January 6th, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
Reuters - The presidential election and worsening economy pushed the war in Iraq mostly out of the headlines, especially among the Big Three evening newscasts.
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January 6th, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
AP - Republican Norm Coleman filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging Democrat Al Franken's apparent recount victory in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race, delaying a resolution of the contest for weeks or months.
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January 6th, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
AP - Roland Burris failed to capture President-elect Barack Obama's old Senate seat Tuesday in a wild piece of political theater, but the Democrats' opposition cracked when a key chairwoman said seating him was simply the legal thing to do.
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January 6th, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
AFP - US president-elect Barack Obama pledged Tuesday to make a break with the CIA's controversial war-on-terror practices in naming new intelligence chiefs, but said they would not look backwards.
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January 6th, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama said on Tuesday he expects to inherit a U.S. budget deficit approaching $1 trillion and his administration would have to make some tough budget choices.
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January 6th, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama has asked neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta to be U.S. surgeon general, a senior Democrat said on Tuesday.
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January 6th, 2009 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
Union are counting on the Democrat to reverse years of neglect from the White House. Will their high hopes be fulfilled?
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January 6th, 2009 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
The Obamas spend some time in the sun in the state of his birth but the President-elect takes a moment for a poignant memorial for his grandmother
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January 6th, 2009 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
Federal prosecutors are urging an appeals court to proceed with Representative William Jefferson's corruption trial
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January 6th, 2009 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
First Lady Laura Bush disagrees with critics who call the presidency of George W. Bush a failure
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January 6th, 2009 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
The teenage daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose quest for the vice presidency began to go downhill the day she announced the pregnancy, has given birth to a son, a magazine reported Monday
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January 6th, 2009 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
President-elect Barack Obama thought he'd put the bowling jokes behind him
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January 6th, 2009 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers
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January 6th, 2009 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
Despite warnings from Harry Reid, the embattled Illinois governor exercises his right to name a successor to Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate
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January 6th, 2009 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
Tracking the would-be New York senator's verbal tics has become a political parlor game in the days since she gave her first round of in-depth interviews, even spawning a hip-hop-style mash-up online
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January 6th, 2009 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's defiant nomination of the state's former Attorney General to take up Barack Obama's Senate seat prompts one question: Who is Roland Burris?
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January 6th, 2009 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
Claiborne Pell, the quirky blueblood who represented blue-collar Rhode Island in the U.S. Senate for 36 years and was the force behind a grant program that has helped tens of millions of Americans attend college, died Thursday
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January 6th, 2009 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
President-elect Barack Obama will meet with congressional leaders to discuss his economic stimulus plan and other legislative issues soon after his arrival in Washington in the coming days
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Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter is expected to name Denver public schools superintendent Michael Bennet to take the seat left by Sen. Ken Salazar who will become Interior secretary
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January 6th, 2009 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
Former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe said on Saturday he intends to run for governor of Virginia
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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
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January 6th, 2009 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson says he is withdrawing his nomination to be President-elect Barack Obama's commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation
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January 6th, 2009 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
President-elect Barack Obama rejoined his family in Washington on Sunday evening after bidding a poignant farewell to his Chicago home as he begins final preparations for his Jan. 20 inauguration
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January 6th, 2009 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
A federal grand jury investigation into what could be a serious flaw, however, has led New Mexico's governor to a tough decision to leave the national political stage
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January 6th, 2009 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
Barack Obama is heading to Capitol Hill to push for quick action on a broad economic stimulus package that congressional leaders are saying won't be ready until mid-February at the earliest
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XMinnesota's state Canvassing Board was poised to certify the results of the Senate election recount Al Franken's favor -- but that doesn't mean the race is definitely over
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Roland Burris is leaving for Washington on Monday afternoon for a high-stakes stakes showdown on Capitol Hill about whether he'll succeed President-elect Barack Obama in Congress
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January 6th, 2009 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
The President-elect arrives, attended by pre-Inauguration hoopla. But the hard work won't wait
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President-elect Barack Obama, commencing face to face consultations with congressional leaders Monday, is embracing an unexpectedly large tax cut of up to $300 billion
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January 6th, 2009 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
Right now, political clout and an ability to be a strong advocate for the CIA far outweigh the virtues of being a professional spy
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President-elect Barack Obama plunged into rare pre-inaugural crisis talks with congressional leaders Monday. He predicted lawmakers would approve a mammoth revitalization package within two weeks of his taking office.
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January 6th, 2009 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
The Democratic-dominated Congress convenes 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
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Caroline Kennedy's missteps and halting speech patterns have been replayed endlessly since she announced her bid to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton
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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.
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The contours of a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas are emerging, with diplomacy focusing on international guarantees, including foreign border monitors to oversee any agreement.
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All the attention Tuesday is on the two potential freshman Senators not in attendance, Roland Burris and Al Franken
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Roland Burris is declaring himself legally qualified to take his seat in the Senate and says he plans to appear there to do just that
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As the 111th Congress convenes, a look at some of the less momentous achievements of the 110th
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Republican Norm Coleman filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging Democrat Al Franken's apparent recount victory in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race, delaying a resolution of the contest for weeks or months
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January 6th, 2009 By JEFF ZELENY and EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Barack Obama delivered a stark assessment of the economy, saying that his administration would be forced to impose tighter discipline on government.
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January 6th, 2009 By GARDINER HARRIS
Dr. Gupta is a medical correspondent for the news network and a neurosurgeon.
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January 6th, 2009 By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Senator Arlen Specter, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, questioned the independence of Eric H. Holder Jr.
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January 6th, 2009 By MARK MAZZETTI
Barack Obama and his aides scrambled to defend the choice of Leon E. Panetta as C.I.A. director.
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January 6th, 2009 By KIRK JOHNSON
Many voters said the sniping over a still-unfilled Senate seat could hurt Norm Coleman, the Republican incumbent, in particular.
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January 6th, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
CQPolitics.com - The incoming chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee softened her critique of the choice of Leon Panetta to head the CIA after being contacted by President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.
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January 6th, 2009 By BRIAN STELTER
With less than two weeks to go until a historic presidential inauguration, more television networks than usual are finalizing ambitious coverage plans.
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January 6th, 2009 By CARL HULSE
Senator Dianne Feinstein said publicly that Roland W. Burris should be seated. Al Franken did not appear in Washington, as his race appeared headed to court.
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January 6th, 2009 Yahoo! News: Elections
AP - President-elect Barack Obama has approached CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, about becoming the country's next surgeon general, the cable network said Tuesday.
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