Two down, one to go. President Barack Obama's health care overhaul cleared its second 60-vote test in the Senate early Tuesday morning - moving it a step closer to passage by Christmas. ...more

December 22, 2009

President Barack Obama will discuss the economy, lending to small businesses and financial regulation when he sits down at the White House with representatives of a dozen small and community banks. ...more

December 22, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill that combines another round of war spending with help for the unemployed. ...more

December 21, 2009

Senate Democrats won a crucial test vote on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, putting them on track for passage before Christmas of the historic legislation to remake the nation's medical system and cover 30 million uninsured. ...more

December 21, 2009

A slow-moving storm that blanketed swaths of the mid-Atlantic with nearly 2 feet of snow headed northward Sunday, continuing its assault on the East Coast after causing at least five deaths, crippling travel and leaving empty stores normally crammed with holiday shoppers. ...more

December 20, 2009

A fifth-generation Boy Scout, 11-year-old Brad Corr is steeped in all the lore and tradition: the Scout Oath and Scout Law, campcraft and community service, the daily doing of good deeds. ...more

December 20, 2009

If we could turn back the hands of time, what would we change to make our lives better and safer? ...more

December 20, 2009

Even though liberals insist that all constitutions — federal and state — are living documents that essentially mean nothing, direct democracy ...more

December 20, 2009

federal and state - are living documents that essentially mean nothing, direct democracy (often mob rule) is alive and well in the form of citizen initiatives to amend state constitutions. ...more

December 20, 2009

President Barack Obama and his administration have shown in the past nine months that change has come to America. ...more

December 20, 2009