John Lennon's killer could recall at his parole board hearing this month that he had considered shooting Johnny Carson or Elizabeth Taylor instead, but he couldn't remember that he also thought about targeting Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and (...)
together with black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and white police Sgt. James Crowley was less about reaching for racial enlightenment than about helping Obama tamp down hard feelings, change the subject and get Americans to focus on what he (...)
elect Barack Obama countered critics with an analysis Saturday by his economic team showing that a program of tax cuts and spending like he has proposed under his $775 billion plan would create up to 4.1 million jobs, far more than the 3 million he (...)
ELECT Barack Obama used to collect comic books, can't part with his BlackBerry, and once flashed Leonard “Mr. Spock” Nimoy the Vulcan “Live Long and Prosper” sign.
That and other evidence has convinced some of Obama's nerdier fans that he'll be the (...)
elect Barack Obama (with baseball cap) greets well-wishers after his workout at the Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps Base in Kailua, Hawaii, Wednesday. Obama on Tuesday asked Americans to look to history to get through current tough times in a recorded (...)
elect Barack Obama has not even stepped into office and already a scandal is threatening to dog him.
Obama is not accused of anything. But the fact that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a fellow Democrat, has been charged with trying to sell Obama's (...)
elect Barack Obama named Bill Richardson as commerce secretary on Wednesday, filling a top economic post in troubled times and placing a second former campaign rival in his new Cabinet.
Richardson, 61, was United Nations ambassador and energy (...)
elect Barack Obama will dispatch former Republican Rep. Jim Leach and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, a Democrat, to represent him among world leaders attending the global economic summit in Washington next weekend.
Obama is not (...)
elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle took their first postelection White House tour Monday, officially setting in motion America's intricate minuet of transition from one president to the next.
President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush (...)
elect Barack Obama said Friday he will move deliberately on how to respond to Iran and won't do it in a “knee-jerk fashion.”
“I am not the president and I won't be until Jan. 20,” he replied when asked at a news conference about what approach he (...)
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partners, warning that divisions among the world powers
were giving terrorists the upper hand, AP quoted a source in the
Russian delegation as saying.
Putin made a "small, emotional presentation" Thursday in
which he said he had told British (...)