Politics

Republican elected officials and the Trump administration are advancing their latest arguments to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, a long-held GOP goal that has repeatedly failed in Congress and the courts.

Senators chose party leaders Tuesday, but it's unclear who will be the majority leader in the new Congress with no party having secured control of the Senate until a January runoff election in Georgia.

U.S. defense officials said James Anderson, the top policy adviser at the Pentagon, submitted his resignation Tuesday, a day after President Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper.

Census workers told The Associated Press they were pressured to do so.

Electors who cast a vote for someone other than their state party’s nominee are often referred to as “faithless electors.” While states generally side with the candidate their state picks as the corresponding party’s presidential nominee, occasionally they do not.

Joe Biden is championing the Obama administration’s signature health care law as it goes before the Supreme Court in a case that could overturn it.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says there’s “no reason for alarm” as President Donald Trump pursues legal challenges to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory.

Doug Emhoff, husband to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, plans to quit his law firm, DLA Piper, to concentrate on working with the Biden administration.

International observers from the Organization of American States say they saw no instances of fraud or voting irregularities in the U.S. presidential election.

Attorney General William Barr has authorized federal prosecutors across the U.S. to pursue “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities, if they exist, before the 2020 presidential election is certified, despite no evidence of widespread fraud.

The executive actions would include rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, reinstating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, rejoin the World Health Organization and repeal Trump's travel ban targeting majority Muslim nations.

Georgia’s two Republican Senators are calling for the resignation of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger after both their races for re-election go into runoffs.

The Trump administration threw the presidential transition into tumult on Monday, with President Donald Trump blocking government officials from cooperating with President-elect Joe Biden’s team and Attorney General William Barr authorizing the Justice Department to probe unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud.

The course of President-elect Joe Biden's transition to power is dependent in part on an obscure declaration called “ascertainment.”

The Trump campaign has filed multiple lawsuits seeking to overturn Biden's victory, but an election expert says they are a "long shot."

President-elect Joe Biden is looking to build out his nascent White House staff with more traditional Washington insiders.