elect Barack Obama underscored on Saturday his intent to push initiatives on climate change by naming John Holdren, an energy and climate specialist, as the new White House science adviser.
Holdren is a Harvard University physicist who has focused (...)
elect Barack Obama has selected retired Gen. Eric Shinseki, who clashed with the Bush administration over the number of troops needed in Iraq, to be the next secretary of veterans affairs.
Obama's announcement was made in a television interview (...)
elect Barack Obama Monday announced his national security team, nominating former rival Hillary Clinton as secretary of state and asking Defense Secretary Robert Gates to stay on in that role.
Obama, who takes office on Jan. 20, has pledged to be (...)
elect Barack Obama, inspired by his hero Abraham Lincoln's idea of creating a “team of rivals” in his Cabinet, may be gambling by choosing his ex-adversary Hillary Clinton as secretary of state.
Obama admires the New York senator's work ethic, his (...)
Elect Barack Obama was poised to name his national security team on Monday, with former political rival Hillary Clinton in line to be picked as secretary of state.
As part of a deal with Obama to clear the way for his wife to get the post, former (...)
elect Barack Obama sent his top aide to Capitol Hill on Thursday to tell leaders of the rival Republican party that he needed their help to confront the challenges facing the country.
Rahm Emanuel, a combative Democratic congressman from Illinois (...)
elect Barack Obama plans to try a more regional approach to the war in Afghanistan including possible talks with Iran, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing national security advisers to Obama.
The president-elect also intends to move (...)
elect Barack Obama said on Friday he wanted “to move with all deliberate haste” to pick people for top posts, but said it was important to get it right and not be unduly rushed. With a financial crisis raging and the US economy facing a possibly (...)