AP - President Barack Obama plans to order that all U.S. combat troops be withdrawn from Iraq by August 2010, administration officials said Tuesday, ending the war that defined his upstart presidential campaign three months later than he had promised.

AP - Addressing a nation on an economic precipice, President Barack Obama asked worried Americans to pull together for recovery Tuesday night and declared reassuringly that the U.S. "will emerge stronger than before." Obama aimed to balance candor with can-do in his first address to a joint session of Congress.

AP - Sen. Roland Burris refused to resign on Tuesday, rebuffing a call from the Senate's No. 2 Democrat who made it clear that the embattled Illinois lawmaker has little hope next year of winning the seat vacated by President Barack Obama. "I told him that under the circumstances, I would resign," fellow Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin told reporters after an hour-long meeting with Burris. "He said, 'I'm not going to resign.'"