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President Bush, at the request of President-elect Barack Obama, has petitioned Congress to release the remaining $350 billion intended to help the nation deal with its financial crisis. The idea is to make the money available to the new administration shortly after Obama takes office next Tuesday.

President-elect Barack Obama's choice for secretary of Housing and Urban Development got a friendly welcome at his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday. Shaun Donovan said his top priority at HUD will be to address the foreclosure crisis, which he said has led to some 2 million families losing their homes last year.

Citigroup has reached a deal with top Democrats in the Senate on legislation to prevent home foreclosures. The lawmakers want to empower bankruptcy judges to force lenders to lower homeowners' payments.

President-elect Barack Obama has named former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta as his choice to head the CIA. He also picked retired Adm. Dennis Blair to be director of national intelligence, which oversees all intelligence operations.

The nation's unemployment rate stands at 7.2 percent. Employers cut 524,000 jobs in December. The losses were large and widespread in nearly every industry. It's the 12th straight month of declines. In 2008, more than 2.5 million jobs were cut from payrolls — the most jobs lost since 1945.

Mark Regev tells NPR that Israel's ground operation in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip could "end tomorrow — if we can be assured that the civilian population in the southern part of our country will no longer be on the receiving end of these terrible Hamas rockets."

The US Airways plane that crashed in the Hudson River had hit a bird and two engines were disabled.

There is still no sign of a cease-fire in Gaza after more than two weeks of fighting. Sporadic gunbattles between Israel and Hamas continue, and the U.N. says tens of thousands of internally displaced Gaza civilians are struggling to find shelter from the fighting.

Members of the media got an early glimpse at the annual Detroit Auto Show Sunday. How are U.S. automakers displaying their newest wares amid difficult financial circumstances?

As a Senate panel heard testimony from attorney general designee Eric Holder, several of Barack Obama's other Cabinet picks continued Thursday to work their way toward Senate confirmation.