Congress Moves on Stimulus Bill and Bailout Money
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
House Democrats unveiled an $825 billion recovery package, and the Senate voted to release the second half of the Treasury’s $700 billion bailout fund.
House Democrats unveiled an $825 billion recovery package, and the Senate voted to release the second half of the Treasury’s $700 billion bailout fund.
In a speech from the White House, the president conceded he “experienced setbacks” over a tumultuous eight years.
The ruling validated the president’s power to wiretap international phone calls without a court order.
A report says a brutal snowstorm is responsible for killing the hundreds of endangered California brown pelicans that have been found dead or dying since late December.
College students are covering more of what it costs to educate them, even as colleges are spending less on them.
Eric H. Holder Jr., the attorney general pick, came under close questioning for his role in the pardon of Marc Rich.
In a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Susan E. Rice said her one of her priorities would be improving the U.N.’s ability to undertake peacekeeping operations.
At her confirmation hearing, Mary L. Schapiro outlined an ambitious agenda that included tighter regulation of hedge funds and credit rating agencies.
Gov. Janet Napolitano of Arizona, President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Homeland Security Department, breezed through a “warm and fuzzy” confirmation hearing.
In Washington, Republican and Democratic consulting firms are linking arms, creating unlikely marriages in a world that was once politically segregated.
A new breed of swindlers calling themselves “foreclosure rescue companies” is preying on desperate homeowners.
A white former transit police officer was charged with murder in the New Year’s Day shooting death of a young unarmed black man that provoked public outrage and violent protest.
A 5-to-4 decision suggested a fragile commitment to the exclusionary rule, which requires the suppression of some evidence obtained through police misconduct.
After meeting with officials from the Obama transition team, leaders of a religious coalition said they were optimistic.
With Mohammed al-Qahtani, the incoming Obama administration has a flesh-and-blood case of a detainee who can not be prosecuted but might be too dangerous to release.
Popular drugs known as atypical antipsychotics double patients’ risk of dying from sudden heart failure, a study found.
Even though Timothy F. Geithner paid more than $48,000 in delinquent taxes and interest, many still see him as best able to handle the economy.
The new plans would provide alternatives to a timetable drawn up by the top commanders to bring troops home more slowly than Barack Obama promised during his campaign.
Similar versions of the bill, extending coverage to four million uninsured children, had previously been vetoed.
A federal judge ordered a search of White House computers and other electronic storage devices, which may contain some of the millions of e-mail messages that have apparently disappeared.
Despite the trouble in the United States economy, there is no hard evidence of a return migration tied to the recession, researchers said.
A priest shepherds young men through seminary in India, where bishops trek from the U.S., Europe, Latin America and Australia looking for spare priests.
Wind combined with rain to tear up the Gulf Coast once again; it combined with fire to sow destruction in California. But not all havoc was wrought by nature.
A map showing facilities where people detained on suspicion of immigration violations are being held.
A listing of the 563 American service members who have died in Operation Enduring Freedom. Of those deaths, 510 occurred in Afghanistan or are directly linked to the war. (August 7, 2008)
An interactive look at the American service members who have died in Iraq.
Schools from New Hampshire to Florida to California are working to bring the excitement of the inauguration of the country’s first African-American president to the classroom.
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A billion gallons of coal ash breached a holding pond at a Tennessee power plant, reigniting a debate over the safety of the byproduct of clean coal technology.
What started as a round-the-clock vigil has become a lifestyle for a group of parishioners at St. Frances, a church the Archdiocese of Boston ordered closed.
Jane Gross blogs about aging parents and the adult children struggling to care for them.