It is total hypocrisy for the naysayers of embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to assert that he didn't have the legal right to appoint Roland Burris to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.

Slowing tax revenues and a historic bailout of the U.S. financial system will send the budget deficit soaring toward $1 trillion this year, President-elect Barack Obama said yesterday, and the red ink stands to get substantially deeper if Obama wins

Journalists have been barred from the battle zone in Gaza, but they are given full access to sites in Israel hit by Hamas rockets.

The Obama administration approached Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, about becoming U.S. surgeon general, according to sources inside the transition and at CNN.

After 37 years on Capitol Hill, Pete Rouse, Barack Obama's Senate chief of staff cum White House senior adviser-in-waiting, is known for three things: his mastery of the job (as former Senate minority leader Tom Daschle's chief of staff, Rouse became

CNN says President-elect Barack Obama has approached its medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, to be the country's next surgeon general. The cable news network said Tuesday that it has kept Gupta from reporting on health care policy and other matters

Barack Obama sought to distinguish between the need to run big deficits for several years and the need to reduce them later.

Jan. 8, 2009--Will my cell phone work at inauguration?

Jan. 8, 2009--The whole compensation-for-slavery debate should be recast as a historical bailout.

Jan. 7, 2009--Coming to D.C. for the inauguration? Time to get to work!