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Yahoo! News: Elections

Blagojevich questioning takes up Obama's time (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2008 02:44 AM CST

In this Dec. 22, 2003, file photo, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., right, answers a question as Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, left, listens during a news conference in Chicago. President-elect Barack Obama and two of his top aides met last week with federal investigators building a corruption case against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, accused of trying to swap Obama's Senate seat for cash or a lucrative job.  (AP Photo/Stephen J. Carrera, File)AP - President-elect Barack Obama has said all along that neither he nor his team was involved in any eye-popping dealmaking over filling his vacated Senate seat. On Tuesday, Obama's hand-picked investigator agreed.


Naming '08 Minn. Senate winner will take until '09 (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 10:12 PM CST

Election judges Willy Lee (L) and Joanne Caspersen recount marked ballots cast for the 2008 Minnesota senate race between former Saturday Night Live comedian Al Franken (DFL-MN) and incumbent Norm Coleman (R-MN) at an elections warehouse in Minneapolis November 19, 2008. (Eric Miller/Reuters)AP - Minnesota voters won't know who won the state's U.S. Senate race this year, and it's looking more likely that the new Congress will be sworn in before the race ends between Democrat Al Franken and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman.


Obama attends memorial for his grandmother, `Toot' (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2008 12:42 AM CST

President-elect Barack Obama walks with his niece Suhaila Soetoro-Ng after a seaside memorial for his grandmother Madelyn Payne Dunham in Honolulu, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - President-elect Barack Obama gathered with family and friends on Tuesday for a private memorial service for the beloved grandmother who helped raise him.


Shirtless images of Obama cause stir online (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 08:04 PM CST

In this Aug. 14, 2008, file photo people on the beach call out to Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., as he heads back into the water while body-surfing in Honolulu, Hawaii.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - Forget Barack Obama's staff making contact with a governor charged with corruption. What's got everyone talking is the president-elect's fine first form.


Obama pays tribute to late grandmother (Politico)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 08:56 PM CST

Politico - HONOLULU - President-elect Barack Obama paid tribute to his grandmother, one of the central figures in his life, in a private church service Tuesday afternoon, before scattering her ashes in the Pacific.

Obama chooses Lincoln's Bible for inauguration (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2008 12:52 AM CST

Curator Clark Evans displays the burgundy velvet, gilt-edged Lincoln Inaugural Bible at the Library of Congress Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008, in Washington. President-elect Barack Obama will take his oath of office on the bible Jan. 20, becoming the first president to use it since Abraham Lincoln at his swearing-in on March 4, 1861. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)AP - President-elect Barack Obama will use the same Bible at his inauguration that Abraham Lincoln used for his swearing in.


Will Obama's stimulus work fast enough? (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2008 12:55 AM CST

President-elect Barack Obama greets onlookers after working out at the Semper Fit Center on Marine Corp Base Hawaii in Kailua, Hawaii, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - President-elect Barack Obama's plan for economic revival puts a big emphasis on public works projects. It also would rely on tax cuts.


Biden nixes idea of pet projects in stimulus bill (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 03:35 PM CST

Vice President-elect Joe Biden, right, listens as President-elect Barack Obama's National Economic Council director Lawrence Summers, left, speaks during a meeting in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Vice President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday that people expecting a bounty of pet projects in a new, massive multibillion-dollar economic stimulus plan should think again.


Ex-Bill Clinton aides to join State Dept. (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 04:22 PM CST

AP - Two former Clinton administration officials were named Tuesday to join the State Department in high posts when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes secretary of state.

Court reinstates clean air rule during EPA fix (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 01:25 PM CST

AP - In a ruling hailed by environmentalists, a federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated one of President George W. Bush's clean air regulations while the Environmental Protection Agency makes court-mandated changes.

Sino-U.S. trade ties face test amid global slump (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Dec 2008 12:54 AM CST

Chinese workers make clothes at a textile company in Nantong, east China's Jiangsu province in this December 10, 2005 file photo. Trade frictions between Beijing and Washington are expected to grow amid a deepening world recession and as U.S. interest groups demand President-elect Barack Obama put 'tough on China' trade talk into action. (China Newsphoto/Reuters)Reuters - Trade frictions between Beijing and Washington are expected to grow amid a deepening world recession and as U.S. interest groups demand President-elect Barack Obama put "tough on China" trade talk into action.


