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Despite their gains at the polls, the coalition of fiscally conservative Democrats may be put to the test by the financial crisis

The former president has offered several concessions to help his spouse become secretary of state, including releasing the names of several major donors to his charitable foundation.

Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri has criticized President-elect Barack Obama, calling him a demeaning racial term implying that Obama is a black American who does the bidding of whites.

An adviser to Hillary Rodham Clinton said the senator was agonizing over the decision about whether to become Barack Obama's secretary of state.

As secretary of state, Hillary would take over a huge, prestigious organization. But it would, for the most part, be a gilded cage. And to the extent that she might fail to do Obama's bidding, she would be ignored, neutralized and ultimately rendered irrelevant.

The Democrats kept Sen. Joe Lieberman in the fold because politics is a game of addition and the magic number is 60:  the number of senators needed to defeat a delaying motion or filibuster.

Party gains take a back seat for now, but bipartisan opportunities for the president-elect are not obvious

Malia and Sasha Obama are in Washington with their mother checking out prospective new schools.

President-elect Barack Obama's aides have been privately talking to senators about whether Washington attorney Eric Holder would be confirmed as the next attorney general.

Convicted Sen. Ted Stevens clung Tuesday to the hope that a climactic vote count in Alaska would buttress his argument to remain in Congress and fellow Republicans accommodated him by putting off a decision on his expulsion.