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Richard Besser, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says the goal of public health agencies in the U.S. is to minimize the impact of the new swine flu virus. Right now, he says, states with and without infections are receiving items from a national stockpile of things that can be used to fight the flu.

A date for confirmation hearings has not been set yet for Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's pick to replace retiring Justice David Souter. The president wants her confirmed before Congress leaves for its August recess. But Republicans say they won't be rushed.

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold confirmation hearings on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's pick for the Supreme Court. The committee's senior Republican Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch says barring some "disqualification," he foresees a committee vote in early September, and a floor vote "almost immediately thereafter."

One vocal participant in the debate over enhanced interrogation techniques is former Vice President Dick Cheney. Recently he has stepped into the breach to defend the policies of the Bush administration.

The Obama administration has unveiled its plan for overhauling the financial regulatory system. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told lawmakers the administration wants to bring some of the market's most complicated products under federal oversight.

President Obama took his budget agenda to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to round up skeptical Democrats. He seemed prepared to go along with changes as long as Congress' budget preserves down payments on his grand plan.

President Barack Obama said Tuesday the stimulus plan was showing signs of progress, but that patience was needed as the government revived the economy. The comments came in a prime-time news conference at the White House.

Historian John Hope Franklin died Wednesday at the age of 94. Franklin's work defined the field of African-American history, and he played a crucial role in pivotal civil rights events of the 20th century.

Bob and Jane Cull's house in Texas was built by one of the most powerful and politically connected homebuilders in the country — and it was defective. They're now 13 years into a legal odyssey, and still have no recompense.

Health professionals who monitored the CIA's interrogation of detainees violated medical ethics, says a new report from the International Committee of the Red Cross. Mark Danner, a journalism professor who published the report in the New York Review of Books, says the report concludes interrogation procedures used constitute torture.