Politics News

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Last news: January 2, 2009 21:47:59

Politico - Following todays press conference, Obama met for 15 minutes with a group of first to fourth graders, according to a pool report from The NY Times Helene Cooper. There, he took more questions than earlier. - [Read more]

AP - Italian police staged sweeping raids Tuesday to arrest about 90 suspected mobsters and prevent the hobbled Sicilian Mafia from forming a new command structure and strategy, authorities said.

AP - President-elect Barack Obama says hell let the Illinois legislature decide whether a special election should be held to choose his successor. - [Read more]

AFP - The US Supreme Court on Monday revived a lawsuit by four former British detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military prison, ordering a lower court to reconsider their claims of torture and religious bias.

AP - On a trip that was probably her last firefighters dash into the worlds flare-ups, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rices emergency diplomacy in South Asia ended without concrete accomplishments.

AP - The government mounted a vigorous defense Friday of its massive bank bailout, responding to an Associated Press analysis showing that stock in the program intended to eventually earn taxpayers a profit has lost about one-third of its value — nearly $9 billion — in barely one month.

AP - A Seattle company is hoping to convert the motion of the ocean into electricity. - [Read more]

AP - President-elect Barack Obama is making public details and documents of official meetings between his transition team and outside organizations such as interest groups. - [Read more]

AP - Democratic officials say Caroline Kennedy has spoken to New York Gov. David Paterson about the Senate seat that will come open when Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes secretary of state. - [Read more]

AP - President George W. Bush and congressional leaders seized on the latest grim unemployment data Friday to try to fire up lukewarm support on Capitol Hill for bailing out U.S. automakers. But they clashed anew over terms of the rescue plan and the source of any aid.

AP - Struggling to find enough doctors, nurses and linguists for the war effort, the Pentagon will temporarily recruit foreigners who have been living in the states on student and work visas, or with refugee or political asylum status.

AP - People will now be able to carry concealed firearms in some national parks and wildlife refuges. - [Read more]

AP - The Ohio Supreme Court has ordered officials to throw out 1,000 provisional ballots that had been improperly filled out by voters in a tight congressional race. - [Read more]

Politico - Minnesota Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty called Democrat Al Franken’s complaints about the Minnesota Senate recount process “frivolous” Friday. - [Read more]

AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton is scrambling to reduce her massive campaign debt before she becomes secretary of state, when federal ethics laws — and political sensitivities — will severely hamper her ability to do so. The former first lady is receiving help from her husband and from President-elect Barack Obama, who defeated her in the Democratic primary and then tapped her to be the nations top diplomat.

AP - The leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed they need to fight terrorism together in Turkish-sponsored talks Friday aimed at reducing tensions over militant attacks along the countries lawless border.

AP - First she hung up on President-elect Barack Obama — twice. Now Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is fielding calls from angry constituents who think she did it on purpose.

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.