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• WHITE HOUSE TRANSITION

  Democrats lining up for plum jobs in new administration

  As the Bush White House prepares to hand off to the new administration, job-seekers are flocking to Washington.

• IRAQ

  Iraqi leaders postpone vote on security pact

  Members of the Iraqi parliament are seeking the support of Sunni leaders in an effort to win a majority vote on the U.S.-Iraq security agreement.

• POLITICS

  'Rivals' author talks Lincoln lessons

  Doris Kearns Goodwin shares how her bestseller, Team of Rivals, influenced President-elect Barack Obama.
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  Presidential partners: Obama and Bush team up on financial crisis

  America has never seen anything quite like this: the president and president-elect acting like co-presidents, consulting and cooperating on the day's biggest crises.

• IRAQ

  Questions linger over U.S.-Iraq security deal

  U.S. officials said the United States and Iraq have agreed on the wording of a security agreement -- but have different interpretations of what the words mean.

• THE ECONOMY

  Obama: Financial fix will require spending

  President-elect Barack Obama would not rule out changes aimed at reviving the struggling economy that would add to the federal deficit.

• ENVIRONMENT

  Obama must act quickly on climate, scientists warn

  In recommendations to President-elect Barack Obama, environmentalists rejected the idea that fighting global warming would be too expensive in the current U.S. economic climate.

• WAR ON TERRORISM | GUANTANAMO DETENTIONS

  Chinese captives at Guantanamo remain in limbo

  A federal appeals court heard arguments about whether 17 Uighurs should be released into the United States.
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  THE FINANCIAL CRISIS

  Time is money for Obama economic team

  President-elect Barack Obama named his economic team and said it will work quickly to develop a recovery plan, which will likely include a massive stimulus package.

• Bomb rips bus carrying women in Iraq

  Bombs killed at least 16 Iraqis Monday, most of them women riding a bus to work.

• THE WHITE HOUSE

  Outgoing leaders focus on Mideast accord

  Talk of a peace that was never achieved characterized a last-time meeting between America's president and Israel's prime minister.

• AGRICULTURE

  Ineligible farmers keep getting federal subsidies

  Investigators found that at least 2,700 farmers received subsidies they were not supposed to get.
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  Bin Laden's driver to be sent home to Yemen

  The Pentagon was preparing Monday to repatriate Osama bin Laden's driver to his native Yemen before the end of his prison sentence at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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  Federal panel upholds Embassy bombings convictions

  Federal appeals panel upholds New York City convictions of co-conspirators in the 1998 East Africa Embassies bombings
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  THE FINANCIAL CRISIS | BANKING

  Government agrees to save Citigroup

  The U.S. government will take an extra $20 billion stake in Citigroup and guarantee as much as $306 billion in risky loans and securities.

• THE FINANCIAL CRISIS | THE ECONOMY

  Cost of Obama stimulus package soars

  Barack Obama's aides indicated that his plan could reach $700 billion -- four times larger than his campaign proposal.

• MENTAL HEALTH

  Teen's webcam suicide raises red flags for copycats, experts say

  A teen's suicide broadcast over a webcam has mental health professionals concerned about copycat acts. Their advice: Get a troubled person to talk.

• SENATE

  Alaska icon leaves Senate

  Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens -- convicted of corruption and defeated for reelection -- got a warm sendoff from a small group of senators as his career ended.

• HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

  New energy boss for U.S. House

  House Democrats replaced Rep. John Dingell, head of the committee for energy legislation, with Rep. Henry Waxman.

• CORPORATIONS

  Corporate bosses often take private jets

  The chiefs of Detroit automobile companies are hardly alone in traveling by company plane. Some CEOs say it's just good business.

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