Barack Obama

What's The Real Price Of Bailout?

Some Estimates As High As $75-125 Billion To Save Industry, Reports CBS' Sharyl Attkisson General Motors Chief Executive Officer Richard Wagoner testifies on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008, at a Senate Banking Committee...

Clinton scrambles to reduce campaign debt

NEW YORK -- With just weeks before President-elect Barack Obama is sworn in, his choice for secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is scrambling to reduce massive campaign debt before federal ethics rules prohibit her from...

Congresswoman, Obama have phone disconnect

Published: Dec. 4, 2008 at 3:27 PM WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A Florida congresswoman, certain she was the victim of a joke, hung up on President-elect Barack Obama -- not once, but twice. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla.,...

Olbermann Compares ‘Grotesque’ Chambliss to ‘Turkey-Killing Machine,’ Carlson: ‘Both Are Killers’

On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann compared Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss’s 2002 campaign against then-Democratic Senator Max Cleland of Georgia to a "turkey-killing machine," as part of a segment with...

Public anger strains Indian-Pakistani cooperation

The Mumbai attacks have brought old suspicions to the fore. The Indian businessman says his country will present its evidence that Pakistani-trained militants carried out last week's attacks in Mumbai (Bombay) – and Pakistan...

States Seek $136 Billion for Public Works

Momentum is building for an economic-stimulus package that includes substantial funding for infrastructure. With the recession straining many states’ budgets, governors and state legislators on Dec. 1 weighed in with a call for...

Yuan drop "extremely disturbing" - US manufacturers

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - A sudden drop this week in the value of the Chinese yuan could reignite political tensions over the huge U.S. trade deficit with China, U.S. business groups said on Thursday.

Resurgent Russia Poses Challenge for Obama Administration

de Nesnera report - Listen (MP3) One of the key foreign policy questions facing the incoming Obama administration is how to deal with a resurgent Russia? Most analysts agree that after Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th U.S....

Putin Tries to Soothe Russians

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Oprah Winfrey to host TV show from Washington

Ms. Winfrey is going to Washington. Winfrey will host a live episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" from the Kennedy Center Opera House on Jan. 19, the day before Barack Obama takes the presidential oath of office, Harpo...

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