Budget Office predicts $1.2T deficit (Politico via Yahoo! News) 7 Jan 2009 at 10:21am
The Congressional Budget Office released a grim forecast Wednesday for the coming year that projects a federal deficit of almost $1.2 trillion in 2009 as revenues fall off and housing prices continue ...
Ghana president takes office after tense election (San Francisco Chronicle) 7 Jan 2009 at 10:05am
Ghana's new president took office Wednesday following a peaceful but tense election that secured the country's status as one of the continent's few stable democracies. Tens of thousands of people crow...