Today’s Times
- As President Obama’s second term begins, Republican leaders appear ready to accede to him at least in the short term, Jonathan Weisman reports. Even some staunch conservatives are pushing the party to take a more pragmatic tone.
- For all the revelry surrounding the president’s second inauguration, his staff is now racing to prioritize his second-term ambitions, Jeff Zeleny writes. Political reality says he has perhaps as little as a year to accomplish his biggest goals.
- Hoping to persuade states to expand Medicaid, the Obama administration has proposed a policy that would require millions of low-income people to pay more for health care, Robert Pear reports.
- President Obama’s inauguration marked the beginning of the next phase in his campaign to install a new national-security team, as his nominees continue to have “frank and candid†exchanges on Capitol Hill, Mark Landler writes.
- Gen. John R. Allen, the American commander in Afghanistan, has been cleared of wrongdoing after a Defense Department inquiry into potentially inappropriate e-mails with a socialite in Tampa, Fla., Thom Shanker reports.
Around the Web
- Curators for the Smithonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture spent much of the inauguration weekend scouring the crowds in search of objects! , documents and images that could someday have a space in history, the Associated Press reports.
Happenings in Washington
- President Abraham Lincoln’s Bible will be on display at the Library of Congress
