HONOLULU, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, his family and close friends honored Obama's grandmother in a memorial service then scattered her ashes into the ocean.
HONOLULU, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Political sources say President-elect Barack Obama will attend a memorial for his late grandmother during a holiday stay in Hawaii before his inauguration.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- As a Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama did not donate to his campaign, which is not uncommon for presidential candidates.
HARTFORD, Conn., Nov. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Ind-Conn., says U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's post-election transition moves have been "just about perfect."
CHICAGO, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama announced the top members of his communications staff Saturday.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Bill Clinton reportedly will let the Obama White House vet his future overseas speeches so his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., can be secretary of state.
NYANGMA-KOGELO, Kenya, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Kenyan relatives of U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama are new celebrities in their country, but say the spotlight isn't always welcome.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama says he will use Internet videos to update the nation in a modern version of Franklin Roosevelt's "fireside chats" on radio.
KISUMU, Kenya, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A Kisumu, Kenya, hospital said it has experienced a boom of babies named for the family of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The American Civil Liberties Union says it has started an ad campaign urging U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
OBAMA, Japan, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- The town of Obama, Japan, celebrated the presidential victory of the U.S. politician who shares the town's name with singing, dancing and chanting.
CHICAGO, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Media titan Oprah Winfrey says she's thrilled Democrat Barack Obama has been voted the next President of the United States.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Barack Obama, with projected wins in West Coast states, became the first African-American president-elect of the United States Tuesday.
CHICAGO, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama cast his ballot Tuesday in an elementary school in his South Side Chicago neighborhood.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain engaged in a little Election Day rallying, stumping Tuesday in Grand Junction, Colo.
