The Obama team is dealing with its first scandal in an era when media scrutiny and partisan attacks can escalate any flap into a serious political problem.
AP - A $14 billion rescue package for the nation's imperiled auto industry sped to approval in the House Wednesday night, but the emergency bailout was still in jeopardy from Republicans who were setting out roadblocks in the Senate.
AP - His career in shreds, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich clung defiantly to power Wednesday, ignoring a call to step down from President-elect Barack Obama and a warning that Senate Democrats will not let him appoint a new senator from the state.
AP - Pakistan was under pressure Thursday to clamp down on an Islamic charity after the U.N. declared the group a front for the group blamed for the Mumbai terrorist attacks.
The number of executions in U.S. prisons hit a 14-year-low in 2008, continuing a downward trend and coinciding with a drop in juries handing out death sentences, according to a year-end report.
Current and former top Bush administration officials may receive a break from the Supreme Court Wednesday on the issue of whether they can can be held personally liable for allegedly knowing of or condoning mistreatment against those detained after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Laid-off workers at a Chicago window factory ended a five-day sit-in after banks agreed to lend the failed company $1.75 million for outstanding wages and benefits, union officials said Wednesday.