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Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:18:54 GMT

Illinois U.S. Senate appointee Roland Burris talks with the media after arriving at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in Linthicum, Md., Monday, Jan. 4, 2009.  Burris will face a showdown on Capitol Hill about whether he'll succeed President-elect Barack Obama in Congress after being appointed last week by embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)AP - Barack Obama's appointed successor is heading to the Senate to be sworn in as a member of the 111th Congress, but it isn't clear whether he'll get to take the oath of office.


Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:40:46 GMT
AP - State Department officials say Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is traveling to New York Tuesday to meet with Arab ministers and lobby for a U.S.-backed cease-fire plan for Gaza.
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:08:35 GMT

Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell, left, listens to House Minority leader John Boehner, right, during a news conference following their bi-partisan meeting with President-elect Barack Obama on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - The Democratic-dominated Congress convenes Tuesday to confront perhaps the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and to grapple with a hugely ambitious agenda set by President-elect Barack Obama.


Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:18:50 GMT

Allan Goldstein, a retiree and investor with Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, testifies before the House Committee on Financial Services, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Two more months of mortgage payments and retiree Allan Goldstein says he'll be broke, just another victim in what may be the biggest Ponzi scheme in history.


Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:04:00 GMT
Politico - In choosing Leon Panetta to head the CIA, President-elect Obama is taking one of the capital's most familiar faces and thrusting him into a starkly unfamiliar role.
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:14:48 GMT

In a Sept. 3, 2008, file photo Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., speaks at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.  The Minnesota state Canvassing Board is expected to certify the results of the re-count of the race between Republican incumbant Norm Coleman and the Democratic challenger for his seat Al Franken, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009.(AP Photo/Paul Sancya/file)AP - A Minnesota board on Monday certified results showing Democrat Al Franken winning the state's U.S. Senate recount over Republican Norm Coleman, whose lawyer promised a legal challenge that probably will keep the race in limbo for months.


Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:11:46 GMT
AP - President-elect Barack Obama is adding a "Youth Ball" to the parties planned to celebrate his Jan. 20 inauguration.
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:37:59 GMT

Democratic senatorial candidate, and well known satirist and a former writer and actor for the popular Saturday Night Live television show, Al Franken (DFL-MN) and his wife Franni (L) speak to reporters after he is declared the winner by the Minnesota Secretary of State Office, by 225 votes, over opponent incumbent Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN) outside his home in Minneapolis, January 5, 2009. (Eric Miller/Reuters)Reuters - Democrat Al Franken beat Republican incumbent Norm Coleman to win the U.S. Senate seat from Minnesota, officials conducting a final recount said on Monday, though the loser promised to challenge the result.


Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:31:55 GMT
AP - Health care continued to take up a greater share of the economy in 2007, as spending on hospitals, doctors and other services increased 6.1 percent to $2.2 trillion.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:23:42 GMT
AP - President-elect Barack Obama on Monday chose the dean at his alma mater, Harvard Law School, to represent the United States before the Supreme Court.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:43:26 GMT

Jordan's Queen Rania attends a press conference at the UNICEF office in Amman. World leaders hardened their rhetoric and expressed mounting concern about the impact on civilians of the fighting in Gaza Monday, as Israel rejected diplomatic efforts to bring it to an end.(AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)AFP - World leaders hardened their rhetoric and expressed mounting concern about the impact on civilians of the fighting in Gaza Monday, as Israel rejected diplomatic efforts to bring it to an end.


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