WASHINGTON - US authorities were investigating a potential threat, which they said was of uncertain credibility, in connection with the inauguration of president-elect Barack Obama, the US Homeland Security Department said on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON - BARACK Obama prepared to make history on Tuesday as the first black US president, riding a wave of public optimism he will need to tap to deal with the worst economic crisis in 70 years and two wars.
Hundreds of thousands of people, bundled up against the cold, packed Washington's Mall, which stretches 2 miles from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial on the Potomac River and along Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House.
WASHINGTON - AS MASSIVE crowds swarmed the National Mall on Tuesday to witness Barack Obama's inauguration as US president, the man at the center of the maelstrom began the day quietly and reverently, at a church service across the street from the White House.
WASHINGTON - US AUTHORITIES monitored a rush of intelligence leads on Tuesday at the largest security operation in presidential inauguration history, including a possible threat from an East Africa radical Islamic terrorist group.
