Biden to take characteristically deliberative approach to filling Cabinet
President-elect Joe Biden will spend Friday and the weekend considering potential nominees to his Cabinet, aides said, but they cautioned that any…
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A record number of women will serve in the next Congress
The day after South Carolina’s longtime Republican 1st District flipped blue in 2018, Nancy Mace’s 9-year-old daughter had a question.…
Continue Reading Law firm attempting to block Biden’s win in Pennsylvania leaves controversial Trump campaign case
A law firm representing the President’s campaign in a controversial and long-shot attempt to block Pennsylvania’s popular vote for Joe…
Continue Reading Samuel Alito’s viral speech signals where conservative Supreme Court is headed
There’s no secret to what Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wants for the law in America. He said it out loud Thursday night in an ireful…
Continue Reading Over 130 Secret Service officers sidelined due to virus exposure in wake of Trump’s campaign travel
WASHINGTON, DC — In the aftermath of the final sprint of the 2020 election season, more than 130 Secret Service officers have been sidelined…
Continue Reading Biden team seeks Covid-19 back-channels with transition locked out
President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team is back-channeling with governors, the private sector and the medical community to prepare its…
Continue Reading Cindy McCain says her husband would have wanted Biden recognized as President-elect
The late Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain would have wanted Joe Biden to be recognized and supported as President-elect, his widow Cindy McCain…
Continue Reading Alito raises religious liberty concerns about Covid restrictions and same-sex marriage ruling
Justice Samuel Alito said Thursday night that he worried about the future of religious liberty in the United States, expressing particular concern as…
Continue Reading Biden carries Arizona, flipping a longtime Republican stronghold
For just the second time in more than seven decades, a Democrat will carry Arizona in a presidential election, a monumental shift for a state that…
Continue Reading Election officials, including federal government, contradict Trump’s voter-fraud conspiracy theories
A group of national, state and private election officials said in a joint statement Thursday that there is no evidence of any voting system being…
Continue Reading Fact check: Evidence undermines Trump campaign’s claims of dead people voting in Georgia
With CNN and other media outlets including Fox News having called the election for former Vice President Joe Biden, President Donald Trump and his…
Continue Reading Trump’s eldest children split on his path forward
President Donald Trump has long sought advice from different perspectives throughout his career, but at a pivotal moment in defining his legacy as…
Continue Reading Time is running out for millions of Americans who still haven’t gotten stimulus checks
Time is running out for millions of Americans who still haven’t gotten stimulus checks — and they’re likely the people most in…
Continue Reading More people signing up for Obamacare despite its uncertain fate
More than 818,000 people signed up for Obamacare plans for 2021 in the first week of open enrollment, according to federal data released Thursday…
Continue Reading Another Pentagon official to depart amid purge
The deputy chief of staff to the secretary of defense has resigned, a US defense official told CNN on Thursday, becoming the latest official to…
Continue Reading ‘Dejected’ Trump continues to waffle over waging baseless election fight
How much longer President Donald Trump continues waging battle over an election he lost remained in question Thursday as more of his advisers voiced…
Continue Reading Obama: Trump’s election fraud claims delegitimize ‘not just the incoming Biden administration, but democracy generally’
Former President Barack Obama slammed Republican officials for condoning President Donald Trump‘s false claims of election fraud in the wake of…
Continue Reading GOP sees Trump’s election challenges as likely to fail and urges White House to take steps towards transition
Cracks are growing in the GOP defense of President Donald Trump’s long-shot effort to overturn the 2020 election outcome, with many top…
Continue Reading GOP lawmakers defend CIA Director Gina Haspel as Trump weighs firing her
Several GOP lawmakers have publicly defended CIA Director Gina Haspel in recent days as it has become increasingly clear that President Donald Trump…
Continue Reading Rep. Don Young, oldest member of Congress, tests positive for Covid-19
Rep. Don Young announced on Thursday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus. “I have tested positive for COVID-19. I am feeling…
Continue Reading Post-election audits find no fraud in Arizona
More than half of all counties in Arizona have conducted post-election audits and found either no discrepancies or microscopic issues that…
Continue Reading ‘He knows how to work inside this government’: How Ron Klain’s experience prepares him to lead Biden’s staff
In selecting Ron Klain as his White House chief of staff, President-elect Joe Biden has tapped a veteran of some of the biggest moments in modern…
Continue Reading Two top Homeland Security officials forced to resign by White House
Two senior Department of Homeland Security officials have been forced to resign by the White House, according to sources familiar with the…
Continue Reading These Republicans are publicly recognizing Biden’s legitimacy as President-elect
A growing number of notable Republicans are beginning to recognize Joe Biden as President-elect, even as President Donald Trump and many GOP leaders…
Continue Reading Georgia secretary of state in quarantine as state prepares full by-hand count of presidential ballots
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is in quarantine after his wife tested positive for Covid-19, a spokesperson in Raffensperger’s…
Continue Reading DOJ review finds Alex Acosta used ‘poor judgment’ in Jeffrey Epstein deal
A Department of Justice review found that Alex Acosta, President Donald Trump’s former Labor secretary, exercised poor judgment when, as a US…
Continue Reading Appeals court upholds Harvard’s affirmative action policy
A Boston-based US appeals court has rejected a challenge to Harvard’s affirmative action policy brought by a group representing Asian Americans…
Continue Reading 7 killed, including 5 Americans, in helicopter crash involving peacekeeping force in Egypt
Seven military members of a peacekeeping force in Egypt, including five Americans, were killed when a helicopter crashed in the southern Sinai…
Continue Reading Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn takes on Andrew Cuomo at the Supreme Court
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn is asking the US Supreme Court to block New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive order that limits the…
Continue Reading As Trump wrestles with defeat, pardons loom for allies — and himself
President Donald Trump is refusing to concede the 2020 election to President-elect Joe Biden, but once Trump moves to the acceptance stage of his…
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