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Keep your shoes and belts on -- waiting in long airport security lines to pass through metal detectors may soon be a thing of the past.

President Bush's former political director says the national security team named by President-elect Barack Obama "represents, to a substantial degree, continuity" especially in hot spots like Iraq and Afghanistan.

During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama spoke about using diplomacy, nation-building and other non-military approaches to promote U.S. interests abroad. According to this world view, advancing living standards abroad could enhance security at home.

China said Tuesday it is looking forward to working with President-elect Barack Obama's national security team, welcoming Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state and retired Marine Gen. James Jones as White House national security adviser.

Like his economic team, Barack Obama's choices for three top national security jobs exude competence. But by including his one-time rival, Hillary Clinton, as well as two experienced hands in Republican administrations – Robert Gates and Gen. James Jones – he's reaching beyond competence to a balanced approach to foreign affairs.

Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama is hiring retired Marine General James Jones as national security adviser to keep a team of strong-willed veteran policy makers working in harmony rather than at cross-purposes.

President-elect Barack Obama yesterday introduced a war cabinet that is more diverse than that of any other president in recent history, appointing three women and two African Americans to his top national security and foreign policy posts. But the six folks nominated mirror the national security...

As governor of Arizona, Janet Napolitano, Barack Obama's choice for homeland security secretary, opposed the Real ID drivers' license program.

More than 200 prisoners escaped from Liberia's highest security prison in the heart of the capital Monrovia, after overcoming guards by pelting them with stones and other objects, police said.

President-elect Barack Obama's national security adviser, Gen. Jim Jones, said Monday the challenge he will face will be to achieve consensus among the disparate members of the new president's national security team.