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Scotland Yard has White House's support in Bhutto probe

The White House believes that Scotland Yard will "do an excellent job" investigating the assasination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto last week, the president's press secretary said this afternoon.

Get a piece of the presidential action

It seems politicians aren't the only ones focused on states that hold a presidential primary or caucus this month. Travel website Kayak.com is urging Americans with cabin fever to visit Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, baiting them with the slogan "Vacation with the Next President."

White House yet to fill homeland security vacancy

Today is the last day for the president's top homeland security advisor, and the White House has not announced any replacement, raising questions about the future of the position.

Bush to meet financial advisers

Today President Bush will meet with for the first time a group of top government financial officials that was created in 1988 to prevent stock market crashes.

So he did watch ...

President Bush did stay up and watch the Iowa caucuses last night after all, after White House press secretary Dana Perino had hinted he would snore through it.

Bush's long view

President Bush has said before that he believes his presidency, which has been mired in low approval ratings for much of his second term, will be vindicated by history.

America's Most Wanted seeks Texas 'honor killing' suspect

Yaser Abdel Said, accused of murdering his two teenage daughters in Texas, will be featured on Saturday night's broadcast of

What happens in Dallas ...

The biggest development in the case of

Countdown in Dixville Notch

It's only a matter of hours before the nation's first primary voters emerge — Punxsutawney Phil style — to cast their votes at the stroke of midnight in Dixville Notch, a tiny hamlet tucked away in a mountain pass of northern New Hampshire just 20 miles south of the Canadian border. The determined troupe of 17 local voters will file into the cozy "Ballot Room" of the old Balsams ski lodge to exercise their rights before an international press eager for some quaint Americana.

Any other day

JERUSALEM — On any other day, President Bush's visit to Israel tomorrow would be the lead news story. But New Hampshire and Joe Gibbs are making sure today that Mr. Bush's trip is going virtually unnoticed.