President-elect Obama's choice to become Treasury Secretary had to pay more than $43,000 in back taxes after failing to have payroll taxes withheld when he worked at the International Monetary Fund. He also faces questions about the immigration status of a household employee.
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that she intends to revitalize the mission of diplomacy in American foreign policy, calling for a "smart power" strategy in the Middle East and implicitly criticizing the Bush administration for having downgraded the role of arms control.
AP - President-elect Barack Obama's choice to run the Treasury Department and lead the economic rescue effort disclosed publicly Tuesday that he failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004, a last-minute complication in an otherwise smooth path to confirmation.
AP - Tested before taking power, President-elect Barack Obama appealed to Democrats in Congress on Tuesday to allow the use of an additional $350 billion in federal bailout funds and vowed to veto any move to block the money.
Two-year-old Tangena Hussain vanished three months ago in the Detroit suburb of Hamtramck, Michigan, and police say the trail has gone cold. The child's mother told police she had left the girl in the care of her boyfriend. He said he left Tangena in the car for only a few moments while he bought gum and juice, and when he returned, the little girl was gone.
Indiana authorities filed felony charges and a court issued an arrest warrant for a financial manager who apparently tried to fake his death by crashing his airplane in a Florida swamp.
President-elect Barack Obama has arrived on Capitol Hill today to meet with Senate Democrats and make his case for how he wants to spend the second half of the $700 billion bailout. Obama is to attend the weekly lunch of the Democratic senators in what will be his final visit to the Senate before his inauguration next week, according to the transition team.