The heads of the Big Three automakers will be back on Capitol Hill this morning, looking for financial help for their troubled industry.  General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are asking the government to give them 25-billion-dollars from the 700-billion-dollar Wall Street bailout. 

Alaska is getting a new U.S. Senator.  Anchorage mayor Mark Begich [[BEG-itch]] beat incumbent Ted Stevens, who last month was convicted on seven felony counts of lying on Senate financial disclosure forms.  Stevens is the longest-serving Republican in the Senate. 

The next attorney general could be a former Clinton Administration official.  If he's confirmed by the Senate, Eric Holder would be the first African-American to serve as attorney general.  He was a former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration and reportedly will be nominated by President-elect Barack Obama to head the Justice Department. 

The head of Interpol in Mexico is under arrest for alleged ties to a drug trafficking organization.  Prosecutors say Ricardo Gutierrez took bribes from the Beltran Leyva crime group, which recently split from Mexico's infamous Sinaloa drug cartel. 

A new biotech drug that zaps cancer by choking its blood supply also increases the risk of dangerous blood clots.  That's the finding in a new study out from New York's Stoney Brook University, and reported in "USA Today."  Researchers found 12-percent of patients who took Avastin developed blood clots in their veins, a rate that's 30-percent higher than among other cancer patients. 

John Mayer, the Foo Fighters and B.B. King are on the bill for this year's Grammy Nominations Concert.  Billboard.com reports Mariah Carey, LL Cool J and Taylor Swift are co-hosts for the event.  The Grammy Nominations Concert takes place at L.A.'s Nokia Theatre on December 3rd and will air on CBS.