Washington, Jan 17 : White supremacists across the United States are closely being watched by hate crimes experts and law enforcement officials as Barack Obama prepares to be sworn in as the first Black president of the United States next week.

So far, there is no known organized effort to express opposition to Obama’s rise to the presidency -- other than a call by the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan for its members to wear black armbands and fly the US flag upside down on Inauguration Day and Obama’s first full day in office, the Daily News reported.

New York, Jan 17 : Golf ace Tiger Woods will be speaking at the opening celebration for Barack Obama''s presidential inauguration.

The 33-year-old golfer is the latest star to be included in the line-up for the "We Are One" ceremony to be held on January 18.

The ceremony also boasts performances and readings by Beyonce, Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Denzel Washington and Martin Luther King III, among others.

Washington, Jan 17 : The security measures will be unprecedented on Tuesday as Barack Hussein Obama is sworn in as the 44th US President and America''s first black head of the state.

Millions are expected to make the pilgrimage to see him place his left hand on Abraham Lincoln''s burgundy velvet-bound Bible to take the inaugural oath.

The US Secret Service is overseeing a security force of more than 40,000 people, including 7,500 active duty soldiers, 10,000 National Guard troops and 25,000 law-enforcement officers, FOX News reported.

New York, Jan 17 : American rock musician Courtney Love’s anti-Semitic views have been revealed in the Jewish magazine Heeb.

Love, who describes herself as Buddhist even though her mother is Jewish, spoke out about her ex-husband Kurt Cobain''s legacy.

“Every time you buy a Nirvana record, part of that money is not going to Kurt''s child, or to me, it''s going to a handful of Jew loan officers, Jew private banks, it''s going to lawyers who are also bankers . . .” the New York Post quoted her as saying.

She further shared her views on the reason why she gave up playing in an all-girl band.

New York, Jan 17 : Business mogul Donald Trump’s ex-wife Ivana has revealed that her family always won competitions that are held on the Aspen slopes.

New York, January 17 : In the run-up to U. S. President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration, political experts have started to gauge what sort of behaviour will be expected from his wife Michelle as the next First Lady.

Robert Watson, author of The Presidents’ Wives, says that apart from caring for her own family, she will also have to show concern about issues that matter.

“You’re talking about an Ivy-educated lawyer who’s the epitome of the modern woman,” the New York Daily News quoted him as saying.