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Barack Obama, left, joined by his wife Michelle, takes the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts to become the 44th president of the United States at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Photo by Jae C. Hong / AP)

Israel to complete Gaza pullout

Israel accelerated its troop withdrawal from Gaza to finish before Barack Obama's inauguration. Hamas reasserted control over the rubble-filled streets.

International Herald Tribune

UN chief visits damaged Gaza headquarters

Houston Chronicle

Gaza cease fire

CBS News

Russia opens gas taps to Europe

Russia has resumed gas supplies to Ukraine and Europe, raising hopes of an end to weeks of disruption.

BBC

Gas flow to Europe resumes

YouTube

Obama: Challenges real, but 'they will be met'

Barack Obama delivered a sobering assessment of where America stands and a hopeful vision of what it can become as he gave his inaugural address as the nation's 44th president.

CNN

Obama's oath and inaugural address

MSNBC

Joe Biden sworn in as Vice President

CNN

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USA Today

Biden tries to shush wife after slip

Joe Biden's wife said that he had his pick of being Barack Obama's running mate or the secretary of state nomination.

San Francisco Chronicle

Treasury demands banks with TARP funds report lending activity

The U.S. Treasury, under pressure to revive lending, is demanding monthly reports from the banks that received the most capital from the government's $700 billion rescue program.

Bloomberg

NATION

US stock-index futures fall; State Street, Wells Fargo drop

U.S. stock-index futures declined, indicating the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index will fall for the first time in three days on concern the deepening global recession will hurt profits.

Bloomberg

U2, Bruce Springsteen and Eager Nation kick off inaugural celebration

The world’s best-known entertainers gathered on the site where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream" speech 45 years ago to welcome then President-elect Barack Obama.

Rolling Stone

POLITICS

NY governor: No decision yet on Senate replacement for Clinton

New York Gov. David Paterson insists he still hasn't decided whom he will appoint to the Senate seat expected to soon be vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Las Vegas Sun

Tax dollars fund Bush transition

President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are each worth millions, but taxpayers will pay as much as $2.2 million to them to move out.

Politico

Bushes to play White House hosts for last time

ABC News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Upgraded wireless networks in DC put to major test

Beefed-up cell networks in Washington, D.C., got their first real test over the holiday weekend — with reports of scattered outages.

CNET News

IBM helps businesses build a smarter workforce 'in the cloud'

At the annual Lotusphere Conference, IBM unveiled plans to help businesses build a smarter workforce usng software to help people work together across the enterprise via the cloud.

CNNMoney

HEALTH

FDA confirms salmonella in Kellogg snack

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration confirmed that salmonella was found in a package of peanut butter sandwich crackers made by Kellogg Co.

Reuters

What consumers should know about salmonella

San Francisco Chronicle

Study: Women less able to suppress hunger than men

Faced with their favorite foods, women are less able than men to suppress their hunger, a discovery that may help explain the higher obesity rate for females.

Denver Post

EDUCATION

Up for review: Who’s giving dropouts their second chance

Nevada State Sen. Barbara Cegavske wants to move funding of adult education from local school districts to the state’s higher education system.

Las Vegas Sun

Stimulus gives schools $142B

U.S. public schools stand to be the biggest winners in Congress' $825 billion economic stimulus plan.

USA Today

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

DC churches roll out the welcome mat for inauguration revelers

Across the nation’s capital, dozens of congregations opened their doors with King-related service projects and a place to warm up during several chilly days of inaugural festivities.

Religion News Service

Gaza dampens Muslim hope in Obama

If President Barack Hussein Obama really wants to improve America's standing in the Muslim world, he'll need to do more to win over skeptics. Many doubt he will rethink the United States' support for Israel.

USA Today

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GOOD NEWS

Obama's MLK Day as 'volunteer-in-chief'

President-elect Barack Obama spent the day before his inauguration applying a more personal touch, as he helped paint a shelter for homeless teens and visited with wounded soldiers.

ABC News

Bank of America continues nationally recognized Neighborhood Initiative

The Bank of America charitable foundation announced launching the sixth year of its signature philanthropic program, the Neighborhood Excellence Initiative.

PNN

WORLD

UN rules US execution violated treaty

U.N. courts have found that the United States violated an international treaty and the court's own order when a Mexican national was executed in a Texas prison.

CNN

Prominent Russian lawyer killed

A top human rights lawyer was shot dead along with a journalist in Moscow. He represented the family of a Chechen woman murdered by a Russian army officer.

BBC

BUSINESS

Fiat takes Chrysler stake

Italy's Fiat took a 35 percent stake in Chrysler, launching a venture designed to secure the beleaguered U.S. carmaker.

Reuters

J&J profit rises on consumer sales

Johnson & Johnson’s profit rose 14 percent as job cuts and rising sales helped the world’s largest health care product maker overcome a revenue drop.

Bloomberg

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

HBO repairs prayer snafu in concert

HBO will include an opening prayer from an openly gay pastor in subsequent telecasts of the "We Are One" inaugural concert, whose original live telecast began after the pastor's invocation.

Reuters

We are one

HBO

Fox lands squadron of pilots

The network greenlighted four comedy pilots, "The Station," "Walorsky," "Two Dollar Beer" and "Sons of Tucson"; and three dramas, "Maggie Hill," "Human Target" and a reincarnation project.

Hollywood Reporter

ENVIRONMENT

Court halts oil and gas leasing in Utah

At least 110,000 acres of Utah wilderness is temporarily protected from oil and gas drilling by a federal judge's ruling in a case brought by conservationists.

Environment News Service

Biologists debate the scale of extinction in the world’s tropical forests

A rare piece of good news from the world of conservation: The global extinction crisis may have been overstated.

Economist

SPORTS

Bryant, Gasol lead Lakers past Cavaliers

Bryant and LeBron James tussled to a virtual standoff, but Bryant's supporting cast was far more effective, and that was the difference.

Sporting News

Wake Forest takes No. 1 in AP poll

Wake Forest received all but four first-place votes from the 72-member national media panel.

Sports Illustrated

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