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Alaska's Republican Senator Ted Stevens loses his bid for a seventh term after a knife-edge race against Mark Begich.
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District and federal officials are preparing for as many as 4 million people for the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, a crowd that would be three or four times larger than previous big events on the Mall. Only a fraction of those people will be...(more)
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Barack Obama's administration began to take shape yesterday after it was reported that he had chosen a former Clinton official as his attorney general.Eric Holder, 57, a member of Obama's vice-presidential search committee, was reported to be Obama's top choice to head the justice department by...(more)
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AFP - The far-right British National Party(BNP) complained to the police on Tuesday after its membership list was stolen and posted on the Internet, in breach of a court injunction barring its publication.
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Eric H. Holder Jr., a former Justice Department official who was President-elect Barack Obama's campaign co-chairman, is the leading candidate to serve as the next U.S. attorney general, according to Democratic sources familiar with the choice. Holder, 57, was offered the job late last week...(more)
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Rep. John Lewis jokingly says he'll try to resist calling Barack Obama "Brother President" after he's sworn in as the nation's first African-American president on Jan. 20.
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If President-elect Barack Obama follows the pattern of most of his modern predecessors, one of the first documents to bear his signature after he takes office will be a directive laying out his administration's national security structure. Bill Clinton signed one his first day in...(more)
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The Connecticut senator will remain as chairman of Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. Democrats had talked of removing him from the post after he supported John McCain. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut senator who was vilified by Democratic activists for his support of Republican presidential nominee...(more)
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer, reeling from revelations that he had been a client of a prostitution ring, announced his resignation today, becoming the first governor of New York to be forced from office in nearly a century.
Mr. Spitzer, appearing somber and with his wife at his side,...(more)
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There was a time when smoking marijuana during college threatened your hopes of landing a top presidential appointment. Then came the nanny questions: Are your domestic workers legal? Did you pay their employment taxes? Now, as President-elect Barack Obama assembles his administration, an army of...(more)
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Both Sen. John McCain and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton have called for a "gas tax holiday" this summer to offer commuters and vacationers some relief from spiraling gasoline prices. They have urged Congress to suspend the 18.4-cent-a-gallon federal tax and 24.4-cent diesel tax between Memorial Day...(more)
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Democrats fattened their majority control of the Senate on Tuesday, ousting Republican Sens. Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina ...
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