Getting two standing ovations at his first speech since leaving office, former President George W. Bush said that if President Obama wants help, “he can pick up the phone and call.” Otherwise, Bush said: “He deserves my silence.”
“There’s plenty of critics in the arena,” Bush told a crowd in Calgary, Canada. “I think it’s time for the ex-president to tap dance off the stage and let the current president have a go at solving the world’s problems. If he wants my help and I agree with him, I’ll give it.”
03/18/2009
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: Bush, Obama, speech
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With a key interest rate already near zero, Federal Reserve policymakers are weighing what other tools they can use to jolt the country out of recession.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues resume their two-day meeting Wednesday, and at its conclusion they are all but certain to leave a key bank lending rate at a record low to try to bolster the economy, which has been stuck in a recession since December 2007.
03/18/2009
— Filed under: Business
Tags: bonuses, Fed, rates
Mariano Rivera struck out two during a perfect fifth inning in his first game since undergoing offseason right shoulder surgery and the New York Yankees beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-2 on Tuesday night.
03/18/2009
— Filed under: Sports
Tags: baseball, Rivera
A federal judge Tuesday ordered a former District of Columbia employee facing corruption charges to remain jailed in a case that prompted his former boss to take a brief leave of absence as President Barack Obama’s computer chief.
Yusuf Acar, who was the acting chief security officer in D.C.’s technology office, is accused of defrauding the city through a sophisticated bribery and fraud scheme.
03/18/2009
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: Acar, jail, Turkey
The Democratic National Committee aims to create a year-round campaign apparatus in Florida and across the country to help President Obama implement his agenda.
03/18/2009
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: Democrats, Obama, Republicans
Two of the world’s longest-surviving octuplets came home from the hospital Tuesday night, greeted by a crush of photographers, neighbors and curious onlookers gathered on a cul-de-sac where the mother will raise her 14 children.
Nadya Suleman was sitting with her babies in the back seat of a sport utility vehicle that waded through the crowd and went straight into the garage of her new four-bedroom, three-bath home in La Habra, about 25 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
03/18/2009
— Filed under: Society
Tags: home, octuplets, Suleman
The Obama administration will endorse a U.N. declaration calling for the worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality that then-President George W. Bush had refused to sign, The Associated Press has learned.
U.S. officials said Tuesday they had notified the declaration’s French sponsors that the administration wants to be added as a supporter. The Bush administration was criticized in December when it was the only western government that refused to sign on.
03/18/2009
— Filed under: Society
Tags: declaration, homosexuality, Obama
There will be a “Transformers 3,” but its release date is turning out to be less than certain.
On Monday, Paramount Pictures scheduled the DreamWorks-produced “Transformers 3″ for July 1, 2011, even while acknowledging that no cast had yet been hired. On Tuesday, director Michael Bay took issue with the date.
03/18/2009
— Filed under: Entertaiment
Tags: "Transformers 3", Paramount
“Dancing With the Stars” drew its largest season-premiere audience, but less than half the viewers stuck around to watch the debut of mystery drama “Castle” that followed last Monday on ABC.
The two-hour “Dancing With the Stars” premiere averaged 22.83 million viewers, ABC’s largest audience in the Monday 8 to 10 p.m. slot since New Year’s Day 2001.
03/18/2009
— Filed under: Entertaiment
Tags: "Castle", season, viewers
Senior members of the Obama administration are pressing lawmakers to use a shortcut to drive the president’s signature initiatives on health care and energy through Congress without Republican votes, a move that many lawmakers say would fly in the face of President Obama’s pledge to restore bipartisanship to Washington.
03/18/2009
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: administration, budget, Obama
