WASHINGTON -- It's called the President's Daily Brief, or, more informally, the "threat matrix." (Yesterday)

WASHINGTON -- The next transportation secretary will walk into an agency that oversees an outdated air traffic control system; congested roads, rails and skies; crumbling highways and bridges; and a financing system teetering on collapse. (Yesterday)

WASHINGTON -- The economic team that President-elect Barack Obama unveiled Monday, led by Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner and Christina Romer, is composed of widely respected, centrist economists who until recently advocated cautious, sensible-shoe policies to do such things as boost savings, reduce deficits and allow markets maximum feasible rein. (Yesterday)

WASHINGTON -- Historically stingy with granting pardons, President George W. (11/29/2008)

WASHINGTON -- Few federal agencies are expected to undergo as radical a transformation under President-elect Barack Obama as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department, which have been at the epicenter of many of the Bush administration's most intense scientific and environmental controversies. (11/29/2008)