The U.S. Senate’s sergeant at arms says he doesn’t expect trouble when Roland Burris shows up to be sworn in as President-elect Barack Obama’s successor on Tuesday.

A House Democrat is daring Senate leaders to block a black man from taking President-elect Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat.

Neenah Paper, based in Alpharetta, Ga., says it will provide Obama’s team with the “greenest premium paper in the world” for invitations to the Jan. 20 event. The invitations will be printed by Precision Continental in Brooklyn, New York.

The Rev. Rick Warren, whose selection to deliver the invocation at President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration next month has drawn controversy, will be in the pulpit at Ebenezer Baptist Church to deliver the keynote address at the Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative service.

Vice President-elect Joe Biden says a report due out later Tuesday will show “no inappropriate contact” between President-elect Barack Obama’s staff and embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

Maine Sen. Susan Collins says President-elect Barack Obama has selected Karen Mills of Brunswick, Maine, to head the Small Business Administration.

Charleston Mayor Joe Riley is heading to Chicago to meet with a key member of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team.

The Illinois Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge to Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s fitness to hold office. A spokesman said Wednesday that the court rejected the challenge without comment.

President George W. Bush says that while there has been lots of debate about his policies, there can be no argument that America has been kept safe since the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Next month, a group of local college students will get the chance to show off their speaking skills…in front of President-elect Barack Obama. So why are they arguing about it? Count on Joy Howe to tell us why.

The man who’s in charge of Chicago’s public schools is President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to be education secretary.

An Illinois House panel has begun an unprecedented meeting to decide whether to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

Presidential electors are gathering in Atlanta and other state capitals across the country to cast the votes that will formally elect Barack Obama as president.

The chief of staff to Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has resigned, three days after he was arrested on government corruption charges along with his boss.

Illinois’ attorney general is threatening to go to the state Supreme Court to have Gov. Rod Blagojevich declared unfit to hold office if he doesn’t resign soon.