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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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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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On the campaign trail, Barack Obama liked to defend himself against charges of inexperience by calling for fresh perspective in Washington. "The American people . . . understand the real gamble is having the same old folks doing the same old things over and over...(more)
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After weeks of intense negotiations, the Prince George's County Council agreed yesterday to issue $35 million in bonds to pay for improvements at the National Harbor waterfront development in exchange for more work at the project for minority contractors from the county. Under the agreement,...(more)
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Montgomery County Council member Phil Andrews today introduced what he called an alternative to a proposed ambulance fee that would earmark money from fines raised by red light and speed cameras to pay for fire-rescue equipment and pedestrian safety programs. Andrews (D-Gaithersburg-Rockville) and several other...(more)
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