President-elect Barack Obama embraces his wife, Michelle, as Vice President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, wave to their supporters after Obama gave his victory speech during an election night gathering in Grant Park on Tuesday in Chicago. Obama defeated John McCain by a wide margin in the election to become the first African-American US President-elect.
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Two of the indelible images of the nation’s civil rights era: Jesse Jackson on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., before Martin Luther King Jr. was shot—and again in Grant Park on the night of November 4.
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US President-elect Barack Obama leaves with his wife, Michelle, during his election night rally after being declared the winner of the 2008 US presidential election in Chicago on Tuesday.
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Republican presidential nominee John McCain speaks to the crowd during his election night rally in Phoenix. Joining McCain is vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. McCain-Palin supporters began booing when McCain congratulated Obama for his victory.
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Television talk show host Oprah Winfrey dances during a victory celebration for President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday night in Chicago.
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Harouna, 26, reacts to the results of the US election in L'Hay-les-roses, 10 kilometers south of Paris, France.
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Kenyans celebrate US President-elect Barack Obama's historic White House victory in Kisumu on Wednesday. Kenyans in Obama's ancestral homeland sang and danced with joy on Wednesday as the Illinois senator they see as one of their own became the first black US president.
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Students reach out to kiss a cutout of US President-elect Barack Obama at the American Centre in New Delhi on Wednesday. India hailed the election of Obama as the next US president on Wednesday, saying his "extraordinary journey" to the White House would inspire people not only in his country but around the world.
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An unidentified relative to Nancy Kijana, right, holds her newborn son, Barack Obama, at New Nyanza Provinvincial Hospital in Kisumu, Kenya. Mothers in Kenya have marked Barack Obama's historic win in the US presidential elections by naming their newborns after him and his wife. More than half of the babies born in a Kisumu Hospital on the day after the election were named either Barack or Michelle Obama.
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Two nuns and a child walk past a poster by the Italian Democratic Party showing a picture of President-elect Barack Obama winning the American presidential election that reads: "The World Changes," in downtown Rome on Wednesday.
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Opposition protesters hold an Obama poster reading, "America We Believe In," at a protest rally in Tbilisi, the capital of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, on Friday. Thousands demonstrated in the first major protest against President Mikheil Saakashvili, who is close to the Bush administration, since the war between Russia and Georgia in August.
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Koichi Morii, an employee of Obama Kaisanbutsu, serves sake during a celebration party for President-elect Barack Obama following his victory in the US presidential election on Wednesday in Obama, Fukui, Japan. Local residents, in cooperation with the support group in Obama City, have been supporting Obama voluntarily, who coincidentally shares the same name.
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President Bush leaves the podium in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Wednesday, after delivering a statement about the transition of the administration of President-elect Barack Obama.
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President-elect Barack Obama leaves a gym on Thursday in Chicago. President Bush said Thursday that he and Obama would discuss major issues such as the global economic turmoil and the war in Iraq "early next week."
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A Secret Service Counter-Assault Team member has his assault weapon at the ready while sitting in the rear of a motorcade SUV as it escorts President-elect Barack Obama, not pictured, to a private meeting at the FBI building in Chicago on Thursday.
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A sign outside the US Capitol at dawn on Thursday notes that the area is closed for construction of the 2009 presidential inauguration site. The nation's capital awoke Wednesday morning along with the rest of the country to news that Barack Obama had been elected president of the United States.
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The podium before the start of the first press conference with President-elect Barack Obama since he was elected president earlier this week, on Friday at the Chicago Hilton in Chicago. Obama has spent most of his week in meetings and assembling staff for his new administration.
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