Aides said the question was whether they could tackle health care, climate change and energy independence at once or needed to stagger these initiatives over time.
AP - Police arrested the owner of a Haitian school that collapsed on top of students and teachers during school hours, killing at least 88 people and launching a frantic search for survivors amid tons of concrete rubble.
AP - Ferocious Hurricane Paloma roared across Cuba on Sunday, downing power lines, flooding the coast and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate on an island still recovering from two other devastating storms.
AP - An accident aboard a nuclear-powered Russian navy submarine doing a test run in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday killed more than 20 people, the navy said.
Authorities have detained the owner of a Haitian school that collapsed on Friday, killing at least 84 students, sources tell CNN. Fortin Augustin, who owns College La Promesse Evangelique, surrendered to authorities on Saturday, said police spokesman Garry Desrosier. Meanwhile, international aid crews continue to sift through the wreckage in search of survivors.
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has made "no commitment" to plans for a missile defense program in eastern Europe, despite a report to the contrary on Polish President Lech Kaczynski's Web site, an Obama adviser said Saturday. Russia is infuriated by Bush administration plans for the missile-defense installation, which includes basing missile interceptors in Poland.