Eric Holder won Senate confirmation Monday as the nation's first African-American attorney general, ...more

February 2, 2009

President-elect Barack Obama on Monday plans to officially announce that Democratic primary rival Hillary Rodham Clinton will be his secretary of state and name other appointees to top posts in his administration. ...more

December 1, 2008

Washington attorney Eric Holder is President-elect Barack Obama'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. ...more

November 18, 2008

The Bush administration allowed CIA interrogators to use tactics that were "quite distressing, uncomfortable, even frightening," as long as they did not cause enough severe and lasting pain to constitute illegal torture, a senior Justice Department official said last week. ...more

February 18, 2008

The woman who oversaw a federal report documenting voter disenfranchisement during Florida's disputed 2000 presidential election is asking the Democratic Party to settle a fight with Florida and Michigan before the party harms itself. ...more

February 5, 2008

Federal authorities reached a temporary truce Wednesday with college students threatening a march on the Capitol next week to protest the acquittal of seven boot camp guards and a nurse in the death of a teenage boy under their supervision. ...more

October 18, 2007