AP - The first black man elected U.S. president is poised to name Washington lawyer Eric Holder as the nation's first black attorney general a historic appointment but one with some potential political problems over a 2001 pardon.
AP - Two weeks after Africans danced for joy to see a black man elected president of the United States, a Kenyan newspaper columnist delivered a crisp warning to this complex and troubled continent: "Obama is not the Great Black Hope."
AFP - Al-Qaeda number two Ayman Zawahiri ridiculed US president-elect Barack Obama as a "house negro" and warned him against sending more troops to Afghanistan, in an Internet audio message released on Wednesday.
AP - Associates of Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband say the former first lady is weighing whether to leave the Senate and become secretary of state, believing the job is hers if she wants it.
AFP - President-elect Barack Obama has picked former Democratic Senate majority leader Tom Daschle as his future health and human services secretary, a Democratic official said Wednesday.
AFP - Barack Obama's transition team dropped broad hints Wednesday about who will fill a raft of top posts in his administration, naming teams of aides to develop policies in key areas.
