AP - President-elect Barack Obama said Sunday the economy will get worse before it gets better, pledged a recovery plan "equal to the task" and warned lawmakers that the days of pork barrel spending are over.
AP - Five Blackwater Worldwide security guards indicted in Washington for the 2007 shooting of Iraqi civilians plan to surrender to the federal authorities Monday in Utah, people close to the case said, setting up a court fight over the trial site.
AP - The first Vietnamese-American elected to Congress took advantage of dissatisfaction with a longtime incumbent dogged by corruption allegations and reflects the changing nature of New Orleans politics since Hurricane Katrina.
A weekend sit-in by laid-off workers at a Chicago window factory drew high-profile support from President-elect Barack Obama ahead of a Monday meeting between union leaders and the plant's major creditor. About 200 workers from the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America conducted what they call a "peaceful occupation" of the Republic Windows and Doors plant since Friday, when their layoffs were to take effect.
President-elect Barack Obama on Sunday warned officials around the country who want to fund projects with federal dollars: no more business as usual. "How are we going to make sure taxpayers are protected? You know, the days of just pork coming out of Congress as a strategy, those days are over, " Obama said in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"There's no doubt" that the deadly attack on India's financial capital last month was planned inside Pakistan, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today.