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  1. President Barack Obama speaks about his fiscal 2010 federal budget, Thursday, Feb, 26, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington. He is joined by Budget Director Peter Orszag, right, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
    Analysis: Obama plan brings cries of class warfare AP - Thu Feb 26, 5:39 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - He's not being timid, that's for sure.

  2. A US soldier in Baghdad. The US military has insisted it will be out of Iraqi cities by the end of June and indicated that President Barack Obama would announce "shortly" if troops would be redeployed to Afghanistan.(AFP/File/Alexander Nemenov)
    Top lawmakers skeptical of Obama's Iraq plan AP - 2 hours, 37 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - Congressional leaders were skeptical as they awaited details on President Barack Obama's plan to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq while leaving tens of thousands behind. Senior administration officials were expected to outline a plan that would bring most of the 142,000 forces home by August 2010. As many as 50,000 troops could remain for cleanup and protection operations.

  3. Obama health plan opens tough negotiation AP - Thu Feb 26, 4:03 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's prescription for the nation's ailing health care system comes with Medicare cuts and tax hikes — usually poison pills that doom any overhaul effort in Congress.

  4. This Nov. 27, 2006 file photo shows Portuguese water dog 'Splash,' U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy's dog, as he approaches Nicholas Davis, 9, of Boston, right, while Kennedy reads to children at the Knight Children's Center in Boston. Kennedy's wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy, background, looks on. First lady Michelle Obama has told People magazine the family is considering getting a Portugese water dog, possibly in April. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki, File)
    Michelle Obama: First dog arriving in April AP - Wed Feb 25, 6:28 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - This isn't just another wag-the-tail story: The Obamas are getting a dog in April and are looking for a rescue Portuguese Water Dog.

  5. US President Barack Obama (L) makes comments on the Fiscal Year 2010 budget with US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in Washinton DC. Obama unveiled a 3.552 trillion dollar budget Thursday that outlines aggressive plans to boost the recession-stricken US economy and overhaul its health care system.(AFP/Jim Watson)
    Class warfare returns to Washington Politico - Thu Feb 26, 6:34 PM ET

    President Barack Obama has spent months recasting Democratic goals on climate change and health care reform from liberal-leaning moral imperatives to hard-core economic necessities.

  6. US President Barack Obama (L) announces his administration's proposed Financial Year 2010 federal budget outline with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (C) and Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag (R) in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC.(AFP/Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)
    Obama budget: Mammoth deficits but headed lower AP - 54 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama charted a dramatic new course for the nation Thursday with a bold but contentious budget proposing higher taxes for the wealthy and the first steps toward guaranteed health care for all — accompanied by an astonishing $1.75 trillion federal deficit that would be nearly four times the highest in history.

  7. In this undated photo released by the U.S. Department of Defense and obtained by thememoryhole.org shows flag-draped coffins of U.S. war casualties aboard a cargo plane in Dover, Del. News organizations will be allowed to photograph the homecomings of America's war dead under a new Pentagon policy, defense and congressional officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Department of Defense via thememoryhole.org, File)
    Gates: Family would have to OK photos of war dead AP - 32 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is reversing an 18-year ban on news coverage of the return of war dead, allowing photographs of flag-covered caskets when families of the fallen troops agree, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.

  8. A For Sale sign is seen in front of a home in January 2009 in Miami, Florida. Home prices in top US cities fell a record 18.5 percent in December amid an unending home mortgage crisis at the epicenter of financial turmoil, fresh data showed Tuesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)
    Dem spat delays mortgage relief bill in House AP - Thu Feb 26, 4:20 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - A dispute among House Democrats stalled legislation Thursday to let bankruptcy judges reduce the principal and interest rate on mortgages for debt-strapped homeowners.

  9. U.S. House Minority Whip Rep. Eric Cantor (L), seen here on January 28, 2009, speaks as House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner listens during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Top US lawmakers visited Iraq Friday to assess the state of the nearly six-year-old campaign to build a democracy there, amid formal US reviews of war efforts there and in Afghanistan.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)
    FACT CHECK: GOP adrift on small business claim AP - Thu Feb 26, 6:14 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Claims that President Barack Obama's tax plans are an assault on small business skirt the likelihood that most job-producing small businesses wouldn't feel that pinch at all.

  10. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shakes hands with Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta at a trilateral meeting with Afghanistan and Pakistan representatives in Washington, February 26, 2009. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES)
    Clinton to scope out 'new path' in Mideast AP - Thu Feb 26, 5:20 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will visit Egypt, Israel and the West Bank next week to personally take stock of prospects for navigating a "new path" in the Middle East, officials said Thursday.

  11. Boehner: 'We just have to admit we're broke' Politico - Thu Feb 26, 12:36 PM ET

    House Minority Leader John A. Boehner offered his sharpest criticism yet against President Barack Obama Thursday, saying his spending habits were beginning to dwarf those of President Bush.

  12. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. listens during remarks of the Fiscal Responsibility Summit, hosted by President Barack Obama, not pictured, Monday, Feb. 23, 2009, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
    McCain questions Obama about helicopter at summit AP - Mon Feb 23, 11:51 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama never had a helicopter, which he says might explain why he's perfectly happy with the current White House fleet and doesn't need a more costly one. At the conclusion of a fiscal summit Monday, Obama faced questions from Republican and Democratic lawmakers, including his former presidential rival, Sen. John McCain.

  13. Survey: Health care cost keeps the doctor away AP - Thu Feb 26, 11:51 AM ET

    One in four Americans said in a survey that someone in the family put off needed health care in the past year because of cost, including 16 percent who postponed surgery or a doctor's visit for chronic illness.

  14. Sources: Feds moving enemy combatant to Ill. court AP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

    WASHINGTON - An accused al-Qaida sleeper agent held for 5-1/2 years at a Navy brig in South Carolina will soon be sent to Illinois for trial in civilian court, a move the government has fought for years saying terror suspects caught in the U.S. could be held indefinitely without charges.

  15. Congressional Black Caucus chair Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., at microphone, talks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009, following a meeting with President Obama. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
    Black caucus presses Obama on priorities AP - Thu Feb 26, 6:20 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama reassured members of the Congressional Black Caucus that he's on their side and will do what he can to support the group's left-leaning agenda, lawmakers said Thursday after an hour-long session at the White House.

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