UPI Almanac for Tuesday, July 28, 2009.

NEW YORK, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. first lady Michelle Obama will appear on the cover of Vogue Magazine in March, becoming the second president's wife to do so, a Vogue spokesman said.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama and his new treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, are moving with unparalleled speed to launch their ambitious, sweeping programs to combat America's financial crisis and rapidly worsening recession.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Every new president of the United States wants his inaugural to be a "renewal of hope," but true "renewal of hope" inaugurals aren't that common: President-elect Barack Obama's will be the first in 28 years since Ronald Reagan took office in 1981.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama hit the ground running Thursday when he opened the legislative battle to get his emergency stimulus package passed by Congress to rescue the American economy.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The projection for the U.S. annual budget deficit has doubled. This is not good news.

UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The arriving Obama administration will be handed not merely a can of worms but a bucket of asps. Somewhere I suspect the ghost of Herbert Hoover is smiling. The inherited foreign policy problems are no less daunting than the economic mess. But on the latter front, there is at least one piece of good news. It may be possible to set the U.S.-Russian relationship on a new course.

UPI Almanac for Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008.