Local leaders of at least two organizations have temporarily suspended plans to transport scores of members and guests to Barack Obama's inauguration due to uncertainty over how Washington officials will accommodate the estimated 1 to 2 million expected for the historic event. ...read more

THE US ECONOMY is indeed "very sick," as President-elect Barack Obama put it yesterday. One indicator of its parlous state: Though companies have managed to ...Video: Burris Barred As New Congress Starts Work AssociatedPressNew Congress arrives with eye on Obama's stimulus package MarketWatchObama faces distractions as politics intrud ...read more

WASHINGTON (AP) â€" President-elect Barack Obama's Kenyan stepgrandmother will be among the millions of people in Washington for the Inauguration. ...Obama's Kenyan grandmother to attend inauguration ReutersIn Kenya, Obama story begins to be seen as an ocean apart Philadelphia Inquirerall 302 news articles ...read more

WASHINGTON â€" President-elect Barack Obama apparently plans a more aggressive approach than the Bush administration to helping friendly nations get better at fighting terrorism within their own borders, the State Department's top counterterrorism official said Tuesday. ...read more

By Howard Kurtz President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of surgeon general to Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon and correspondent for CNN and CBS, ...Obama Flexes Centrist, Couch Potato Credentials in Surgeon General ... AOL News NewsbloggersCNN: Gupta approached about surgeon general post The Associated PressCNN Doc Sanjay Gupta Reportedly N ...read more

As a candidate, Barack Obama promoted hybrid cars. ...read more