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January 23, 2009
• Economy Tops Obama's Agenda; Obama Visits the Press Corps; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Given a Rock Star Welcome; Women's Group Asking for Bigger Role in Obama Administration; Obama to Get a Smartphone; Pentagon Pick Criticized; Big Profits for Makers of Inexpensive Food; Photographer Provides Rare Look into Inauguration; N.Y. Governor to Announce Clinton's Senate Replacement


January 22, 2009
• Caroline Kennedy Withdraws Senate Bid; President Obama Plans Executive Orders on Torture, Guantanamo; Healthy Habits Possible on the Road; Giddy Inauguration Watchers Fall in Love with Obama Couple
• Caroline Kennedy Drops Bid for N.Y. Senate Seat; Toyota Tops GM as World's Biggest Carmaker; Obama Moves through Punchlist of Priorities; Salmonella-Tainted Products Still Being Identified; McCain Daughter Reflects on Presidential Campaign
• Tracking Obama's Promises; J. Crew's Stock Soars After Obama family Donning; Bush Daughters Send Open Letter to Obama Girls; Caroline Kennedy Bows Out


January 21, 2009
• Israeli Troops Complete Gaza Withdrawal; Gitmo Trial Halt; World Congratulates Obama on Taking Office
• President Obama Orders a Pause in Gitmo Trials; A Look at the Military Challenges Facing Obama; Inaugural Watchers React to Obama's Inauguration
• President Barack Obama Suspends All Military Prosecutions at Guantanamo Bay; Bush Back in Texas; Obama Faces Daunting Money Challenges; A Tide of Celebration Sweeps Across the National Mall on Obama's Inauguration; Obama's Team Already on the Job This Morning; First Lady of Fashion


January 20, 2009
• National Mall Filling Early for Obama Inauguration Day
• More Special Coverage on the Inauguration of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America
• Special Coverage of the Inauguration of Barack Obama
• Countdown to the Inauguration of the 44th President of the United States
• Thousands Stream to Mall for Historic Inauguration of Barack Obama; Republican and Democratic Strategists See Need to Move Beyond Partisanship


January 19, 2009
• Preparations Under Way for Obama's Inaugural
• Record-Setting Crowd Expected for Obama Inauguration; Obama Invites US Airways Crew to Inauguration
• Countdown to President-elect Obama's Inauguration; The Historical Significance of the Inauguration of the First Black President
• Inauguration Eve Dawns for President-elect Barack Obama; Washington, D.C. Regaining Luster With the Obamas at the White House; Capturing the Moment of the Inauguration; Obama Speaks at Lincoln Memorial Celebration; The Real Men in Black Discuss What It Takes to Protect the President


January 16, 2009
• Officials Recount Plane Crash Rescue Efforts; President-elect Obama Justifies Further Bailout Spending; Sundance Filmmakers Seek Buyers
• Plane Crash Survivor and Rescuer Tell Their Story; Bird Strikes A Possible Cause of U.S. Airways' Engine Failure; New Air Strikes Rattle Gaza while Both Sides Step Up Battle; Analysts Predict Bank Bailout Is Only A Drop In The Bucket As To Need
• Outcome of Hudson River Plane Crash Lauded; How to Stop Bird Strikes; NTSB to Investigate Plane Crash; US Airways Survivor Tells His Story; Video Captures Plane's Last Moment Before Crash; Obama to Focus on Entitlement Reform


January 15, 2009
• Stimulus Battle; Cabinet Nomination Hearings; Home Foreclosures Growing Still; Possilbe Salmonella in Kellogg Peanut Butter Crackers
• Senate to Vote on Release of Bailout Money; Apple Founder Takes Medical Leave; U.N. Compound in Gaza Hit with Artillery Shells; New Jersey Takes Custody of Children with Nazi-Themed Names; A Look Back at Civil Rights Movement Pioneers; Obama's Second Challenge Will Be Health Care
• Barack Obama's First Showdown with Congress Over Bailout Money Set Today; U.N. Relief Agency Building Attacked; Pakistan Arrests 124 Suspected Militants; Obama on the Cover of A Feminist Magazine Sparks Controversy


