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<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_congress"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20090105/capt.eaf6025e81dd40b79f47078d2a8e1679.obama_dcgh10.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=596sP7epE8znrHLTsDHNCw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="President-elect Barack Obama, flanked by Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner, left, and Council of Economic Advisers Chair-designate Christina Romer meets with members of his economic team at his transition office in Washington, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)" border="0" /></a>AP - President-elect Barack Obama plunged into rare pre-inaugural crisis talks with congressional leaders Monday, declaring the national economy was "bad and getting worse" and embracing tax cuts now expected to reach $300 billion. He predicted lawmakers would approve a mammoth revitalization package within two weeks of his taking office.</p><br clear="all"/>
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<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_spy_agencies"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20090105/capt.fd56564ee02e43dca50285d057f3c73f.panetta_cia_wx113.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=tls.W6EcP1YHt46vAM0y4w--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="In this Sept. 27, 1996 file photo, then-White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. President-elect Barack Obama has selected Panetta to head the CIA, according to an Obama transition official. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - President-elect Barack Obama's decision to fill the nation's top intelligence jobs with two men short on direct experience in intelligence gathering surprised the spy community and signaled the Democrat's intention for a clean break from Bush administration policies.</p><br clear="all"/>
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<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20090105/capt.47d4073d9c2147f4a18b9b5846ac4af4.mideast_israel_palestinians_jrl806.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=xXn0xyL1SkHxFtk7DEwUvw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="An Israeli soldier wounded in the Gaza Strip arrives at Soroka Hospital in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. The expansion of Israel's offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers into ground battles and artillery salvos is taking a heavier toll on the civilians of the crowded sliver of land, including three toddlers killed Monday by the blast of a crashing shell. (AP Photo/Diego Mittelberg)" border="0" /></a>AP - Israel's expanding ground and air offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers took a heavy civilian toll Monday, including three young brothers reported killed by a crashing shell and wounded who filled hospital corridors.</p><br clear="all"/>
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<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_go_co/senate_burris"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20090105/capt.f15bccd41b71451c8938cdfda753fd14.senate_burris_mdrc102.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=PcLFReaom1UMRn3uk6drkQ--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="Illinois U.S. Senate appointee Roland Burris arrives at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in Linthicum, Md., Monday, Jan. 4, 2009. Burris will face a showdown on Capitol Hill about whether he'll succeed President-elect Barack Obama in Congress after being appointed last week by embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)" border="0" /></a>AP - Senate Democrats struggled to avert a showdown steeped in race and corruption Monday as a defiant Roland Burris declared, "I'm a United States senator" and flew to the capital to claim President-elect Barack Obama's old seat in Congress.</p><br clear="all"/>
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<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_el_se/minnesota_senate"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20090105/capt.692ebf2477ea445b8ce9433f037e07a2.minnesota_senate_ny108.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=UUAs_EbfyTGn9xJQJe4qqA--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="In a Sept. 23, 2008 file photo Democratic candidate for the Minnesota Senate Al Franken makes remarks at the National Jewish Democratic Council in Washington. The Minnesota state Canvassing Board is expected to certify the results of the re-count of the race between Franken and Republican incumbant Norm Coleman, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson/file)" border="0" /></a>AP - A Minnesota board on Monday certified results showing Democrat Al Franken winning the state's U.S. Senate recount over Republican Norm Coleman, whose lawyer promised a legal challenge that probably will keep the race in limbo for months.</p><br clear="all"/>
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