'Washington novelists' assess Barack Obama's ascension to the White House.

In the 1960s, Irving Wallace wrote a novel called "The Man," in which the sudden deaths of the president, vice president and speaker of the House bring to power a most unlikely occupant of the Oval Office: Sen. Douglas Dillman -- a black man.

The president-elect campaigned on the concept and he might appoint a new FCC chief to implement it.

President-elect Barack Obama famously made the World Wide Web a pillar of his campaign, so it is not surprising that the man already being called the nation's first "wired" president has championed the idea of an open Internet.

A conservative group says regulating its documentary, 'Hillary: The Movie,' as a campaign ad before the Democratic primaries was unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court voted Friday to hear an election- related case that will decide whether a politically charged film -- in this case "Hillary: The Movie" -- can be regulated as a campaign ad.

At a meeting in Miami, the governors debate how the party can reclaim the momentum from Democrats. The confab is also an early audition for the 2012 presidential race.

With Barack Obama busy building his administration, Republicans gathered Thursday to discuss ways to make him a one-term president and turn back a rising Democratic tide. There was plenty of disagreement over how to do that.

Some Obama advisors want to blend his campaign operation with the Democratic National Committee. Others worry that such a move could cause the grass-roots organization to unravel.

It is the biggest and broadest American political force ever created -- a vast, electronically linked network of activists, neighborhood organizers and volunteers who raised record amounts of money and propelled Barack Obama to the White House.

Impose a mandate on broadcasters to balance their political views? That would be onerous indeed. But memo to Rush: Nobody's asking for that.

One of the favorite rallying cries on conservative radio these days is that the president-elect might face demands from his crazed lefty pals to revive the "Fairness Doctrine" to muzzle Rush, Sean and their allies on the right end of the radio dial.

Officials were concerned that some of the offers could be scams. Tickets to Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony are supposed to be free and won't be distributed until a few days before the event.

Caving to pressure from the federal inaugural committee, EBay Inc. on Thursday removed tickets to the Jan. 20 swearing-in ceremony of President-elect Barack Obama from its websites.

The tech community is speculating about what role the government official will play and who will be picked to fill the newly created post.

The most talked-about tech job in government is one that never before existed.

But Ayers says conservatives wove a 'dishonest narrative' during campaign.

In a new afterword to his memoir, "Fugitive Days," 1960s radical William Ayers describes himself as a "family friend" of President-elect Barack Obama and writes that the controversy over their relationship was an effort to "deepen a dishonest narrative" about the candidate.

Officials were concerned that some offers could be scams. Tickets to the presidential swearing-in ceremony are supposed to be free and won't be distributed until a few days before the event.

Caving to pressure from the federal inaugural committee, EBay Inc. on Thursday removed tickets to the Jan. 20 swearing-in ceremony of President-elect Barack Obama from its websites.