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Nearly 100 wealthy families and power couples contributed at least $100,000 each to help Barack Obama over the past two years, creating an elite set of donors to whom the president-elect repeatedly turned in financing his campaign, transition and inauguration, a Washington Post analysis shows.

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Entertainer-turned-politician Al Franken declared victory in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race yesterday, just hours after a state panel charged with overseeing the recount of nearly 3 million ballots certified that the Democrat had received 225 more votes than Republican Sen. Norm Coleman.

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Rarely have lawmakers confronted an agenda as ambitious as the one Congress will face upon convening this week, with an incoming president pushing to stabilize an economy on the brink of long-term recession, to create universal health coverage and to overhaul federal energy policies.

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Rarely have lawmakers confronted an agenda as ambitious as the one Congress will face upon convening this week, with an incoming president pushing to stabilize an economy on the brink of long-term recession, to create universal health coverage and to overhaul federal energy policies.

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Following an election that has left Republicans with no clear vision about how to regain power, the normally low-profile race to head the GOP’s national committee has turned into a six-man showdown that has opened rifts along racial, regional and ideological lines.

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With the latest projections showing incumbent Norm Coleman (R) clinging to a lead of a handful of votes, Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race headed deeper into political limbo yesterday, raising the possibility that the contest could still be undecided when the rest of the class of 2008 is sworn in Jan. 6.

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Barack Obama, fencing with reporters in Chicago yesterday, reminded me of Bill Clinton.

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Less than 24 hours after his upset defeat of a longtime Democratic congressman from New Orleans, Anh “Joseph” Cao found the weight of the entire Republican Party resting on his diminutive shoulders.

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Republicans grappled yesterday with the final evidence of the enormous cash advantage President-elect Barack Obama’s campaign had against Sen. John McCain: a fundraising machine that raised more than three-quarters of a billion dollars.

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MINNEAPOLIS — One of the closest elections in the history of the United States Senate is now playing out inside a storage garage hidden on the outskirts of downtown. Dozens of election officials wearing winter jackets sit in teams of two at plastic folding tables. Each team counts about 500 ballots…

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ATLANTA, Dec. 2 — Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) easily won reelection Tuesday night, trouncing his Democratic challenger in a runoff and thereby ensuring that the GOP will retain the ability to filibuster bills in the Senate.

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A bipartisan group of legislators and advocates for the military and Americans overseas are urging Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to expand the search for a new director for the troubled Pentagon office that helps those citizens vote by absentee ballot.

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Seventy-five days and counting — to “game day,” as the military planners call it. Inauguration Day to the rest of us.

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The final shape of the new Senate lingered in doubt yesterday with a runoff likely in Georgia, recounts pending in Minnesota and possibly Oregon, and uncertainty over whether the longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history had held on to his Alaska seat barely a week after being convicted on…

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It felt like Berlin after the Wall was breached. Something that had been imagined for so long, yet seemed impossible, just . . . happened. It felt like the American promise, fulfilled.

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On the morning after, Teddy Andrews knew there was one place he needed to go to commemorate Barack Obama’s historic triumph: the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where 40 years ago, before hundreds of thousands of African Americans, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. voiced his soaring dream of racial…

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LONDON, Nov. 5 — Through tears and whoops of joy, in celebrations that spilled onto the streets, people around the globe called Barack Obama’s election Tuesday a victory for the world and a renewal of America’s ability to inspire.

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Maryland and Virginia residents who voted by absentee ballot will determine the outcome of several races, including for two congressional seats, that remained too close to call after all precinct votes were tallied.

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In this Twittering, podcasting digital age, the morning after America’s presidential election found thousands of people clamoring for something more old-fashioned and tangible: extra copies of the morning paper.

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The bitterly fought race in Maryland’s 1st Congressional District that pitted Democrat Frank M. Kratovil Jr. against Republican Andrew P. Harris will be decided by absentee ballot, state election officials said yesterday.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 5 — Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday called on President-elect Barack Obama to end U.S. airstrikes that risk civilian casualties after coalition forces allegedly killed dozens of people at a wedding party in southern Afghanistan this week.

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Ladies and gentlemen, we have our first full-fledged ideological battle of the fledgling Obama administration.

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Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich (D) defeated Sen. Ted Stevens, ending the tenure of the longest-serving Republican in Senate history, after the counting of more ballots yesterday gave him a larger lead than the number of votes still untallied, Alaska elections officials said.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens dropped further behind Democrat Mark Begich in his re-election bid Tuesday as the convicted felon’s 85th birthday became a grueling wait that could determine whether his decades-long hold on power is over.

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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is among the top contenders to become secretary of state in Barack Obama’s administration, officials familiar with the selection process said, part of what appears to be an effort by the incoming president to reach out to former rivals and consider unexpected moves as …

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