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President-elect Barack Obama (right) announces Federal Reserve Board Governor-designate Daniel Tarullo (center) and Commodities Futures Trading Commission Chairman-designate Gary Gensler in Chicago on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)
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In this image from APTN video, a man, center, throws a shoe at U.S. President George W. Bush, background left, during a news conference with Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008, in Baghdad, Iraq. On an Iraq trip shrouded in secrecy and marred by dissent, Bush on Sunday hailed progress in the war that defines his presidency and got a size-10 reminder of his unpopularity when a man hurled two shoes at him during a news conference. (AP Photo) ** FILE **
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Passengers board an Amtrak Acela train bound for New York at Union Station in Washington in 2008. (The Washington Times)
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HINDSIGHT: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice acknowledges that the U.S. "didn't talk much about democracy in the Middle East." (Associated Press)
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Tina Fey (left) plays Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to Amy Poehler's Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on "Saturday Night Live" in September 2008. (Associated Press, file)
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** FILE ** President Bush is greeted by the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Gen. Raymond T. Odierno (left), and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker (center) on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008, in Baghdad, on Mr. Bush's surprise visit to Iraq.
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BLOOMBERG NEWS CIA Director Michael V. Hayden, who is gaining support from the intelligence community to continue in his post in the Obama administration, met Tuesday with the president-elect in Chicago. The Obama transition team Friday declined to comment.
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James Stewart (left), Donna Reed and Thomas Mitchell appear in "It's a Wonderful Life."
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An estimated 1,200 undocumented migrants daily cross the Limpopo River, South Africa's equivalent of the Rio Grande separating the U.S. and Mexico. Most are from Zimbabwe, where shortages of food and fuel and an unemployment rate of more than 80% have sparked a steady exodus to the more stable and more prosperous South Africa. (Getty Images/File)
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Then-President-elect Barack Obama used his YouTube videos as a tool to reach out to the American public. ** FILE **
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The operations center features numerous, movie-theater-size flat-screen monitors that stream live images from unmanned aircraft patrolling the two theaters of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force)
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*** FILE *** A photo-radar camera on the 700 block of Florida Avenue Northeast, D.C. (The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** As his eight-year presidency nears the end, President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush are joined by two unidentified girls as they light the National Christmas Tree. (Rod Lamkey Jr./ The Washington Times)
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**FILE** Washington Redskins' Clinton Portis carries a flag bearing the number of slain fellow player Sean Taylor as the Washington Redskins host the New York Giants at FedEx Field in Landover, Md., Sunday. (Michael Connor / The Washington Times)
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Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi is surrounded by journalists during the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) meeting Saturday in Cairo, Egypt. OPEC oil ministers downplayed expectations of, but didn't dismiss outright, an immediate output cut as they faced a third test in as many months of their ability to engineer a rebound in oil prices. (Associated Press)
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GETTY IMAGES Police keep watch in Grand Central Terminal on Wednesday in New York. The FBI and Homeland Security Department downplayed the seriousness of a terrorist threat to transit systems.
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Taj Mahal hotel employees comfort each other after being rescued. A group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the attacks. (Associated Press)
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Rusty Humphries' World Famous Flash Cooked Roast Turkey recipe -- politics included. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Edward E. "Ted" Kaufman listens as Gov. Ruth Ann Minner appoints him Monday to fill the Senate seat Joseph Biden as he leaves for the vice presidency in Wilmington, Del. Kaufman, a former aide to Biden, is president of a political and management consulting firm based in Wilmington. (Associated Press/The News Journal)
