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Speaker Pelosi: "I feel very confident that Joe Biden will be elected President on Tuesday. Whatever the end count is on the election that occurs on Tuesday, he will be elected, on January 20th he will be inaugurated President."

— On a bone-chilling Monday morning, agents and technical specialists from the Washington Field Office of the FBI huddled and shifted from foot to foot... in near zero-degree weather as they prepared to demonstrate to the media ... or any organization planning to attack the 2017 inaugural should think twice. Rhetoric from hostile nation-states, active threats on social media and angry protesters are just part of what authorities are preparing for. ... Hazardous Evidence Response Team, Special Agent Bomb Technicians, the Operational-Medicine Team, the Evidence-Response Team, the Crisis-Negotiations Team and the Special-Weapons and Tactics team gave detailed explanations about their...

Reported by: Kennie Bass Videographer: Unknown Web Producer: Dick Canter January 20, 2006 Authorities say a conveyer belt caught fire deep inside the Aracoma Mine in Melville, Logan County. The two miners got separated from a 12-member crew in the smoke-filled mine shaft. Rescue crews say their efforts to put out the fire and increase visibility in the mine are working. The wait gets tougher by the minute for family and friends. Ann Hill, concerned relative: "I'm very relieved, but I'm still very concerned that the two are still in there." Mine safety officials and Governor Manchin work hard to...

Anti-Bush protest urges Jan. 20 boycott WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- An anti-Bush protest urging no American spend any money on Jan. 20, Inauguration Day, is making the rounds on the Internet, USA Today reported Thursday. Known as "Not One Damn Dime Day," it is a call for a one-day economic boycott in protest of U.S. policy in Iraq and of the estimated $40 million in private funds being spent on Bush's second inaugural. Like many items floating around the Internet, the provenance of the message is unclear. The Web site notonedamndime.com promotes the boycott but the site's creators, Laura...

Thursday, January 15, 2004 Millionaire Teel Bivins' replacement in the Texas Senate most likely will be another man capable of putting a lot of his own money into the contest. The Panhandle-to-Midland/Odessa district Bivins represented for 15 years, including stints chairing the Nominations, Education, and Finance committees, came vacant when he resigned Monday to become President Bush's nominee for United States ambassador to Sweden. The probable front-runner to be his replacement in Tuesday's special election is the former Amarillo mayor, Kel Seliger, 50, who left that office in 2001. Of the six other candidates, the three chief competitors, based on...

Senate could get another maverick Thursday, December 25, 2003 The Jan. 10 retirement of state Sen. Bill Ratliff, R-Mount Pleasant, could bring to the Senate someone as independent as he is. The lone Democrat in the Jan. 20 special election is former House Education Committee chairman Paul Sadler of Henderson. The main Republican candidates are state Rep. Tommy Merritt of Longview and former Tyler Mayor Kevin Eltife. Sadler, 48, a plaintiff's attorney, started his freshman session in 1991 by lecturing his colleagues that a lottery was wrong, and then ran a brief and ill-fated campaign for speaker. But he buckled...

Perry sets election to fill Bivins' seat AUSTIN (AP) — A special election to fill the seat of resigning state Sen. Teel Bivins will be Jan. 20, Gov. Rick Perry announced Monday. Bivins, an Amarillo Republican nominated by President Bush to be ambassador to Sweden, is leaving the office Jan. 12. His Senate district covers 26 counties in West Texas. The person elected to fill the post will serve the rest of Bivins' term, which runs until January 2005. Perry also has set Jan. 20 as the date for a special election to fill the seat of Sen. Bill Ratliff,...