President-elect Biden and aides have said the designation is crucial so they can legally begin consulting with federal experts about plans to distribute a coronavirus vaccine.
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Biden signals sharp shift from Trump with Cabinet picks
The best known of the bunch is John Kerry, who made climate change one of his top priorities while serving as Obama’s secretary of state.
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Michigan board certifies Biden win, dealing Trump another blow
Both the president and top Republican officials sought to discredit the vote process in Michigan’s Wayne County, home of Detroit, making sweeping and unsubstantiated claims about widespread fraud and citing errors in the vote tallies.
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Maine certifies Biden’s victory in the state’s election
Secretary of State Matt Dunlap says Maine has certified the results of the 2020 election.
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Transition allowed to begin as U.S. agency ascertains Biden won election
General Services Administration chief Emily Murphy finally made the determination Monday after Trump efforts to subvert the vote failed across battleground states.
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King to remain in Senate as Biden plans to nominate former CIA official for intelligence post
President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate the first woman to serve as director of national intelligences, former CIA deputy director Avril Haines.
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Republicans, business leaders push for action on Biden transition
Officials say President Trump’s refusal to concede ‘constitutes a serious threat’ to America’s democratic process.
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Trump campaign legal team distances itself from conservative firebrand attorney
Sidney Powell has made multiple incorrect statements about the voting process, unspooled unsupported and complex conspiracy theories and vowed to ‘blow up’ Georgia with a ‘biblical’ court filing.
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Trump’s legal team cried vote fraud, but courts found none
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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Chris Christie calls conduct of Trump’s legal team a ‘national embarrassment’
He and several other Republicans have begun to publicly urge the president to concede.