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Reversing President Bushs stem cell research ban was just another step in President Obama's continued dismantling of his predecessor's legacy.

President Obama reversed a Bush administration order and vowed today to "vigorously support" stem cell research that scientists hope will lead to cures for deadly ailments like diabetes and Parkinson's disease.

Mexico blames Americans for arming the world's most powerful drug cartels, a complaint supported by a U.S. government report that found nearly all of Mexico's escalating drug killings involved weapons from north of the border.

The Post's cartoon may have meant to say the stimulus bill was so messy it was penned by a monkey. But readers understandably saw it differently.

Eric Holder, the nation's first black attorney general, said Wednesday the United States was "a nation of cowards" on matters of race, with most Americans avoiding candid discussions of racial issues.

Some Democrats in Congress don't want to let George W. Bush leave town. They want to continue investigating alleged wrongdoing by former administration officials like Karl Rove just as President Barack Obama is urging them to turn the page.

President Barack Obama planned to spend Tuesday waging an all-out media blitz to promote passage of his $800 billion-plus stimulus plan, which faces assaults from both Democrats and Republicans during debate in the Senate this week.

The Senate confirmed Eric Holder late Monday as the nation's first African-American attorney general. The final vote was 75-21, with half of the Senate's GOPers voting against him.

TurboTax didn't save Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner from failing to pay self-employment taxes earlier this decade, an error senators seized upon during his confirmation hearing Wednesday.

Plans to close Guantanamo are not sitting well with the Sept. 11 victims' relatives who sat stunned while two alleged terrorists declared they were proud of their role in the plot.

La designación de Eric Holder como secretario de Justicia fue bien recibida en Puerto Rico, incluyendo a independentistas que confían en que ayude a liberar a tres militantes puertorriqueños presos.

City Councilman and state Sen.-elect Hiram Monserrate forfeited his right to represent the people of New York when he hit his girlfriend in the face with a glass. Allegedly.

This week, New Yorkers will see the full extent of the tsunami headed their way - and find out whether the Legislature and City Council have the guts and smarts to steer through the storm.

New Year's revelers from Ridgewood to the Rockaways need no prodding to ring out a year when the borough was divided by a verdict, rocked by scandals, ravaged by foreclosures, terrorized by rapists and heartbroken by the Mets.

The prosecutor who hunted Marc Rich for years has asked the Senate to confirm Eric Holder as attorney general, despite his "misjudgment" in approving the fugitive financier's presidential pardon.

Barack Obama, I will hold you to your claim to create 2.5 million new jobs. And I want to believe that you are not misleading the people who voted for you, as politicians often do with campaign promises.

With the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich last week, Patrick Fitzgerald has inherited G-man Eliot Ness' title of Chicago's "untouchable" crimefighter.

Barack Obama's White House is shaping up to look a lot like him - youngish, multi-ethnic and sprinkled with key advisers who, like him, lived for a time overseas. Of the 28 senior staffers named, roughly one-third are nonwhite and nearly half are women.

Barack Obama will be the first American president in nearly 50 years to have a relatively free hand in deciding whether to ease punitive Cold War-era policies toward communist Cuba.

I never heard even a peep from our mayor when fellow Republican Dick Cheney blew the face off of some poor guy.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement that the federal government will no longer raid medical-marijuana dispensaries was cheered by ...

CLOSED CASE . . The Federal Election Commission says it finds no reason to believe campaign violations occurred when then-. and his wife,, obtained ...

President Obama has chided his attorney general, Eric Holder, for describing America as a “nation of cowards” when discussing race, wading into a ...

Beer tax just more money for Guv to raid Gov. Jim Doyle's buddies in the House and the Senate might as well raise the tax on beer. While we're at ...

Attorney General Eric Holder touched off a firestorm the other week when he referred to America as a "nation of cowards" on race. . Many of us, of ...

WASHINGTON . . Obama to avoid 1 embryo issue . . While lifting the Bush administration's restrictions on federally financed human embryonic ...

Former Gov. Don Siegelman was in Selma to hear Attorney General Eric Holder speak, but he says they didn't discuss Siegelman's criminal case.. ...

The U.S. government must make a top priority of defending the Voting Rights Act, which guarantees the right of ethnic minorities to cast ballots ...

The nation's first black attorney general has told an audience in Selma that it will take much more than the election of the nation's first black ...

President Obama has chided his attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., for describing America as a "nation of cowards" when discussing race, wading ...