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The first black man elected U.S. president is poised to name Washington lawyer Eric Holder as the nation's first black attorney ...

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Rep.-elect Chaffetz has a cot wrapped in duct tape and a plan for washing his underwear.Submit this article to The Obama News

President-elect tells delegates gathered in L.A. to debate tactics for reducing planet-warming pollution that his administration will help lead way to 'a new era of global cooperation.'

President-elect Barack Obama sent an explicit message Tuesday to international negotiators of a new global warming treaty that, under his administration, the U.S would move to slash its own greenhouse gas emissions by more than 80% by mid-century, and "help lead the world toward a new era of global cooperation on climate change."Submit this article to The Obama News

Liberal activists are outraged that the Connecticut senator, who supported McCain for president, will retain his committee chairmanship.

Barack Obama has long presented himself as a hybrid -- at once a liberal advocate and a post-partisan bridge-builder, a romantic out to change the world and a pragmatist grounded in the realities of politics.Submit this article to The Obama News

Media fervor over the election of Obama is already being tempered by stories about the harsh realities facing the incoming president.

Newspaper people are an odd, conflicted sort.Submit this article to The Obama News

She has not indicated whether she will take the job if she does not become Obama's secretary of State, but expanding coverage has been one of her goals for years.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y), considered a prominent contender to become secretary of State in the Obama administration, was offered an alternative Tuesday -- to be a senior member of the Senate team aiming to overhaul the nation's healthcare system.Submit this article to The Obama News

Aides weigh support in the Senate for the former Clinton administration official, who would be the first black leader of the Justice Department. The Marc Rich pardon could emerge as an issue.

Former Justice Department official Eric H. Holder Jr. emerged Tuesday as Barack Obama's leading candidate for attorney general, and the president-elect's transition team was trying to gauge whether there was sufficient bipartisan support for him in the Senate, sources close to the transition confirmed.Submit this article to The Obama News

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has lost his bid for a seventh term. The longest-serving Republican in the history of the Senate trailed ...

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The Consumer Price Index, the country's most closely watched inflation gauge, probably will show a dip of 0.5 percent in October, after being flat in September

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The first thing then-White House chief of staff Kenneth Duberstein did was apologize to the job candidate he was about to interview. ...

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Second of two articles The pressure on Henry M. Paulson Jr. in early September was greater than at any other time during his tenure as Treasury secretary. As he pored over the books of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, he discovered that they were about to collapse and that the financial...

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Eric H. Holder Jr., a former Justice Department official who was President-elect Barack Obama's campaign co-chairman, is the leading candidate to serve as the next U.S. attorney general, according to Democratic sources familiar with the choice.

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The chieftains of Detroit's Big Three automakers made a desperate appeal to skeptical lawmakers yesterday for $25 billion in emergency loans to forestall the possible collapse of the domestic auto industry, offering to cut their own salaries in exchange for government aid.

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Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) easily won a vote yesterday to remain chairman of a key committee and will stay in the Senate Democratic caucus despite his high-profile criticism of President-elect Barack Obama and his support of Sen. John McCain during the presidential campaign.

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Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich (D) defeated Sen. Ted Stevens, ending the tenure of the longest-serving Republican in Senate history, after the counting of more ballots yesterday gave him a larger lead than the number of votes still untallied, Alaska elections officials said.

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Democrats in the Senate called on President Bush to halt any effort by his administration to place political appointees in career jobs just weeks before his team leaves office.

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Eric H. Holder Jr. Born: Jan. 21, 1951, in the Bronx.

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Madeleine Pickens, the wife of billionaire T. Boone Pickens, who this week offered to rescue more than 30,000 wild horses kept in federal holding pens, said yesterday that she wants to create a permanent retirement ranch for the horses and burros that could be open to the public.

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If President-elect Barack Obama follows the pattern of most of his modern predecessors, one of the first documents to bear his signature after he takes office will be a directive laying out his administration's national security structure. Bill Clinton signed one his first day in office; George W....

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Gen. James L. Jones Current job : President and chief executive of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy

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