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

AFP - President-elect Barack Obama may have the rare chance to appoint two judges to the Supreme Court, giving the former law professor an opportunity to make a further lasting mark on American society.

AP - California voters have approved a constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage, overturning the state Supreme Court decision that gave gay couples the right to wed just months ago.

AP - Democrats sought to pad their majority power in the House of Representatives at the polls Tuesday.

AP - John McCain implored Colorado voters to help put him over the top at an Election Day rally.

AP - The Supreme Court spent an hour on Tuesday talking about dirty words on television without once using any or making plain how it would decide whether the government could ban them. - [Read more]

AP - Even before one vote was counted, this result was clear: The presidential race was a verdict on George W. Bush.

AP - Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama joined voters eager to cast ballots on Tuesday before making one last pitch for supporters to turn out for their historic presidential contest.

Politico - In presidential elections, not all counties are created equal. - [Read more]

AP - Democrats counted on solidifying their thin leadership grip on the Senate as voters flocked to the polls Tuesday to fill 35 Senate seats. Embattled Republicans braced for losses but hoped they would be modest ones.

AP - Long lines greeted voters Tuesday as polls across the country were deluged by people wanting to cast ballots in this historic race between Barack Obama and John McCain.

AP - Seeking a transcendent victory, Democrat Barack Obama made a final-hour push for Republican-leaning Indiana on Tuesday after casting his own ballot with his young daughters at his side.

AP - Italian police say they have arrested 47 people including the wife of a jailed mafia boss in raids on a Naples-based organized crime syndicate. - [Read more]

The Christian Science Monitor - As a United Nations aid convoy rolled past rebel lines, top European, US, and UN envoys continue to discuss how best to prevent the latest crisis from spiraling out of control. - [Read more]

AP - A juror who vanished during Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens corruption trial told the judge Monday she lied about her father dying and flew to California to see horse races.

AP - Two weeks before Election Day, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is busily banking every early vote he can get in key states. Republican nominee John McCain is more selectively working to lock in the early votes of his most iffy supporters, figuring the rest will make it to the polls sooner or later.

Politico - John McCain’s surrogates took to the Sunday shows to minimize the damage from Colin Powell’s endorsement of Democrat Barack Obama and challenge the hardening conventional wisdom that the presidential race is slipping away from their candidate. - [Read more]

AP - Freddie Mac secretly paid a Republican consulting firm $2 million to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance giant and its sister company, Fannie Mae, three years before the government took control to prevent their collapse. - [Read more]

AP - Colin Powell, a Republican who was President Bushs first secretary of state, endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president Sunday and criticized the tone of Republican John McCains campaign.

AP - The vast sums of money Barack Obama is raising for the presidential campaign risk the post-Watergate financing reforms, Republican rival John McCain charged Sunday.

AFP - Republicans always feared a pounding in this years congressional elections, but the shockwaves of the Wall Street crisis may inflict a bloodbath on President George W. Bushs demoralized party.