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British and US officials held secret discussions about ousting Saddam Hussein two years before invading Iraq and months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, the official inquiry into the war heard yesterday.

STUDENTS at National Defence University in Washington, DC, were recently given a model of the economy and told to fix the budget. To get the federal debt down, they jacked up taxes and slashed spending. The economy promptly tanked, sending the debt to[...]

What the first lady wears will be the talk and focus of New York Fashion Week - and women will be keen to follow her lead

Ban on US abortion funding lifted as Bush ideology is rolled back

BARACK OBAMA chose John Podesta, the president of the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think-tank, to help manage his transition. The new government will probably lean leftwards in its attachment to such groups, whereas George Bush favoured[...]

Faced with the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression, President-elect Barack Obama already has assumed the burden of the presidency — and with it the opportunity to shape his legacy and make the economy go boom or bust.

Barack Obama today confirmed that he will take the presidential oath of office using his middle name, Hussein, a choice depicted as routine but likely to be viewed as an olive branch by majority-Muslim nations. Obama's oath-taking plan comes after a[...]

Preparing for her new role as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton is moving to surround herself with a cast of die-hard loyalists and veterans of her husband's administration to help her cope with world crises and backstage Washington power plays. For[...]

President-elect Barack Obama is due to open his third news conference in as many days at 10:45 a.m. ET. The Obama-Biden transition team just confirmed, in statement sent to reporters, that Obama will use the Chicago briefing to announce he's creating[...]

DEBBIE JEFFRIES could see it coming. When she manned the cash register at Linens ’n Things, the household-goods chain where she has worked for 14 years, a customer would sometimes open her wallet and display 15 credit cards. “That people can pull[...]