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Blagojevich questioning takes up Obama's time (AP) Posted: 24 Dec 2008 02:44 AM CST 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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