Barack Obama's Inauguration | featured news

Bulls and goats have been slaughtered for the feast. Beer has been stockpiled. Movie screens and projectors were erected.

Barack Hussein Obama became the 44th president of the United States Tuesday, and called on Americans to join him in confronting what he described as an economic crisis caused by greed but also “our collective failure to make hard choices.”

Teen sensations the Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, and Demi Lovato are all set to celebrate the Obama Inauguration at the Disney Channel's concert tonight, “The Kids' Inaugural: We Are The Future,” and the country's youngest rock stars shared their hopes for Obama and his daughters Sasha and Malia as Tuesday's ceremony approaches.

Lovato is hoping for some big pol

Celebrities acting like “normal” people might rank low on the “Change We Need” scale, but it’s certainly a welcome one that’s playing out all over Washington this week.

President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural address is one of the most anticipated speeches in decades, with many expecting his words to be chiseled into marble some day.

When President-elect Barack Obama takes the oath of office, it will arguably be the biggest live social-networking event ever ...

If the unthinkable happens on Inauguration Day, Robert Gates, the defense secretary, will be available to assume the reigns of government.

If I wanted Obama to succeed, I'd be happy the Republicans have laid down. And I would be encouraging Republicans to lay down and support him. Look, what he's talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the US government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don't want this to work.

Fresh off a rollicking celebration in the shadow of Abraham Lincoln, President-elect Barack Obama is shaping the final day of his pre-presidential life around another giant figure, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

With nation set to inaugurate its first African American president, many still perceive racism in local communities.