Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Tom Daschle, a key early supporter and former U.S. Senate leader, as his top official to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, two Democratic sources said on Wednesday.
AP - Former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday appealed to Georgians to send Democrat Jim Martin to Washington arguing the state’s hotly contested Senate runoff must provide a “bridge not a firewall” to the progress promised by President-elect Barack Obama.
AFP - California’s Supreme Court will hear three lawsuits which challenge the state’s recently passed referendum to effectively ban same-sex marriage, a statement said Wednesday.
AP - Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens conceded defeat Wednesday in a re-election bid shadowed by his federal felony conviction, a bitter end to a four-decade career in which he held a commanding place in state politics and on some of the most influential congressional committees in Washington.
AP - Mike Huckabee wouldn’t rule out a 2012 run for president Wednesday, but he acknowledged it could be hard to take back the spotlight from fellow Republican Sarah Palin. “I’m not ruling anything out for the future, but I’m not making any specific plans,” Huckabee told reporters at a briefing to promote his new book, “Do the Right Thing.”
AP - Associates of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday the former first lady is weighing whether to leave the Senate and become secretary of state in the Obama administration, a job they say she believes is hers if she wants it.
AP - Republican John McCain has defeated President-elect Barack Obama in Missouri the last state to be decided in the 2008 presidential election.
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 - Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has accepted President-elect Barack Obama’s offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, Democratic officials said Wednesday.
AP - Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden says he plans to fulfill his National Guard duties and won’t accept an appointment to his father’s U.S. Senate seat.