WASHINGTON - The big economic stimulus package agreed to by House and Senate negotiators is on track for final action with a House vote possible Thursday or Friday.
The agreement on tax cuts and spending that started out at more than $800 billion has been pared to $789 billion.
President Barack Obama, who has campaigned energetically for [...]

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President Barack Obama greets well wishers upon arriving at MacDill Air Force Base in Fort Myers, Fla., Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
By JENNIFER LOVEN, AP White House Correspondent
FORT MYERS, Fla. - Pressing for urgency, President Barack Obama ventured into another hard-hit, Republican-leaning area on Tuesday to prod Congress to stop debating an emergency [...]

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President Barack Obama rests his hand on President Lincoln’s Inaugural Bible as his wife Michelle Obama holds it as he takes the oath of office at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
WASHINGTON - The small, red Bible used to swear in Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama will go [...]

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President Barack Obama visits the press cabin on Air Force One during a flight en route to a town hall style meeting about the economy in Elkhart, Ind., Monday, Feb. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has given the Camp David mountaintop retreat rave reviews after his first visit [...]

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. - YouTube can get anybody a little added attention, and that includes Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot.
Franchot is trying to convince Maryland residents to eFile their taxes, so he took to the web. Below you’ll find the latest in the effort to cut down on the state’s load of paper filings.
Maryland is hiring only [...]

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President Barack Obama listens as Energy Secretary Stephen Chu speaks at the Energy Department in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is naming a team of outside economic advisers to help him steer the nation’s economy out of the tailspin that has dominated his first two weeks in office.
The [...]

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In this Jan. 15, 2009 file photo, Attorney General-designate Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
WASHINGTON — The Senate has voted 75-21 to confirm Eric Holder as the first African-American attorney general.
Holder also is the only African-American currently in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet. He had [...]

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02/03/2009 –
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick emerged from jail after serving a 99-day sentence. He was greeted in the cold by about two dozen reporters and a handful of onlookers.
The 38-year-old Kilpatrick left the downtown Detroit facility wearing a dark suit just after 12:30 a.m. Tuesday. He looked thinner and his beard was fuller than [...]

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President Barack Obama sits with Xerox Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Anne Mulcahy, as he meets with business leaders to discuss the economy, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
WASHINGTON (AP) — You call this bad weather?
President Barack Obama, steeled by many snowy Chicago winters, [...]

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By Roz Plater
FOX 5 reporter
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Our new President–the self-proclaimed BlackBerry junkie– gets to hold on to his cherished PDA.
The White House says President Barack Obama will use a security-enhanced smartphone to communicate with senior staff and a small circle of friends.  He will also use a new top secret email address.
Still, what he [...]

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