Politics

President-elect Joe Biden picked his former rival Pete Buttigieg as secretary of transportation.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, suggested that both President-elect Joe Biden and current President Donald Trump should get vaccinated for the coronavirus as soon as possible.

Granholm, 61, was the first woman to serve as Governor in Michigan and held office from 2003 to 2011.

President-elect Joe Biden is expected to pick his former rival Pete Buttigieg as secretary of transportation and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm as energy secretary.

The president-elect's team is proceeding with plans without any assurances that outgoing President Donald Trump will participate.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell congratulated Democrat Joe Biden on Tuesday, calling him the president-elect.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Joe Biden on winning the U.S. presidential election after weeks of holding out.

"I believe we should abolish the Electoral College and select our president by the winner of the popular vote, same as every other office,” Clinton tweeted. “But while it still exists, I was proud to cast my vote in New York for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.”

“Our democracy — pushed, tested, threatened — proved to be resilient, true and strong,” President-elect Joe Biden said. “More Americans voted this year than have ever voted in the history of the United States of America.”

President Donald Trump announced Monday that Attorney General William Barr will leave the White House just before Christmas.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is unveiling a proposal for COVID-19 relief as Congress searches for a final agreement. The

D.C. police say four men were stabbed and 33 people in total were arrested during Saturday's pro-right rally in the nation's capital.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s lawsuit attempting to overturn his loss.

Michigan Republican State Rep. Gary Eisen was removed from his committee assignment in the legislature after he said he couldn't promise there wouldn't be violence at the capitol during the electoral college vote.

California lawmakers reintroduced efforts this week to decertify police officers and demand more transparency in officer personnel files, as both bills died on the floor last legislative season. 

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has had a rough year. The next one might be even tougher as a recall effort appears to be gaining momentum, fueled partly by outrage over the first-term Democrat dining with friends at an opulent restaurant while telling state residents to spurn social gatherings and stay home.

U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler is disavowing a photo circulating on social media of her posing with a longtime white supremacist who spent decades in the Ku Klux Klan.