Barack Obama

A who’s who guide to the people poised to shape Obama’s foreign policy.

Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 18 November 2008

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The owners of the pizzeria that makes Barack Obama's favorite pies are heading to Washington, NBC 5's Anthony Ponce reports.

Italian Fiesta Pizza in Hyde Park is taking its spicy-sauced, thin crust pizza to D.C. for an event previewing the food at the inauguration:

The Ritz in Washington D.C. is paying to fly the pizzeria's owners to the nation's capitol for the inauguration expo to be held there next week to serve their pizza there.

A Chicago family filed a federal lawsuit today alleging that police officers unlawfully broke into their West Side home and assaulted them verbally and physically on election night during a neighborhood celebration of Barack Obama's victory.

Five members of the Arnold family, ranging in age from 1 to 18, were on their front porch in the 3400 block of West Chicago Avenue on the night of Nov. 4 as residents celebrated Obama's presidential victory, said Gregory Kulis, the attorney who filed the suit on behalf of 7 plaintiffs.

In a new afterword to his 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, Bill Ayers refers to himself as a "family friend" of President-elect Barack Obama, according to a copy of the manuscript obtained by the Chicago Tribune:

In his first first television interview since he became the center of controversy in the Presidential race, Chicago activist Williams Ayers breaks his silence in an exclusive interview with Chris Cuomo on Friday's "Good Morning America."

Ayers, a leader of 60s radical group the Weathermen, became a political lightning rod over past associations with president-elect Barack Obama. In his first exclusive interview, Ayers talks about the re-issue of his 2001 memoir "Fugitive Days" and his journey from privileged youth to 60s radical.

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

It's not as if we at BAR didn't warn you.
Barack Obama's first major...

Barack Obama's motorcade had an unexpected occurrence while ferrying the president-elect to a security briefing at Chicago FBI headquarters Thursday morning.

As the motorcade pulled onto Van Buren, towards the Loop, a couple in a tan sedan tried to drive around the heavily-armed line of vehicles, wrote pool reporter P.J. Hufstutter of the Los Angeles Times: