The US Senate is ready to launch an emotion-charged debate on new gun restrictions, four months after the carnage at a Connecticut elementary school spurred President Barack Obama and Congress to address firearms violence.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama was expected to tell the nation in a prime-time address precisely how he wants to expand healthcare, pitching a fresh argument – but, to liberal disappointment, no demand – for a government-run insurance option.

US President Barack Obama said today his administration will outline a new strategy in the coming days for spending billions of federal dollars to pull the nation out of an economic crisis he described as "devastating".

President George Bush today challenged politicians skeptical of his new Iraq plan to propose their own strategy for stopping the violence in Baghdad.

George Bush and the House of Representatives’ Speaker-in waiting Nancy Pelosi pledged over lunch to stop squabbling and cooperate.

Congress approved a one-month extension of the USA Patriot Act and sent it to President George Bush in a pre-Christmas scramble to prevent many of its anti-terrorism provisions from expiring on December 31.

US president George Bush said today the US was winning the war in Iraq and urged Americans divided by doubt: “Do not give in to despair and do not give up on this fight for freedom.”

US President George Bush’s public support has eroded to its lowest level yet, with the Iraq war dragging on, a top White House aide facing felony charges and the administration rushing to replace a failed Supreme Court nominee.

President George W Bush, wrapping the themes of his re-election campaign in his State of the Union address, asserted that the US is strengthening its economy and successfully combating terrorism.

US president George Bush gained important new Democratic support for his war resolution, bolstering his expected margin of victory in Congress for broad authority to use force against Iraq.