The international to-do list President George W. Bush hands to his successor has a lot of boxes marked "incomplete." Some of Bush's foreign policy and security priorities were overtaken by the two expensive wars that outlast him. In other cases, Bush ran out of time or political capital, or was vexed by the realities of a new world where even close allies don't always cater to American whims. ...more

January 4, 2009

The Bush administration Saturday raised the price tag on its emergency plan to revive the U.S. financial system, asking Congress for authority to spend up to $700 billion to relieve crippled financial institutions of their mortgage-based assets, a sum that would exceed the current cost of the war in Iraq. ...more

September 21, 2008

Like a chronic disease spreading through the body, "dead zones" with too little oxygen for life are expanding in the world's oceans. ...more

August 15, 2008

The Florida Energy Commission on Friday delayed key votes on greenhouse gas reduction, renewable energy and car pollution standards - halted by outcries from utility companies and disagreement among its own members. ...more

October 20, 2007