Obama '08 : Fight The Smears

Sarah Palin showed on Friday that in one respect at least, she is qualified to be president. Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy. Usually we don’t find that exquisite battiness in our leaders until they’ve been battered by sordid scandals like Watergate

Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says it's time for both parties to support a "Truth Commission" ...

The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S. military tortured a Saudi national who allegedly planned to participate in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, interrogating

Are you prepared for the biggest event to hit the nation's capital in decades?

Mary Dowden smiles when she thinks about this moment in history. At 80 years old, she's the granddaughter of a slave who was born in a cotton field outside of Como, Mississippi.

Obama's team is preparing for a return to long nights and heavy weekend shifts.

Senior aides to President Bush and President-elect Barack Obama met at the White House this morning to conduct an unprecedented joint disaster exercise for transition leaders.

V. Gene Robinson, the openly gay Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire who advised President-elect Barack Obama on gay rights issues, will deliver a prayer at an event on Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial.

Physics met politics at the confirmation hearing for Steven Chu, the Nobel laureate scientist chosen by President-elect Barack Obama to head the Department of Energy, and the physics bent a bit.

Officials staged a large-scale rehearsal of the upcoming presidential inauguration and parade this morning -- and even practiced the swearing-in at the Capitol with a stand-in for Barack Obama.

Barack Obama will follow a presidential tradition and head to Canada for his first international venture in a visit that's certain to help define Canada-U.S. relations during his years in the White House.

News and notes on the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States

Barack Obama should restore the White House Office of Consumer Affairs and appoint a director who has the authority to rebuild the consumer protection agencies.

The Senate leadership will focus on trying to approve cabinet members focusing on national security and finance by the inauguration on Jan. 20.

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While the current chairman of the RNC criticizes Chip Saltsman’s song about Barack Obama, Ken Blackwell, former Ohio Secretary of State and one of two Black men vying for the seat agrees with Saltsman and says it’s the media that’s creating all the

A candidate for the Republican National Committee chairmanship said Friday the CD he sent committee members for Christmas -- which included a song titled "Barack the Magic Negro" -- was clearly intended as a joke.

The Army needs to add at least 30,000 active-duty soldiers to its ranks to fulfill its responsibilities around the world without becoming stretched dangerously thin, senior Army officials warn.

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Vice President-elect Joe Biden believes he and Obama must follow through with action to show how they?re different than George W. Bush.