Archive for February, 2009

by Mark Silva and updated President Barack Obama, wearing a black collarless shirt and slacks with a collared black jacket, left the White House tonight for a night of bigtime basketball in downtown Washington. The presidential motorcade reached the…

KABUL (AP) — U.S. deaths in Afghanistan increased threefold during the first two months of 2009 compared with the same period last year, after thousands more troops deployed and commanders ramped up winter operations against an increasingly…

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Saturday he will try to forge a global pact to buck the global economic downturn during talks with U.S. President Barack Obama next week.

Brown travels to Washington for a meeting with Obama at…

Washington — Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is President Obama’s choice for secretary of health and human services, a White House source said today.

The source, who was not authorized to speak on the record, said Obama will formally announce the…

On Thursday President Obama delivered his budget outline to Congress, a document that represents the ideas he campaigned on and millions of supporters fought for. "Because it represents real and dramatic change," the President explained, "it also represents a threat to the status quo in Washington." He acknowledged the fight ahead to bring this budget plan from outline to final legislation, but he also sent a clear message: Two years ago, we set out on a journey to change the way that Washington works. We sought a government that served not the interests of powerful lobbyists or the wealthiest few, but the middle-class Americans I met every day in every community along the campaign trail – responsible men and women who are working …

CNN’s John King traveled to Philadelphia to see how the green economy is replacing lost jobs.

Gordon Brown will enter the Oval Office as the first European leader to meet Barack Obama since he became president.

America’s first family has it seems settled on its choice for best in show. A Portuguese Water Dog is expected to take up residence in the White House soon according to Michelle Obama.