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The American News Project has a new video in which they investigate the white supremacist threat to Obama’s life.

Ford Motor Co. is asking Congress for a $9 billion “stand-by line of credit” to stabilize its business, but says it doesn’t expect to tap it.

From The New Republic: Omniscient reader EC notes something crucial about new appointees James Jones, Eric Holder and Timothy Geithner: They all play Obama’s favorite sport.

From Foreign Policy Passport: In an <a title="ABC" href="http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Politics/Story?id=6356046&page=7">interview with Charlie Gibson</a> George W. Bush tells Gibson his biggest regret is "the intelligence failure in Iraq." And while President Bush doesn't "spend a lot of time really worrying about short-term history," here are 10 other things he <em>should</em> regret, after the jump.

From Ben Smith at Politico: The communications for Obama's transition, Dan Pfeiffer, flatly denied <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1090653/Barack-Obama-buy-rare-20-000-rhodium-ring-wife-say-thanks-support.html">a Daily Mail report</a> that Obama is buying an exotic $30,000 ring to thank his wife "for her support during the election."

The parents of a television anchorwoman beaten to death at her home said Monday their daughter was sexually assaulted during the attack, and an arrest warrant released by police says DNA evidence linked an eastern Arkansas man to the crime "with all scientific certainty."

President George W. Bush expressed remorse that the global financial crisis has cost jobs and harmed retirement accounts and said he’ll back more government intervention if needed to ease the recession.

The mayor of Alabama's largest city has been arrested on federal bribery and fraud charges. Federal prosecutors in Birmingham say they have charged Larry Langford and two other men in a 101-count indictment.

In another poor showing, the main tracking index for the U.S. economy plunged today as Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson declared it an official recession.

Ten year old reporter, Damon Weaver, from Kathryn E. Cunningham/Canal Point Elementary School in Florida is publically requesting an interview with President Elect, Barack Obama. Weaver had previously interviewed Vice President Elect, Joe Biden and  Miami Heat players, Sean Marion and Dwayne Wade. Watch Damon Weaver’s Video Plea for an Obama Interview After the Jump

Christine Beatty, a former aide to the mayor, accepted a four-month jail sentence in exchange for admitting to obstruction of justice charges for her actions in a civil lawsuit brought by two police officers.