Day: December 10, 2009

A new inspector general report is adding fuel to demands calling for tougher conflict-of-interest rules.

A small corps of women is working to dismantle the world’s nuclear arsenals.

A bronze statue of a young Barack Obama in shorts and a T-shirt now stands at a park in Jakarta.

One year after U.N. climate talks were held in Poland, things couldn’t be more different in Copenhagen.

Senate Dems trade public option for 60 votes.

It’s still unclear wheather the tentative pact has broken the deadlock on the thorny public option.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Call it the $6 billion boycott….

WASHINGTON (AP) — Black lawmakers who have largely held their tongues during President Barack Obama’s first year in office are stepping up their demands that the nation’s first black president do more for minority communities hit hardest by the recession….

America’s role in Afghanistan could last for years and cost upward of $10 billion annually just to finance an adequate Afghan security force, a top general said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Mark Kirk campaigns for the Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama, the Republican congressman casts himself as a scourge of the pork-barrel, special-interest congressional spending known as “earmarks.”…