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President Trump authorizes start of formal transition as Joe Biden makes several historic picks for key posts, shaping a Cabinet that is notably diverse and brings back many Obama-era insiders.
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Feinstein, 87, is the ranking Democrat on the judiciary committee and was in line to become its first female chair if Democrats take control of the Senate.
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Michigan election officials certify Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in the state despite Trump’s brazen attempts to subvert the results of the election.
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President-elect Joe Biden would choose the first woman and a seasoned central banker for the nation’s top economic policy job.
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Biden plans to nominate the first woman to lead the intelligence community and John Kerry as policy advisor on climate change.
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Biden picks California attorney Alejandro Mayorkas to lead the Homeland Security department. He would be the first Latino to hold the post.
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How might the broad perception that Joe Biden, at 78, will choose to be a one-term president hobble his effectiveness? Should he perhaps deny it?
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With Georgia’s GOP feuding since Joe Biden won there, a question looms: Can it unite to help two senators win runoffs that will decide which party runs the Senate?
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Joe Biden reportedly will name Blinken, his longtime advisor, as secretary of State as he sets out to assemble a Cabinet even though President Trump refuses to concede.
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Joe Biden is expected to announce some choices for his Cabinet and states will certify results even as Trump’s fight to reverse them enters a third week.
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Georgia’s Sen. Kelly Loeffler took three coronavirus tests on Friday, a day when she campaigned with Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. David Perdue.
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President Trump’s plan to abandon Afghanistan — again — risks turning a disaster into a catastrophe.
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Joe Biden busily prepares to be president, projecting the normalcy he promised, while President Trump fights to keep the job even as he has stopped doing the work.
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California’s Bureau of Cannabis Control overstepped its power when it adopted a regulation allowing billboards to advertise pot along freeways, a judge rules.
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President-elect Joe Biden has proposed a robust plan to jump start housing construction and add new housing subsidies in the U.S.
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In Sacramento, Gov. Gavin Newsom is bogged down fighting the surging pandemic and angering lots of voters no matter what he does.
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The governor’s office said the family learned about the potential exposure to the coronavirus Friday and was tested Sunday morning. Their results came back negative.
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No one in the Newsom family has tested positive for coronavirus, said the governor’s communications director, Nathan Click.
To pretend that there is anything approaching moral equivalency between Joe Biden and Donald Trump represents an appalling failure to exercise ethical judgment.
The Trump campaign’s legal team is distancing itself from conservative attorney Sidney Powell, a purveyor of unfounded voting conspiracy theories.
James Madison was right. The electoral college is a shoddy piece of work that keeps coming back to haunt us.
A federal judge in Pennsylvania says he won’t stop officials from certifying election results that show Democrat Joe Biden winning the state by more than 81,000 votes.
Facebook and Twitter could ban a civilian Trump from their platforms — but they probably won’t
Georgia’s top elections official, Brad Raffensperger, certified results showing Joe Biden won his state’s presidential vote after a hand tally.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone: What moved Latino voters in 2020 was grassroots organizing on local issues and needs, not narrow partisan agendas.
As President Trump continues to push falsehoods about the election he lost, his legal team has failed to gain any traction in court for its baseless claims of widespread fraud. Here’s a look at where challenges stand in six key states.
As Trump’s lame-duck period drags on, General Services Administration leader Emily Murphy has refused to declare that her patron is in fact lame.
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Next year’s Congress will feature at least 51 women of color – more than ever before.
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Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, has announced a full hand recount of the presidential race.
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President Trump moved quickly to fire the defense secretary he derided as “Yesper” after Joe Biden declared victory in the 2020 election.
Politics and the Pandemic
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The order prohibits most nonessential activity outside the home from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. in counties in the strictest tier of the state’s reopening road map. It begins Saturday.
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The new statewide policy by Cal/OSHA aims to protect workers as the pandemic surges, but concerns over enforcement remain.
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While it’s fun to bash Gov. Gavin Newsom for political stupidity, we’ve got bigger things to worry about, like slowing a third wave of COVID-19 cases.
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Pictures appear to show the governor eating with lobbyists at the French Laundry in a room with a roof, three walls and an open wall with glass doors.
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Their choices strike many as if they believe they are immune to COVID-19, by ignoring the safety precautions they have asked Californians to take.
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More than half a dozen California lawmakers are attending a policy conference at the Fairmont Kea Lani Hotel in Wailea.
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The state’s $26-billion tax windfall is less a story of some kind of surprise jackpot and more a cautionary tale of how early doomsday predictions were way off.
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But City Council members, worried about fossil fuel industry lawsuits, might not go for it.
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General Motors says it will no longer support the Trump administration’s legal efforts to end California’s right to set its own clean-air standards.
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President Trump’s legal team says his campaign has requested an official recount of votes in the Georgia presidential race using safeguards including signature matching.
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The party used the boxes to collect ballots in some counties with closely contested U.S. House races. It’s legal in California to collect completed ballots and turn them in on behalf of voters. But state law says only county election officials are allowed to deploy ballot drop boxes.
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Only a few people really know who will end up serving in President Biden’s administration — and they aren’t saying.
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President Trump again pushed false election fraud claims Friday while President-elect Joe Biden met with Democratic leaders in Congress.
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Alice Huffman, 84, cited health issues in her resignation letter to the executive board of the California Hawaii State Conference of the NAACP. She has held the post since 1999 and will step down Dec. 1.
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Actor Edward Norton spelled out Donald Trump’s lame-duck actions in poker terms on Friday, laying out the president’s “desperate endgame.”
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The U.S. decision to drop drug trafficking charges against Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos shines a light on Mexico’s increasingly powerful military.
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We asked our readers what they learned from Donald Trump’s years in office, here is how they responded
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President-elect Joe Biden is adding four Obama-Biden administration veterans to his top ranks as he continues to build out his White House team.
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Following the lead of U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, California Republicans refuse to accept President Trump’s defeat.
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President-elect Joe Biden turns 78 on Friday and is on track to be the oldest U.S. president in history, displacing Ronald Reagan.
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President Trump authorizes start of formal transition as Joe Biden makes several historic picks for key posts, shaping a Cabinet that is notably diverse and brings back many Obama-era insiders.
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Feinstein, 87, is the ranking Democrat on the judiciary committee and was in line to become its first female chair if Democrats take control of the Senate.
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Biden picks California attorney Alejandro Mayorkas to lead the Homeland Security department. He would be the first Latino to hold the post.
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Michigan election officials certify Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in the state despite Trump’s brazen attempts to subvert the results of the election.
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With Georgia’s GOP feuding since Joe Biden won there, a question looms: Can it unite to help two senators win runoffs that will decide which party runs the Senate?
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President Trump’s campaign has filed plenty of lawsuits in six states as he tries to upend an election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
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Election officials overseeing the recount of votes in Wisconsin’s largest county say observers for President Trump’s campaign are unduly slowing the process.
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A lawsuit might result in a loss that would only legitimate Trump’s appalling hijack of the government.
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A top Georgia election official said Thursday that a hand tally of ballots cast in the presidential race has been completed, and that the results affirm Democrat Joe Biden’s lead over President Trump.