January 14, 2009
• Bin Laden Makes Audiotape on Gaza; Clinton Would Use "Principles and Pragmatism" as Secretary of State; Obama Will Expand White House Basketball Court; Runaway Pilot Found Alive
• Obama Threatens to Veto Resolution on Bailout Money; Osama bin Laden Calls for Jihad on New Released Audiotape; Prosecutors to Repeal Judge's Ruling on Bernie Madoff Case; Senators Grill Hillary Clinton on Husband's Foundation; Runaway Pilot Finally Caught
• Obama to Issue Veto Threat on Bailout; Clinton Shows Broad Knowledge in Confirmation Hearing; Fugitive Pilot Caught; Lawmakers Debate on Remaining Balance of Bailout; Osama bin Laden Releases Videotape Calls for Holy War


January 13, 2009
• Obama Heads To Captiol Hill To Discuss Remaining $350 Billion With Senate Democrats; Obama To Possibly Close Gitmo Through Executive Order; Crisis In American Schools
• Obama to Order Closure of Guantanamo Bay on His First Week in Office; Hillary Clinton's Confirmation Hearing Set Today; Missing Pilot Fakes Death; Israeli Attacks on Gaza Escalate; A Look at the Education Crisis Facing the Incoming Administration
• Barack Obama on Capitol Hill to Make His Case on Bailout Money; Obama Prepares Executive Order to Close Guantanamo Bay; Hillary Clinton's Confirmation Hearing Set Today


January 12, 2009
• Obama, Bush Push for Second Half of Bailout; Obama's Presidency Seen as Generational Shift; Experts Say Obama Faces Formidable Challenges
• Obama Talks Up His Economic Recovery Plan As Priority Number One; U.S. Denies Iran Attack; The Underdog Wins at the Golden Globe Awards
• Just eight days until the president-elect's inauguration; Madoff may be headed to prison; Obama still pushing for quick action on his stimulus plan


January 09, 2009
• Obama Demands Swift Action on Economic Plan; Palin Fires Back at Media Portrayal; U.N. Security Council Votes Unanimously for Cease- Fire; Dynamic Duo: Obama and Spider-Man; Accused Swindler Madoff Might Go to Jail Today
• Biden, Graham Meet with Pakistani Officials; Obama Urges Congress to Act Now on the Economy; Palin Fires Back; U.N. Votes for Cease-Fire as Israel Says it Plans to Continue Gaza Attacks; How Obama Will Be Kept Safe on Train Ride to Washington; New Year's Air Strike Kills Al Qaeda Terrorists; Obama Graces Cover of Marvel Comics; Obama to Face International Pressure on U.S. Interrogation Policies
• Obama Demands Dramatic Action on Economy, while Democrats Oppose Tax Cuts; Obama Hooked on BlackBerry; Sarah Palin Fights Back; U.N. Security Council Resolution Passes; Washington State Floods; Jobless Seek Support through Groups; Tom Cruise Speaks on Travolta Tragedy


January 08, 2009
• Rockets From Lebanon Hit Israel; Obama's Team Boasts Many Heavyweights; 11 Macy's Stores Shut Down Across Nation; Roland Burris Caught in the Middle of Illinois, Senate Politics
• Obama Paints a Dire Picture of the Economy; Rockets from Lebanon Pound Israel; A Change in Career for Joe the Plumber; Security Intensifies Ahead of Obama's Inauguration Day; Another Conspiracy Theory Surfaces on JFK Assassination
• Rockets From Lebanon Hit Israel; Obama to Focus on the Economy; Blair House Guest Mystery Solved; Porn Industry Asking for Bailout; Additional Industries Vy for Bailout Tax Dollars; Red Cross Claims Shocking Discoveries in Gaza; Capitol Hill Fights Urge for Pork-Barrel Spending


January 07, 2009
• Israel Halts Attacks; Europe on Alert for Possible Terror Attacks; Obama Warns Trillion-Dollar Deficit Could Last Several Years; Obama Team Approaches Sanjay Gupta for Surgeon General Position
• Air Strikes in Gaza Halted; Dr. Gupta Being Considered as Surgeon General; Former Surgeon General Talks About the Job; Best and Worst Jobs in the U.S.; Oprah Opens Up About Weight Gain
• Israel Halts Bombardment of Gaza; Past, Present and Future Presidents Have Power Lunch at the White House; Dr. Sanjay Gupta Under Consideration as Surgeon General; Oprah Opens Up; A Look at President- Elect Obama's Trillion Dollar Stimulus Plan; Report Criticizes Billions in Lost Tax Dollars


