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Obama Transition Breaks Speed Records
Barack Obama has moved so fast to set up his administration that he’s on a pace to blow past all previous presidents, reports the Wall Street Journal . By the eleventh week of their transitions, George...
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Groups Go High-Tech in Push for Obama Jobs
Special interest groups eager to cement plum spots in the Obama administration are using private websites and online databases to angle for positions, Politico reports. Instead of tossing their résumés...
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Rehabilitation of Bush Legacy Well Under Way
Nixon aside, no president since Truman has left office as unpopular as George W. Bush, writes Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer. But while it took decades for Truman's reputation to be...
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Transition Gives Peek at Obama Leadership Style
Barack Obama’s transition into the presidency has provided a window onto how he’ll operate as president, writes Peter Baker in the New York Times . Despite major challenges ahead, he has been “a font...
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Obama Approval Drops to 68%
President Obama's poll numbers are sinking back into the stratosphere now that he's in office, Politico reports. The first Gallup poll since his inauguration gives Obama a 68% approval rating, down...
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Obama Transition Not So Flawless After All
News coverage has so far given the impression that Barack Obama’s transition is one of the smoothest, best-executed in history. But with a number of recent blunders grabbing headlines, the...
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Palestinian PM Steps Down to Pave Way for Power Share
Palestine’s prime minister submitted his resignation today, a move that could help pave the way for an elusive power-sharing deal between Fatah moderates and Hamas militants. Salam Fayyad's decision...
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China Begins Once-a-Decade Leadership Change
China's Tiananmen Square has been emptied of its usual activists and crowds, red flowers and flags blanket the capital, and 1.4 million volunteers are on-hand to provide security as the country's...
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Taxpayers Gave Romney $8.9M to Plan 'Transition'
The federal government handed Mitt Romney's team millions of dollars to plan a presidential transition that never happened, Freedom of Information Act requests reveal. Romney was the first beneficiary...
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China Begins Once-a-Decade Leadership Change
China's Tiananmen Square has been emptied of its usual activists and crowds, red flowers and flags blanket the capital, and 1.4 million volunteers are on-hand to provide security as the country's...
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Taxpayers Gave Romney $8.9M to Plan 'Transition'
The federal government handed Mitt Romney's team millions of dollars to plan a presidential transition that never happened, Freedom of Information Act requests reveal. Romney was the first beneficiary...
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Biden Names Whistleblower to COVID Team
As coronavirus records are smashed across the US, Joe Biden isn't wasting any time in starting to address "one of the most important battles our administration will face." On Monday morning, the...
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Trump Appointee Won't Sign Transition Letter
The inauguration is 72 days away, and President Trump's team is signaling that it intends to make full use of them to try to keep Trump in office. Joe Biden, meanwhile, is quickly moving ahead by...
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GOP Senator Says He'll Go to Bat for Biden on Intel Briefs
President Trump still hasn't conceded to Joe Biden, and the president-elect still hasn't been given access to transition funding and intelligence briefings. In pushing to get those resources, it looks...
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John Kelly to Trump: You Can't Keep Doing This
John Kelly is standing up to his old boss for the way he's treating the incoming Biden administration, CNN reports. At issue is President Trump's decision to withhold intelligence briefings: "You lose...
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Biden People Reach Out to Vaccine Manufacturers
Joe Biden's scientific advisers will meet with vaccine makers in coming days as the presidential transition remains stalled because of President Trump's refusal to acknowledge that he lost the...
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Chris Christie: It's Become a 'National Embarrassment'
Chris Christie didn't hold back Sunday in his assessment of President Trump's campaign to overturn the results of the 2020 election, Politico reports. "If you've got the evidence of fraud, present it,"...
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DeVos Has One Word for Education Department Staff
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos reportedly has one word for the thousands of career employees who will remain with the department during the transition to a Joe Biden administration: "Resist." DeVos...
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Biden: Trump Is Obstructing the Transition
President-elect Joe Biden turned up his criticism of President Trump and his appointees' handling of the transition on Monday, saying they're putting up roadblocks. "Right now, we just aren't getting...
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'Sorely Needed' Study Weighs In on Early Transgender Identity
Children who begin identifying as transgender at a young age tend to retain that identity at least for several years, a study published Wednesday suggests. The research involved 317 youngsters who were...
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