The U.S. Secret Service had a Wisconsin man arrested in Brookhaven, Mississippi, by the local Lincoln County sheriff's department on Friday for threatening to assassinate President-elect Barack Obama during his inauguration on January 20.

The President-elect Barack Obama is the man Americans admire most in the world, shows the survey by a U.S. newspaper USA Today.

Officials in Washington D.C. say four million people could come to see the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama - the largest-ever crowd to visit the nation's capital.

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has said he intends to do whatever it takes to stabilize the economy, restore consumer confidence and create jobs. Mr. Obama spoke in a television interview broadcast Sunday night.

For the first time, the weekly Democratic address has been released as a web video. It will also continue to air on the radio. U.S. President-elect Barack Obama is taking the Democratic Party's weekly radio address online, as the incoming administration works on making the White House more high-tech.

It's a weekly cycle: George W. Bush makes his weekly presidential radio address, and the Democrats respond in kind. This week, however, a difference: it was Barack Obama who made the address.