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• Obama picks Clinton aide as Pentagon No. 2

  President-elect Barack Obama has chosen a longtime Democratic defense expert to be the Number Two official at the Pentagon. Read More... Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:24 PM from msnbc.com: Politics | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• Obama plans to overhaul counterterrorism

  The President-elect is laying plans to dissolve a White House security panel created in the wake of 9/11 and restructure counterterrorism policy under Read More... Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 1:57 PM from msnbc.com: Politics | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• Obama tax plan runs into opposition in Senate

  President-elect Barack Obama's proposed tax cuts ran into opposition Thursday from senators in his own party who said they wouldn't do much to stimulate Read More... Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 1:44 PM from msnbc.com: Politics | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• Obama, security aides, still debating Blackberry

  For President-elect Barack Obama, parting with his Blackberry is such sweet sorrow. Read More... Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 1:17 PM from msnbc.com: Politics | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• Clinton State Department team takes shape

  The Secretary of State-designate isn't waiting to be confirmed to name her team, settling already on several senior positions, say Democratic sources and Read More... Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 1:09 PM from msnbc.com: Politics | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• Newsweek: The bumpy road to the inauguration

  Howard Fineman notes that rather than give Obama a clean, quick coronation, Washington (and especially Obama's own party) seems intent on giving the president-elect Read More... Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 11:21 AM from msnbc.com: Politics | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• Newsweek: Obama's Mideast peace offensive

  Barack Obama has put on a good show of focusing his pre-inaugural attention on the economy while largely ignoring the rest of the world—but he clearly Read More... Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 11:19 AM from msnbc.com: Politics | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• Former Sen. Larry Craig drops further appeals

  A lawyer for former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig says they won't ask the Minnesota Supreme Court to void his conviction in an airport bathroom sex sting. Read More... Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 10:41 AM from msnbc.com: Politics | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• Republicans hit US attorney-general nominee

  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 Read More... Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 10:25 AM from msnbc.com: Politics | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• ConsumerMan: Obama coins worth the price?

  For the Obama inauguration, you can find all sorts of souvenirs for sale, including commemorative coins. Are they a good investment? Well, is a t-shirt Read More... Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:41 AM from msnbc.com: Politics | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• Congress meets to count electoral votes

  The House and Senate are coming together in a centuries-old tradition to count the electoral votes from the election and formally declare Barack Obama Read More... Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:19 AM from msnbc.com: Politics | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• Cheney: Obama should keep terror policies

  Vice President said Wednesday it would be a mistake for the President-elect to scrap the Bush administration's terrorist-fighting policies designed to Read More... Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:00 AM from msnbc.com: Politics | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• Senator sworn in amid domestic-abuse probe

  A former police officer and councilman was sworn in as a new state senator, despite facing charges that he slashed his girlfriend's face with a piece of Read More... Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:45 AM from msnbc.com: Politics | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• Ill. panel to grill Burris on Senate appointment

  Illinois Republicans are promising tough questions for Senate-appointee Roland Burris on why he accepted a position offered by Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Read More... Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:41 AM from msnbc.com: Politics | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• Daschle confirmation hearing today

  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 Read More... Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:28 AM from msnbc.com: Politics | 0 Comments Filed under: News