AP - Democrats are fighting over control of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the outcome could affect President-elect Obama\'s efforts to limit the heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming.

AP - With the economy in a downward spiral, U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and the nation under threat from terrorists, President Bush pledged Saturday to make a smooth transition to an Obama administration a top priority for the rest of his days in office.

AP - Cuba\'s communist leadership has long cast itself as David standing up to the U.S. Goliath and the crippling force of America\'s punitive trade and travel embargo.

AP - President-elect Obama has spoken to the president of Poland about relations between the two countries but didn\'t make a commitment on the multibillion-dollar missile defense program undertaken by the Bush administration, an Obama aide said Saturday.