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- Obama girls visit schools, White House
Category: Politics
Publish Date: 11-18-2008 02:16 PM -0800
Malia and Sasha Obama are in Washington with their mother checking out prospective new schools.[more]
- Bernanke: Credit markets strained, capital helping
Category: Politics
Publish Date: 11-18-2008 01:18 PM -0800
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday that credit markets, while stabilizing, remain under serious strain and government capital injections into banks are...[more]
- Walter: Obama budgeting political capital
Category: Politics
Publish Date: 11-18-2008 01:15 PM -0800
Party gains take a back seat for now, but bipartisan opportunities for the president-elect are not obvious[more]
- White community adapts to Obama reality
Category: Politics
Publish Date: 11-18-2008 12:57 PM -0800
WESTMINSTER, Maryland (Reuters) - Worried by racial tensions churned up by the U.S. presidential election, teachers at one U.S. high school braced for the worst in their majority white community...[more]
- Regulators: Bailout program is working
Category: Politics
Publish Date: 11-18-2008 12:04 PM -0800
Lawmakers challenged Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on his handling of the $700 billion bank bailout program and stressed the importance of doing more to help homeowners.
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- Cold realities await Gov. Sarah Palin in Alaska
Category: Politics
Publish Date: 11-18-2008 11:43 AM -0800
Gov. Sarah Palin, heralded by some conservatives as the future of the Republican Party, faces many challenges as she returns from the campaign trail.[more]
- Sources: Obama taps Holder as attorney general
Category: Politics
Publish Date: 11-18-2008 11:03 AM -0800
Newsweek: President-elect Obama has decided to tap Eric Holder as his attorney general, putting the veteran Washington lawyer in place to become the first African-American to head the Justice...[more]
- McCain-backer Lieberman keeps Senate chairmanship
Category: Politics
Publish Date: 11-18-2008 10:42 AM -0800
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats on Tuesday yielded to the wishes of President-elect Barack Obama and allowed Joe Lieberman to keep his committee chairmanship despite having backed...[more]
- Lawmakers choose GOP, Dem leaders for '09
Category: Politics
Publish Date: 11-18-2008 09:59 AM -0800
The next Congress took shape behind closed doors Tuesday as Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate elected leaders and conferred on the fates of their frowned-upon colleagues.[more]
- Lieberman to keep committee chair
Category: Politics
Publish Date: 11-18-2008 09:48 AM -0800
Sen. Joe Lieberman will keep his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite hard feelings over his support for GOP nominee John McCain during the presidential campaign.[more]
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