Washington, Nov. 12: The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is unlikely to conduct a potentially embarrassing audit of how Barack Obama raised and spent his presidential campaign’s record-shattering windfall, despite allegations of questionable donations and accounting that had the McCain campaign crying foul.

According to Politico, Obama is expected to escape that level of scrutiny mostly because he declined an 84 million dollar public grant for his campaign that automatically triggers an audit and because the sheer volume of cash he raised and spent minimizes the significance of his errors.

Washington, Nov 12: President elect Barack Obama would face less pressure for a diverse cabinet that his predecessors Bill Clinton and George W Bush followed to appoint a cabinet that “looks like America.”

They appointed women and minorities for high-ranking positions and overseeing an administration more diverse than any that had come before it.

But Obama is not under undue pressure is the answer supplied by a group of prominent African-Americans.

Washington, Nov 12: Incidents in the recent past have shown that insurgency in Afghanistan has emerged stronger than ever, and new US President-elect Barack Obama will have to adopt a new approach to tackle it after he assumes White House on January 20.

Taliban attacks and U. S. casualties are the highest this year since the war in Afghanistan began. The region is so connected, that any of Afghanistan''s neighbors could facilitate peace and security - or as has been seen, make the situation a lot worse, said a report in cbsnews. com

Washington, Nov 12: Acknowledging fierce pressure from human rights groups to close the controversial high-security Guantanamo Bay prison, US President-elect Barack Obama is learnt to be considering legal formalities on how to carry out the process.

But, according to his aides, he faces a legal minefield in deciding where to house inmates and how to try them.

Any decision to close Guantanamo, which opened in 2002 and has scarred America''s image abroad, will involve working out where to put inmates and require a new kind of legal structure to prosecute them.

Washington, Nov 12 : President-elect Barack Obama and his family will soon be moving in to the White House, and the kitchen staff there are preparing themselves to provided the First Family with their favourite foods.

The First Family will have the privilege of making changes in and around the presidential mansion, to add their own style to the cuisine, and to the décor while they stay there.

Chicago/New Delhi, Nov. 12: The strategic relationship between India and the United States, which was put in place through the US-India civil nuclear cooperation agreement is likely to be enhanced further during the Obama regime.

This is the indication given by US President-elect Barack Obama during a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday morning, when he described the bilateral strategic relationship is a "very important partnership".