Former President Jimmy Carter is visiting Haiti and the Dominican Republic to urge their leaders to forge a pact to rid the island of Hispaniola of malaria. An estimated 30,000 Haitians and several thousand people across the border in the Dominican Republic are infected each year with the mosquito-borne illness. Hispaniola is malaria’s last Caribbean outpost.

The White House says President Barack Obama doesn’t believe he’s being criticized because of his race. Spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday that Obama - the nation’s first black president - doesn’t think that criticism of his policies is “based on the color of his skin.“

Tributes continue to pour in for the late Senator Ted Kennedy. President Obama has said an important chapter in the country’s history has ended. ABC News’ Linsey Davis reports.

Hundreds of people have gathered to remember former U.S. Attorney Griffin Bell, a leading Georgia attorney who died of kidney failure at the age of 90.

Obama stood in the Oval Office on Wednesday with President George W. Bush and three former presidents: Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. The president-elect said all of them understand the pressures of the job and he looks forward to sharing time with them.

Georgia to honor Bell with flags at half-staff Wednesday to honor Griffin Bell

Participants at an international human rights conference have recommendations for the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama, including an independent commission to examine U.S. interrogation and detention practices.