Sarah Palin’s bizarre bailout dooms her chances of ever being President, Republican mandarins said Friday – but she was already finished.
The Alaska governor’s disastrous star turn as John McCain’s running mate, followed by her lurching, controversial encore on the national scene, had already sealed her fate – except, perhaps, with the GOP’s most far-right wing.
Still, [...]

Iran’s hard-line president told crowds celebrating the Islamic revolution’s anniversary Tuesday that the country is ready for talks with the United States, the strongest signal yet that Tehran welcomes President Barack Obama’s calls for dialogue.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the comments in a speech to hundreds of thousands celebrating the 30th anniversary of the revolution, which [...]

President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan has passed the Senate and is on its way to difficult House-Senate negotiations.
Just three Republicans helped pass the plan on a 61-37 vote and they’re already signaling they’ll play hardball to preserve more than $108 billion in spending cuts made last week in Senate dealmaking.
Obama wants to restore cuts [...]

President Barack Obama, urgently pressuring lawmakers to approve a massive economic recovery bill, turned his first news conference Monday night into a determined defense of his emergency plan and an offensive against Republicans who try to “play the usual political games.”
He said the recession has left the nation so weak that only the federal government [...]

President Barack Obama told Republicans in a closed-door meeting that he would be open to additional tax cuts in his economic stimulus package, one participant said Tuesday on the eve of a House vote on the $825 billion measure.
Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., said Obama would not back off his own proposal for a $500-per-person payroll [...]

Hours before a meeting with President Barack Obama, House Republican leaders sought to rally opposition Tuesday to a White House-backed economic stimulus measure with an $825 billion price tag.
Several officials said that Reps. John Boehner of Ohio, the GOP leader, and Eric Cantor of Virginia, his second-in-command, delivered the appeal at a closed-door meeting of [...]

President Barack Obama gave his first formal television interview as president to an Arabic cable TV network, telling Al-Arabiya that when it comes to Middle East matters “all too often the United States starts by dictating.”
Obama taped the interview with the Dubai-based network Monday as his envoy to the Middle East, former Sen. George J. [...]

President Barack Obama took to the airwaves Saturday to promote his economic aid plan in what’s-it-mean-to-me terms: thousands of better schools, lower electricity bills, health coverage for millions who lose insurance.
It was the latest appeal from the new president for a massive spending bill designed to inject almost $1 trillion into the economy and fulfill [...]

U.S. President Barack Obama has used his first weekly radio address since taking office to outline his plan to stimulate the battered U.S. economy.
Mr. Obama said he wants the $825 billion American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan signed into law in less than 1 month and that both parties in Congress are hard at work on [...]

From Iceland to Indonesia, from Chile to China, newspapers around the globe greeted the inauguration of President Obama today with an outpouring of unprecedented anticipation.
The nation’s 44th president was portrayed as a superhero and a savior by the international press as he stepped up to become America’s first African-American head of state.
“MAGICAL SPELL THAT WILL [...]