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The inauguration
of Barack Obama
News, photos, and multimedia features on the inauguration of the country's 44th president.
Obama speaks on Putin, Jackson, and more
Before he heads off for the July Fourth holiday, then a major foreign trip headlined by his first Russia summit, President Obama sat down today...
RESULTS
Mass. election 2008
Full results, including town-by-town data, of the ballot questions and local races.
News from 
Stories from The Politico, a national publication covering the politics of Capitol Hill, lobbying, and the presidential campaign.
- Palin announces resignation
- Palin plans to stay visible
- House of Pain: GOP's Class of '94
- Access scandal echoes beyond Post
- Obama meets with energy executives
- Obama, a stickler for pronunciation
- Climate vote threatens Dems' careers
- Key committee supports public option
- Obama calls Dems to talk health care
- Capitol Hell: Worst states to govern
Latest Politics News
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will resign
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said on Friday she will resign this month and will not run for re-election as governor. (Reuters, 4:21 p.m.)
MOUNTAIN OF DEBT: Rising debt may be next crisis
The Founding Fathers left one legacy not celebrated on Independence Day but which affects us all. It's the national debt. (Associated Press Writer, 11:30 a.m.)
Obama begins July 4th celebration at Camp David
President Barack Obama is helping the nation celebrate its birthday and his daughter Malia celebrate hers. (AP, 11:30 a.m.)
Republican: Sotomayor had ties to extreme group
The top Republican on the Senate committee that will consider Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination says a Puerto Rican civil rights group's papers could shed light on her judicial approach, particularly her view of racial preferences in hiring. (Associated Press Writer, 7:30 a.m.)
Cheney discussed media inquiries into Plame leak
Vice President Dick Cheney talked with top White House officials about how to respond to reporters' inquiries into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative, according to a court filing. (Associated Press Writer, 1:10 a.m.)
GOP, White House at odds on Sotomayor documents
A top Republican pressed for more information Thursday about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's ties to a Puerto Rican civil rights group he said took extreme positions on race, as the White House argued that the material was irrelevant to the judge's nomination. (Associated Press Writer, 2 a.m.)
News from the Washington Bureau
Obama confronts skeptics on healthcare, pledges action
ANNANDALE, Va. - President Obama, pledging to overhaul healthcare this year despite divisions in Congress and the public, took on his skeptics directly yesterday, seeking to assure patients that their costs would not increase and that they would not be victims of a “government takeover.’’ (Globe Staff, 7/2/09)
Consumers likely to face increased bank costs
WASHINGTON - An array of government-created insurance agencies - which have long charged bargain-rate premiums to banks, credit unions, and brokerages - are seeking to make up for massive shortfalls in their insurance funds by raising fees and premiums, many of which are likely to be passed on to consumers. (Globe Staff, 7/2/09)
Supreme Court rules in favor of Conn. firefighters
WASHINGTON - A sharply divided US Supreme Court ruled yesterday in favor of a group of white firefighters who accused the city of New Haven of racial discrimination, potentially making it much harder for employers to bring racial balance to the workplace, while handing ammunition to critics of high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on the eve of her confirmation hearings. (Globe Staff, 6/30/09)
Lobbyist at center of healthcare overhaul
WASHINGTON - The face of the insurance industry in Washington is a slight, soft-spoken former AFL-CIO employee benefits director with a penchant for data-driven logic. She has the confidence and intellectual agility of a skilled debater, but prefers to dwell on areas of agreement. On healthcare, Karen Ignagni often sounds like the lifelong Democrat that she is. (Globe Staff, 6/30/09)
Colleagues say Kerry is in midcareer metamorphosis
WASHINGTON - When the longtime mayor of North Adams, John Barrett III, picks up the phone these days, he often hears a familiar deep voice that he once acidly complained wasn’t heard very much in his city or other smaller venues in Massachusetts. (Globe Staff, 6/29/09)
Obama taps supporters for help with healthcare overhaul
WASHINGTON - The group Organizing for America is headquartered only two blocks from the Capitol, but when horse-trading over healthcare legislation intensified there this week, Barack Obama’s grass-roots advocacy operation turned its attention away from Washington. (Globe Correspondent, 6/28/09)
House approves overhaul of environmental policy
WASHINGTON - The House last night narrowly approved a landmark overhaul of US environmental policy, handing President Obama a big political victory with a vote to dramatically limit greenhouse gases and fundamentally alter how the nation produces energy in coming decades. (Globe Staff, 6/27/09)
US sharpens focus on Afghanistan
ISAF HEADQUARTERS, KABUL - US Army General John Craddock, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, is leaving his post in an upbeat mood: Afghanistan is no longer playing second fiddle in Washington to Iraq. The troops he has long requested are finally arriving. Even the Europeans are sending temporary reinforcements to safeguard the presidential election in August. (Globe Staff, 6/25/09)
Health data rights declaration gets push
WASHINGTON - More than 30 bloggers from the medical, technology, and patient advocacy worlds are rallying to support patients’ right to obtain copies of their computerized health records from their doctors in the electronic format. (Globe Staff, 6/23/09)
Barney Frank's portfolio unfazed by stock-market tumble
WASHINGTON - Representative Barney Frank may have failed to prevent Wall Street from pursuing its high-risk investment behavior, but in his personal finances, the House Financial Services Committee chairman has taken his own tough advice. (Globe Staff, 6/22/09)