House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged her colleagues to back a major overhaul of U.S. health care even if it threatens their political careers, a call to arms that underscores the issue's massive role in this election year.
Republican Scott Brown won a Senate seat in Massachusetts, upending the balance of power in D.C. and forcing Obama and Democrats to reconsider the health bill.
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a cybersecurity bill that calls for beefing up training, research, and coordination against cyberattacks. by Elinor Mills CNET News
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says he looks at the Apple's forthcoming tablet device and doesn't see anything that he wishes Microsoft had come up with.
AP - Signaling he'd meet critics part way on health care, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he's willing to sign a bill even if it doesn't deliver everything he pursued through a year of grinding effort at risk of going down as a dismal failure.
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a cybersecurity bill that calls for beefing up training, research, and coordination against cyberattacks. by Elinor Mills CNET News
Microsoft chairman tells CNET's Ina Fried what he's learned in the past year. We've broken the half-hour interview up into five video segments.
AP - Taxpayers will be able to write off charitable donations to Haiti earthquake relief efforts when they file their 2009 taxes this spring under a bill President Barack Obama signed Friday.
In an effort to repeal the military's policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," some members of Congress are looking at putting a provision into the defense spending bill coming up for a vote.
