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Obama: Blagojevich appointee shouldn't be seated (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2008 04:57 PM CST AP - President-elect Barack Obama says he supports the decision by Senate Democrats to deny his vacated Senate seat to an appointee of embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. On Tuesday, Blagojevich appointed former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris. He would be the nation's only black senator.

Bush calls Abbas to discuss Gaza (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2008 05:29 PM CST AP - President George W. Bush and his top advisers conducted an urgent round of telephone diplomacy Tuesday to help end the deadly conflict between Israel and Hamas, but insisted that if any new cease-fire is to work, it must be honored by the Islamic militant group.

Not so fast: Senate has a say on Obama's successor (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2008 06:17 PM CST AP - Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has named a successor to fill Barack Obama's Senate seat, but Democratic leaders who control the Senate say they will refuse to seat Blagojevich's pick, former state Attorney General Roland Burris.

Judge awards $65M to men taken from USS Pueblo (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2008 08:28 PM CST AP - A federal judge on Tuesday awarded more than $65 million to several men who were captured and tortured by North Korea after the communist country seized the U.S. spy ship USS Pueblo during the Cold War. North Korea never responded to the lawsuit filed by William Thomas Massie, Donald Raymond McClarren, Dunnie Richard Tuck and the estate of Lloyd Bucher. U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. entered the judgment against the country.

Transition hosts health care meetings (Politico) Posted: 30 Dec 2008 06:11 PM CST Politico - President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team is starting to collect political intelligence it could use to sway lawmakers and special interest groups in the upcoming health care reform debate.

Warren's inauguration prayer could draw more ire (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2008 05:53 PM CST AP - President-elect Barack Obama's choice of Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation drew one kind of protest. Whether the evangelical pastor offers the prayer in the name of Jesus may draw another. At George W. Bush's 2001 swearing-in, the Revs. Franklin Graham and Kirbyjon Caldwell were criticized for invoking Christ. The distinctly Christian reference at a national civic event offended some, and even prompted a lawsuit.

Court: Religious objection won't stop DNA sampling (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2008 05:23 PM CST AP - A federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to stop the government from taking DNA from a prisoner who claims the process would violate his religious beliefs.

Judge reviewing GTMO detainees OKs detention of 2 (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2008 04:57 PM CST AP - Two Guantanamo Bay detainees, including a Yemeni man accused of being a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, were correctly labeled as enemy combatants and are being held lawfully at the U.S. prison in Cuba, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

Seniors give Daschle health reform ideas (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2008 04:32 PM CST AP - Note to President-elect Barack Obama: Health reform doesn't have to be all about expanding health insurance. It can be about the little things too, such as shorter waits in the doctor's office and putting in place incentives such as free checkups that catch little problems before they became big ones.

Douglas Elmendorf to replace Orszag at CBO (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2008 05:28 PM CST AP - Former Clinton administration economist Douglas Elmendorf will be named to replace Peter Orszag as director of the Congressional Budget Office, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday.

NYC mayor cozies up to Democrats as election nears (AP) Posted: 31 Dec 2008 03:23 AM CST AP - Mayor Michael Bloomberg was a Republican the last time he campaigned for his job. Now as he prepares to run for re-election in his left-leaning city, he seems to be trying to bury his GOP past.

Bangladesh poll winner urges rival to accept defeat (AFP) Posted: 31 Dec 2008 02:17 AM CST AFP - Bangladesh ex-premier Sheikh Hasina Wajed hailed Wednesday her landslide election victory as a vote against "misrule" and urged her bitter rival, who has alleged rampant vote-rigging, to accept the result.

Unexpected twists make 2008 an epochal year (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 31 Dec 2008 02:00 AM CST The Christian Science Monitor - Here's the way the world looked last January: Hillary Rodham Clinton was a lock to win the Democratic nomination for president, and probably the election, too. The economy wasn't great, but it wasn't awful, either – many experts thought we'd avoid global recession. Meanwhile, Iraq seemed a lost case five years after the US invasion. And the price of gas? Hoo boy. It had passed $3 a gallon and was galloping upward, no limit in sight.

Scandal-plagued governor taps Obama's Senate successor (AFP) Posted: 31 Dec 2008 01:23 AM CST AFP - The corruption-tainted governor of Illinois defied Democratic party leaders by appointing a prominent African-American statesman to the US Senate seat vacated by president-elect Barack Obama.

Protecting Obama When the Lights Go Out (Time.com) Posted: 31 Dec 2008 01:00 AM CST Time.com - A very public vacation day for the President-elect becomes a security problem when the lights go out in Honolulu and practically all of Oahu

Obama, Democrats Move to Block Blagojevich’s Senate Appointment (Bloomberg) Posted: 30 Dec 2008 11:14 PM CST Bloomberg - Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Congressional leaders and Illinois officials maneuvered to block embattled Governor Rod Blagojevich’s appointment of a veteran state politician to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant U.S. Senate seat.

Obama: Between a Rod and a hard place (Politico) Posted: 30 Dec 2008 08:13 PM CST Politico - Barack Obama doesn’t need this, not right now.

Franken lead at 49; Minn. absentees left to count (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2008 07:15 PM CST AP - Democratic candidate Al Franken now holds a 49-vote lead over Republican Sen. Norm Coleman in Minnesota's Senate race, but wrangling over inclusion of absentee ballots continued Tuesday and any final determination of a winner was still days or weeks away.

Democrats' struggle over filling Obama seat (AP) Posted: 31 Dec 2008 03:32 AM CST AP - Rep. Bobby Rush says he doesn't think any U.S. senator would be caught turning a black man away from serving alongside them.

Senate Democrats vow to block Blagojevich's Senate appointee (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 30 Dec 2008 06:08 PM CST McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Despite legal questions and delicate racial considerations, Senate Democrats vowed Tuesday to refuse to seat anyone that embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich appoints to the Senate, even as Blagojevich upped the ante by naming a veteran black politician to fill the seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.

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