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Yahoo! News: Elections

Obama's pick to lead on health care gets hearing (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 03:28 AM CST

In this Dec. 11, 2008 file photo, President-elect Barack Obama, right, stands with Health and Human Services Secretary-designate, former Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle, during a news conference in Chicago.   (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak,File)AP - Showing the emphasis that some lawmakers are putting on health care issues this year, former Sen. Tom Daschle will be the first of President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet choices to undergo a hearing.


Congress meets to count electoral votes (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 03:33 AM CST

President-elect Barack Obama, flanked by President George W. Bush, and former President George H.W. Bush, speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2008, during a meeting, with former presidents Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The House and Senate are coming together in a centuries-old tradition to count the electoral votes from the November election and formally declare that Barack Obama will be the 44th president of the United States.


INSIDE WASHINGTON: GOP lays down marker on Holder (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 03:36 AM CST

This Nov. 4, 1993 file photo  U.S. Attorney Eric Holder Jr. is shown during a news conference in Washington.  (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi, file)AP - Eric Holder Jr., President-elect Barack Obama's pick for attorney general, brings to his confirmation hearing next week a dream resume and a bull's-eye target with his picture in the middle.


Senate Democrats yield to Obama, retreat on Burris (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 01:21 AM CST

Illinois U.S. Senate Appointee Roland Burris, left, smiles as he meets with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Senate Democrats beat a hasty retreat Wednesday from their rejection of Roland Burris as President-elect Barack Obama's successor, yielding to pressure from Obama himself and from senators irked that the standoff was draining attention and putting them in a bad light. Burris said with a smile he expected to join them "very shortly."


Dems face first stimulus battle (Politico)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 07:18 PM CST

Politico - It was only a matter of time until Democrats faced their first stimulus battle.

Feds say inauguration attractive terrorist target (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 01:30 AM CST

Workers put bulletproof glass on President-elect Barack Obama's Inaugural Reviewing Stand on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - The upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama is an attractive target for international and domestic terrorists, but U.S. intelligence officials have no information about specific threats to the Jan. 20 event.


Richardson adviser worked for firm feds probing (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 10:36 PM CST

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson answers questions from the press regarding his withdrawal as the nominee for secretary of the Commerce Department Wednesday Jan. 7, 2008 in Albuquerque, N.M. (AP Photo/Craig Fritz)AP - One of Gov. Bill Richardson's close friends and advisers worked as a consultant for the California firm at the center of a federal pay-to-play probe that derailed the governor's appointment as commerce secretary.


Israelis arrive in Egypt for cease-fire talks (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 04:08 AM CST

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, right, hugs his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy at the end of a press conference on Tuesday Jan. 6, 2009 in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt. Sarkozy said Wednesday Jan. 7, 2009 that Israel and the Palestinian Authority have accepted an Egyptian-French plan for Gaza.   (AP Photo/Eric Feferberg/Pool)AP - Israeli representatives arrived in Cairo Thursday for Egyptian-brokered talks on a cease-fire proposal after the U.N. Security Council failed to agree on action to end the escalating crisis in Gaza.


Bridges, streets being closed for inauguration (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 10:23 PM CST

Map shows road closures for presidential inauguration; 2 c x 3 in; 96.3 mm x 76.2 mmAP - Police are blocking off all bridges crossing the Potomac River into Washington and a huge chunk of downtown when Barack Obama takes the oath of office Jan. 20, securing the largest area of the nation's capital for any inauguration.


Obama's performance czar has tried to improve IRS (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 03:37 AM CST

Nancy Killefer makes a few remarks after President-elect Barack Obama, left, introduced her to the newly created position of chief performance officer, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009, at his transition office  Washington. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)AP - Nancy Killefer, the management consultant chosen by President-elect Barack Obama to make federal agencies work better for the public, has a lot of experience trying to improve the agency taxpayers love to hate, the Internal Revenue Service.


