Majority of Americans support President-elect Barack Obama naming Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) as secretary of State, the latest Gallup poll said on Thursday. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) on Thursday spoke for the last time on the floor of the chamber he had worked in for the last four decades, saying he bore no ill-will to any of his colleagues and expressing hope that the day would come when he can "remove the cloud that surrounds" him. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
House Republicans on Wednesday elected Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) to succeed Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) as chair of the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
A day after gaining the support of a House leadership panel, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) narrowly won the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee against the longest-serving member of the House. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
U.S. weekly initial jobless claims for insurance increased by 27,000 to 542,000, reaching a 16-year high, during the week ending November 15, according to the data released by the Labor Department on Thursday. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
When Chicago's residential sector suffered a slump, its commercial real estate sector was relatively not affected by the down turn. But it will not be for long. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston admitted on Thursday government and private efforts to help troubled homeowners are not hitting their targets as more houses continue to be foreclosed. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
President-elect Barack Obama gave Vice President-elect Joe Biden cupcakes on Wednesday, a day ahead of the Delaware senator's 66th birthday. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate Al Franken won his fight over rejected absentee ballots in Ramsey County on Wednesday, the same day Minnesota finished recounting a quarter of all 2.9 million votes cast in the race between Franken and Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN). Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday said the architect of his historic campaign will serve as senior White House adviser. David Axelrod, chief campaign strategist for Obama this cycle and head of president-elect's campaign for senator in 2004, has been appointed to the post. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
To battle the growing public perception that McDonald's offerings are not healthy, the fast food chain is tapping more mothers as its frontline warriors under the firm's Quality Correspondents program. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
More than two weeks after a gracious concession speech on election night, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was declared winner of Missouri, a state that had, up to this point, deviated only once from voting for the winning presidential candidate since 1904. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
Five sheriff's deputies will be disciplined after two undercover deputies zapped a North Carolina man with a Taser while he was serving as a pall bearer at his father's funeral and loading the coffin into a hearse. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
Aviation capacity will expand in three major U.S. airports Thursday with the opening of new runways costing $1.9 billion at the Chicago O'Hare International, Seattle-Tacoma International and Washington Dulles International Airports. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
With new-home starts down to its lowest level in almost 50 years, construction business owners want to rid themselves of idle assets, leading to the auction of their equipment. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
A study by the MacArthur Foundation said time spent by teenagers on online social networking is not lost. According to the "Living and Learning With New Media" report the hours young people spent on their MySpace accounts or even sending text messages provide them technological skills and literacy required for them to succeed in the contemporary world. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, a member of the advisory board of the Obama transition team, to serve as secretary of the Homeland Security department. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
The Bush administration on Wednesday expressed confidence the Iraqi parliament will approve the controversial security deal that would allow American troops to stay in the region beyond 2008. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
Executives of the top three car manufacturing firms based in Detroit returned home Wednesday empty handed after two days of lobbying for a $25 billion bailout fund for the automaking industry. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
U.S. Coast Guards on Wednesday suspended four days of unfruitful sea search for 90 Dominican Republic nationals who have been missing since Saturday after their boat sank before reaching Puerto Rico. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
California's highest court conducted Wednesday its first hearing on three lawsuits against a ballot initiative restoring a ban on same-sex marriage and prohibited such unions until it rules on the case. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
An FBI agent died Wednesday morning after he was shot while he and other federal agents were serving an arrest warrant in an Indiana Township home in Pennsylvania's Allegheny County. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened one of its first three overseas offices in China on Wednesday as part of the two countries' cooperation in the field of food and drug regulation. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved
Majority of Nebraska's state legislators voted Wednesday to limit the coverage of the controversial Safe Haven law to infants 30 days old after local hospitals continue to receive abandoned teenagers. Article © AHN - All Rights Reserved