The United States plans to withdraw most of its troops from Iraq by August 2010, 19 months after President Barack Obama's inauguration, according to administration officials. ...more

February 24, 2009

Rarely have lawmakers confronted an agenda as ambitious as the one Congress will face upon convening this week, with an incoming president pushing to stabilize an economy on the brink of long-term recession, to create universal health coverage and to overhaul federal energy policies. ...more

January 5, 2009

Eager to calm economic anxieties, President-elect Barack Obama is rolling out an economic vision that will require congressional cooperation even before he settles into his new desk in the White House's Oval Office. ...more

November 24, 2008

Well, it was a dumb idea in the first place. The "civil campaign" pledge. What a hoot. ...more

July 30, 2008

JORDAN - Jordan, Israel and Germany aren't normally known as swing states in a presidential campaign. But Barack Obama's off to a fast start in his attempt to change that with an election-season tour designed to show him as a potential commander in chief, equally comfortable sitting down - presidential style - with kings and other foreign leaders. ...more

July 22, 2008