Portal:Current events/2009 January 5

January 5, 2009 (Monday)

United States President-elect Barack Obama nominates Leon Panetta to be the Central Intelligence Agency's next Director. (CNN)
A fourth bomb targeting EnCana Corporation gas pipelines is detonated outside Tomslake, British Columbia, Canada, making it the first bombing since the three original blasts in October 2008. (CBC)
Minnesota's State Canvassing Board certifies Democratic candidate Al Franken as the winner of the senatorial election recount. Republican Senator Norm Coleman, whose term officially expired January 3, intends to file a lawsuit challenging the decision. (Bloomberg)

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