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The Trump administration official in charge of helping states secure their elections has ramped up his efforts to reject the false claims coming from President Donald Trump and his supporters to the point that he’s telling associates he expects to be fired. On Thursday, Chris Krebs, who runs the cyber arm of the Department of

There’s a renewed push to get Chad Wolf confirmed as Homeland Security secretary — a position in which he’s been serving in an acting capacity for a year — before Inauguration Day, according to two sources familiar with the discussions. In the past week, Homeland Security officials spoke to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office

President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede defeat to President-elect Joe Biden and grant him access to the presidential daily briefings, or any other classified materials, has serious national security implications that could hinder the incoming administration’s ability to tackle threats on day one. While Biden has downplayed the necessity of getting classified briefings for now,

If the celebrations that spilled into the streets of New York City in the wake of Joe Biden’s victory made one thing clear, it’s that the Trumps aren’t welcome here. For the President, who changed his primary residency last year to Florida, that’s perhaps no major loss, but for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, the

Administrators at the posh Washington private school that the three young children of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner attended for the last three years expressed concern about the couple’s public flouting of Covid-19 guidelines, ultimately resulting in President Donald Trump‘s daughter and son-in-law withdrawing their children from the school, a longtime parent at the school

Legal experts have been saying for a week now that President Donald Trump’s court cases to throw out ballots and turn around his election loss were bound to fail. Throughout Friday, the failures piled up. In one day, nine cases meant to attack President-elect Joe Biden’s win in key states were denied or dropped, adding

The US Army has identified five Americans killed in a helicopter crash Thursday while serving as part of a peacekeeping force in Egypt. The Americans, who were among seven members of the force killed in the southern Sinai Peninsula, were identified as: Capt. Seth Vernon Vandekamp, 31 of Katy, Texas; Chief Warrant Officer 3 Dallas

Former White House chief of staff John Kelly issued an on-the-record statement Friday night lambasting President Donald Trump for not helping with the transition to a Biden administration. “The delay in transitioning is an increasing national security and health crisis. It costs the current administration nothing to start to brief Mr. Biden, Ms. Harris, the

Bulky briefing books and budgets are unopened. Office spaces dedicated to the transition sit vacant. And planning conversations between incoming and outgoing administrations have been silenced for now. The federal agencies were required by law to prepare for a transition before the 2020 election, but the flurry of activity that would normally be taking place

President Donald Trump may be refusing to concede his defeat, but governments around the world are congratulating President-elect Joe Biden — and anticipating that he will adopt a more traditional foreign policy approach. Biden will face the usual menu of foreign policy challenges — from the near-peer competitor China to a nuclear-armed and unpredictable Kim

A group of federal prosecutors on Friday urged Attorney General William Barr to rescind his order for any prosecutor to examine allegations of voting irregularities before states move to certify the results in the coming weeks, according to an internal letter obtained by CNN. The letter from the 16 prosecutors comes days after Barr released

Georgia Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler unleashed an onslaught this week against Rev. Raphael Warnock, trying to portray her Democratic opponent and the 15-year leader of Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic church in Atlanta as an anti-police Marxist who will destroy America. Warnock has described the arc of his life from the Savannah projects to Dr.

Two judges in Pennsylvania on Friday tossed a half dozen court cases the Trump campaign had brought to invalidate thousands of votes around Philadelphia, where voters carried President-elect Joe Biden to a clear win in the battleground state. In total, the Trump campaign had sought to throw out almost 9,000 absentee ballots because their outer

A senior federal election security official who was appointed by President Donald Trump has blasted the President’s false post-election claims, calling them “baffling”, “laughable” and “insulting”. Asked in an interview what he would say to Trump about the election, Ben Hovland said “these conspiracy theories that are flying around have consequences.” Hovland runs the Election

The Carter Center announced Friday it will monitor the ongoing hand recount of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia to “help bolster transparency and confidence in election results” — the first time the nonprofit, which has observed elections around the world, will monitor any part of an election process in the United States. The move

A human error that briefly led to incorrect election results in a Michigan county has spiraled into a sprawling, baseless conspiracy theory suggesting that glitches in widely-used voting software led to millions of miscast ballots. Conservative media figures, social media users, and President Donald Trump have spread rumors about problems with Dominion Voting Systems, an

Lawyers for the Trump campaign have dropped a lawsuit seeking a review of all ballots cast on Election Day after finding that the margin of victory for the presidential contest in Arizona could not be overcome. The Trump campaign filed the lawsuit on Saturday alleging some voters were confused on Election Day and feared that

A Michigan state judge has rejected an attempt by two poll challengers to block the certification of a Joe Biden win in Detroit, which helped carry his victory in the state. The judge also denied the request for an audit of the election. The case has been among a series of attempts by Republicans to

A defiant Nancy Pelosi said Friday that she doesn’t take responsibility for suffering losses in House races last week, while dismissing the notion that she would now have to compromise on her party’s agenda since she will preside over a slimmer majority in the next Congress. “I take credit for winning a majority and holding