Barack Obama has promised many times that he will have the most accountable administration in history. But early on, he missed two opportunities to show he means what he says. First, Tim Geithner's nomination to head the Treasury Department should have been withdrawn once his weaknesses were apparent. Second, Obama should have never picked Eric Holder to be attorney general.

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President Barack Obama, signing the first legislation of his presidency Thursday, made it easier for U.S. workers to win pay-discrimination lawsuits. Obama had pushed for the legislation during his presidential campaign and it became the first measure to reach his ...

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Rod Blagojevich, the 40th governor of Illinois and the subject of federal corruption charges including the attempted sale of President Barack Obama's former U.S. Senate seat, was convicted of abuse of power by state legislators. He is to be removed from office. The Illinois senate voted to convict Blagojevich on one article of impeachment. A two-thirds vote was required. In a speech before the senate at the state capitol in Springfield, Blagojevich said Thursday he never "intended to violate any law" and that his conviction on unproven charges would set a "dangerous precedent."

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The Senate Judiciary Committee, after a one-week delay, approved Eric Holder’s nomination by President Barack Obama to be U.S. attorney general and set the stage for confirmation by the full Senate. Holder, 58, would be the first black person to ...

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Let’s start with a few facts. As of the last day of the Bush administration, there were 247 detainees at Guantanamo, 16 of them designated “high value.” The detainees constitute roughly a third of the group of Muslim men who ...

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President Barack Obama opened the way for California and other states to set stricter vehicle emissions rules on their own to curb global warming, a step opposed by automakers. Obama also announced Monday that his administration will finish work on ...

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President Barack Obama prepared to address crises in the Middle East ranging from Iran’s nuclear ambitions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after promising to “seek a new way forward” with the Muslim world. Speaking at his inauguration, Obama signaled a break ...

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Ten-year-old Nigel Sanders summed up the mood of black Americans when Barack Obama attended services at Washington’s Nineteenth Street Baptist Church last Sunday. “Martin Luther King walked so Barack Obama could run,” Sanders said to a 170-year-old congregation where slaves ...

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That’s enough of the hype. Today, new U.S. President Barack Obama needs to roll up his sleeves and start getting on with the hard slog of saving the economy from the mess that has been made. At least in Europe, ...

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There is one way to be sure that you are complying precisely with U.S. tax law: read the entire code. Problem is, it currently contains about 3.4 million words. That’s like reading “War and Peace” six times. If you did ...

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The U.S. economy has little chance of recovering from what may prove to be its worst recession since World War II unless President Barack Obama shows he can get banks to lend money again. Since the Bush administration and Congress ...

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