Day: January 22, 2009

The list of foods that might contain salmonella-tainted peanut butter has grown so quickly that keeping up can seem daunting.

Obama issues a statement on the anniversary of Roe – but makes no change to the Mexico City policy.

The White House denied news cameras access to President Obama’s just-in-case second swearing-in, providing its own photos instead.

Robert Gibbs’s first White House press briefing gave him his biggest introduction yet as one of the leading faces of the Obama administration.

Former Senator George J. Mitchell will be special envoy for Arab-Israeli affairs and longtime diplomat Richard C. Holbrooke will work with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

An investigation found that negligence by an American contractor that performed electrical work led to the death of a Green Beret electrocuted in a barracks shower.

The first White House briefing of the Obama era was one of the most crowded ever – and more diverse than ever too.

President Obama postponed for months critical choices the United States has been grappling with since the terrorist attacks of 2001.

A performance gap between African-Americans and whites on a test all but disappeared after the presidential election, researchers said.

Some on the Bush team thought the inaugural speech took unnecessary shots at the departing administration.