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By Peter Eisler, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama countered criticism Tuesday that his presumptive choice to lead the CIA lacks ...

Barack Obama faces late-in-the game hang-ups in his presidential transition, despite having swiftly named his Cabinet appointees following the election. ...

6 (Bloomberg) -- Roland Burris, rejected by the US Senate as Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s pick to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s seat, ...

Washington Post Tough Calculus for Blagojevich on Senate Seat New York Times - 45 minutes ago By MONICA DAVEY and RACHEL L. SWARNS CHICAGO - Since his arrest on corruption charges on Dec. 9, Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois wavered several times on whether to appoint a new senator to fill the seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama, ... Video: Burris Defiant On Senate Seat CBS Burris Adds

President-elect Barack Obama faces an incredible host of challenges. Perhaps none is harder or more important for him to accomplish than changing the prevailing attitude that Americans have toward their government. While most credit Ronald Reagan as the chief anti-government guru, it started under the Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew administration as an over-reaction to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.

Obama, Pelosi to Discuss Scope of Economic Package Washington Post - 30 minutes ago By Michael D. Shear President-elect Barack Obama will meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Monday as Congress prepares to reconvene and debate a massive recovery plan for the nation's struggling economy, according to Democratic sources. Nancy Pelosi, New Year's Eve Party Pooper CBS News Democrats Are

Barack Obama visited the zoo with his two daughters and played basketball at his old school on his penultimate day in Hawaii before returning to work.

NEW DELHI — U.S. President-elect Barack Obama takes office at a time when a fundamental and qualitative reordering of power is under way in the Asia-Pacific, with tectonic shifts challenging str...

NEW DELHI — U.S. President-elect Barack Obama takes office at a time when a fundamental and qualitative reordering of power is under way in the Asia-Pacific, with tectonic shifts challenging str...

Britain could take in foreign terror suspects from Guantanamo Bay in order to allow incoming US President Barack Obama to shut the prison camp down, it has been reported.

Republican Socialists December 31, 2008 Washington, D.C.--“Republicans routinely criticize the policies of Barack Obama and other Democrats as socialist,” said Alex Epstein an analyst at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. “But their endorsement of Barack Obama’s imminent, trillion-dollar ‘stimulus plan’ shows that they buy into socialist ideas just as m

Republican Socialists December 31, 2008 Washington, D.C.--“Republicans routinely criticize the policies of Barack Obama and other Democrats as socialist,” said Alex Epstein an analyst at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. “But their endorsement of Barack Obama’s imminent, trillion-dollar ‘stimulus plan’ shows that they buy into socialist ideas just as m

A big question since Nov. 4 has been whether Barack Obama can translate the avid support enlisted by his presidential campaign--especially online--into backing for his presidential agenda. Yes he can, according to a new survey showing that many of his active supporters plan to be engaged with the incoming Obama Administration and advocate on behalf of the President-elect's programs.

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Times OnlineSenate bars entry to disputed recruit for Obama seatguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoThe controversy over Barack Obama's vacant Senate place ...

The Unofficial Website of Barack Obama: The Change We Need.

BBC NewsObama's replacement as governor rebuffedScotsman, United Kingdom - 2 hours agoBy CHRIS STEPHEN THE man appointed to take Barack Obama's vacant ...

Papa Boom is going to Barack Obama's Presidential Inaguaration..i HOpe. BUT this helps. AN INVITATION!!! Posted by BoomChuckle at 9:39 PM. Labels: presidential inaguration invitation ...