AP - Barack Obama's campaign credo: Change is good. President-elect Barack Obama's credo: When it comes to war and peace, maybe wisdom is better.

AP - President-elect Barack Obama's top pick to head the CIA blamed his sudden withdrawal from consideration on critics who blamed him for harsh Bush administration policies on interrogations, detentions and secret renditions.

AP - Sen. John McCain said Tuesday that he intends to seek a fifth term in the Senate in 2010 and looks forward to resuming his duties in Washington.

AP - Inch by inch, voter by voter, Barack Obama and John McCain labored for more than a year to lock down supporters and woo defectors. It turns out, though, that the nation's voters were a lot more fickle than commonly expected, and far more prone to switch allegiances.

AP - Taiwan's new top diplomat in the United States says his government is working to repair ties with Washington that he feels were damaged by eight years of anti-China policies favored by the island's previous president.

Politico - Joe Biden has warned that hostile nations would quickly 'test' the young new president with a 'generated crisis,' and Biden seems to have been right.

AP - Martine Aubry, a former labor minister who brought France the 35-hour work week, was confirmed Tuesday as the leader of the Socialist Party after a razor-thin contest with her rival.

AP - When it comes to votes in Minnesota's drawn-out Senate election, five are particularly crucial.

AP - Under arrest, Paxus Calta raised two fingers from his shackled hand to flash a peace sign. Fellow environmental activists cheered as police escorted him to the van that would take him to jail.

AP - The House of Lords on Tuesday backed a plan to toughen Britain's penalties for possessing marijuana, as a group of senior scientists warned that such a move would confuse people about the dangers of more potent drugs.

Politico - In a wide-ranging, hour-long interview scheduled to air tonight, president-elect Barack Obama sat down with Barbara Walters and discussed the auto industry, Afghanistan, his family's Thanksgiving plans and his desire to break out of the White House bubble.

AP - Federal authorities are warning law enforcement personnel of a possible terror plot against the New York City subway system during the holiday season.

AP - The mayor of a major city in Russia's troubled North Caucasus was shot and killed Wednesday in the latest violence to hit a region roiled by years of insurgency and war, officials said.

AP - President-elect Barack Obama pledged on Wednesday to have an economic plan ready for action on the nation's financial crisis on his first day in office. 'Help is on the way,' he declared.

AP - Barack Obama's campaign credo: Change is good. President-elect Barack Obama's credo: When it comes to war and peace, maybe wisdom is better.

Politico - Obama press conference week is now over! This was his third in three days, and fourth since Election Day.

AP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday the British public would get answers about how a man managed to repeatedly rape his daughters, fathering nine children with them, without being stopped by the authorities.

Politico - Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) applauded each of President-elect Barack Obama’s moves since winning the election as “just about perfect” Tuesday night.

AP - In a blow to Democrat Al Franken, a state board ruled Wednesday that absentee ballots that were rejected by poll workers won't be included in Minnesota's Senate recount.

AP - The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday rescinded guidance it issued 42 years ago that has allowed tobacco companies to make claims about tar and nicotine levels based on testing by a machine.

AP - President George Bush is heading to Camp David for Thanksgiving, thankful for his almost-expired 'privilege of serving as the president.'

CQPolitics.com - The plot continues to thicken in the undecided Minnesota Senate contest, now entering the second week of a legally mandated recount with Republican incumbent Norm Coleman maintaining a razor-thin lead over Democratic challenger Al Franken.

AP - Russian prosecutors began arguments Wednesday against three people on trial in the killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, describing the grisly 2006 crime in detail and showing the jury three bullets taken from her body.

AP - President-elect Barack Obama and his wife took their daughters to work at a food bank on the day before Thanksgiving, saying they wanted to show the girls the meaning of the holiday, especially when so many people are struggling.

AP - The Bush administration strongly condemned a series of coordinated terrorist attacks Wednesday in the Indian city of Mumbai in which Westerners reportedly were targeted but said it was not aware of any American casualties and that U.S. officials there were safe.

Politico - Both the White House and President-elect Barack Obama condemned today's series of coordinated attacks in Mumbai, India, the first major terrorist incident since Obama’s election.

AP - In a Nov. 22 story about the power of the president to detain people without charges, The Associated Press gave the wrong last name of a lawyer for The Constitution Project. Her correct name is Sharon Bradford Franklin, not Reynolds.

AP - An international human rights group said Greece is illegally deporting migrants and accused neighboring Turkey of detaining potential asylum seekers indefinitely in inhumane conditions.

Politico - In three quick days, Barack Obama has seized the nation's economic recovery plan from President George W. Bush and propelled it in a direction long opposed by the White House.

AFP - China confirmed it had postponed a summit with the European Union in protest at French President Nicolas Sarkozy's planned meeting with the Dalai Lama, state media reported Thursday.

Politico - As President-elect Barack Obama calls for big, bold economic ideas, it will fall to former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker to shoot down the unworkable and irresponsible ones.

CQPolitics.com - The House ethics panel has assured Speaker Nancy Pelosi that an investigation into the conduct of Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel, D-N.Y., will be completed by the time the current Congress goes out of business Jan. 3.

AP - Before this summer's Georgia-Russia war, President Mikhail Saakashvili was itching to do battle and authorities mistook messages from the United States as encouragement to use force, Georgia's former ambassador to Russia said Wednesday.

AP - Soon-to-be president Barack Obama said he is not worried about his own security, despite a higher level of threats against him than any other president-elect in history.

Politico - As President-elect Barack Obama calls for big, bold economic ideas, it will fall to former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker to shoot down the unworkable and irresponsible ones.

AFP - China scrapped Wednesday a summit with the European Union scheduled for next week in protest at plans by EU leaders to meet the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.