Loretta Lynch Confirmed as Next Attorney General

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Loretta Lynch as the next attorney general, voting 56-43 to approve her for the nation’s top law-enforcement job at a time of intense national debates about police conduct, government surveillance and how to fight the threat of terrorism.

More than five months since she was nominated in early November, Ms. Lynch was confirmed as the first black woman to hold the job of the nation’s top law-enforcem