Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton? Both NBC News and the Washington Post are reporting that there is talk about Clinton being under consideration for the job by the incoming Obama administration. Clinton aides referred questions to President-elect Barack Obama's transition team; Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to comment.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who not long ago said it was inconceivable that he would remain at his post under a Democratic administration, is likely to remain for a time if Obama asks him to, defense officials told the McClatchy News Service.

60 Minutes" has landed the first post-election interview of Obama and his wife, Michelle. CBS News said the interview, to be conducted today by correspondent Steve Kroft, will be broadcast on Sunday.

Bill Ayers, the Vietnam War-era radical who was a campaign headache for Obama, said in a new afterword to his 2001 memoir "Fugitive Days" that the two were neighbors and family friends -- but he did not elaborate on the extent of the friendship.

Ayers wrote that Obama's enemies saw their connections as a chance to "deepen a dishonest narrative about him." He wrote that it was "more than guilt by association," something he called "a deep and ugly tradition in our political life."

Obama will resign from the Senate, effective Sunday. In a statement, he called his four-year term "one of the highest honors" of his life. Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich will name a replacement. Republican John McCain implored Georgia voters to back Sen.

Saxby Chambliss in a Dec. 2 runoff. "I didn't think I'd be back on the campaign trail quite this early," McCain told 1,500 people in Atlanta in his first political appearance since losing the presidential race. "But there is a lot at stake here." Chambliss is challenged by Democrat Jim Martin.