AP - President Bush said Thursday the country is not recession-bound and, despite expressing concern about slowing economic growth, rejected for now any additional stimulus efforts. "We acted robustly," he said.
AP - The FBI has begun investigating whether Roger Clemens lied to Congress when he denied taking steroids, officials said Thursday in the case of another baseball star snared in a long-running inquiry into drug use by professional athletes.
AP - Rebounding from weak fundraising in January, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to raise $35 million in February, a figure rival Sen. Barack Obama's campaign said it would surpass, a campaign official said Thursday.
Britain's Prince Harry is in Afghanistan and has seen combat, the British Ministry of Defense confirmed today. He was deployed 10 weeks ago, and his fellow soldiers were sworn to secrecy.
President Bush today said he does not think the country is headed into a recession, but admitted it is in a "slowdown." "We've acted robustly and now it's time to see if this program will really work," he said, referring to the economic stimulus bill he recently signed into law.