AP - Israel should be barred from the United Nations while it ignores the organization's calls to stop fighting in Gaza, Turkey's prime minister said Friday, urging the world not to turn a blind eye to Israel's 'savagery.'

AP - Lingering decisions on how quickly the Pentagon can get U.S. forces out of Iraq and into Afghanistan are being pushed off until after the Obama administration takes over next week as military commanders continue to wrangle over where the troops are needed most.

AP - Lt. Col. Jaime Martinez came close to missing preparations for Inauguration Day and a great honor for those who serve in the Army's oldest infantry regiment.

AP - Theodore Roosevelt loved a parade and on March 4, 1905, Washington gave him one as spirited as the man himself.

AP - A day after an Israeli bombardment hit a warehouse in a U.N. compound and destroyed tons of aid, officials Friday delivered food rerouted from elsewhere to thousands of residents who otherwise have almost nothing to eat.

AP - Barack Obama is borrowing a page from history even as he sets a new marker for America, boarding a train in sunny, icy Philadelphia for a ride to the city of presidents along the same route Abraham Lincoln took nearly 150 years ago.

AP - The economic crisis that will dominate Barack Obama's first 100 days as president, and beyond, will give him a rare chance to enact big portions of his agenda that otherwise might have languished for months or years.

AP - President-elect Barack Obama, in an open letter to daughters Malia and Sasha, says he hopes they can 'grow up in a world with no limits on your dreams and no achievements beyond your reach.'

AP - Two Harvard-educated lawyers who made rapid ascents to power will briefly share the stage Tuesday at the presidential inauguration.

AP - President-elect Barack Obama's historical whistle stop tour to Washington has gotten under way after an enthusiastic send-off from Philadelphia, the cradle of American democracy.

AP - President-elect Barack Obama is calling on Americans to live up to the courage and sacrifice of the country's founders as they strive to redeem the promise of freedom.

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AP - Barack Obama and his congressional allies are gambling that the largest public spending program since World War II and a new round of tax cuts will pry the economy from the recession's iron grip and avert another Depression.

AFP - Outgoing US Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad got a warm tribute from his colleagues Friday as he made his last appearance before the Security Council.

AP - President-elect Barack Obama is promising that he and Vice President-elect Joe Biden 'will fight for you every day we're in Washington' as the pair visited Delaware en route by train to the capital.

AP - Vice President-elect Joe Biden is promising that the Obama administration will 'change this nation' for the better, despite the weight of problems facing America.

AP - Often seen as a cool, calculating concealer of emotions, Barack Obama says he choked up while practicing a campaign speech about Martin Luther King Jr. But the president-elect promises to 'try to keep it together' when he is sworn in Tuesday as the first black commander in chief.

AP - Unemployment is up. The stock market is down. Let's party.

AP - For all the banners and bunting, the hoorays and hoopla, the celebration of Barack Obama's inauguration is imbued with meaning that extends far beyond the historic ascension of the nation's first black president. A country mired in crisis seems to be reaching for something beyond the man or the moment.

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AP - On his first full day as president, Barack Obama will meet with high-ranking military officers to discuss the Iraq war, a conflict he has vowed to end after six years of fighting, a top adviser to Obama said Saturday.

AP - The FBI said Saturday it is receiving more and more tips about suspicious activities and items as the inauguration approaches, though there have been no specific or credible threats.

AP - President-elect Barack Obama is challenging Americans to show the fighting spirit of Revolutionary War era patriots and resist getting discouraged by the country's problems.

AP - In its final days, the Bush administration issued a long-awaited strategy for how to house disaster victims after catastrophic incidents like Hurricane Katrina.

AP - A Muslim scholar chosen to speak at President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural prayer service Wednesday is the leader of a group that federal prosecutors say has ties to terrorists.