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Obama calls Middle East leaders
President Barack Obama called four Middle East leaders on Wednesday, weighing in for the first time about the Gaza crisis by pledging to support a fragile cease-fire. Obama called Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Jordan's King Abdullah and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Obama, Congress tackle nation's economic woes
President Barack Obama and Congress tackled the troubled economy on Wednesday, weighing tactics for fixing the struggling financial industry and pushing ahead with a massive economic recovery package of new spending and tax cuts. Obama, in his first full day in office, planned to meet with his White House economic advisers. On Capitol Hill, Timothy Geithner, Obama's nominee for secretary of the Treasury, told senators the country needs a "forceful course" to meet the economic crisis.
Celebration over, Obama gets to work Wednesday
President Barack Obama plunged on his first day in office into the task of governing a nation he vows to change, calling together U.S. economic and military leaders Wednesday to address America's daunting challenges. A day after claiming his place in history as the first black U.S. president, he is faced with pulling the U.S. economy out of its nosedive even as he moves on his promise to withdraw American forces from Iraq while sending still more soldiers to America's other war in Afghanistan.
Eyes fixed on the horizon
Before a jubilant crowd of more than a million, Barack Hussein Obama claimed his place in history as America's first black president, summoning a dispirited nation to unite in hope against the "gathering clouds and raging storms" of war and economic woe. On an extraordinary day in the life of America, people of all colors and ages waited for hours Tuesday in frigid temperatures to witness the moment as a young black man with a foreign-sounding name took command of a nation founded by slaveholders. It was a scene watched in fascination by many millions - perhaps billions - around the world.
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