The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
“President Barack Obama has chosen Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts to be the next secretary of state, a source has told Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed.His replacement as head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will be Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the Sneed source said.”
In other Secretary of State news, Hillary Clinton has reportedly fainted and suffered a concussion: she is currently at home recovering.


