CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) - Space shuttle Atlantis rocketed into orbit Monday with six astronauts and a full load of spare parts for the International Space Station. ...more

November 17, 2009

WASHINGTON — More than 15 million taxpayers may owe the government $250 or more because of how the IRS last spring set up President Barack Obama's tax break that was designed to help consumers spend the U.S. economy out of recession. ...more

November 16, 2009

Americans are worried about the fine print in the health care overhaul, an Associated Press poll says, and those concerns are creating new challenges for President Barack Obama as he tries to overcome doubts in Congress. ...more

November 16, 2009

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States: ...more

November 16, 2009

In Asia, Obama, Medvedev see nuke pact in sight, climate-change deal illusive SINGAPORE (AP) - President Barack Obama said Sunday the United States and Russia would have a replacement treaty on reducing nuclear arms ready for approval by year's end, an announcement designed as an upbeat ending to a summit with Asia-Pacific leaders. ...more

November 16, 2009

A major pact within tantalizing reach, President Barack Obama aims to nudge forward an arms-control deal in talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. ...more

November 15, 2009

Two weeks from the start of the Christmas shopping season, both consumers and merchants could use a few reassuring words from the president. ...more

November 15, 2009

The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a patient's condition, wasting taxpayer dollars at a rate nearly three times the previous year. ...more

November 14, 2009

Anniversaries are opportunities to reflect on the past and on what it might mean for the future. Monday saw the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, even if Barack Obama could not find time to travel once again to Berlin to attend the commemoration there. And Wednesday was the 91st anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I. ...more

November 14, 2009

Sarah Palin's new book goes rogue on some facts. ...more

November 13, 2009