When President-Elect Barack Obama called Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, she thought it was an Elvis Duran and the Morning Show Phone Tap, so she hung up! And when they called again, she hung up AGAIN, thinking it was Elvis! Listen to Rep. Ros-Lehtinen talk about what it's like to hang up on the future President of the United States here!
It was the first time back in Washington for President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, since the election. Their White House visit, coming some 10 weeks before Inauguration Day, mixed hospitality with business. While first lady Laura Bush gave Michelle Obama a tour of the second-floor residence of the Executive Mansion, President Bush and Obama talked for nearly two hours.
NBC News projected that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton had won Pennsylvania's presidential primary, a victory that analysts said she had to have if she were to remain a credible candidate for the Democratic nomination.
The state Canvassing Board on Monday gave Al Franken the victory over Coleman by a 225-vote margin -- 1,212,431 votes for Franken to 1,212,206 votes for Coleman.
April 21: In Bushed, Keith Olbermann discusses Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocking the anti-American militant Muqtada Al-Sadr while she was in Baghdad, saying "I know he's sitting in Iran. I guess its all-out war for anybody but him. I guess that's the message: they can go to their deaths and he's in Iran."
Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie is visiting Iraq to boost what she sees as lagging efforts to deal with the problems of 2 million "very very vulnerable" internally displaced people in the wartorn country.
Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens but cannot vote in the general election for president.
About 100 supporters turned out earlier Tuesday in the western town of Lares, where Clinton chatted with locals in a leafy plaza and sampled ice cream at a shop known for its exotic flavors such as ginger, corn and garlic. Clinton chose mango.
After learning that more than 17 veterans per month commit suicide while under the care of the Veterans Affairs Department, senators accused VA of withholding information about suicide rates and demanded the removal of its mental health chief.