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Yahoo! News: Elections

White House: Cease-fire depends on Hamas (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2008 03:49 PM CST

White House deputy press secretary Gordon Johndroe gestures during a press briefing in Crawford, Texas, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - It's President George W. Bush's belief that the first step in any cease-fire in the ongoing violence in the Mideast will require the Islamic militant group Hamas to agree to stop firing rockets into Israel now and in the future, the White House said Wednesday.


Hezbollah-like tactic used by Hamas against Israel (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2008 04:43 PM CST

AP - Since taking control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, Hamas has adopted the rocket tactics used by Lebanese Hezbollah, shifting away from its reliance on suicide bombers in attacks on Israel.

Chief justice: Inflation outpacing pay for judges (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2008 06:24 PM CST

In this Nov. 16, 2007 file photo, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts pauses during a speech in Washington.  Roberts said Wednesday that Congress should be as generous to judges as it already has been to itself, by approving an inflation-related increase in their pay. 'I must renew the judiciary's modest petition: Simply provide cost-of-living increases that have been unfairly denied,' Roberts said in his annual year-end report on the federal judiciary.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)AP - Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday that Congress should be as generous to judges as it already has been to itself, by approving an inflation-related increase in their pay.


Iseman faces legal hurdles in Times suit (Politico)

Posted: 31 Dec 2008 02:55 PM CST

Politico - Washington lobbyist Vicki Iseman is hoping to receive $27 million in damages from The New York Times, according to a defamation suit filed Tuesday, but her attorneys could have a tough time legally making that happen.

Obamas to move into Washington hotel this weekend (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2008 02:11 PM CST

The Hay-Adams Hotel, where President-elect Barack Obama and his family will stay when they move to Washington early, is seen Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008. The Obama family will stay at the hotel before moving into the Blair House, the government guest house across the street from the White House, on January 15. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - An exclusive hotel just yards from the White House will become a temporary home "suite" home for President-elect Barack Obama and his family when they move to the capital this weekend.


NASA chief's wife to Obama: Don't fire my husband (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2008 02:53 PM CST

In this Wednesday, March 26, 2008 file photo, NASA administrator Michael Griffin, speaks to reporters at a news conference after space shuttle Endeavour landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Late on Christmas Eve, one last wish was sent, by e-mail: Please let NASA Administrator Michael Griffin keep his job. It was from his wife. There are other efforts, too, by those close to Griffin, and their lobbying on his behalf to President-elect Barack Obama is unusually bold, even for ego-heavy Washington. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - Late on Christmas Eve, one last wish was sent, by e-mail: Please let NASA Administrator Michael Griffin keep his job. It was from his wife.


Low-key New Year's Eve planned at Bush's ranch (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2008 01:09 PM CST

White House deputy press secretary Gordon Johndroe speaks during a press briefing in Crawford, Texas, Monday, Dec. 29, 2008.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - President George W. Bush probably won't watch the clock hit 2009, choosing instead to celebrate the new year with a sunrise stroll around his Texas ranch.


Obama pledges schools upgrade in stimulus plan (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2008 02:13 PM CST

President-elect Barack Obama emerges from his morning workout at the Semper Fit Center on Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kailua, Hawaii  Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008.  (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Barack Obama probably cannot fix every leaky roof and busted boiler in the nation's schools. But educators say his sweeping school modernization program — if he spends enough — could jump-start student achievement.


Company has inaugural tradition dating to Truman (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2008 03:19 PM CST

Heads await positioning in a workroom at Hargrove Inc., in Lanham, Md., Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008, in preparation for President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration January 20. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Saws are buzzing in the cavernous warehouse where a Maryland company is fast at work on making parade floats it has provided for presidential inaugurations since Harry Truman's in 1949.


Clintons, revelers ring in 2009 in Times Square (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2009 01:54 AM CST

Fireworks explode over the Acropolis Hill during the New Year's celebrations in Athens, Greece, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009.(AP Photo/Milos Bicanski)AP - Hundreds of thousands of revelers rang in 2009 from frigid Times Square as the famous Waterford crystal ball dropped, signaling the end of a historic and troubled year that saw the election of the first black U.S. president and the worst economic crisis in decades.


Senate fight deflects attention from Ill. governor (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2009 02:40 AM CST

In this Dec. 30, 2008 file photo, U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush D-Ill. speaks in Chicago after Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, left, announced his choice of former Ill. Attorney General Roland Burris, right, to fill President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat. Blagojevich's appointment of Burris could be a shrewd political move, helping the embattled governor win over black lawmakers in the impeachment process and perhaps even potential black jurors in his corruption case.  (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Roland Burris is battling for a U.S. Senate seat in court and through the media, briefly shifting the spotlight away from the man who picked him for the job, embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich.


Britain ready to take Guantanamo prisoners: report (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2008 10:25 PM CST

Razorwire-topped fences outside of the AFP - Britain is now preparing to take in detainees from Guantanamo Bay to help US president-elect Barack Obama shut down the prison camp, The Times newspaper said Thursday, citing government sources.


Senate seat scandal set to shadow Obama's early presidency (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2008 08:42 PM CST

Former Illinois attorney general Roland Burris. The scandal surrounding the senate seat of president-elect Barack Obama looked set to shadow his first months in office after prosecutors Wednesday asked for more time to bring charges against the governor accused of trying to sell the coveted post.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Olson)AFP - The scandal surrounding the senate seat of president-elect Barack Obama looked set to shadow his first months in office after prosecutors asked for more time to bring charges against the governor accused of trying to sell the coveted post.


Obama is strong leader, three quarters of Americans say (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2008 05:57 PM CST

US President-elect Barack Obama (R) greets supporters while departing from his morning work out at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kailua, Hawaii. Three-quarters of Americans say president-elect Barack Obama is a AFP - Three-quarters of Americans say president-elect Barack Obama is a "strong and decisive leader," the highest such support for an incoming president in almost 30 years, according to a CNN poll released Wednesday.


Burris goes to court to push appointment through (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2008 05:44 PM CST

AP - U.S. Senate appointee Roland Burris has asked a court to force Secretary of State Jesse White to certify his appointment to President-elect Barack Obama's old Senate seat.

Obama to tap Princeton's Rouse for econ council (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Dec 2008 04:52 PM CST

Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama is expected to name Cecilia Rouse, a Princeton University labor economist, to the Council of Economic Advisers, an aide with the Obama transition office said on Wednesday.

Gaza reshuffles Israeli political deck (Politico)

Posted: 31 Dec 2008 02:56 PM CST

Politico - Israel’s attack on Gaza is scrambling that country’s politics in advance of a Feb. 10 national election that will select the leader with whom the U.S. and Palestinians alike negotiate during President-elect Barack Obama’s first term.

Violent protest over Ghana poll results (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2008 02:44 PM CST

Soldiers close off the main gate leading to the headquaters of the Electoral Commission in Accra on Decemeber 30, 2008. Ghanaian police fired water cannon late Wednesday on ruling party supporters who besieged the country's electoral commission in protest at presidential election results, witnesses and local media said.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - Ghanaian police fired water cannon late Wednesday on ruling party supporters who besieged the country's electoral commission in protest at presidential election results, witnesses and local media said.


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