Despite new estimates that say President Barack Obama's budget would generate unsustainable large deficits averaging almost $1 trillion a year, the White House insisted Friday that the flood of red ink won't swamp its costly agenda.
AARP has long been seen as the domain of the aged. But its new CEO says the group's central issue of health care reform makes it an advocate for every age group.
Shawn Alexander can recognize the look immediately. It's one of surprise when a student enters his African-American studies class and finds, standing at the front, a white guy.
The Senate on Wednesday easily confirmed former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk as the U.S. trade representative, making him the first African-American ambassador for a new, more limited Obama administration approach to free trade.
First lady Michelle Obama is leading a group women at the peak of their fields on visits to Washington-area high schools to talk to students about their career goals and achieving their dreams.
Gov. Bill Richardson, who has supported capital punishment, signed legislation to repeal New Mexico's death penalty, calling it the "most difficult decision in my political life."
In a sign of just how pervasive job losses have become, the Labor Department said Thursday that unemployment rose earlier this year in all but one of the 372 metropolitan areas it tracks.
