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President-elect Barack Obama yesterday stunned the national intelligence community by selecting Clinton White House chief of staff Leon E. Panetta, a longtime Washington insider with little intelligence experience, to serve as the next head of the CIA. (Today)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and a European delegation yesterday pleaded for Israel to call a temporary halt to its 10-day-old offensive in Gaza, but top Israeli leaders -- with explicit backing of President George W. Bush -- made clear that they aren't ready to end the fighting. (Today)
In choosing Leon Panetta to head the CIA, President-elect Obama is taking one of the capital's most familiar faces and thrusting him into a starkly unfamiliar role. (Today)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- India yesterday confronted Pakistan with a detailed dossier that it said showed that "elements from Pakistan" were behind the November terrorist assault on Mumbai, and said it was inconceivable that no one in the Pakistani government knew of the plans. (Today)
Republicans normally have never seen a tax cut they didn't love -- but that doesn't seem to be the case with the economic package being prepared by President-elect Barack Obama. (Today)
Nation »
- Tapping Panetta to head CIA is spurring concern (Today)
- Another hearing sought in missing pants case (Today)
- Richardson withdraws as Commerce nominee (Yesterday)
- Obamas depart Chicago for D.C. (Yesterday)
- College degree is no job guarantee these days (Yesterday)
- Democrats wrangle with Ill. pick (Yesterday)
- Flaws in crack sentencing guidelines are revised (01/04/2009)
- U.S. Executions, death sentences in decline (01/04/2009)
- Academia feeling the economic pinch (01/04/2009)
- Increase fuel taxes to pay for roads, panel says (01/02/2009)
- Historic move for the Obamas (01/02/2009)
- 100 here protest attacks in Gaza (01/01/2009)
- NASA chief's wife, friends lobby Obama to retain him (01/01/2009)
- Ill. governor appoints senator (12/31/2008)
- New NASA report paints detailed picture of Columbia's final minutes (12/31/2008)
Politico.com »
- Obama puts Panetta in unfamiliar waters (Today)
- GOP wants middle-class tax cuts (Today)
- Big tax cuts in the works for Obama's economic stimulus plan (Yesterday)
- Laura Bush to write her life story (Yesterday)
- Obama to talk stimulus with Hill leaders (01/02/2009)
- Republicans to flee DC for inauguration (01/02/2009)
- Anger growing among Dems as Congress, Bush remain at loggerheads over economic stimulus (12/19/2008)
- Obama cabinet: Middle-of-the-roaders' dream (12/19/2008)
- Gay leaders furious with Obama (12/18/2008)
- Former White House chiefs of staff meet with Emanuel (12/18/2008)
- Obama's e-mails raise cash, concerns (12/17/2008)
- Four really bad scenarios: National security implications of the financial crisis (12/17/2008)
- Women's groups bash Bush birth control rule (12/16/2008)
- Outgoing Senators write history -- in their desks (12/16/2008)
- Obama plans a whistle stop inauguration kickoff (12/15/2008)
World News »
- Israelis reject cease-fire (Today)
- India slams Pakistan on Mumbai attack (Today)
- Huge U.S. Embassy ushers in new Iraq era (Today)
- Bush speeds up airlift of equipment to Darfur (Today)
- Fighting rages near Gaza City (Yesterday)
- Diplomats make little progress in efforts to quiet Mideast guns (Yesterday)
- Suicide bomber targeted Shiites in Iraq (Yesterday)
- Sri Lanka pushes ahead with war on rebel group (Yesterday)
- Israel launches invasion of Gaza (01/04/2009)
- Fatah, Hamas division widens (01/04/2009)
- Deadly bird flu virus resurfaces in Asia (01/04/2009)
- Iraq faces test of time (01/04/2009)
- Senior Taliban figure arrested in Pakistan (01/04/2009)
- Opposition chief wins peaceful vote in Ghana (01/04/2009)
- 60 percent of Kurdish women in Iraq circumcised (01/04/2009)
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