#60;p>#60;a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081119/ap_on_el_se/stevens">#60;img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081118/capt.57bbbae0550e4603941c0ecf6c716e57.senate_stevens_dcgh115.jpg?x=130y=86q=85sig=ooYeRuCMh0yLUkM6xAAa5w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, is pursued by members of the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, after attending a Republican Caucus . (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)" border="0" />#60;/a>AP - Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican in Senate history, narrowly lost his re-election bid Tuesday, marking the downfall of a Washington political power and Alaska icon who couldn#039;t survive a conviction on federal corruption charges. His defeat by Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich moves Senate Democrats within two seats of a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority.#60;/p>#60;br clear="all"/>

#60;p>#60;a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081119/ap_on_el_pr/obama_attorney_general">#60;img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081118/capt.ad27882809694610a9af42a53d52771d.obama_attorney_general_wx111.jpg?x=130y=85q=85sig=q530KRLDJQB1C0wwL_wONA--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="In this July 20, 1999 file photo, President Clinton shakes hand with Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, right, as Attorney General Janet Reno looks on at a American Bar Association Presidential Call to Action event at the White House in Washington. Holder is President-elect Barack Obama#039;s top choice to be the next attorney general and aides have gone so far as to ask senators whether he would be confirmed, an Obama official and people close to the matter said Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)" border="0" />#60;/a>AP - President-elect Barack Obama#039;s top choice for attorney general is Eric Holder, a former No. 2 Justice Department official in the Clinton administration and Obama campaign aide who would become the first African American to serve as the nation#039;s chief lawyer.#60;/p>#60;br clear="all"/>

#60;p>#60;a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081119/ap_on_go_pr_wh/clinton_secretary_of_state">#60;img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20081118/capt.cps.ogf47.181108235135.photo01.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130y=86q=85sig=9AaXGBxrfamPbTaa1wqZGg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="US president-elect Barack Obama (L) and New York Senator Hillary Clinton address supporters during a rally at Amway Arena in Orlando, Florida, in October 2008. Signs that Barack Obama may make once bitter foe Hillary Clinton his secretary of state are provoking a flurry of questions over the president-elect#39;s motivation and vision for foreign policy.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)" border="0" />#60;/a>AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has engaged three prominent lawyers to help President-elect Barack Obama vet her candidacy for secretary of state even as some insiders criticized the pick and advisers to the former first lady said she was weighing whether to take the job if Obama offered it.#60;/p>#60;br clear="all"/>