CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama made his first public appearance in ten days on Friday at a Chicago lunchtime institution.
         
Obama arrived at Manny’s Cafeteria and Deli around 12:30 p.m. and ordered three corned beef sandwiches. …

Attorney General Michael Mukasey was released from the hospital Friday and returned to work after collapsing Thursday night while giving a speech to the Federalist Society in Washington.

Justice Department spokeswoman Gina Talamona said Mukasey suffered a “fainting …

Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympic Games gained a powerful endorsement from a world-renowned figure on Friday.

President-elect Barack Obama was beamed into the European Olympic Committee’s meeting in Istanbul via a video link to lobby on behalf …

As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama boasted of opposing the Iraq War from the start.

But as president-elect, he has come to the rescue of surge supporter Joe Lieberman and flirted with the idea of keeping on Bush …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi chided John McCain Friday for invoking her name in attacking Barack Obama on the campaign trail.

“It was a compliment in some ways to have him use me. I mean, it was really almost …

Rep. Raul M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) may be emerging as a top contender to be Barack Obama’s secretary of the interior, according to sources close to the transition.

The Interior Department – which oversees federal lands, national parks and …

Henry Waxman’s bloodless coup to oust John Dingell from the top spot on the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee upsets a balance that has been in place for almost three decades and may set in motion more bloodletting within that …

President-elect Obama is close to landing James L. Jones, the well-known retired Marine Corps general, as his national security adviser, sources said.

Jones is a former Marine Corps commandant and was head of U.S. and NATO forces in …

Some Verizon Wireless employees accessed billing records from a cell phone President-elect Barack Obama had used, the Obama transition and Verizon Wireless said Thursday.

Transition spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that Obama no longer uses the cell phone in …

President-elect Obama plans to name Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as his secretary of State shortly after Thanksgiving, two senior Obama aides said. 

The officials said they expect her to accept. Clinton aides had no comment.

The choice …