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Tuesday January 6, 2009 Updated 3:30 PM PST
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Pelosi, Obama Try To 'Hit The Ground Running'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi nearly had to drag President-elect Barack Obama away from reporters as he returned to the Capitol today.
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PhotosBurris Denied Senate Seat To Succeed Obama
Roland Burris failed in his bid to take President-elect Barack Obama's Illinois Senate seat in a scripted piece of political theater staged just before the opening of the 111th Congress.
VideoCNN Reporter May Become Surgeon General
CNN says President-elect Barack Obama has approached its medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, to be the country's next surgeon general.
Bush Thanks Military For Its 'Just' Work
President Bush says every U.S. military mission under his watch has been necessary and part of a just cause.
Ex-Aide Sentenced In Detroit Sex Scandal
Nearly a year after headlines revealed a City Hall sex scandal, the former top aide to ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sent to jail to serve the same punishment as her boss: 120 days.
Lawsuit Over Bush Wiretap Program Revived
A defunct Islamic charity in Oregon that says it was illegally wiretapped by federal authorities can pursue its lawsuit challenging President Bush's clandestine eavesdropping program, a federal judge says.
Obama unlikely to get stimulus bill this month
Congressional Democrats said Sunday that President-elect Barack Obama probably will have to wait until next month before getting the...
Chronicle 1.5.09 4:00 AM
Washington area braces for inauguration crush
On a typical weekday, hundreds of thousands of people commute to the nation's capital, snarling roads and packing subway trains and...
Chronicle 1.5.09 4:00 AM
Bush: Only time will tell about his legacy
Love him or hate him, George W. Bush leaves office among the most consequential presidents in modern history. Like his home state of...
Chronicle 1.4.09 4:00 AM
Dying craft - hand carving tombstones
John Larkum leans over a slab of slate, striking a metal chisel with a brass-capped mallet. Tinny pings ring out as he sinks his tool...
Chronicle 1.4.09 4:00 AM
New hope in West's battle against tamarisks
In the 1930s, when the federal government was experimenting with an array of projects to address bad times, tree-planting came into...
Chronicle 1.4.09 4:00 AM
Hold the doughnuts and take your walk to work
For anyone who has ever sat through a meeting with long-winded speakers and diet-busting doughnuts, Jennifer Baran offers an antidote...
Chronicle 1.4.09 4:00 AM
Happy 50th to the 49th state - Alaska
Mike Stepovich peered over Dwight D. Eisenhower's shoulder while the president signed Alaska's statehood proclamation - just to be...
Chronicle 1.4.09 4:00 AM
Editorially selected resources on National news.
- Pro-Palestinian protest at Federal Building
- BART appeals for calm as footage shows shooting
- Prop. 8 proponents say Brown 'profoundly wrong'
- BART officer has yet to give account in shooting
- Brown first in decades to go against voters
- Californians to Bush: the feeling's mutual
- Obama picks former Calif congressman for CIA
