Ban on US abortion funding lifted as Bush ideology is rolled back
Ban on US abortion funding lifted as Bush ideology is rolled back
What the first lady wears will be the talk and focus of New York Fashion Week - and women will be keen to follow her lead
Ban on US abortion funding lifted as Bush ideology is rolled back
BARACK OBAMA chose John Podesta, the president of the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think-tank, to help manage his transition. The new government will probably lean leftwards in its attachment to such groups, whereas George Bush favoured[...]
Faced with the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression, President-elect Barack Obama already has assumed the burden of the presidency — and with it the opportunity to shape his legacy and make the economy go boom or bust.
Barack Obama today confirmed that he will take the presidential oath of office using his middle name, Hussein, a choice depicted as routine but likely to be viewed as an olive branch by majority-Muslim nations. Obama's oath-taking plan comes after a[...]
Preparing for her new role as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton is moving to surround herself with a cast of die-hard loyalists and veterans of her husband's administration to help her cope with world crises and backstage Washington power plays. For[...]
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DEBBIE JEFFRIES could see it coming. When she manned the cash register at Linens ’n Things, the household-goods chain where she has worked for 14 years, a customer would sometimes open her wallet and display 15 credit cards. “That people can pull[...]
In the final weekend of the presidential campaign, thousands of people filled the University of Miami's Bank United Center for a John McCain rally that stretched from late Sunday night into early Monday morning
BENSALEM, Pa.—John McCain has hit Barack Obama on taxes, the economy, national security, health care, earmarks, the mortgage crisis and his association with a 1960s radical. Now, Mr. McCain has gone after what he suggested was Mr. Obama’s flip-flopping[...]