Jeff Sessions accepts Trump's offer to serve as US Attorney General

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, a transition official said on Friday. The transition official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the announcement would be made formally on Friday. Sessions has accepted Trump's offer, the official said. In choosing Sessions as the nation's chief law enforcement officer, Trump would award a loyalist whose hard-line and at times inflammatory statements on immigration were similar to his own. Sessions opposes any path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and was an enthusiastic backer of Trump's promise to build a wall on the border of Mexico.