Title: Loretta Lynch Confirmed as Next Attorney General
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/59/loretta_audio.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Loretta Lynch Confirmed as Next Attorney General' data-article-id='291'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='8792'>Federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch has been confirmed as the next attorney general of the United States. </span> <span data-start-time='8792' data-end-time='13688'>President Barack Obama nominated her last November. </span> <span data-start-time='13688' data-end-time='19667'>The U.S. Senate confirmed Ms. Lynch on Thursday, after months of delay.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='19667' data-end-time='26292'>The vote to confirm her nomination was 56-43 in the Senate.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='26292' data-end-time='33583'>Ms. Lynch, 55, will become the first black woman to lead the Justice Department. </span> <span data-start-time='33583' data-end-time='40000'>She replaces Eric Holder Jr., the nations first black attorney general.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img 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Federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch has been confirmed as the next attorney general of the United States. President Barack Obama nominated her last November. The U.S. Senate confirmed Ms. Lynch on Thursday, after months of delay.
The vote to confirm her nomination was 56-43 in the Senate.
Ms. Lynch, 55, will become the first black woman to lead the Justice Department. She replaces Eric Holder Jr., the nations first black attorney general.