Shooting movie takes stab at Taiwan ex-president (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 02:56 AM CST

An undated handout picture shows actor Shen Meng-sheng (2nd R) as President Xiong in a scene from the film 'Ballistic'. As Taiwan ex-president Chen Shui-bian waits behind bars for a graft trial after losing an appeal for release, a film about his controversial election eve shooting will debut on the island this week. The Hong Kong action movie 'Ballistic' uses a fictional plot to revisit March 19, 2004, when incumbent Chen and his running mate Annette Lu were shot and slightly injured during a campaign rally in southern Taiwan. They won the race a day later. (Deepjoy Picture/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - A film about the election-eve gun attack on Taiwan's recently indicted ex-president Chen Shui-bian will debut on the island this week, where it is expected to reignite debate about the controversial 2004 shooting.


Obama to unveil stimulus spending as deficit hits new high (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 02:47 AM CST

US President-elect Barack Obama speaks at the Presidential Transition office in Washington, DC. Obama was to flesh out details of his economic stimulus plan Thursday, after warning that dramatic action is needed to shrink a record trillion-dollar US budget deficit.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)AFP - President-elect Barack Obama was to flesh out details of his economic stimulus plan Thursday, after warning that dramatic action is needed to shrink a record trillion-dollar US budget deficit.


Obama to name 'soft power' Nye for Japan role: report (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 02:04 AM CST

Professor Joseph Nye (right) meets India's Minister for External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee, at a meeting in New Delhi. US president-elect Barack Obama plans to name the influential academic Nye, best known for coining the phrase AFP - US president-elect Barack Obama plans to name influential academic Joseph Nye, best known for coining the phrase "soft power," as ambassador to Japan, a newspaper said Thursday.


Obama taps spending watchdog, eyes Social Security (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 01:19 AM CST

Nancy Killefer makes a few remarks after President-elect Barack Obama, left, introduced her to the newly created position of chief performance officer, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009, at his transition office  Washington. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)AP - Pointing with concern to "red ink as far as the eye can see," President-elect Barack Obama pledged Wednesday to tackle out-of-control Social Security and Medicare spending and named a special watchdog to clamp down on other federal programs — even as he campaigned anew to spend the largest pile of taxpayer money in history to revive the sinking economy.


Obama to lay out case for stimulus in speech (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 12:19 AM CST

President-elect Barack Obama listens to a question from the media following a meeting with members of his future cabinet and economic advisors at his transition office in Washington, January 6, 2009. (Jason Reed/Reuters)Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama will call for quick action on a fiscal stimulus package in a speech on Thursday aimed at reassuring Americans that he is determined to stem the economic crisis.


Obama to revamp counterterrorism efforts: report (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 10:14 PM CST

U.S. President elect Barack Obama speaks to the media during a news conference at his transition office in Washington January 7, 2009. (Jason Reed/Reuters)Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama will revamp the way the U.S. government coordinates counterterrorism efforts, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.


Paulson says Obama will decide on rescue spending (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 10:12 PM CST

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson addresses a meeting of the National Economists Club in Washington January 7, 2009. (Jim Young/Reuters)Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama will decide how to spend the remaining half of a $700 billion economic rescue package, a top Bush administration official said on Wednesday, while a key Democratic lawmaker outlined his vision of how new rescue funds should be spent.


Obama's 'Hope' portrait goes to Smithsonian (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 08:46 PM CST

This mixed media collage by Shepard Fairey, photo courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, titled 'Barack Obama,' will be on view at the Portrait Gallery by Inauguration Day, the Smithsonian Institution announced on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009. Fairey's large-scale, mixed-media stenciled collage was the central portrait image for the Obama campaign and was previously distributed as a limited-edition print and as a free download. (AP Photo/National Portrait Gallery, Barack Obama by Shepard Fairey © Shepard Fairey/ObeyGiant.com)AP - Even before he takes office, President-elect Barack Obama's image will become part of the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery, the museum announced Wednesday.


Cyclists prepare for Obama inauguration (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 08:23 PM CST

A cyclist makes his way down Broadway in New York. Cyclists have launched a campaign to boost bike use for Obama's inauguration on January 20, expected to draw record crowds in the capital and block traffic in and around the city.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)AFP - Cyclists have launched a campaign to boost bike use for Obama's inauguration on January 20, expected to draw record crowds in the capital and block traffic in and around the city.


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