Mr. Biden said he would name Mr. Kerry to a cabinet-level climate post, giving him the job of persuading global leaders that the United States is prepared to .......Read more

President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate former Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen, an economist at the forefront of policy-making for three decades .......Read more

Georgia election officials are extending the use of secure ballot drop boxes for use in the state's twin Senate runoff elections on Jan. 5, where the Republican .......Read more

The veteran Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein has publicly named 21 Republican senators he says have “repeatedly expressed extreme contempt for [Donald] .......Read more

Congressional Democrats, angered by the Trump Administration's refusal to begin the formal transition process to President-elect Joe Biden, are demanding a .......Read more

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court dealt the Trump campaign yet another legal loss, ruling that mail-in ballots cast in the state's election can be counted even if a .......Read more

The Michigan State Board of Canvassers appears poised to certify the state's election results on Monday, a step that would formally grant President-elect Joe .......Read more

The surge in virus cases is causing another wave of restrictions and closures that experts say could damage the economic recovery.....Read more

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy was accosted by a group of people while he was eating dinner at a restaurant with his wife and four children, a video shared on .......Read more

State officials laid out new covid-19 mitigation efforts but stopped short of issuing a statewide stay-at-home order, instead advising Pennsylvanians to stay home .......Read more

The first lady emerged from the North Portico of the White House around noon to accept the 18 1/2-foot Fraser fir from a tree farm in West Virginia.....Read more

Orange zone rules include mandatory closure of schools and certain businesses.....Read more

Gov. Steve Sisolak announced plans Sunday to tighten restrictions on casinos, restaurants and private gatherings such as Thanksgiving dinner in an effort to .......Read more

Trump supporter Raymond Deskins was charged with assault in Loudon County, Virginia for allegedly breathing on protesters outside Trump National Golf Club.....Read more

The encounter left the man with his hands "chewed up," and he required a tetanus shot -- just to be safe.....Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his family are quarantining after learning some members of his family came into contact with a California Highway Patrol .......Read more

President-elect Joe Biden is expected to announce Tony Blinken, a longtime diplomat and a member of Mr. Biden's inner circle, as his secretary of state, multiple .......Read more

With COVID 19 metrics trending in the wrong direction and Thanksgiving gatherings poised to make things worse, Gov. Roy Cooper announced a tightening of .......Read more

A majority of voters say they want Republicans to remain in control of the Senate in the new year after the Georgia runoff races, according to a new Harvard .......Read more

A suspect has been arrested in connection with the fatal stabbings of two people and the wounding of others at a California church that was being used as a .......Read more

The rise in community spread of the coronavirus is causing more infections among health-care workers, Dr. Penny Wheeler of Minneapolis-based Allina Health .......Read more

The co-creator of social media's viral ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has died. Patrick "Pat" Quinn, 37, had Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's Disease.....Read more

Wauwatosa Police Chief Barry Weber says a 15-year-old Hispanic male has been arrested in connection with a shooting at Mayfair shopping mall on Friday that .......Read more

The Coast Guard is searching for four crew members who were aboard the Emmy Rose when it sank early Monday morning. By Gillian GrahamStaff Writer.....Read more

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo received the Founders Award "in recognition of his leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic and his masterful use of television .......Read more

Washington — President-elect Biden will appoint Jake Sullivan to be White House national security adviser, according to two sources close to the transition.....Read more

A 12-year-old boy was fatally shot while answering the door at his Philadelphia home on Sunday, according to police and reports.....Read more

The cub had a live birth and a social media following — everything, it seemed, but a name. Until now.....Read more

The departure of Polly Trottenberg, the New York City transportation commissioner, is likely to signal a raft of departures from the de Blasio administration.....Read more

Seven people were shot overnight at a Sweet 16 party in Brooklyn, according to the New York City Police Department.....Read more

D.C. tightened restrictions Monday to confront rising coronavirus cases, a move that follows similar actions in neighboring jurisdictions and puts the entire .......Read more

President-elect Joe Biden plans to speak with mayors on Monday amid the continuing surge of COVID-19 cases in the United States.....Read more

US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams warned Monday that all Americans -- even at the White House -- should follow US Centers for Disease Control and .......Read more

BEIJING (AP) — China on Monday lashed out at Washington over its withdrawal from the “Open Skies Treaty” with Russia, saying the move undermined military .......Read more

In Kansas City, hospitals are treating local COVID-19 patients as well as patients transferred from rural counties in Missouri and Kansas, where there's no .......Read more

An Arizona grandmother and the stranger she accidentally invited to dinner in 2016 have celebrated their fifth Thanksgiving together, their first without her .......Read more

The director and a star of “My Cousin Vinny” responded to Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, quoting the film at a recent press conference.....Read more

(CNN) This Thanksgiving, hundreds of thousands of families will be missing a loved one due to Covid-19. Now doctors are pleading for Americans to stay home .......Read more

President Trump did not participate in a virtual G-20 event on pandemic preparedness, even as Covid-19 infections surge and break daily records across the .......Read more

Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, urged Americans on Monday to get a vaccine when one is available.....Read more

Many students have found themselves in the precarious position of deciding between family, safety and school protocols amid a pandemic that worsens by the .......Read more

New York (CNN Business) Despite a record number of new Covid cases and the Centers for Disease Control recommending against traveling for Thanksgiving, .......Read more

A senior United States naval official visited Taiwan Sunday, as the outgoing Trump administration continued to strengthen ties with the self-ruled island in its last .......Read more

Instead of crowning a single word as the winner, Oxford Languages looks at the pandemic's swift and widespread impact on the English language.....Read more

Three dozen Texas National Guard troops were deployed to El Paso County to aid in “mortuary affairs support” amid a surge in coronavirus cases and deaths in .......Read more

Three dozen Texas National Guard troops were deployed to El Paso County to aid in “mortuary affairs support” amid a surge in coronavirus cases and deaths in .......Read more

Several prominent Republicans said over the weekend that President Trump's legal arguments had run their course and called on him to allow the presidential .......Read more

The University of Wisconsin at Madison, in a hard-hit state, is a case study of the challenges colleges are facing before the Thanksgiving holiday.....Read more

Ultimately, minor delays in a handful of counties fully certifying their results shouldn't affect the overall certification process statewide.....Read more

Washington (CNN) Two more House members announced Sunday evening that they have tested positive for Covid-19 as cases continue to surge nationwide.....Read more

Hundreds of protesters defied California's new curfew Saturday night, gathering in Huntington Beach as the mandate to stay home from 10 p.m.-5 a.m. went into .......Read more

MELBOURNE, Fla. — New evidence connected to the fatal shooting of two teenagers by a Florida sheriff's deputy is raising question over police's initial .......Read more

A man was killed and a New Smyrna Beach police officer was wounded during a shooting on Saturday afternoon, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's .......Read more

A teenage girl who was involved in a controversial incident with Grand Rapids police in 2017 has died from COVID-19, according to family members.....Read more

Maria Bartiromo, the Fox Business anchor seen on TV six days a week, has joined a chorus of pro-Trump commentators urging followers to flock to Parler, the .......Read more

The number of Republicans publicly saying the election is over has grown over the weekend.....Read more