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President Barack Obama considers William Daley for White House post; debt a focus of debate over Republican Party chairmanship; Obama to sign food-safety law.TOP GOVERNMENT STORIESObama Said to Consider JPMorgan’s Daley for White House PostPresident Barack Obama is considering naming William Daley,

Only a few moderate or conservative Democrats remain left in the House of Representatives come opening day on Wednesday, but expect at least a chunk of them to vote in favor of the Republican plan to repeal the health care law. As one of its first act in the new Congress, the Republican majority is

Rahm Emanuel has talked with President Barack Obama and other powerful leaders about some of the most serious questions of the day.Now, in his bid to be Chicago mayor, he will have to sit in a room in the bowels of a government building and answer questions from lawyers and city residents who don't

A bipartisan bloc of senators easily propelled President Obama’s tax cut compromise over a key procedural hurdle yesterday, clearing the way for a final Senate vote as early as today, and setting the stage for a potential showdown later this week among divided Democrats in the House.A looming Jan. 1

Residents here rejoiced two years ago when gas companies poked into a mammoth natural gas deposit 2 miles under their homes, sparking a modern-day gold rush.The companies offered residents tens of thousands of dollars an acre to drill on their land, enriching some folks overnight in this rural corner

On two separate Sunday news programs, the still-popular rascal of the 1990’s, Former President Bill Clinton, said that President Obama “was socked by the intensity of Republican opposition” and that “It disoriented him for awhile”, but that he is “getting his groove back”.President Clinton went on