Barack Obama News

President-elect Barack Obama moved closer to assembling his Cabinet on Thursday with Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano emerging as the top contender to head the Homeland Security Department, created to protect Americans after the September 11 attacks.

Barack Obama has entered the fray in the Georgia Senate race, cutting a 60-second radio ad in support of Democrat Jim Martin.

"The elections aren't over," says Obama in the radio ad after thanking everyone who voted for him. "... I want to urge you to turn out one more time and help elect Jim Martin to the United States Senate."

Veteran Iowa Democratic political operative Jackie Norris has been picked as Michelle Obama's chief of staff, two sources familiar with the appointment said Thursday.

It's taken two and a half centuries but Columbia College, one of the oldest in the nation, finally will have one of its alumni in the Oval Office.

Antiwar groups and other liberal activists are increasingly concerned at signs that Barack Obama's national security team will be dominated by appointees who favored the Iraq invasion and hold hawkish views on other important foreign policy issues.

Former President Bill Clinton has agreed to all of the conditions sought by President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team to eliminate potential conflicts of interest if Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes secretary of state, people close to the Clintons said Wednesday.

Take out a quill -- the kind Thomas Jefferson used to pen the Declaration of Independence -- and declare this:

President-elect Barack Obama will solve the Middle East crisis before he solves the Bowl Championship Series.

While President-elect Barack Obama continues to focus on the transition to the White House, his former campaign is reaching out to the people who helped get him elected.

President-elect Barack Obama encouraged governors and environmental activists yesterday to tackle global warming - an issue he highlighted during the campaign - and promised to support them in the White House.

President-elect Barack Obama tapped former Clinton attorney Gregory Craig as his White House counsel on Wednesday and said campaign strategist David Axelrod will join him in Washington as a senior adviser.

As President Bush prepares to leave office, the task of upgrading the security of federal information systems to deal with new cyberthreats continues to be very much a work in progress.

Tom Daschle is president-elect Barack Obama's choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services and lead the effort to revamp the U.S. health-care system, a person familiar with the matter said.

Ayman al-Zawahri, the reputed second-in-command of Al Qaeda, has apparently responded to the election victory of President-elect Barack Obama in a vitriol-laden video message posted on Web forums on Wednesday.

President-elect Barack Obama will face a series of early decisions on domestic spying that will test his administration’s views on presidential power and civil liberties.

President-elect Barack Obama has decided on Eric Holder, a former senior official in the Clinton administration, to be attorney general, Newsweek said on Tuesday.

If Sen. Hillary Clinton is to be picked by President-elect Barack Obama as his secretary of state, it may well depend on a review of the business activities of her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

Rep. John Lewis jokingly says he'll try to resist calling Barack Obama "Brother President" after he's sworn in as the nation's first African-American president on January 20.

WASHINGTON — Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago congressman who'll become President-elect Barack Obama's White House chief of staff, got a standing ovation on Tuesday when he met behind closed doors with House Democrats.

"He said he'll have our back," said Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn. "He'll look out for House members. The idea is, we have his back, we do what Obama wants (and) he'll do what we want. Something like that."

The man once referred to by a rival campaign as “the biggest celebrity in the world” has intentionally been keeping a very low profile in the awkward limbo period between Election Day and his inauguration on January 20.

But on Monday President-Elect Barack Obama stepped out a little and acted decidedly presidential in the middle of a disaster in California.

Malia and Sasha Obama are in Washington with their mother checking out prospective new schools.

Michelle Obama brought 7-year-old Sasha and 10-year-old Malia to visit the future first family's top choices, her spokeswoman Katie McCormick Lelyveld said Tuesday. She would not name the schools.