To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here(CNN) Another key state -- Arizona -- certified its election results on Monday. And Wisconsin did too, after a recount requested by Republicans wound up affirming Joe Biden's victory there . Yet President Donald...
(CNN) The federal government must take "urgent actions" in its response to the coronavirus pandemic, a new report from the US Government Accountability Office finds. Medical supply shortages persist, despite efforts by the Department of Health and Human Ser...
McConnell walked by reporters in the Senate hallways Monday without responding to a question about Trump's actions or if he considers Biden to be the President-elect. "I really don't feel the need to comment anymore on this," Cornyn said when asked about Tr...
(CNN) Despite what President Donald Trump is tweeting and saying publicly in the wake of Arizona and Wisconsin certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory Monday, Trump sees the scoreboard and understands he has no chance of hanging on to the presidency,...
Washington (CNN) Joe Biden's transition team is bracing for a tough Senate confirmation battle for the President-elect's nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, who is already facing fierce opposition from Senate Republicans. Neera Tanden, the...
(CNN) The top official leading the Pentagon's Defeat-ISIS Task Force resigned Monday, becoming the latest senior official to be fired or asked to resign in recent days, part of a White House-directed post-election purge that saw some of the senior-most Defe...
Asadi is a decorated Afghan helicopter pilot credited with protecting US Air Force pilots in Afghanistan and killing more Taliban than any other pilot in the Afghan air force, according to Stars and Stripes, the US military's independent newspaper. There ar...
Washington (CNN) Dr. Scott Atlas, a highly controversial member of the White House's coronavirus task force, has resigned from his post in the Trump administration, according to a person who works with the task force. Another source close to the task force...
(CNN) More than 940,000 mail-in ballots have been requested in Georgia for the January 5 runoff election that will decide which party controls the Senate, Gabriel Sterling, the state's voting systems implementation manager, said Monday. That includes 604,25...
(CNN) The Justice Department on Monday released a copy of President Donald Trump's pardon of former national security adviser Michael Flynn and formally asked a federal court to dismiss the case against him. Trump's pardon, announced last week, appears to c...
Read the pardon here:Executive Grant of ClemencyDonald J. TrumpPresident of the United States of AmericaTO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:BE IT KNOWN, THAT THIS DAY, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, PURSUANT TO MY POWERS...
(CNN) The Wisconsin Elections Commission finalized the state's presidential results on Monday, affirming President-elect Joe Biden's victory after a recount in Wisconsin's two most populous counties. Wisconsin Elections Commission Chairwoman Ann Jacobs sign...
(CNN) President-elect Joe Biden enters the month of December with a question still looming over one of the most critical decisions in his Cabinet: Who will he nominate to be Secretary of Defense? Three candidates are in final contention to lead the Pentagon...
(CNN) The US Navy has decided to de-commission and scrap the USS Bonhomme Richard after a damage assessment found that restoring the ship would cost billions of dollars. The amphibious assault ship was in port in San Diego in July so that it could be upgrad...
Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump was relatively quiet over the Thanksgiving holiday. But by Friday he was back to lighting up Twitter with a range of false claims about the 2020 presidential election. Even Trump's former allies weren't spared, as he...
(CNN) A federal judge postponed the trial for Rudy Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman citing the backlog of criminal trials as courts grapple with the coronavirus pandemic. "We're almost certainly not going to get on the calendar for March 1 giv...
(CNN) Millions of jobless people may not be receiving the full payments they are owed, a government watchdog report released Monday found. Also, the weekly Department of Labor report on unemployment claims is not providing an accurate estimate of the number...
(CNN) Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, both Republicans, on Monday rebuffed President Donald Trump's calls to overturn the state's election results more than a week after they certified Joe Biden as the winner. The statemen...
(CNN) Arizona certified its election results on Monday, awarding the state's 11 electoral votes to President-elect Joe Biden and clearing the way for Senator-elect Mark Kelly, a Democrat, to be sworn in this week. Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a D...
Washington (CNN) Sen. Chuck Grassley returned to his Senate office Monday after testing positive for Covid-19 and completing a quarantine earlier this month, and he called on Congress to pass additional coronavirus relief legislation. Grassley, who is 87 an...
