“Guantanamo will be closed,” Eric Holder tells the Senate Judiciary Committee at a hearing on his nomination to serve as the next attorney general. Holder also states that techniques used to question suspected terrorists will conform to the Geneva Conventions.
The orderly transfer of power from one president to the next is a hallmark of U.S. democracy. The transfer occurs when the incoming president takes the Oath of Office on January 20. America.gov looks at the inauguration of Barack Obama as 44th president of the United States.
President-elect Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, are calling on Americans to join his family on Martin Luther King Day, January 19, in volunteering for a community service project. “It’s going to be up to all of us to renew America together,” says Michelle Obama.
The U.S. Air Force has begun airlifting Rwandan peacekeeping equipment and supplies from Kigali to the Darfur region of Sudan as part of the U.N.-African Union peacekeeping mission.
Calling Congress "a coequal branch of government," President-elect Obama says his administration will have to work closely with legislators to pass an economic stimulus bill.
Robert Frost and other poets have penned verses for presidential inaugurations.
Addressing the world's health challenges requires coordination across many areas.
Community colleges give countless Americans the opportunity to receive higher education.
The U.S. Treasury and central bank have taken sweeping steps to deal with global economic turmoil.
Americans recount the paths they took to find their life’s work and what they learned along the way.
Agricultural development boosts economic growth and reduces poverty all over the world.
The 1948 U.N. declaration has improved the lives of individuals worldwide.
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