President-elect Barack Obama said today Congress must take "dramatic action" on his economic aid package as soon as possible, warning that failure to do so would have devastating long-term consequences for the nation. "In short, a bad situation could become dramatically worse," he said.
Protests erupted shortly after a young man killed by a subway police officer was laid to rest in Oakland on Wednesday night, according to local media and iReporters.
Robbie Tolan sits in a Houston, Texas, hospital bed with a bullet from a police officer's gun lodged in his liver. The son of a famed baseball player was shot in his own driveway.