12 million Americans could lose crucial unemployment benefits just after Christmas
With special pandemic unemployment benefits set to expire in the next few weeks, opera singer Brian Montgomery is making plans to leave the country.…
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Donald Trump Jr. tests positive for coronavirus
Donald Trump Jr., President Donald Trump’s eldest son, has tested positive for the coronavirus, a personal spokesman told CNN on Friday.…
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Michigan lawmakers who met with Trump appear to undercut his efforts to overturn election
Members of the Michigan state legislature’s Republican leadership who met with President Donald Trump at the White House Friday afternoon said…
Continue Reading Georgia’s GOP governor and secretary of state certify Biden win, quashing Trump’s longshot attempt to overturn results
Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Friday signed the paperwork that officially grants the state’s 16 electoral votes to President-elect Joe…
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Former El Paso city rep, county commissioner Barbara Perez dies at age 76 from Covid-19
EL PASO, Texas – Well-known community leader and politician Barbara Perez died Friday afternoon after contracting Covid-19, her husband said.…
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What to know about Monday’s Michigan State Board meeting to certify election results
Certification is usually a formality, but President Donald Trump is trying to block or delay the process in key states as part of a long-shot effort…
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Michigan lawmakers who met with Trump say they’re not ‘aware of any information that would change’ the election outcome
Members of the Michigan state legislature’s Republican leadership who met with President Donald Trump at the White House Friday afternoon said…
Continue Reading After White House meeting, Michigan lawmakers to honor state’s election process in blow to Trump
WASHINGTON, DC — Members of the Michigan state legislature’s Republican leadership who met with President Donald Trump at the White House…
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Twitter says it will give @POTUS account to Biden on Inauguration Day
Twitter said Friday it will hand control of the @POTUS account to the new Biden administration on Inauguration Day. The @POTUS account is the…
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Justice Dept. schedules 3 more federal executions during lame-duck period, including two days before Biden sworn in
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has scheduled three more federal executions during the lame-duck period before President-elect Joe Biden…
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Donald Trump Jr. tests positive for coronavirus
Donald Trump Jr., President Donald Trump’s eldest son, has tested positive for the coronavirus, a personal spokesman told CNN on Friday.…
Continue Reading Trump unveils controversial drug price rules in a last-ditch attempt to fulfill campaign promise
President Donald Trump unveiled two controversial rules on Friday aimed at reducing drug prices — a last-ditch effort to fulfill a key 2016…
Continue Reading The week in 16 headlines
As Trump has remained hunkered down in the White House, the Biden transition team is pushing forward, announcing new White House hires and plans to…
Continue Reading Fact checking McEnany’s first White House press briefing since Trump’s election loss
In her first press briefing since October 1, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany repeated several old falsehoods around voting, the…
Continue Reading Trump digs deeper into debunked conspiracy theories instead of embracing reality
At first, President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede an election he clearly lost appeared to many of his allies a temporary stage of grief.…
Continue Reading Biden transition making fundraising push as Trump administration blocks funding
President-elect Joe Biden’s team is making a fundraising push for its transition operations as the General Services Administration has yet to…
Continue Reading Christmas traditions continue at the White House while transition stalls
There is not much in the way of activity at the White House, as Thursday marked the 12th day out of 16 since the election with nothing on President…
Continue Reading Ben Carson says he was ‘desperately ill’ from Covid but is now ‘out of the woods’
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said Friday he became “desperately ill” from Covid-19, but now believes he is…
Continue Reading Trump campaign fundraises off of Giuliani news conference and uses photo of Trump in hospital
The Trump campaign sent out another fundraising email to supporters on Friday, signed by President Donald Trump, praising his attorney Rudy…
Continue Reading Pentagon to announce new restrictions for building workforce amid Covid-19 surge
The Defense Department will increase its coronavirus prevention efforts and restrictions for the workforce inside the Pentagon beginning next week, a…
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Georgia secretary of state certifies election results with Biden victory
ATLANTA, Georgia — Georgia’s top elections official on Friday certified election results showing Joe Biden won the presidential election after a…
Continue Reading Senior GOP lawmakers grow anxious over Trump’s effort to overturn election results
A growing number of veteran GOP lawmakers are pushing back on President Donald Trump’s tactics to overturn election results showing he lost the…
Continue Reading Supreme Court agrees to delay arguments in Democratic lawsuit over Mueller documents
The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to postpone oral arguments in a case concerning grand jury material redacted from former special counsel Robert…
Continue Reading Pompeo seen as auditioning for 2024 on Israel trip while he organizes at home
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s groundbreaking trip to a West Bank settlement Thursday was meant to highlight the Trump administration’s…
Continue Reading Florida Republican senator says he has Covid-19
Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said in a statement Friday morning he has tested positive with Covid-19, adding to the number of lawmakers in…
Continue Reading Biden taps several long-time aides for White House roles
President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Louisa Terrell, a long-time aide and Capitol Hill veteran, as his director of legislative affairs — a role…
Continue Reading Fact-checking Giuliani and the Trump legal team’s wild, fact-free press conference
In a wild, tangent-filled and often contentious press briefing led by President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, the Trump…
Continue Reading Mitt Romney calls Trump’s attempt to overturn Michigan election ‘undemocratic’
Two prominent Republican senators on Thursday ripped President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the presidential election in…
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Hold President Trump accountable for his misdeeds
The election of Joe Biden as President of the United States, despite the specious claims of voter fraud from President Donald Trump, will not end the…
Continue Reading Trump’s history of undermining the law ends with assault on right to vote
President Donald Trump’s four-year history of undermining American rights and legal norms is fittingly ending with his attack on one of the…
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