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Obama calls for program to rescue homeowners

(11/16/2008) CHICAGO – President-elect Barack Obama is calling for a new program focused on keeping homeowners facing bank foreclosure from losing their homes and wants to see some form of government assistance provided to the nation's struggling auto industry.

Obama aides tackle Guantanamo

(11/11/2008) WASHINGTON – President-elect Obama's advisers are crafting plans to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and prosecute terrorism suspects in the U.S., a plan the Bush administration said Monday was easier said than done.

Obama will act quickly, aide says

(11/10/2008) WASHINGTON – President-elect Obama plans to use his executive powers to make an immediate impact when he takes office, perhaps reversing Bush administration policies on stem cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas.

A Sunday for hallelujahs

(11/10/2008) RALEIGH, N.C. – Jubilation, pride and relief permeated pews and pulpits at predominantly black churches across the country on the first Sunday after Barack Obama's election, with congregrants blowing horns, waving American flags and raising their hands from Raleigh to Los Angeles to the Atlanta church where the dream was born.

Obama's victory empowering kids

(11/10/2008) If Barack Obama can be president, so can Jaheer Jones.The 12-year-old's mom, Salema Daniels of Irvington, N.J., didn't entirely believe that until Tuesday night, after she woke up her son and 9-year-old daughter Kira to watch Obama's victory speech.

Obama mystery at Occidental

(11/10/2008) LOS ANGELES – On his historic run to the White House, Barack Obama spent two years at Occidental College, the basketball-loving future president spending countless hours honing his game on the Eagle Rock campus north of downtown L.A. when he wasn't studying.

Obama gets tough operator

(11/7/2008) "Change" was Barack Obama's campaign theme."Change ... or else," might be a better mantra for the political hardball players he has chosen for two key roles in his administration.

Day after, Obama starts on transition

(11/6/2008) CHICAGO – Basking in his historic victory, President-elect Barack Obama went to work Wednesday setting up a government – naming a transition team and asking a brash Chicago congressman to run his staff.

Obama election newspapers an instant collector's item

(11/6/2008) WASHINGTON – In this Twittering, podcasting, digital age, the morning after America's presidential election found thousands of people clamoring for something more old-fashioned and tangible: extra copies of the morning paper.

World reacts with elation to Obama's victory

(11/6/2008) LONDON – If history records a sudden surge in carbon emissions on Nov. 5, 2008, it may be due to the collective exhalation of relief and joy by the hundreds of millions – perhaps billions – of people around the globe who watched, waited and prayed for Barack Obama to be elected president of the United States.

Obama inheriting crippled economy

(11/6/2008) WASHINGTON – One day after Barack Obama was elected the next U.S. president, the outgoing Bush administration detailed its plans to borrow a record $550 billion through the end of the year to back the financial bailout.

Corporations uneasy about Obama plans

(11/6/2008) WASHINGTON – Barack Obama rode a wave of economic discontent to the White House and now faces the daunting task of turning the weakening economy around.

Automakers hopeful Obama can bring change

(11/6/2008) DETROIT – Detroit automakers and their allies in Congress said Wednesday Barack Obama's victory could help U.S. automakers line up federal funding needed for them to survive a terrible economic slump.

Honoring her final vote

(11/6/2008) Before Janet Westbrook died last month of cancer, she managed to fulfill one of her last wishes: to cast a vote for Barack Obama.

Our view: Beyond race

(11/6/2008) As President-elect Barack Obama calmly took to the lectern on the raised stage at Chicago's Grant Park, he looked like a man who had done this sort of thing before.

Bill Ayers breaks silence on Obama

(11/5/2008) CHICAGO – In his first interview since he became an issue in the 2008 presidential campaign, Bill Ayers, the former Weather Underground leader, said Tuesday that he had a distant relationship with Barack Obama and that Obama's opponents had turned him into "a cartoon character."

Victory transforms dialogue on race

(11/5/2008) Step back for a moment and consider what happened Tuesday.The people of the United States elected a black man named Barack Obama as their president.

Gun executive forced out over support for Obama

(11/1/2008) HELENA – The board of directors for a small Montana gun manufacturer asked the company's president to resign after word that he supports Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama led to calls on pro-gun Web sites to boycott the company's products.

Sources say Obama taps Emanuel for White House

(10/31/2008) WASHINGTON – Barack Obama's campaign has approached Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel about possibly serving as White House chief of staff, officials said Thursday as the marathon presidential race entered its final, frenzied stretch with a Democratic tilt.

Peruvian shamans back Obama

(10/30/2008) LIMA, Peru – Barack Obama apparently can count on the support of a majority of Peruvian faith healers.

Obama airs nationwide infomercial

(10/30/2008) SUNRISE, Fla. – Eager to cement his case for the presidency in voters' minds before the campaign's final frenetic weekend, Sen. Barack Obama blitzed the television airwaves and deployed one of the Democratic Party's biggest names to deliver his message of change.

Pair accused of Obama plot

(10/28/2008) WASHINGTON – Two white supremacists allegedly plotted to go on a national killing spree, shooting and decapitating black people and ultimately targeting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, federal authorities said Monday.

Idaho students favor Obama in mock election

(10/28/2008) BOISE – Idaho high school seniors who participated in a statewide mock election picked Democrat Barack Obama to be the next president of the United States.

Robert Scheer: Obama's economic vision

(10/28/2008) The battle for Barack Obama's economic soul is on in earnest, and it has nothing to do with the "European socialism" that John McCain attempted to use as an epithet against him. The Republican quickly dropped that line of attack, perhaps because the European Union's brand of democratic socialism has proved more effective in regulating the rapacious financial markets at the heart of the economic meltdown.

Obama dismisses tax plan criticism

(10/23/2008) RICHMOND, Va. – Democrat Barack Obama on Wednesday brushed aside Republican charges that his tax plan amounts to socialism, but acknowledged it involves "spreading around opportunity" so that wealthier Americans – like himself – pay a little more to help lower-rung workers.