In Canada, the president's first foreign destination, the focus will be on rebuilding a deep alliance. Differences loom however, on climate change, protectionism, and troops in Afghanistan.
The controversial leader of the Yisrael Beytenu party endorsed Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday, virtually ensuring that a right-wing coalition will govern the country.
President Obama will set a goal this week of cutting the annual deficit at least in half by the end of his term, according to administration officials.
AP - Barack Obama wants to cut the federal deficit in half by the end of his first term, mostly by scaling back Iraq war spending, raising taxes on the wealthiest and streamlining government, an administration official said Saturday as the president worked to finalize his first budget request.
AP - Investigators in the 2001 slaying of Chandra Levy have prepared an arrest warrant for a Salvadoran immigrant convicted of similar attacks in the park where the former intern disappeared, a person close to the investigation said Saturday.
AP - Hundreds of mourners gathered Saturday to remember a Sept. 11 widow killed in a commuter plane crash and the owner of the suburban Buffalo home that was destroyed by the crash.
The Lamborghinis and Bentleys still cruise Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. But these days, visitors to California's most famous ZIP code are more likely to take note of the empty storefronts and deep-discount signs. The tony town is projecting the biggest decline in tax revenues in its 93-year history. Budget cuts being considered to cover the shortfall include reducing police overtime.
NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous on Saturday called for the New York Post to fire cartoonist Sean Delonas, whose drawing lampooning the federal stimulus bill has been interpreted by many as racist. Otherwise, the group says, it will call for protests of the paper and Fox television affiliates, which are owned by Post parent company News Corp.
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