Politics

Bush team focusing on anti-deficit triggers

Senior White House officials and senior senate GOP aides tell CNN that talks of compromise in the Senate focus not on income tax rates or the estate tax but on anti-deficit devices know as "triggers" and "circuit-breakers."

Clinton popularity at all-time low

The popularity of former President Clinton has plunged in the wake of the pardons controversy to the lowest level ever, results of the latest Gallup Poll showed Friday, while his successor's approval ratings have soared just as dramatically.