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• FORT MYERS

  President Barack Obama makes stimulus-plan pitch in Fort Myers

  President Barack Obama made Fort Myers his second stop in a national tour pitching his economic recovery plan.

• No crisis yet, but Obama finding world won't wait for him

  In the midst of the presidential campaign last October, Barack Obama's running mate, Joe Biden, warned that within six months of Obama's election, "We're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy." The prediction hasn't come true yet, but unfriendly nations and international competitors already are stepping up their efforts to challenge the young new president or at the very least get his attention.

• A COLLEGE STUDENT'S VIEW

  Commentary: Obama's grass-roots campaign galvanized hearts and minds

  COMMENTARY: The first time I ever cast a ballot, it was for Barack Obama. It was during the Florida primary elections, just after my 18th birthday.

• First Hoopster can choose from lots of capital courts

  Now that he's living in the White House, where will President Barack Obama play pickup basketball? Anywhere he wants. But who knew he'd have so many choices?

• THE WASHINGTON POST

  Inaugural committee apologizes for ticket fiasco

  The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, which was responsible for planning and executing Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony Tuesday, apologized Wednesday for keeping thousands of ticket-holders outside the security gates, causing them to miss the ceremony. (May need to register)

• How big was the inaugural crowd? Good question

  Crowd counting is far from an exact science, as the varied estimates of President Barack Obama's inaugural crowd Tuesday richly demonstrate.

• South Florida feels the hope, challenge of a new presidency

  With a sense of hope, history and hard challenges ahead, thousands gathered Tuesday at spots across South Florida to witness Barack Obama's inauguration.

• MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS

  Obama opens new era for America, the world

  Barack Hussein Obama on Tuesday became the 44th president of the United States, a confident young leader ushering in a new era with a promise of bold action to lift the country out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

• Experts opine: Of the top 4 speeches, Obama's is No. 5

  President Barack Obama used his inaugural address to stake out a new moral high ground for America in the eyes of the world and to parlay his ascendance as America's first black president into a call for ethnic and religious unity. It mixed criticism of President Bush with a call for bipartisanship. But experts said the address didn't have any single ringing line likely to echo down the halls of history.

• LEONARD PITTS

  America celebrates Obama, but reinvention nothing new

  ''And if that don't do, then I'll try something new.'' -- Smokey Robinson
  It begins before the sun does. Not yet 5 a.m. and there is at a suburban Metro station a line of people going out of the station and up the escalator and around the corner and down to the far, far end of the parking lot. In town, it's worse.

• Bush, his approval rating in tatters, flies home to Texas

  As former President George W. Bush's helicopter whisked him from the Capitol over the 2 million people on the National Mall to Andrews Air Force Base, parts of the crowd burst into a riff of "Nah nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbye," a song usually reserved for losing sports teams. Correction at bottom.

• World watches inauguration with hope, questions

  In Kenya and Indonesia, people who feel a personal connection to Barack Obama cheered his ascent to the presidency. But while much of the world welcomed his rise, there were pockets of discontent: In Russia and the Middle East, there were few who thought Obama would change unpopular U.S. policies.

• Obama opens new era for America, the world

  Barack Hussein Obama became the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, a confident young leader ushering in a new era with a promise of bold action to lift the country out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. He looked out over a sea of perhaps 2 million people celebrating a turning point of history and looking eagerly for a fresh new voice and vision to lead the country.

• ECONOMY

  Getting the U.S. economic stimulus right is the challenge

  The stumbling U.S. economy may need a stimulus plan, but making it effective is the great challenge.

• President Obama takes oath, calls for 'a new era of responsibility'

  Barack Obama takes the reins of power, as massive crowds pack the National Mall to hear his call for a new era of responsibility.

• South Floridians share the 'spirit' at inauguration watch parties

  Thousands of South Floridians packed auditoriums, homes and restaurants Tuesday to watch broadcasts of former Sen. Barack Obama be sworn in as the 44th U.S. president.

• Former Miamian makes a long trip to attend `history'

  Melissa Van Herksen, a Miami native now living in Maputo, Mozambique, braved a 40-hour trip with a 21-month-old to attend Barack Obama's inauguration.
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  For Miamians, D.C. bus trip passes torch to a generation

  For Eufaula Frazier, taking seven children to see the inauguration of the first black president signifies a ``passing of the torch.''

• Crowds pack frigid Mall for Obama's inauguration

  Braving frigid temperatures, an exuberant crowd of hundreds of thousands packed the National Mall on Tuesday to celebrate the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama as America's first black president. He grasps the reins of power in a high-noon ceremony amid grave economic worries and high expectations.

• Simple inauguration ceremony will signal the start of a new era

  America changes course Tuesday. Barack Obama of Illinois will take office as the nation's 44th president at noon EST in a simple yet elegant ceremony that will mark a peaceful transfer of power. He does so at a time of unusual peril, with a sputtering economy at home and U.S. troops still in harm's way in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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