President-elect Barack Obama pledged on Sunday to maintain transparency and track the next $350 billion of the economic stimulus package which he said will target credit flow to businesses and families. He also said his team is making principles on how the remaining part will help in terms of housing and target small businesses.
Gov. Rod Blagojevich who was arrested and accused of scheming to sell off Illinois' vacant Senate seat said the decision to impeach him was not a surprise for him.
News program 60 Minutes is presenting a special edition disc covering the president-elect's path to the White House.
President-elect Barack Obama's mother in law will be living with the first family in the White House after he takes office.
The Illinois House of Representatives voted on Friday to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich, which sets up a Senate trial to decide whether he should be thrown out of office on charges of abuse of power, including attempting to sell the senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.
An Illinois General Assembly investigative committee has recommended that the state's House of Representatives impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Vice President Dick Cheney said on Thursday that Iraq would one of the top foreign policy challenges President-elect Barack Obama, according to an interview with the Associated Press.
President-elect Barack Obama's transition team is urging Congress to delay implementation of the switch from analog to digital television, arguing too many people won't be ready by the February 17 legally mandated deadline.
Text of President-elect Barack Obama's speech on the economy on Thursday at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., as found on Barak Obama's presidential transition website.
The stars, including Jay Z, Bruce Springsteen and Jessica Alba will be out in shows around Washington D.C. in the days leading up to the inauguration of Barack Obama as U.S. President.
President-elect Barack Obama is warning that without bold action the nation's recession could linger for years as seeks support among lawmakers and the general public for a massive fiscal stimulus package.
Roland Burris has gone from being a 'tainted appointment' on Sunday in the eyes of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to holding a positive meeting with Reid and Majority Whip Dick Durbin on Wednesday.
On Wednesday a rare event happened with a president-elect meeting for lunch with 4 of his predecessors.
The U.S. federal government will have deficit in fiscal 2009 of more than $1 trillion in the coming fiscal year.
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Nancy Killefer, a director at McKinsey & Company and a former assistant secretary of the treasury in the Bill Clinton administration, to serve as the country's chief performance officer.
President-elect Barack Obama has promised Washington lawmakers long-term fiscal discipline despite a push for a costly economic stimulus plan.
President-elect Barack Obama has approached its medical correspondent CNN and CBS News, Sanjay Gupta, to be the country's next general surgeon.
Former congressman, Bill Clinton and White House chief of staff, Leon Panetta will be President-elect Barack Obama's CIA Director, according to media reports Monday.
Leon Panetta a former eight-term congressman from California has been a former chairman of the House Budget Committee, budget director and Clinton White House chief of staff and recently member of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group was the choice that President-elect Barack Obama made for Director of Central Intelligence Agency , according to media reports Monday.
The dollar bounced against the majors at the start of the week, rallying to 1.3555 versus the euro from 1.3962 and edging up to 93.56 against the yen.
President-elect Barack Obama daughter's Sasha and Malia began their first day of school at Sidewell on Monday.
President-elect Barack Obama arrived Sunday evening in the Washington area, 16 days before being sworn into office, reported the Washington Post after leaving his home town of Chicago.
