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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two days of high-profile hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee begin today for President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions. In testimony today, Sessions appears likely to stress his conservative legal credentials even as he works to persuade Democrats he can be fair and even-handed. Opponents question Sessions' commitment to civil rights.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he's leaving his eight years in office with two basic lessons: that Americans are fundamentally good, and that change can happen. Now an elder statesman, Obama is returning to Chicago where he launched his unlikely political career to tell Americans not to lose faith in their future, no matter what they think about their next president. It's his final speech as president.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's top intelligence official heads to Capitol Hill for the second time in a week today to testify before lawmakers about the declassified report that fingered the Kremlin in hacking during the presidential campaign. National Intelligence Director James Clapper is set to appear before the Senate intelligence committee.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The streets of Iran's capital are awash with mourners grieving for the late Iranian leader Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (hah-SHEH'-mee rahf-sahn-JAHN'-ee), who died over the weekend at the age of 82. Hundreds of thousands of people filled main thoroughfares of Tehran and clerical officials held a funeral service at Tehran University. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attended.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — Six people have been killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province. An Afghan official says the target of the attack was a guesthouse used by a provincial intelligence official in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack but the Taliban use suicide attacks or roadside bombs to target government officials and Afghan security forces.
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