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Obama creates economic advisory board

President-elect Barack Obama is due to open his third news conference in as many days at 10:45 a.m. ET. The Obama-Biden transition team just confirmed, in statement sent to reporters, that Obama will use the Chicago briefing to announce he's creating an Economic Recovery Advisory Board, which will be headed by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker. Also to be on the board as its staff director: Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee.

The end of America's consumption boom | The end of the affair

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 out that many credit cards—that’s insane. You say, whoa, maybe that’s why we’re here. We have so much debt.”

McCain rallies into the night in Miami

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

McCain Hits Obama on Baseball Loyalities

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 on his choice of World Series teams, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Tampa Bay Rays.

Bernanke Says He Supports New Stimulus for Economy

The chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke, said on Monday that he supported a second round of additional spending measures to help stimulate the economy.

Clinton goes to bat for Obama and party

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton has raised more than $8 million for former rival Barack Obama's presidential campaign since July and plans to barnstorm the country for even more cash, as the New York senator works to show she is aggressively helping the candidate who cut short her White House bid.

Biden touts experience, Palin pushes 'maverick' record

Biden touts experience, Palin pushes 'maverick' record

The presidential race | Bring back the real McCain

The Republican candidate is fighting hard, but he needs to do more to separate himself from George Bush

Palin's Family Life Moves to Center Stage

In her two years as governor of Alaska, and especially in the four months since her son was born with Down syndrome, Sarah Palin has been portrayed as the very model of a working mother: She answers her BlackBerry while pumping breast milk for her infant; keeps a playpen by her desk; and manages a state while cooking caribou hot dogs for her family. But some people, looking at that tableau, wonder whether it is possible to perform that juggling act on the highest wire of all, a heartbeat awa...