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Obama awaits vote in Senate for $350B bailout (AP) Posted: 15 Jan 2009 05:16 AM CST AP - Not quite the president yet and Barack Obama is looking for his first legislative victory.

Holder to face Senate, admit past mistakes (AP) Posted: 15 Jan 2009 05:18 AM CST AP - Eric Holder Jr. planned to acknowledge past mistakes as he braced for a Republican grilling in his confirmation hearing, his path to becoming the nation's first African-American attorney general rockier than President-elect Barack Obama's other Cabinet choices.

Clinton expected to be endorsed by Senate panel (AP) Posted: 15 Jan 2009 05:19 AM CST AP - With no daylight showing between congressional Democrats and the next administration's foreign policy team, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to be swiftly endorsed by a Senate panel as President-elect Barack Obama's new secretary of state.

Obama allies to reveal $850 billion stimulus bill (AP) Posted: 15 Jan 2009 02:06 AM CST AP - President-elect Barack Obama's allies in the House are poised to reveal his $850 billion economic recovery bill, the opening round in a debate that will last into mid-February or beyond.

Obama returns night-owl presidency (Politico) Posted: 14 Jan 2009 05:35 PM CST Politico - Barack Obama is bringing back the night-owl presidency.

House votes health insurance for 4M more children (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2009 07:36 PM CST AP - Making a down payment on President-elect Barack Obama's promise of universal health coverage, the House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to expand government-sponsored insurance to 4 million more children in working families with income too high to qualify for Medicaid.

Obama: Geithner 'embarrassment' no bar for Cabinet (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2009 07:37 PM CST AP - President-elect Barack Obama labeled the tax problems of his choice for Treasury chief an embarrassment Wednesday, but said Timothy Geithner's "innocent mistake" shouldn't bar him from the post leading urgent efforts to revive the economy. Despite the controversy, Geithner's confirmation seemed all but sure — though not by Inauguration Day.

5 people shot outside Chicago high school (AP) Posted: 10 Jan 2009 06:38 AM CST AP - Five people were shot as spectators left a crowded high school basketball game Friday in what police called a possibly gang-related drive-by attack that sent panicked students running into a snowy street on the city's South Side.

Baltimore works to accommodate crowds for Obama (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2009 06:46 PM CST AP - Barack Obama's train trip Saturday from Philadelphia to Washington offers people who can't make it for the inauguration to catch a glimpse of the next president.

GOP's Graham cites worldwide good will for Obama (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2009 08:55 PM CST AP - A confidant of the man Barack Obama defeated in November said Wednesday that the president-elect has earned enormous global good will and "a moment in time" to re-engage other nations with the United States.

More Republicans sign up for bipartisan dinners (AP) Posted: 15 Jan 2009 05:31 AM CST AP - More Republicans are taking prominent roles in a series of dinners planned the night before President-elect Barack Obama' inauguration as a nod toward bipartisanship in government.

Tribes want more American Indians on federal bench (AP) Posted: 15 Jan 2009 04:03 AM CST AP - Leaders of California's politically powerful Indian tribes are pressing the incoming Obama administration to appoint more American Indians to the federal judiciary.

Advantage Obama: Dems in control (Politico) Posted: 15 Jan 2009 04:00 AM CST Politico - Barack Obama is likely to spend the next four years with one big advantage over his recent predecessors—a first term in the White House with his party in uninterrupted control of both the House and the Senate.

Hill says NKorea nuclear talks have made progress (AP) Posted: 15 Jan 2009 02:17 AM CST AP - President-elect Barack Obama will be confronted during his first days in office with stalled disarmament talks involving a recalcitrant North Korea, which holds a stash of weapons-grade plutonium that experts say could fuel as many as 10 nuclear bombs.

Homeland Security pick to face range of questions (AP) Posted: 15 Jan 2009 02:15 AM CST AP - President-elect Barack Obama's pick to oversee homeland security faces questions on topics ranging from federal emergency response to immigration enforcement at her Senate hearing.

Obama's SEC pick to face reform-minded Congress (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jan 2009 02:03 AM CST Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama's choice to lead the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will be grilled Thursday on how she intends to overhaul an agency widely blamed for failing to help prevent the biggest financial crisis in decades.

Obama pledges to succeed where Bush failed on bin Laden (AFP) Posted: 15 Jan 2009 04:14 AM CST AFP - Incoming US president Barack Obama has pledged to try to succeed where his predecessor George W. Bush failed by catching or killing Al-Qaeda terror network leader Osama bin Laden.

D.C. trip a great teaching moment (Rocky Mountain News) Posted: 15 Jan 2009 01:05 AM CST Rocky Mountain News - Emily Parnell is a proud liberal, and can barely contain her joy over the election of Barack Obama to the presidency.

Economic stimulus to cost $850 billion: source (Reuters) Posted: 14 Jan 2009 10:39 PM CST Reuters - An economic stimulus bill being crafted by Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress and aides to President-elect Barack Obama will cost about $850 billion, according to a government source.

Venezuela lawmakers approve unlimited re-election bill (AFP) Posted: 14 Jan 2009 09:06 PM CST AFP - The Venezuelan National Assembly overwhelmingly approved President Hugo Chavez's proposed constitutional amendment to allow for unlimited re-election of the president and all other elected officials.

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