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When President-elect Barack Obama introduced his national security team this week, he left two key positions unfilled: CIA director and director of National Intelligence. That may be because it's hard to find people to fill the jobs who are not associated with the controversial intelligence policies of the Bush administration.

Five of the most prominent detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, say they want to plead guilty to plotting the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Carol Rosenberg, a reporter for the Miami Herald, who is covering the hearings, offers her insight into the case.

President-elect Barack Obama is said to have chosen Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu to be Energy secretary. Chu is one of three scientists who shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1997 for work in cooling and trapping atoms with laser light.

Rod Blagojevich was arrested this morning on charges of conspiracy to commit fraud and solicitation of bribery. He is accused of trying to leverage his authority to appoint a senator to fill the vacancy left by Barack Obama for his personal gain.

President-elect Barack Obama's choice of evangelical pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration ceremony has infuriated gay-rights activists. Few evangelicals voted for Obama and gays were some of his strongest supporters.

Five Muslim immigrants have been convicted of plotting to kill U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix, N.J. The verdict came after the jury deliberated for about 38 hours over six days. The men face up to life in prison when they are sentenced in April.

Now that President Bush has said he will help the nation's auto industry with $17.4 billion in emergency loans, employees on the front lines weigh in.

Before President Bush laid out his plan on Friday, automakers had pleaded with Congress not once, but twice before it fell to the White House. Lots of politicking went into getting the deal to where it is, and many members of Congress remain doubtful.

In Oakland, Calif., a former transit police officer will be formally arraigned Thursday for the shooting death of an unarmed man. The incident on New Year's Day has irritated some long-standing racial tensions in Oakland. A protest Wednesday night was mild compared to one a week ago.

Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday for her confirmation hearing. The New York senator, and former first lady, got a generally warm reception from her colleagues. Some were a bit cooler, though, about foreign donations to her famous husband's foundation.