Rahm Emanuel under consideration to become Biden’s transportation secretary
Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is under consideration to lead the department of transportation, people familiar with the matter say, a move that…
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Mitt Romney says consequences of lame duck period are ‘potentially more severe’ than delayed transition
Republican Sen. Mitt Romney is warning that the consequences of actions taken by President Donald Trump during the lame duck period of his term are…
Continue Reading How election certification works and why it matters more than ever this year
Though states finalize and certify their results after every election, the process of confirming the winner of the general election has taken on new…
Continue Reading HHS secretary says department won’t work with Biden’s team until federal agency determines he won
The Health and Human Services Department will not work with President-elect Joe Biden’s team until the General Services Administration makes a…
Continue Reading Pompeo’s West Bank trip would be unthinkable for any other US Secretary of State. But not him
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to Psagot on Thursday marked the first time a top American diplomat has visited a settlement in the West…
Continue Reading Fact checking misleading claims over the Georgia recount
The Georgia recount for the presidential election, which was scheduled to end yesterday, is expected to confirm Joe Biden’s win and find no…
Continue Reading ‘Just ridiculous’: CNN speaks to Georgia voter the Trump campaign falsely accused of casting ballot in the name of a dead woman
President Donald Trump’s campaign and Fox News host Tucker Carlson alleged last week that a vote cast by a Georgia woman named Deborah Jean…
Continue Reading Biden’s plans for mask mandates nationwide will be an early test of his power of persuasion
President-elect Joe Biden’s team is discussing ways to persuade resistant Republican governors to get on board with mandating masks to stop the…
Continue Reading Former GSA administrator: ‘It’s clear’ we should recognize Biden as the President-elect
The former head of the General Services Administration during the 2000 election said Thursday that he would ascertain the 2020 results and begin the…
Continue Reading Republicans hold $28 million ad advantage in Georgia Senate runoff races
Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue hold an early advantage over the airways in their two runoff races in Georgia that will determine…
Continue Reading ‘It’s a terrible situation’: Inside a government bureaucrat’s pressure-filled decision to delay the transition
As the only obstacle between President-elect Joe Biden and the formal start of the presidential transition, General Services Administrator Emily…
Continue Reading Trump administration tries to push last-minute immigration limits
With Inauguration Day nearing, there’s added urgency within the Trump administration to ram through any last-minute policies that would limit…
Continue Reading Trump’s legal adviser Jenna Ellis in 2016 called him an ‘idiot’ and said his supporters didn’t care about ‘facts or logic’
Jenna Ellis has been one of President Donald Trump’s most ardent defenders since joining his campaign as a legal adviser and surrogate a year…
Continue Reading Biden acknowledges ‘real brick walls’ he’ll face in Senate during video call with supporters
President-elect Joe Biden acknowledged in a private video call with supporters on Wednesday that he will face “real brick walls” in the…
Continue Reading Pelosi’s struggle to unite her caucus is just beginning
It will be her toughest high-wire act yet. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to retake the speaker’s gavel in January with what could be…
Continue Reading Local GOP officials keep pushing fraud claims as election results are finalized
The Trump campaign’s options to dispute the election have largely evaporated, but that hasn’t stopped some of the President’s…
Continue Reading Current and former Trump officials quietly reach out to Biden team
A handful of current Trump administration officials, as well as some political appointees who left in recent months, have quietly started to reach…
Continue Reading Republican who temporarily blocked certification of Detroit’s results shared election conspiracy theories on Facebook
William Hartmann, a Republican member of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers who temporarily blocked certification of election results in the…
Continue Reading U.S. military reports record number of coronavirus cases
The US military reported a record high number of coronavirus cases on Tuesday with 1,314 new cases, according to Defense Department statistics. There…
Continue Reading Key pandemic relief programs are set to expire at the end of the year. No one knows what’s next.
Some of the last remaining stimulus programs for the unemployed, renters and student loan borrowers are set to expire by the end of December unless…
Continue Reading Two more House members announce they have Covid-19
Two more House members announced Wednesday they have tested positive for Covid-19 and are isolating, the latest in a string of diagnoses that have…
Continue Reading Ethics experts and Trump critics call for Senate investigation into Graham’s probe into presidential election
Three top ethics experts and prominent critics of President Donald Trump on Wednesday formally requested the Senate Ethics Committee investigate…
Continue Reading Catholic diocese and Orthodox Jewish synagogues ask Supreme Court to block New York’s Covid limits
While incidences of Covid spike across the country, the Supreme Court is once again considering arguments from houses of worship that say…
Continue Reading Trump campaign seeks partial recount in Wisconsin
The Trump campaign filed for a limited recount of two Wisconsin counties on Wednesday in a long-shot bid to overturn President-elect Joe…
Continue Reading ‘It’s embarrassing’: Why New York is still waiting for full election results
New York was called early on election night for President-elect Joe Biden, but if the Empire State had been a presidential battleground, the drama…
Continue Reading Biden considering former campaign aides for top White House communications roles
Several women who worked on Joe Biden’s campaign are being considered for top White House communications roles in the Biden-Harris…
Continue Reading House Democrats back Pelosi for speaker in next Congress
House Democrats nominated Nancy Pelosi to serve as speaker in the next session of Congress in leadership elections on Wednesday. A full House floor…
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Federal judge says U.S. can’t turn away unaccompanied migrant children using public health law
WASHINGTON, DC — A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from turning back unaccompanied migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico…
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Federal judge tears into Trump administration over its handling of DACA
NEW YORK, NY — A federal judge in New York who ruled over the weekend that the new DACA rules were invalid tore into the Trump administration…
Continue Reading Despite the state of things, there will be a turkey pardon
America is at an unsettling moment, with a resurgent pandemic and a president who refuses to accept the results of a national election. Most…
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