Tue, Jul 14th, 2009 | Most Viewed, Top Stories, U.S. |

The White House, correcting earlier reports, says Michelle Obama's father is not buried at a cemetery where workers are accused of digging up and dumping bodies but at a cemetery nearby. Spokeswoman Camille Johnston in an e-mail message on Tuesday said ...Read More

New Consensus Sees Stimulus Package as Worthy Step

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

WASHINGTON — Now that unemployment has topped 10 percent, some liberal-leaning economists see confirmation of their warnings that the $787 billion stimulus package President Obama signed into law last February was way too small. The economy needs a second big ...Read More

Moderate Dems pivotal in Saturday health care vote

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Politics, Top Stories, U.S. |

Moderate Dems pivotal in Saturday health care vote WASHINGTON – Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana. But the section's purpose is indisputable: ...Read More

The Coming Deficit Disaster

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Health |

President Barack Obama took office promising to lead from the center and solve big problems. He has exerted enormous political energy attempting to reform the nation's health-care system. But the biggest economic problem facing the nation is not health care. ...Read More

Lou Dobbs: Senate, White House A Possibility

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Politics |

Lou Dobbs: Senate, White House A Possibility West Palm Beach, FL (AHN) – Former CNN host Lou Dobbs says he is not ruling out running for Senate or making a run for the White House in 2012. Dobbs, 64, has been answering questions about his future since leaving ...Read More

White House Cites a Republican's Support

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | U.S. |

White House Cites a Republican's Support The White House is once again distributing a statement from a Republican in support of health care reform. On the eve of a crucial Senate vote on whether to proceed with its health bill, the Obama administration on Friday distributed the ...Read More

Giuliani back in spotlight _ but what's the show?

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Politics, U.S. |

NEW YORK - Whether he's planning another run for the White House or a bid for senator or governor, or he just misses the spotlight, Rudy Giuliani is suddenly back and talking about the topic that made him a national ...Read More

Bishops, White House Clash On Abortion

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Politics, Top Stories |

WASHINGTON (Nov. 20) - The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. A top Obama administration official ...Read More

Probe reveals more on Hasan; e-mails to cleric

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Most Viewed, Top Stories, U.S. |

Probe reveals more on Hasan; e-mails to cleric (NECN/ABC) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates pulled two former service chiefs out of retirement to get to the bottom of the Fort Hood massacre. At the same time, Congress held its first hearing into the shootings -- without White House cooperation. As ...Read More

White House at Odds With Bishops Over Abortion

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Politics, Top Stories |

White House at Odds With Bishops Over Abortion The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. A top Obama administration official on Thursday praised the ...Read More

Hundreds visit Burr Oak as cemetery reopens

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | U.S. |

Fewer than 300 family members visited scandal-plagued Burr Oak Cemetery as it finally reopened after four months Thursday -- far fewer than the thousands authorities had prepared for. Clutching computer printouts detailing the locations of their loved ones' graves, a slow ...Read More

1 million stimulus jobs? House panel investigates

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

1 million stimulus jobs? House panel investigates Reporting from Washington - Hundreds of new jobs in phantom congressional districts. Nearly 500 new teaching slots in a Chicago school district that employs only 290. As the White House tries to show that its massive stimulus package has created or ...Read More

GAO: Obama's $787 Billion Stimulus Creating More Confusion than Jobs

Thu, Nov 19th, 2009 | SciTech |

GAO: Obama's $787 Billion Stimulus Creating More Confusion than Jobs WASHINGTON -- The government watchdog overseeing economic stimulus spending says the White House was too quick to take credit for saving or creating 640,000 jobs. The White House trumpeted job figures released last month, saying they proved the administration is on ...Read More

White House Steps Back From Stimulus-Jobs Claims

Thu, Nov 19th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

WASHINGTON -- The White House stepped back Thursday evening from claims that the stimulus plan created or saved 640,329 jobs through September, in the face of mounting criticism over errors in reports by tens of thousands of recipients of stimulus ...Read More

Newsman Lou Dobbs mulls run for White House, Senate

Thu, Nov 19th, 2009 | U.S. |

* Acknowledges commentary stirred friction at CNN * Vows to keep expressing views in 'public arena' PHOENIX, Nov 19 (Reuters) - A week after abruptly quittinghis longtime job as a CNN television news host and commentator,Lou Dobbs said on Thursday he is ...Read More

Stimulus watchdog: Job creation data flawed

Thu, Nov 19th, 2009 | SciTech |

The government watchdog overseeing economic stimulus spending says the White House was too quick to take credit for saving or creating 640,000 jobs. The White House trumpeted job figures released last month, saying they proved the administration is on track to ...Read More

Congressman calls on Geithner to resign

Thu, Nov 19th, 2009 | Politics |

Congressman calls on Geithner to resign It's rarely much fun to watch government officials testify before Congress. But Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) managed to add a charge to a hearing held Thursday morning by the Joint Economic Committee when he told Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner that ...Read More

Rudy Giuliani to run for US Senate; If elected would aim for White House in ...

Thu, Nov 19th, 2009 | Most Viewed, Top Stories, U.S. |

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani has decided not to run for governor next - but will run for U.S. Senate instead, sources told the Daily News. "In the next 48 hours he will announce that he will not run for governor, but ...Read More

Chicago-area cemetery where graves dug up reopens

Thu, Nov 19th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

ALSIP, Ill. -A Chicago-area cemetery that was shut down after four former workers were accused of digging up graves in a scheme to resell burial plots is open again. Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip reopened Thursday morning. People boarded a bus ...Read More

Rove: The Permanent Campaign Continues

Thu, Nov 19th, 2009 | U.S. |

Rove: The Permanent Campaign Continues Every modern White House has put out news on contentious issues late on Friday in the hope that doing so will bury it, or reduce the amount of critical scrutiny it would otherwise receive. What is unusual is the degree ...Read More

Palin's book tour boosts Michigan spirits

Thu, Nov 19th, 2009 | Politics, Top Stories |

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. | Sarah Palin apparently had a point to make when she chose economically ravaged Michigan as the first stop on her heavily promoted book tour. "We're Americans. We don't give up on each other," she had written in ...Read More