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From Natalie Hopkinson at TheRoot.com: Coming to D.C. for the inauguration? Time to get to work!

The Army said Wednesday that 7,000 family members of soldiers killed in the Iraq or Afghan wars mistakenly were sent letters addressing them as “John Doe.”

Protests over the fatal shooting of an unarmed man by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer turned violent Wednesday night with windows broken, fires set and train stations closed.

Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday it would be a mistake for President-elect Barack Obama to scrap the Bush administration‘s terrorist-fighting policies designed to prevent future attacks on the U.S.

Mississippi now has the nation’s highest teen birth rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, a new federal report says.

Dawn Johnsen, Obama’s choice to head the Office of Legal Counsel, has been a strong and outspoken critic of presidential law-breaking.

Joe the Plumber is taking on a new job.

Looking at the pictures of the President Elect’s daughters being escorted to school by secret servicemen, I was reminded of other young black girls who had to be escorted to school by government agents. For years young boys and girls had to struggle with harassment segregation and racism so today Sasha and Malia could go […]

From Brian Stelter at The New York Times: With less than two weeks to go until a historic presidential <a title="Recent and archival news about presidential inaugurations." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/p/presidents_and_presidency_us/inaugurations/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier">inauguration</a>, the nation’s television networks are finalizing ambitious coverage plans, but the camera platforms will be more crowded than usual.

Senate Democrats plan to accept Roland Burris for Obama’s vacant seat, AP reports.

President-elect Barack Obama has approached CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, to be the country’s next surgeon general, the cable news network said Tuesday.