USA returns as king of cable in 2008 (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 11:51 PM CST

Actress Sarah Silverman, nominated for her performance in the series 'Monk', poses at the Academy of Television Arts  and  Sciences Primetime Emmy Awards Nominees for Outstanding Performance reception in Los Angeles, California, September 19, 2008. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)Reuters - USA Network has regained its crown as the year's most-watched basic cable channel, while football and election coverage dominated the top of the programing chart.


Gay-rights leaders' enthusiasm for Obama subsides (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 10:18 PM CST

In this  Saturday Dec. 20, 2008, file photo, Evangelical Pastor Rick Warren delivers a speech during the 8th Annual Convention of the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Long Beach, Calif. The longest-serving openly gay member of Congress  Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said Sunday, Dec. 21, 2008, it was a mistake for President-elect Barack Obama to invite the Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. (AP Photo/Hector Mata, File)AP - Gay-rights activists remain hopeful about the Obama presidency but are now more wary after what one called a "double punch to the gut" — the choice of a pastor they consider hostile for a prime inauguration role and dashed hopes for the first openly gay Cabinet member.


Jarrett: Idea of Blago at HHS 'ridiculous' (Politico)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 10:04 PM CST

Politico - Barack Obama’s right-hand woman Valerie Jarrett thought the prospect of embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich scoring a seat in Obama’s cabinet was “ridiculous,” an Obama lawyer said Tuesday.

Obama says goodbye to late grandmother in Hawaii (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 09:59 PM CST

Michelle Obama (L) and President-elect Barack Obama's half sister Maya Soetoro-Ng return from scattering the ashes of his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, at a seaside ceremony in Honolulu, Hawaii on December 23, 2008. (Hugh Gentry/Reuters)Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama paid his last respects on Tuesday to the woman he called the rock of his family, the grandmother who helped to raise him, before scattering her ashes from a Hawaiian shoreline.


Obama attends memorial service for his late grandmother (AFP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 08:54 PM CST

Barack Obama is seen with his maternal grandmother Madelyn Dunham after his high school graduation in Hawaii in 1979. Obama attended a memorial service here Tuesday for his late grandmother, who helped raise him in Hawaii and died in early November.(AFP/Ho)AFP - President-elect Barack Obama attended a memorial service here Tuesday for his late grandmother, who helped raise him in Hawaii and died in early November.


Report absolves Obama team in governor scandal (AFP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 08:30 PM CST

Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama (right) with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich in Chicago in 2007. An internal probe has cleared Barack Obama and his transition team of any inappropriate contacts with the Illinois governor accused of plotting to sell off the president-elect's Senate seat.(AFP/File/Jeff Haynes)AFP - An internal probe has cleared Barack Obama and his transition team of any inappropriate contacts with the Illinois governor accused of plotting to sell off the president-elect's Senate seat.


Obama report unlikely to affect Blagojevich probe (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 08:11 PM CST

President-elect Barack Obama introduces retired General Eric K. Shinseki as nominee for secretary of veterans affairs during a news conference in Chicago December 7, 2008. (Jeff Haynes/Reuters)AP - A report that says President-elect Barack Obama or his staff never discussed a deal with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to fill Obama's vacant Senate seat is unlikely to affect a federal investigation of the governor, legal observers said Tuesday.


Obama had to answer investigators' questions (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 07:02 PM CST

In this Dec. 22, 2003, file photo, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., right, answers a question as Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, left, listens during a news conference in Chicago. President-elect Barack Obama and two of his top aides met last week with federal investigators building a corruption case against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, accused of trying to swap Obama's Senate seat for cash or a lucrative job.  (AP Photo/Stephen J. Carrera, File)AP - In the midst of two wars and an intensifying economic meltdown, Barack Obama had to take time off last week to answer questions from federal prosecutors investigating charges that the governor of Illinois had put the president-elect's former Senate seat up for sale.


Obama review clears staff in Blagojevich probe (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 06:49 PM CST

Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois addresses questions about charges brought against him of conspiracy and bribery, including allegations he was seeking to benefit financially from his appointment of a successor to the U.S. Senate seat that was vacated by President-elect Barack Obama during a news conference in Chicago, December 19, 2008. (Jeff Haynes/Reuters)Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama and a top aide have been interviewed by prosecutors investigating Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, but an internal report released on Tuesday cleared them of any wrongdoing.


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