Bush details $70 billion war funding request for 2009 (AP)

Bush: Housing deal possible with 'less politics' (AP)
AP - President Bush expressed confidence Tuesday he will reach a deal with Congress on a housing-rescue plan but prodded lawmakers to show "less politics."

Housing rescue is final chance for bargaining (AP)
AP - President Bush and Congress have settled their differences on terrorist surveillance and Iraq war money. Now attention turns to a potential housing rescue, probably the last major...

Bipartisan accord reached on war funding bill (AP)
AP - President Bush would win $162 billion in long-overdue funding to carry out military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into next year under a bipartisan agreement sealed on Capitol Hill...

Bush sees NATO backing missile defense (AP)
AP - President Bush expressed confidence Wednesday that NATO will bolster its combat forces in Afghanistan and endorse a missile defense system for Europe that Russia has opposed.

House approves new eavesdropping rules (AP)
AP - The House on Friday approved a Democratic bill that would set rules for the government's eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails inside the United States. The bill, approved as...