As Michelle Obama prepares to become first lady, a role with the power to influence the nation?s sense of identity, outlines of her style and agenda have begun to emerge.
AP - Barack Obama stood at the threshold of the White House on Monday, summoning fellow Americans to join him in service as tens of thousands flocked to the nation's capital to celebrate his inauguration as the first black president.
AP - Suspected Taliban militants killed six alleged U.S. spies in a lawless region of northwest Pakistan where U.S. missile attacks have targeted al-Qaida hideouts, police said Tuesday.
AP - In his final acts of clemency, President George W. Bush on Monday granted early prison releases to two former U.S. Border Patrol agents whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer fueled the national debate over illegal immigration.
Washington residents have braced for the estimated 2 million people flocking to Washington to see Barack Obama's inauguration later today. Many D.C. employees, as well as journalists covering the historic event, were found sleeping in their offices hours before the nation's capital awakened to a new day.
Two days before US Airways Flight 1549 crashed into the Hudson River, passengers on the same route and same aircraft say they heard a series of loud bangs and the flight crew told them they could have to make an emergency landing, CNN has learned.
More than 1,300 Palestinians died and about 5,400 others were wounded during Israel's three-week offensive in Gaza, the Web site of the Palestinian Authority's Central Bureau of Statistics said Monday.