George Bush News

"Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan may finally have found some in her long-shot independent challenge to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is stepping down from the job this month.

President Bush reached out to European leaders on Tuesday to urge coordination on efforts to solve the financial crisis spreading around the globe.

Barack Obama has widened his lead over Republican presidential rival John McCain in two national polls and is maintaining an edge in two daily tracking polls with less than a month to go before the election.

World stock markets plunged again Tuesday as the global financial crisis deepened, with governments taking emergency measures to shore up confidence but failing to stem the panic.

The development comes against the backdrop of a Syrian troop buildup along Lebanon's northern border and follows bombings blamed on Islamic militants in the two neighboring Mideast countries.

A federal appeals court on Monday rejected House Democrats' demands to force two of President Bush's top aides to cooperate with an investigation about the firings of nine federal prosecutors in 2006.

CUBA CITY - Main Street is quiet. There's no sign of any presidential candidate in this self-proclaimed 'City of Presidents.' It's nothing like 2004.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is expected to name Neel Kashkari to oversee the government's 700 billion dollar financial rescue program, according to media reports Monday.

Hollywood is coming out this fall with a slew of political movies that hit all the hot-button topics as the tight U.S. presidential campaign nears its climax.

The Canadian economy is expected to post modest job growth for September amid the turmoil in financial markets, but trouble lies ahead as the United States appears headed for a deep recession, economists say.

Germany became the newest European country to allay fears about the financial meltdown, guaranteeing private bank accounts as governments scrambled on their own to save failing banks.

Israeli Prime Minister-designate Tzipi Livni warned Sunday that time is running out for a peace agreement with the Palestinians, with extremists gaining strength as negotiations stumble.

In her first foreign policy speech since her appointment to form a new government, Livni said Israel must press ahead with peace talks because 'doing nothing has its own price.'

Israel and the Palestinians resumed talks last November at an international conference hosted by President Bush. They set a target date of January 2009, when Bush leaves office, for completing a peace deal, but little apparent progress has been made, and both sides cast severe doubt about meeting the target.

I would have hoped we had learned in the last eight years that intellectual laziness is not a key component of a good president.

John Driscoll, the Democrat who's trying to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg without spending any campaign money, took another unique tack Saturday: He said he's going to vote for Rehberg.

If South Carolina voters send Lindsey Graham back to the U.S. Senate, the Republican says he will serve all six years.

Taiwan's president welcomed a U.S. decision to sell the island up to US$6.5 billion in advanced weaponry, while China warned the move would damage relations between Beijing and Washington.

President George W. Bush is warning Americans not to expect immediate relief from the $700 billion bailout bill he signed Friday.

After two weeks of anguishing debate, Congress has passed and President Bush signed a massive plan to save the financial industry and the economy at large from an unthinkable free fall. Now, the world holds its breath, seeing if it will work.

Passage of the $700 billion financial rescue package came after Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson at a meeting last month shocked congressional leaders into action by warning of pending economic collapse without immediate congressional intervention.

Paulson said after the climactic House vote Friday that he already had staff working out details and was lining up advisers from outside the government to get the money flowing.

TRAVERSE CITY - Great Lakes water cannot be diverted to thirsty areas elsewhere in the United States and abroad under an agreement signed Friday by President Bush.