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Aides, lawmakers weigh in on candidates' bailout rolesupdated: Mon Sep 29 2008 10:48:00

Congressional leaders this weekend reached an agreement on the government's $700 billion bailout proposal, but questions remain over what role the presidential candidates played in negotiations.

CNNMoney: Jobs get tossed out of storesupdated: Mon Mar 17 2008 17:00:00

As U.S. job growth hits the skids, a shrinking labor market means one thing for the nervous retail workers who reside in Columbus, Ohio: Their jobs are on shaky ground.

Official: U.S. enemies 'eating our lunch' onlineupdated: Wed Jan 30 2008 18:37:00

The man nominated to head public diplomacy at the State Department said Wednesday that al Qaeda is doing a better job than the Bush administration in winning friends over the Internet.

Time.com: Clinton's Message Problemupdated: Thu Jan 10 2008 15:00:00

She's not only found herself on the wrong side of the experience-change divide, she's touting the wrong kind of experience

Bush adviser to leave job as booster of U.S. image abroadupdated: Wed Oct 31 2007 13:26:00

President Bush's longtime adviser Karen Hughes is stepping down as undersecretary of state in mid-December, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday.

Karl Rove to resignupdated: Tue Aug 14 2007 22:59:00

Karl Rove to resign

Author: Rove exit signals 'end of Bush presidency'updated: Tue Aug 14 2007 22:59:00

Karl Rove, perhaps the most powerful White House aide in recent history, called it quits Monday, provoking some to declare a symbolic end to the presidency of George W. Bush.

Malveaux on Rove departureupdated: Tue Aug 14 2007 22:59:00

Malveaux on Rove departure

Fortune: The power of womenupdated: Thu May 31 2007 10:05:00

Women exercise power horizontally. I've said this often -- in speeches about women leaders, in Arianna's latest book ("On Becoming Fearless"), and at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit, an annual event that I chair. Not that women aren't gaining clout vertically. These days a businesswoman must oversee some $6 billion in annual revenues to make it onto Fortune's annual Most Powerful Women list. That compares to around $1 billion when we started ranking corporate women in 1998.

U.S. diplomat, CEOs bring aid to Pakistanupdated: Mon Nov 14 2005 11:12:00

A top official in the Bush administration visited some of the areas of Pakistan hit hardest by last month's earthquake on Monday, a trip she said would "show the true nature of America."

U.S. State Dept: Video 'very troubling'updated: Thu Oct 20 2005 07:55:00

The U.S. military and the Afghan government say they are investigating allegations that U.S. soldiers desecrated the bodies of dead Taliban fighters by burning them.

Condi on the riseupdated: Tue Mar 22 2005 15:21:00

Sometimes the hardest thing about being Secretary of State is managing relations with 191 other countries across the globe. And sometimes it's just making nice with three or four of your colleagues in the Cabinet.

Heinz Kerry apologizes for remark updated: Wed Oct 20 2004 17:03:00

Teresa Heinz Kerry apologized Wednesday for telling USA Today that she was unsure if first lady Laura Bush had ever held a "real job."

No casualties? White House disputes Robertson comment updated: Tue Oct 19 2004 21:42:00

A White House spokesman denied Wednesday that President Bush told Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson that he did not expect casualties from the invasion of Iraq.

Bush, Kerry hit each other on domestic issuesupdated: Wed Oct 13 2004 06:23:00

President Bush and Democratic rival Sen. John Kerry met on Wednesday for their final debate, clashing on issues ranging from the economy to jobs, taxes and same-sex marriage.

The battle for every last voteupdated: Mon Oct 11 2004 13:12:00

There is to be no scowling this time, George Bush's counselors told him, even if John Kerry attacks your mom.

Kerry wonupdated: Fri Oct 01 2004 08:29:00

If there's one thing President Bush should know to avoid in debates, it's the audible sigh. And the eye-rolling. Yet there he was last night, doing his best Al Gore, as most TV networks ran those forbidden cutaway shots that hurt him as much as John Kerry did.

Another pablum platform?updated: Thu Aug 05 2004 15:35:00

With the Republican National Convention's platform committee convening in New York less than three weeks from now, no draft platform exists.

How Bush plans to winupdated: Tue Aug 03 2004 14:28:00

The balloons hadn't even settled in Boston's Fleet Center after John Kerry's acceptance speech when George W. Bush's campaign set about popping them.

Apology demanded from Karen Hughesupdated: Thu Apr 29 2004 17:59:00

Leaders of last Sunday's March for Women's Lives held a news conference on Capitol Hill Thursday to repeat their demand for an apology from Bush campaign adviser Karen Hughes for her remarks about abortion rights.

Hughes blasts Kerry's Vietnam commentsupdated: Sun Apr 25 2004 19:58:00

One of President Bush's closest confidants challenged Sen. John Kerry on Sunday to further explain comments he made in 1971 that he participated in "atrocities" in Vietnam.

Rice to testify April 8updated: Thu Apr 01 2004 19:25:00

The president's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, will testify before the full 9/11 commission on Thursday, April 8, according to the commission.

Back in the spotlightupdated: Mon Mar 29 2004 11:04:00

On a recent day at the airport in Austin, Texas, a tall woman with a familiar face was standing alone, waiting to catch a plane, when a man strode purposefully across the terminal and started talking to her.

Bush campaign defends adsupdated: Thu Mar 04 2004 06:46:00

The Bush-Cheney re-election campaign on Thursday defended its use of footage of the wreckage of the World Trade Center in political ads, amid criticism from some of the families of September 11, 2001, victims.

Critics rave, boo after speechupdated: Tue Jan 20 2004 17:56:00

Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee said Tuesday that President Bush's State of the Union message was "big, strong and confident" even as he acknowledged the speech "didn't have a lot of big new proposals."

Bush set to make case for second termupdated: Tue Jan 20 2004 07:55:00

Ten months before he faces voters, President Bush will warn in his State of the Union address Tuesday of leaving "work unfinished," and aides said the speech is designed to rebut attacks from the Democratic presidential candidates and defend his decision to invade Iraq.

Bush rehearses for State of the Union addressupdated: Mon Jan 19 2004 18:16:00

For the second day in a row, President Bush practiced his State of the Union address Monday, running through the approximately 50-minute address twice in front of his advisers with the help of a TelePrompTer, a senior administration official said.

Fortune: How the West Was Womenupdated: Mon Jul 22 2002 00:01:00

In photographs, some of them smile in a gentle way. They're the performing cowgirls, who sing "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" or "I Fall to Pieces." The weatherworn woman ranchers and rodeo pe...

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