January 06, 2009
• Red Cross Calls for Israel to Allow More Humanitarian Aid in Gaza; Obama Fills CIA, National Intelligence Posts; N.Y. Prosecutors Want Madoff Behind Bars Until Trial; Dr. Sanjay Gupta Discusses Challenges of Quitting Smoking
• Full-Blown Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza; Obama to Push for Economic Stimulus Plan; Aging and the Presidency; Gaza School Takes a Direct Hit in Gaza; Seizure, the Cause of Jett Travolta's Death; Special envoy in Middle East; Economy getting worse according to Obama
• Full Blown Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza; Roland Burris Makes His Case in Washington; Obama CIA Pick Questioned; Barack Obama Lays Groundwork for His Economic Stimulus Plan; A Look at Obama's New Neighborhood; Obama: $300 Billion Tax Cut; Steve Jobs' Health; Direct Hit on Gaza School; Rebuilding the GOP


January 05, 2009
• Intense Fighting Continues in Gaza; Obama Considers Tax-Cut Stimulus; Palin Mother-in-Law Faces Drug Charges; Republicans Pledge to Block Al Franken from the Senate
• Israeli forces pounding Gaza on several fronts; Obama accepts Richardson's withdraw from Commerce cabinet position; $300 billion in tax cuts included in proposed stimulus package; Obama's daughters start school in DC today
• U.S. President-Elect Obama Arrives in Washington; Fighting in Gaza Intensifies; $300 Billion in Tax Cuts Proposed; Obama Girls Start First Day in New School; Israeli Troops Take Control of Northern Gaza; Inaugural Fashion is Previewed; Obama's Daughters Start Classes at New School


January 02, 2009
• Obamas Back in Chicago to Prepare for Move to D.C.; Bomb Threat Cancels Aspen New Year's Celebrating; Mideast Fighting Intensifies; Medical Advance Prolongs Female Fertility; Charles Barkley Arrested on DUI Charge; Family Removed from Plane for Comments
• Senate Faces Showdown over Vacant Seat; Federal Commission Seeks Gas Tax Increase; Carnival Cruise Ship Employee Falls Overboard; Israel Rejects Ceasefire; Muslim Family Kicked Off Domestic Flight; Shareholders Petition Companies to Eliminate Gross-Up Taxes; Dr. Sanjay Gupta Outlines Ways to Live Longer; Reporter Ends Layoff Series with Story of Her Own Layoff; Obamas Prepare for Big Move to Washington; Snowmobiler Caught in Life or Death Decision; Bill Clinton Discussed As Senate Seat Warmer; Remembering the Bush Years
• Mideast Fighting Intensifies; Obama Back in Chicago; What Madoff Really Owns; Woman Gives Birth During Flight; Mass Death Bomb Plot Uncovered in Aspen, Colorado


January 01, 2009
• Iraq's Green Zone Handover; Israel Operation will continue; Obama and an Economy in Crisis
• Obama & An Economy in Crisis/Obama Inherits Mideast Crisis/Obama & Immigration/Who Else Dropped the Ball?/Charles Barkley DUI?/2009 Surprises
• New Year of 2009; Israel continues air assault on the Gaza Strip.


