WAIMANALO, Hawaii (AP) -- A day after spending a quiet Christmas evening at their vacation retreat, President-elect Barack Obama and his children watched a dolphin show at an aquatic park and then picked up some shave ice, a local treat.
ST. PAUL, MN (AP) -- Minnesota's highest court on Wednesday ruled against Republican Sen. Norm Coleman's attempt to keep dozens of possible double votes from Democratic-heavy precincts out of the long-running U.S. Senate recount, but left the door open for a lawsuit.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Get ready for the geek-in-chief.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet choices have sent change trickling down through state politics, sparking a scramble to replace his nominees that will play out in the shadow of the Chicago scandal over filling Obama's own Senate seat.
Rick Warren is in a place he never expected to be: at the center of a culture war.
KANEOHE, Hawaii (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama personally thanked a handful of military service members after a morning workout.
DENVER (AP) -- An independent Denver police monitor said officers did nothing wrong during mass arrests on the first day of the Democratic National Convention.
ST. PAUL, MN (AP) -- Democrat Al Franken edged ahead of Republican incumbent Norm Coleman on Friday for the first time in Minnesota's long-running U.S. Senate recount.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Swiftly completing his Cabinet, President-elect Barack Obama named four officials to oversee transportation, labor, trade and small business policy in his new administration Friday but warned that economic recovery may take years.
The clergy chosen by President-elect Barack Obama to pray at his inauguration fill separate symbolic roles: One is a nod to the civil rights activists who made Obama's election possible. The other is an overture to conservative Christians who rankles some Obama supporters.
Day by day, name by name, President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet is taking shape, and other top jobs are being filled.
A look at who has made the list and who is being talked about for jobs that are still open:
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Connecticut Democratic Party officials, after an hour of political soul searching, decided Wednesday to send Sen. Joe Lieberman a letter detailing their disappointment with his public support for Republican John McCain in the presidential race.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Rev. Al Sharpton took Caroline Kennedy to lunch Thursday at a famed Harlem soul food restaurant as she continued her quest to join her uncle in the U.S. Senate.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Alaska officials are investigating racist jokes about President-elect Barack Obama that have been circulating on state government e-mail accounts.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama has chosen a veteran of the Securities and Exchange Commission to lead and revitalize the agency now facing growing criticism for its failure to protect investors at a time of unprecedented market turmoil.
DENVER (AP) -- With Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar apparently headed to Barack Obama's Cabinet, the process of choosing his successor will come under intense scrutiny after Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's alleged attempts to sell a Senate seat there.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- Caroline Kennedy said publicly for the first time Wednesday that she wants to be New York's next senator as she launched a tour of upstate cities to meet with politicians and power brokers
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The Illinois Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge to Gov. Rod Blagojevich's fitness to hold office.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Aretha Franklin will sing, Pastor Rick Warren will pray and Yo-Yo Ma will play the cello during President-elect Barack Obama's Inauguration.
TALLAHASSEE, FL (AP) -- Florida's 27 electoral votes are officially in the books for President-elect Barack Obama.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Georgia's 15 electors gathered at the state Capitol Monday and cast their ballots for Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
ALBANY, N.Y (AP) -- Caroline Kennedy has told New York Gov. David Paterson she wants to be the state's next Senator, becoming the highest-profile person to actively lobby for the seat being vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Enthusiasm among blacks and Democrats for Barack Obama's candidacy pushed voter turnout in this year's elections to the highest level in 40 years.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama's team says an internal review shows his staff "was not involved in inappropriate discussions" with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich over the selection of Obama's Senate successor.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Enthusiasm among blacks and Democrats for Barack Obama's candidacy pushed voter turnout in this year's elections to the highest level in 40 years.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Politicians make deals every day. They do favors and ask them in return. They kowtow to campaign contributors.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- New York Republican congressman Peter King told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he is preparing for a run for the New York Senate seat, even if that means facing off against Caroline Kennedy.
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Turns out that "Joe the Plumber" isn't such a big fan of John McCain after all.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The first Vietnamese-American elected to Congress took advantage of dissatisfaction with a longtime incumbent dogged by corruption allegations and reflects the changing nature of New Orleans politics since Hurricane Katrina.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Democrats will hold at least 256 seats in the House when the 111th Congress is sworn in next month, after a county commissioner came from behind to win an open seat in central Ohio.
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) -- When Tom Tancredo, the lightning-rod Colorado conservative, went to Congress a decade ago, he promised he wouldn't disappear in Washington. He sure didn't.
CHICAGO (AP) -- The man who will pick President-elect Barack Obama's successor in the U.S. Senate is talking to someone interested in the job: U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Indicted U.S. Rep. William Jefferson's election loss may have cost him more than just his congressional seat.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- The city of Minneapolis has stopped searching for about 130 ballots in the U.S. Senate recount, leaving state officials to choose between two sets of tallies in the tight race between Sen. Norm Coleman and Al Franken.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barack Obama, who rewrote the book on presidential fundraising, amassed more than $745 million during his marathon campaign, more than twice the amount obtained by his rival, Republican John McCain.
BUFFALO, Minn. (AP) -- The statewide hand recount of ballots in Minnesota's Senate race drew just short of conclusion Friday, but the contest between Sen. Norm Coleman and Al Franken was far from being resolved.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite the furor over a $150,000 campaign shopping spree for GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, the Republican Party continued to spend money on clothing and accessories for her in the contest's final weeks, new campaign reports show.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats carrying significant campaign debt after winning a string of House and Senate races are grumbling about President-elect Barack Obama's financial reserves, saying the party's leader is sitting on a pile of cash while Democratic leaders are broke.
MIAMI (AP) -- First she hung up on President-elect Barack Obama -- twice. Now Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is fielding calls from angry constituents who think she did it on purpose.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Ms. Winfrey is going to Washington.
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