start, Education for the Disadvantaged, School improvement, Child Nutrition, Firefighters, Transportation Security Administration, Coast Guard, Prisons, COPS Hiring, Violence Against Women, NASA, NSF, Western...

Full text of senate estimate amendment A massive economic stimulus bill is winding its way through Congress, pushed by Democratic leaders who want to present President Barack Obama with legislation he can sign by February 16. Here is the status of the roughly $827 billion measure being debated in the...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery for pancreatic cancer at a New York City hospital on Thursday. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 75, went under the knife at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to remove the 1-centimeter tumor in the center of her pancreas discovered last...

Tom Daschle’s decision to withdraw his nomination as HHS secretary clouds hopes that President Obama will make significant progress on health reform in his first 100 days. The AP’s Julie Pace reports. (Feb. 4)

President Barack Obama signed SCHIP bill Wednesday to expand publicly funded health care for children ending two years of efforts from members of the Democratic Party and making and historical move in the nation’s political landscape. President George W. Bush vetoed similar bills pushed by the Democrats...

Senator Judd Gregg, Republican of New Hampshire, on Tuesday, was nominated to be Secretary of Commerce by President Obama to help “shore up our financial system and revitalize our economy”. “Judd is famous … on Capitol Hill for his strict fiscal discipline,” Obama said. “It’s...

Following in the footsteps of the guy who threw the shoe at Bush, a protestor yesterday threw a shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao interrupting his speech at the Cambridge University. The shoe thrown by a “young Western-looking man” missed by a few feet the Chinese leader, whose visit to...

President elect Barack Obama has been busy during his transition process making announcements and lots of calls. One to South Florida congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. “He goes ‘This is Barack Obama and I said ‘no, I’m sorry i’m not going to be on the 8 a-m radio news...

Tonight, Senator Obama takes to the airwaves with an infomercial about his campaign. This is where he will make his closing argument directly to the American people. The late deciders, particularly women and independent voters.