December 31, 2008
• Officials Working on 48-Hour Truce in Gaza; Blagojevich appoints Roland Burris to Senate seat; Cubans celebrate 50 years under Castro; Crime in NYC rising; Obama's golf game critiqued
• Israel Refuses to Agree to Humanitarian Truce; Blagojevich Defiantly Appoints Burris to Illinois Senate
• Senate Seat Showdown; Israel Rejects Cease-Fire; Bank Heists Surging; President-Elect Barack Obama Demonstrates His Golf Skills; Analysts Debate President Bush's legacy


December 30, 2008
• Airstrikes Continue to Pound Hamas Targets; Treasury Injects $5 Billion Directly to GMAC; Blagojevich Clings to Power; Ship Collided with an Israeli Warship
• Israel Ready for Weeks of Action; Obama's Mideast Test; GMAC Gets a Lifeline; Dinged Up Dignity Comes Ashore
• Israel Declares War to the Bitter End; Obama's Mideast Test; GMAC Gets a Lifeline; Holocaust Love Story a Hoax


December 29, 2008
• Israel in "All-Out War"; Movie Theater Shooting; Madoff Scandal; Kennedy Meets the Press; Bailout Bucks for GM & Chrysler
• Israeli Tanks on Gaza Border; White House Holds Hamas Responsible; GM and Chrysler to Get Bailout; Obama Parody Controversy; First Lady Comments on Shoe Throwing Incident
• Israel in All-Out War; Obama Parody Controversy; Caroline Kennedy Meets the Press; Sea of Sludge Hits Tennessee Valley Residents; Movie Theater Shooting; President-elect Hits the Gym Every Day; General Motors and Chrysler Receive the First Part of the Auto Bailout


December 26, 2008
• U.S. Military Could Incorporate Motion-Sensitive Controller; Guarding Our Ports & Coasts; Retailers in the Red
• California Christmas Eve Shooting Kills Eight; Holiday Sales Slide; Arming Afghanistan to Fight the Taliban; How the Recession Stole Christmas; Rise in Elderly Shoplifting in Japan
• Christmas Eve Rampage Kills Eight; New Strategy for Afghan to Fight a Resurgent Taliban; Recession Stole Christmas; NFL Playoff Preview


December 25, 2008
• Winter Weather Gives American Airlines Passengers Scare; Bargain Shopping During a Recession
• Top Political Stories & Scandals of 2008; Reexamining a Presidential Pardon; Monitoring Winter Weather & Travel on Christmas Day
• Rush to Refinance; $50 Billion Scam; The Advent Conspiracy; Flight Delays & Cancellations Leave Holiday Travelers Stranded


December 24, 2008
• Holiday Travel Hampered by Weather; Naughtiest Politician of '08 Named; Obama's Rock Star Status
• Snow & Freezing Rain Sweeps Over U.S.; Maryland Residents Rescued From Raging Water Detail Their Experience; Sell Off of Toyota Stocks
• Holiday Travel Nightmare; Obama's Team says no Wrongdoing; In over Your Head; Diplomatic Bling; Toy Market


December 23, 2008
• Dangers of Diet Pills; Report on Blagojevich Contact with Obama Team Released; Shirtless Obama: How Paparazzi Got So Close
• Obama Transition Team to Release Internal Report of Blagojevich Contact; Dangers of Diet Pills; Spending $700 Billion of Your Money; Palin's Campaign Misstep; Paparazzi Chases Obama
• Obama Transition Team to Release Internal Report of Blagojevich Contact; Sopranos Actor Acquitted; Travel Freeze in Midwest; Hillary Clinton's Role in the State Department


December 22, 2008
• Obama Increases Jobs Goal to 3 Million; Slashing Your 401 (K) Match; Bristol Palin's Future In-Law Busted on Drug Charges
• Winter Packs a Punch; Hillary Clinton Climbing Out of Debt; Food Police Going Too Far?; Interview with T. Boone Pickens
• Investigation Begins on Continental Plane Crash; Obama Focuses on Job Creation; Calls for Cash for Obama's Inauguration; Toyota Warns of Record Losses


December 19, 2008
• White House Plan for Rescuing the Auto Industry to be Announced; Parts of Northeast Could Get a Foot of Snow; Warren Thanks Obama for Picking Him and Taking Heat; Great Expectation for Obama from African-Americans; Madoff: Following the Money
• Winter Blast Causes Flight Cancellations; "Deep Throat" Has Died; Orderly Bankruptcy for Automakers?; Using Music to Torture Detainees in Guantanamo Bay; Obama Administration Following the Bush Model?
• "Deep Throat" Has Died; White House Looking for Orderly Bankruptcy for Auto Industry; Inauguration Outrage on Rick Warren; Clinton's Donors List Revealed; Caroline Kennedy Meets with Al Sharpton; Detroit Automakers and Lions Fight to Survive; Bush's Mea Culpa


