News tagged with 'candidate'. Found 15 tagged news.

Napolitano emerges for Homeland Security job

Washington :: DC :: USA | 11 days ago

Democratic officials say that Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano is a leading contender for the job of secretary of homeland security in President-elect Barack Obama's administration. These officials caution that no final decision has been made on the job...

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Obama offers Holder attorney general post

Washington :: DC :: USA | 13 days ago

President-elect Barack Obama has conditionally offered Eric Holder the job as attorney general, and the former top Clinton administration official has accepted, a senior Democrat said on Tuesday. Before the offer becomes official, Obama's team wants to...

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Dual Loyalties Doom Obama

Jerusalem :: Israel | 14 days ago

Dr. Benjamin Emanuel, father of Rahm Emanuel, predicting his son’s impact in an Obama administration (Ma'ariv, 6 Nov. 2008). History will record the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign to have been one in which American Arabs and Muslims were politically...

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Obama officially resigns Senate seat

Chicago :: IL :: USA | 15 days ago

Washington — President-elect Barack Obama officially resigned from the Senate Sunday, removing himself from any official role in the lame-duck session of Congress that will convene this week. He also laid more groundwork for the start of his administration...

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Federal Computer Week: Transition Watch: Obama's team to check Facebook pages

New York City :: NY :: USA | 16 days ago

President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team wants to know all about job candidates' lives before giving them posts in the new administration, according to the New York Times. Along with asking for information about spouses' jobs and children’s lives,...

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Obama to use YouTube for presidential address

Washington :: DC :: USA | 17 days ago

President-elect Barack Obama plans to tape a weekly address to the country not just for radio listeners, as U.S. presidents have for years, but for YouTube Internet viewers, too. Connecting the White House hearth to the American home, President Franklin...

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Obama holds secret meeting with Hillary Clinton

Washington :: DC :: USA | 17 days ago

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President-elect Barack Obama met Thursday with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) at his transition headquarters in Chicago as a growing chorus of advisers pushes her for secretary of state.  This would give him a “Team...

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Clinton 'in frame' to replace Rice

Virginia Beach :: VA :: USA | 17 days ago

With Barack Obama continuing to form his new cabinet, reports in the US are suggesting that Hillary Clinton, his former Democratic rival in the US presidential race, is in the running to become the next secretary of state. On Thursday, two officials from...

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Obama may hire Hillary Clinton

Washington :: DC :: USA | 18 days ago

Hillary Clinton could take control of the country's foreign affairs policy with President-elect Barack Obama considering her for his secretary of state. Senator Clinton lost the Democratic Party nomination — and arguably the presidency — to Senator...

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US building bases to aid drones

Washington :: DC :: USA | 18 days ago

The Pentagon is building a series of air bases in eastern Afghanistan as part of its massive expansion of a system that uses drone aircraft to spy on and attack Taliban insurgents, according to interviews and documents. In Afghanistan, harsh winters and...

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