For Obama, Lincoln was model president updated 2 hours, 30 minutes ago
Call it an Abraham Lincoln obsession gripping political junkies and history buffs everywhere.
Obama set to ride rails to historic inauguration updated 5 hours, 1 minute ago
President-elect Barack Obama looks to President Abraham Lincoln for his inspiration, so it's only fitting that the president-elect would retrace Lincoln's 1861 trip from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Washington, D.C., to assume the presidency.
Sunday vote in El Salvador may hint at coming presidential pick updated 16 hours, 8 minutes ago
El Salvador will elect more than 340 local and congressional officials Sunday, two months before the nation's presidential election. But Sunday's results could go a long way toward determining who that next president will be.
Officials: 2 million to show up to see Obama being sworn in updated 16 hours, 43 minutes ago
Based on their latest estimates, congressional officials organizing next week's presidential inaugural expect 2 million people to brave extra-long security lines in the bitter cold to witness Barack Obama being sworn in as the first African-American U.S. president.
Obama's whistle-stop tour chugs on to Washington updated 17 hours, 13 minutes ago
With just a few days until his historic inauguration, President-elect Barack Obama will travel by train from the birthplace of the nation's democracy to the city where political power brokers run it.
How to watch Obama's inauguration online updated 19 hours, 23 minutes ago
More than 2 million Americans lost their jobs last year, the stock market fell by almost 45 percent from its peak, and comparisons with the Great Depression are becoming disturbingly commonplace.
Troops diverted to prepare for Afghan surge updated 19 hours, 58 minutes ago
A naval brigade is being diverted to Afghanistan to help prepare for the extra U.S. troops that will be sent to that country, a Pentagon spokesman announced Friday.
Bush's spokeswoman ready to leave the stage updated 20 hours, 21 minutes ago
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino on Friday said she would do the job again -- but only if she could work for her current boss.
U.N. edges towards Somali peacekeeping role updated 20 hours, 33 minutes ago
The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday expressing its intent to, eventually, send U.N. peacekeeping forces back to the fractured, unstable nation of Somalia.