December 18, 2008
• Obama's Bipartisan Cabinet; Madoff Under House Detention; Looking Back on the Impeachment of a President; Economic Worst Case Scenario
• The Way Wall Street Works; Caroline Kennedy as U.S. Senator?; Credit Cards Rates Jacked; House Arrest for Madoff
• Auto Plants Shut Down Operations; Gay Groups Outraged Over Rick Warren Pick; Bernard Madoff Placed Under House Arrest; Caroline Kennedy Goes on Listening Tour; One-on-One with Condoleezza Rice; New York's Fat Tax; AIG Giving Thousands of "Retention Payments"


December 17, 2008
• First U.S. Face Transplant; Adam Walsh Case Closed; Harry Reid Endorses Caroline Kennedy; Lindh's Parents Asking Pres. Bush to Commute Sentence; WWE Stars Entertaining the Troops
• First U.S. Face Transplant Successful; Cell Phone Jam Expected on Inauguration Day; What Would Disgraced Illinois Governor's Defense Be?
• Multiple Failures of the SEC; Shoe-Thrower Gets a Day in Court; Obama Names Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education; One-on-One Interview with President Bush; Adam Walsh Case Closed; Big Kennedy Endorsement; Layoff Survival Guide; Arne Duncan Named Secretary of Education Nominee


December 16, 2008
• Explosives Found in Parisian Store; Caroline Kennedy Wants to Replace Sen. Clinton; List of Victims in $50 Billion Scam Grows; Tourist Plane Missing; Biden Gets a Puppy
• Explosives Found in Paris Store; Secret Service Faced With Daunting Security Task on Inauguration Day; Caroline Kennedy Seeks Senate Seat
• Caroline Kennedy's Senate Seat Quest; Blagojevich Won't Quit; Celebrities Swindled By Bernard Madoff; Bush's Shoe Attacker in Military Custody; Explosives Found in Paris Store; Biden Picked a Puppy


December 15, 2008
• Blagojevich's Next Move; Bush Shoe Attack
• Blagojevich Scandal Causing Distraction to the Obama Team; Iraqi Reporter's Unfriendly Fire at Bush; Obama to Meet with Security Team; Obama's Afghanistan Problem
• Speculation High on Blagojevich Resignation; Blagojevich Scandal, a Distraction to the Incoming President; Iraqi Reporter Hurls a Pair of Shoes at President Bush


December 12, 2008
• Senate Rejects $148 Rescue Plan; Clinton Hearings May Include Former President; Obama Vows Probe of Contacts with Government
• Auto Bailout Plan Fails in the Senate; Illinois Dems May Impeach Governor Blagojevich; AIG Uses Bailout Money for Retention Bonuses; McDonald's Engages in Coffee War With Starbucks; President- elect Obama Inspires Gift Trend
• Auto Bailout Rejected by Senate; Obama Vows Probe of Contacts in the Blagojevich Case; Will Bill Clinton Testify for Hillary Clinton's Confirmation; Soap Operas Struggling; Oil Prices Fall


December 11, 2008
• Illegal Workers Cleaning Michael Chertoff's House; Senate Seat for Sale; Foul-Mouthed First Lady; Obama to Use Full Name at Swearing
• Political Analysts Urge Obama To Address Blagojevich Scandal; Obama Plans To Face Press Today
• Pressure Mounts for Blagojevich to Resign; The Players in Obama's Senate Seat; Bringing Layaway Plan Back; President-elect Obama Plans to Use Middle Name on Inauguration Day; The Psychology Behind the Blagojevich Scandal


December 10, 2008
• State Officials Working to Remove Blagojevich; Kodak Suspends 401(k) Match; Home Fuel Oil Prices Down 18 Percent; Oprah Opens up About Weight Gain
• Illinois Governor Arrested; Gore and Obama Meet on Climate Challenge; Bill Clinton Loopholes
• Illinois Governor Arrested on Corruption Charges; Obama: No Contact with Blagojevich; Fuel Oil Prices Down; National Rifle Association versus Obama


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