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Last news: November 24, 2008 21:40:38

AP - Edward "Ted" Kaufman, a former aide to Sen. Joe Biden, was named Monday by Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner to fill the Senate seat Biden is leaving for the vice presidency.

AP - NAME — Timothy F. Geithner (GYT-nur). - [Read more]

AP - A federal appeals court seemed reluctant on Monday to release 17 Turkic Muslims being held without charges at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, questioning whether judges rather than a president can order their freedom into the United States.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — By designating Lawrence Summers to direct his National Economic Council, President-elect Barack Obama gets a man with wide experience in handling international financial crises.

AP - With the economy in crisis, President-elect Barack Obama urged the new Congress to pass a quick economic stimulus bill, pledged help for the troubled auto industry and blessed the Bush administrations bailout of the financial industry.

CQPolitics.com - Democrat Tom Perriellos upset victory over Republican Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr. in the Nov. 4 election, by a margin of 745 votes, was certified Monday by Virginias elections board. But Goode responded by requesting a recount of the contest in the 5th Congressional District, which he has represented for the past dozen years. - [Read more]

Politico - CHICAGO — President Elect Barack Obama selected a Mr. Defense and a Mr. Offense for his economic team Monday,  picking Timothy Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury and Lawrence Summers as director of the National Economic Council.

Bloomberg - Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama today unveiled an economic team steeped in fighting crises and likely to push for an unprecedented government role in reviving growth and stabilizing the financial system.

AP - President Bush argued Monday that the governments dramatic rescue of Citigroup was necessary to "safeguard the financial system" and help the economy recover, and he said there could be more such moves if other institutions need help.

AP - The trial of three men accused in the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya resumes Tuesday, a week earlier than had been announced. - [Read more]

AP - Russian news agencies say authorities have charged a sailor with fatal negligence in the deaths of 20 people aboard a nuclear submarine this month.

AP - Pattie Brew, daughter of a North Carolina sharecropper, had let almost a century go by without casting a vote for president or joining the inaugural crowds only three miles from her home in the nations capital.

CQPolitics.com - After he waged a campaign built around a stirring message of change, many of President-elect Obamas supporters expected him to begin stocking his administration with passionate progressives bristling to challenge the status quo. Conservatives anticipated something akin to the second coming of the New Deal.

Politico - One of the closest elections in U.S. Senate history is hurtling towards a critical juncture in its ongoing recount this week, as the campaign of Democratic challenger Al Franken opens a new legal front in its battle to break a virtual tie with Republican Sen. Norm Coleman.

Reuters - Californias gay marriage ban could open the door to legal discrimination against unpopular groups if the state Supreme Court allows the voter-approved measure to stand, blacks, Latinos, Asians and other minorities said.

AP - When the Bush presidency ends, opponents of embryonic stem cell research will face a new political reality that many feel powerless to stop.

AP - President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named longtime spokesman Robert Gibbs as White House press secretary and reached outside his inner circle for the post of White House communications director.

AP - While President-elect Barack Obama publicly sidelined himself during congressional debate over an auto industry bailout this week, he and his top aides quietly prodded congressional leaders to find a solution to rescue struggling automakers.

AP - Figures.

Politico - Ask Andrew Rivera of the Democratic Latino Organization of Virginia about Latinos in the new administration and hell rattle off some names. - [Read more]