Archive for the ‘USA Election 2008’ Category
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INSIDE WASHINGTON: GOP lays down marker on Holder (AP)
AP - 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 target with his picture in the middle. -
Daschle’s approach: Anything but Clinton (Politico)
Politico - They might sit side-by-side in Barack Obama’s Cabinet room someday, but Tom Daschle didn’t much like Hillary Clinton’s tactics for fixing health care 15 years ago – so much so that he wrote a book critiquing them.
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Congress meets to count electoral votes (AP)
AP - The House and Senate are coming together in a centuries-old tradition to count the electoral votes from the November election and formally declare that Barack Obama will be the 44th president of the United States. -
Shooting movie takes stab at Taiwan ex-president (Reuters)
Reuters - A film about the election-eve gun attack on Taiwan’s recently indicted ex-president Chen Shui-bian will debut on the island this week, where it is expected to reignite debate about the controversial 2004 shooting. -
Israelis to arrive in Egypt for cease-fire talks (AP)
AP - Israeli representatives were expected to arrive in Cairo Thursday for Egyptian-brokered talks on a cease-fire proposal after the U.N. Security Council failed to agree on action to end the escalating crisis in Gaza. -
Obama to name ’soft power’ Nye for Japan role: report (AFP)
AFP - US president-elect Barack Obama plans to name influential academic Joseph Nye, best known for coining the phrase “soft power,” as ambassador to Japan, a newspaper said Thursday. -
CNN Student News: Ten Questions
1. According to the report: What gathering took place at the White House yesterday? What was the significance of this meeting?
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Feds say inauguration attractive terrorist target (AP)
AP - The upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama is an attractive target for international and domestic terrorists, but U.S. intelligence officials have no information about specific threats to the Jan. 20 event. -
Obama hails ‘extraordinary’ moment with presidents (AP)
AP - Confronting a grim economy and a Middle East on fire, Barack Obama turned Wednesday to perhaps the only people on the planet who understand what he’s in for: the four living members of the U.S. presidents’ club. -
Senate Democrats yield to Obama, retreat on Burris (AP)
AP - Senate Democrats beat a hasty retreat Wednesday from their rejection of Roland Burris as President-elect Barack Obama’s successor, yielding to pressure from Obama himself and from senators irked that the standoff was draining attention and putting them in a bad light. Burris said with a smile he expected to join them “very shortly.”