Day: December 5, 2008

People will be able to carry concealed firearms in some national parks and wildlife refuges under a new Interior Department rule.

Two federal drug officials said that asthma sufferers risk death if they continue to use Advair, Symbicort, Serevent and Foradil, but the views are not universally shared.

A former worker at the Federal Emergency Management Agency who stole the identities of disaster victims and used the information to go on shopping sprees was sentenced to 64 months in federal prison.

As potential buyers from Chicago quietly descend on Washington this month, they bring with them a glimmer of hope amid a cratering national housing market.

The excitement about an Obama administration has fueled the record number of applicants, although the unraveling economy may be adding its own boost.

The recount in the Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken is complete, but the winner is uncertain.

Obama wrote ‘The Audacity of Hope,” and Plouffe’s book is tentatively titled ‘The Audacity to Win.”

Senator Edward M. Kennedy is stepping down from his Judiciary Committee post.

Divisions remain over how to finance any aid package. See also: Big three still big campaign donors

Those concerned are watching the interplay between two of Obama’s Middle East advisers.