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After Obama's win, white backlash festers in US (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - In rural Georgia, a group of high-schoolers gets a visit from the Secret Service after posting "inappropriate" comments about President-elect Barack Obama on the Web. In Raleigh, N.C., four...

Albright serves as Obama proxy at global summit (AFP)

AFP - Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright and an ex-Republican lawmaker on Saturday stood in for president-elect Barack Obama in meeting world leaders attending the G20 summit on the economic crisis.

SKorea's Lee says he welcomes US-NKorea summit (AP)

AP - South Korea's president would welcome a meeting between U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il if it could reduce tension on the peninsula over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions, a news report said.

Rep. Danny Davis interested in Obama's Senate seat (AP)

CHICAGO – Congressman Danny Davis says he wants to replace Barack Obama as the junior senator from Illinois. The Democrat's declaration came at a news conference in Chicago on Sunday. That's the same day President-elect Obama...

Major change in store for U.S. policy on Pakistan

SAEED SHAH From Monday's Globe and Mail ISLAMABAD — A radical change in U.S. policy toward Pakistan and Afghanistan may be in store, given Barack Obama's inclination to mediate in Pakistan's bitter dispute with India over...

Obama listed goals in letters to federal workers (Reuters)

Reuters - Before he was elected as the incoming U.S. president, Barack Obama spelled out his goals for change at seven government agencies in letters to federal workers, the Washington Post reported on Monday.

India's Infosys brushes off Obama outsourcing worries (AFP)

AFP/File – Chief executive of Infosys Technologies Kris Gopalkrishnan, pictured in 2007. Infosys, India's second-largest … NEW DELHI (AFP) – Infosys Technologies, India's second-largest software firm, brushed off concerns...

Edwards says he will not give up his congressional seat

By MATTHEW WATKINS matthew.watkins@theeagle.com U.S. Rep Chet Edwards quashed rumors that he may be joining the Cabinet of President-elect Barack Obama by announcing Sunday that he will remain in Congress for his upcoming term....

Friends grad Pfeiffer part of Obama's team

Del. native coordinated press coverage for marathon campaign, doing same for transition By CRIS BARRISH • The News Journal • November 17, 2008 When Dan Pfeiffer attended Wilmington Friends School in the early 1990s, his...

Biden's Pro-Abortion Stance Rejected by His Hometown Bishop

– Rev. Joseph F. Martino, bishop of the diocese of Scranton, Pa., the city lifelong Catholic Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) claims as his hometown and the place that inspired his values, has condemned the vice president-elect for his...