JUNEAU, Alaska -- The fallout from Sarah Palin's hasty retreat as governor is being cleaned up by the man she appointed attorney general in her waning days in office. Attorney General Dan Sullivan has proposed broad changes to Alaska's ethics rules that Mrs. Palin complained helped drive her out. One Sullivan recommendation that might sound familiar: setting ethical standards for spouses and children to travel...

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Sunday endorsed spending an additional $100 billion to attack painfully high unemployment as it prepared to send Congress a $3.8 trillion budget that would provide billions more to pull the country out of the Great Recession while increasing taxes on the wealthy and imposing a spending freeze on many government programs. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said...

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Sunday that President Obama's push to create jobs may carry a price tag in the $100 billion range. Mr. Gibbs said the idea is to help fill in the hole from jobs lost in the deepest recession to hit the country in decades. In his State of the Union address last week, Mr. Obama called for a program costing about $30 billion in incentives to employers to hire workers. The...

Sen.-elect Scott Brown, Massachusetts Republican, said Sunday that he opposes federal funding for abortions but thinks women should have the right to choose whether to have one. Mr. Brown told ABC's "This Week" that he disagrees with his party's position that the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion should be overturned. Mr. Brown said the abortion question is one that's best handled by a woman, her...

UPDATED: The Obama administration said Sunday it would consider local opposition when deciding where to hold Sept. 11 trials and pledged to seek swift justice for the professed mastermind of the attacks. "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is going to meet justice, and he's going to meet his maker," President Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said. "He will be brought to justice, and he's likely to be executed for...

UPDATED: DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- Regulators from the world's major developed countries told bankers far and wide in Davos on Saturday that greater regulation is on the way, a defensive move aimed at avoiding a repeat of last year's financial meltdown that dragged most of the world into recession. U.S. Rep. Barney Frank said a bank tax and other tough new measures would be introduced by the individual countries...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Saturday that trimming budget deficits is as important as creating jobs, his top domestic priority this year, to continue the economic recovery that appears under way. The government reported Friday the economy grew at an annual rate of 5.7 percent in the final three months of 2009. It was the second consecutive quarter of growth and the fastest rate in more than...

In an unprecedented move, the Republican National Committeeon Friday unanimously called onits chairman,Michael S. Steele, to "carefully screen" candidates for their adherence to conservative values before granting them RNC financial help. The resolution specifically calls on the national chairman to take into account thevotingrecords and statements of all GOP candidatesfor evidence that they supportthe "core...

Defending himself before House Republicans Friday, a sometimes-angry President Obama said he has already incorporated their ideas into his proposals and made it clear he doesn't think his administration is to blame for the lack of bipartisanship in Washington. Mr. Obama, speaking to the House Republican caucus at their annual retreat in Baltimore, said he is not an ideologue and urged Republicans -- most of...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A conservative activist accused of trying to tamper with Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's phones said he and three others facing federal charges in the incident wanted to investigate complaints that constituents calling her office couldn't get through. "On reflection, I could have used a different approach to this investigation, particularly given the sensitivities that people understandably...