Friday, December 5, 2008

Politics: Issues Pressing, Obama Fills Top Posts at a Sprint

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Barack Obama is filling his administration’s top ranks more quickly than any of his recent predecessors.

The chief executives of the Big Three automakers returned to Capitol Hill in an air of deepening crisis.

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The Supreme Court will rule on whether the president can order the indefinite detention of people living in the U.S.

Barack Obama’s record fund-raising sets an imposing bar for any potential Republican challenger in 2012.

Representative Xavier Becerra, Democrat of California, would punch several political tickets at once as the president-elect’s chief trade negotiator.

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New campaign finance reports show that the Republican National Committee paid a fashion consultant.

The vice-president elect decides to create a new post focusing on the economy among his White House staff.

Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, released a statement today that she was diagnosed last week and had undergone a lumpectomy.

After some bloggers raised concerns that Senator Dianne Feinstein might be shifting her stance on the issue of American interrogation policy, the California Democrat has sought to clarify her views.

Ed Rendell's comments about Janet Napolitano, caught by an open mike, were just vague enough to offend, well, just about everyone.

To raise money before joing the cabinet, Hillary Rodham Clinton enlists the help of the star of “Ugly Betty.”

The road show of McCain, Lieberman and Graham are back - in an Asian mountain kingdom.

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A series of profiles of potential members of President-elect Barack Obama’s administration.

Mark Begich is only the second Democrat from Alaska to win a seat in Washington in nearly four decades.

Tapes released Thursday show that President Lyndon B. Johnson suggested that associates of Richard M. Nixon were trying to delay the South Vietnamese government from joining peace talks.

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We want to know how you think Barack Obama -- and the nation -- should celebrate the Inauguration.

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