WASHINGTON - Cordell Hull was a veteran lawmaker with a worldwide reputation when Franklin Roosevelt chose him for secretary of state in 1933, in part to win support from Hull's army of Democratic admirers. But the dignified Tennessean was never close...
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WASHINGTON - With the economy in free fall, President-elect Barack Obama is stepping up efforts to let Americans know what he has planned to stabilize the nation's financial system and calm the markets. He announced a plan this weekend to save or create...
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NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - In Lima, Chinese President Hu said the Asian powerhouse would work alongside the international community to strengthen cooperation and protect international markets. China has been a major driver of the world...
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That announcement was the latest indication that the president-elect has decided to use the transition period to influence events at a time of crisis, when the current administration appears powerless to stop a slide. "There's no question that Bush is...
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WASHINGTON -- The incoming and outgoing presidents Saturday urged solutions to the country's economic crisis that seemed to be worlds apart. President-elect Barack Obama, reversing his post-election practice of not announcing major policy initiatives...
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The United Opposition coalition of parties and movements has accused Saakashvili of mishandling the war. It also accuses the government of stifling free speech and betraying the values of the 2003 revolution. "There can be no democracy without freedom...
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Two of the top qualities Robert Gibbs brings to the job of White House press secretary are ones not found on his resume: He won't flinch at telling it like it is to the next president or telling it like he thinks it ought to be to the media.
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Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., reportedly a candidate to become U.S. Interior secretary, says he hasn't yet been contacted about the job. A spokeswoman for Grijalva, named by several national publications as being on U.S. President-elect Barack Obama 's...
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There is possibly no person President-elect Barack Obama considered for secretary of state who is more reliably pro-Israel than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. During the Democratic primaries, the New York senator said the United States could “obliterate”...
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The $3 bill was intended as a satire of president-elect Barack Obama, but instead became another blemish for a mayor who recently snatched a 15-year-old boy off a moving motorscooter. Greeley Mayor Ed Clark, a former police officer who also is the head...
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