U.S. Presidential Transition (2009)

by Bob Secter Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Barack Obama's pick to be White House chief of staff, had conversations with Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration about who would replace Obama in the U.S. Senate, the Chicago Tribune has learned. The...

On the Blagojevich/Obama/Emanuel front: Obama's transition team has issued a statement saying that it has completed a promised review of contacts with Blagojevich and his office, and concluded that no one did anything "inappropriate." Although Obama...

In this web video, below, released over the weekend, the Republican National Committee tries to exploit the Blagojevich scandal to discredit Obama. There are questions about staff contacts with Blagojevich's office, including contacts by top Obama adviser...

by Mike Dorning updated Peoria Republican congressman Ray LaHood will be nominated Transportation Secretary for the Obama Administration, Republican and Democratic sources said today. A spokesman for the Obama transition team declined to comment and...

by Frank James Rev. Rick Warren of Saddleback Church defended himself against criticism that President-elect Barack Obama shouldn't have chosen him to deliver the invocation at his inaugural next month, saying he's not anti-gay. An excerpt from the...

by Frank James George Stephanopoulos broke some news today when he reported that his former fellow Clinton White House colleague Rahm Emanuel was cleared by an investigation by Greg Craig, the former Clinton White House lawyer, into contacts the Obama.......

The helmet camera of astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper shows her tool bag as it floats away from the International Space Station. She lost hold of it when when a grease gun inside it exploded. NASA/Associate Press. by Frank James Who......

The report in which Obama's transition team plans, according to multitudinous leaks, to exonerate itself of any inappropriate conduct with Blago on the Senate seat.... Will be released at 4:30 pm today, the day before Christmas Eve. How nice! Why......

by Jill Zuckman and John McCormick WASHINGTON - Vice President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday that a report due out this afternoon will show "no inappropriate contact" between Barack Obama's presidential transition team and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich....

by Frank James The Obama transition team report on its contacts with Gov. Rod Blagojevich' or the governors' office has been released and, as has been telegraphed for days by the Obama team, it exonerates President-elect Obama and his aides......

Dick Cheney and Joe Biden exchanged insults and different views on the role of the vice-presidency and the accomplishments of the Bush administration in TV interviews. Biden will be overseeing a task-force on the middle class. Obama, on vacation......

In a story this morning that was later confirmed, the NYTimes reported that Sen. Clinton is hiring two top deputies at the State Department -- one of them Jacob Lew (left), a former Clinton budget director and current Citibank......