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Biden expected to nominate Blinken as secretary of state

UPDATED: Mon., Nov. 23, 2020

President-elect Joe Biden's first Cabinet picks are coming Tuesday and planning is underway for a pandemic-modified inauguration in January as his team moves forward despite road blocks from the Trump administration.

Sanders, Warren under scrutiny as Biden weighs Cabinet picks

UPDATED: Fri., Nov. 20, 2020

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, leaders of the Democratic Party's left wing, are at risk of being excluded from the senior ranks of President-elect Joe Biden's administration as the incoming president balances the demands of his party's progressive base against the political realities of a narrowly divided Senate.

Birthday time: Biden turns 78, will be oldest U.S. president

UPDATED: Fri., Nov. 20, 2020

 President-elect Joe Biden turned 78 on Friday. In two months, he'll take the reins of a politically fractured nation facing the worst public health crisis in a century, high unemployment and a reckoning on racial injustice.

Criminal probe, legal fights await Trump after White House

UPDATED: Fri., Nov. 20, 2020

A few miles south of the namesake tower where Donald Trump began his run for president, New York prosecutors are grinding away at an investigation into his business dealings that could shadow him long after he leaves office in January.

Georgia hand tally of votes is complete, affirms Biden lead

UPDATED: Thu., Nov. 19, 2020

A top Georgia election official said Thursday that a hand tally of ballots cast in the presidential race has been completed, and that the results affirm Democrat Joe Biden's narrow lead over Republican President Donald Trump.

Biden chides Trump for lack of cooperation on vaccine

UPDATED: Thu., Nov. 19, 2020

 Joe Biden's meeting Thursday with a group of Democratic and Republican governors is his latest attempt to fight through President Donald Trump's unprecedented attempt to block the president-elect's transition to power.

President Trump invites Michigan GOP leaders to White House

UPDATED: Thu., Nov. 19, 2020

President Donald Trump summoned Michigan's Republican legislative leaders to the White House for a meeting Friday amid a longshot GOP push to overturn the certification of Democrat Joe Biden's victory in the battleground state.

Trump pays $3 million for recount of 2 Wisconsin counties

UPDATED: Wed., Nov. 18, 2020

President Donald Trump filed Wednesday for a recount of Wisconsin's two most Democratic counties, paying the required $3 million cost and alleging that they were the sites of the “worst irregularities” although no evidence of illegal activity has been presented.

In court, Giuliani argues to block Biden win in Pennsylvania

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 17, 2020

A hearing on the Trump campaign's federal lawsuit seeking to prevent Pennsylvania officials from certifying the vote results was set to begin Tuesday after a judge denied the campaign's new lawyer's request for a delay.

Medical leaders urge Trump to aid Biden team

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 17, 2020

Leaders of the American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association say the Trump administration must share critical COVID-19 information with President-elect Joe Biden's transition team “to save countless lives.”

Biden filling top White House team with campaign veterans

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 17, 2020

President-elect Joe Biden announced a raft of top White House staff positions on Tuesday, drawing from the senior ranks of his campaign and some of his closest confidants to fill out an increasingly diverse White House leadership team.

Georgia elections chief battles fellow Republicans, Trump

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 17, 2020

Georgia's secretary of state is a man on an island, and the political flood is rising fast, as President Donald Trump and his allies vent their outrage at the fellow Republican and make unsupported claims that mismanagement and fraud tainted the state's presidential election.

After Trump, will the presidency recede a bit for Americans?

UPDATED: Mon., Nov. 16, 2020

 Calvin Coolidge, known by some as “Silent Cal” during his time in the White House, used his autobiography to live up to his nickname. “The words of a president,” he wrote in 1929 after leaving office, “have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately."

Biden vows to strengthen economy despite exploding pandemic

UPDATED: Mon., Nov. 16, 2020

Acknowledging that the nation is in a “dark” place, President-elect Joe Biden on Monday said his administration would strengthen the country's vulnerable economy despite the exploding pandemic as he pushed forward with the business of preparing to assume the presidency.

Hardening partisan map steepens Democrats’ climb in Senate

UPDATED: Mon., Nov. 16, 2020

Pinned six years in the minority, Democrats have an uphill but real shot at wresting Senate control in January, with more opportunities in 2022. Yet as states increasingly sort themselves along hardening partisan lines, it's complicating Democrats' drive to win the majority and keep it.

Trump conclusively lost, denies the evidence

UPDATED: Mon., Nov. 16, 2020

In the face of conclusive evidence that he lost, President Donald Trump is claiming “I won.” His tweet Monday sought to perpetuate the mathematically impossible and thoroughly debunked myth that he pulled out a victory from the election that definitively chose Democrat Joe Biden as the next president.