Nomination problems continue to plague the Obama administration.

Tom Daschle isn’t the only Obama nominee to have connections to the founder of EduCap, Catherine B. Reynolds.

Tom Daschle was also dogged by his connections to EduCap, a nonprofit group specializing in student loans.

Former Sen. Tom Daschle’s tax troubles have put a spotlight on Leo J. Hindery Jr., a man who can list both cable company executive and professional race-car driver on his resume.

Her husband has a new job, but Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., is continuing to do her old job, albeit at a different location.

Starting today, Barack Obama pledged after being sworn in as president, “We must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.”

The We Are One Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial yesterday was an event for the history books, attracting an estimated 400,000 people.

Gene B. Sperling, a man familiar with the real and the fictional West Wing, may be signing on with the Obama administration.

President-elect Barack Obama has invited V. Gene Robinson, the openly gay Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, to deliver the prayer at the opening inaugural event at the Lincoln Memorial Sunday.

You could call it a field of dashed dreams. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which convened today to consider Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state, is an object lesson on the soaring ambitions of America’s top politicians - and the often deflated realities of their achievements.

By naming Dennis C. Blair as his nominee for the nation’s top spy post - director of national intelligence - President-elect Barack Obama gets a brainy, retired four-star admiral with an independent streak.

She is a complete unknown to most politicians and journalists. But President-elect Barack Obama says that Nancy Killefer will be one of the most important people in his new administration.

U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois almost annihilated the career of a young Barack Obama almost 20 years ago when he easily beat back a primary challenge from the then-unknown state lawmaker by portraying him as less than authentically black, among other things.

It used to be said that behind every successful man is a woman. In the case of President-elect Barack Obama, add his mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, to the mix.

Roland Burris has avoided controversy in his decades-long public career in Illinois, but he is a seasoned political player with deep ties to the Cook County (IL) Democratic Party.

Looking for a place to stay during Barack Obama’s inauguration? New York Philharmonic music director Lorin Maazel and his wife are offering their Virginia estate for $50,000 a night.

Poetry is making a presidential inauguration comeback, Barack Obama having asked Elizabeth Alexander to read an original poem at his Jan. 21 ceremonies.

An Indian businessman with ties to both Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich and Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. is caught up in the probe of the governor’s alleged efforts to sell the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama.

As the new presidential administration is becoming increasingly loaded with good basketball players, Barack Obama has stressed that court skills are not a requirement for service.

In many ways, Pastor Rick Warren seems an unlikely choice to give the invocation at Barack Obama’s swearing-in.