WASHINGTON (AP)—Barack Obama has wholeheartedly embraced experience in choosing his cabinet. That may seem at odds with the president-elect’s campaign theme of “change we can believe in.” But some Democratic activists and nonpartisan analysts say it makes sense, given the dire economy and public anxiety.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP)—The last Sunday before Christmas was celebrated with a carol service in a downtown Johannesburg church that has become a haven for hundreds of Zimbabweans who have fled their nation’s collapse.
Tens of thousands of residents first hunkered down to wait for Hurricane Ike's brutal punch. Those survivors on the wrecked Texas coast must now wait again — for food, water and ice, for the electricity to return to their homes, for that first hot meal and shower.
SEALING
THE DEAL--Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill.,
boards his plane with his wife in Chicago, Ill. Tuesday, June 3. Obama
clinches the Democratic nomination, making him the first Black
candidate to lead his party.
ST.
PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Cheered by a roaring crowd, Sen. Barack Obama of
Illinois laid claim to the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday
night, taking a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of
becoming the nation's first Black president. Hillary Rodham Clinton
maneuvered for the vice presidential spot on his fall ticket without
conceding her own defeat.
Ben Jealous, the newly elected president of
the NAACP, makes remarks outside the NAACP headquarters in Baltimore, May 17. Jealous, a 35-year-old
former news executive and lifelong activist, is the youngest president in the
NAACP's 99-year history.
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