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Democrats will pick up a Senate seat on Wednesday when former astronaut Mark Kelly is sworn in as a US senator for Arizona after defeating Republican Sen. Martha McSally last month.

CNN's Jake Tapper will interview President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Thursday in their first joint interview since winning the election, the network announced Tuesday.

Derrick Van Orden, a GOP candidate in Wisconsin, said his name is being used without permission in a federal lawsuit filed by lawyer Sidney Powell.

Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell said he's largely sticking with a partisan, scaled-back COVID-19 relief bill that has already failed twice this fall, even as Democratic leaders and a bipartisan group of moderates offered concessions in hopes of passing pandemic aid before Congress adjourns for the year.

Nasdaq is proposing new rules that would mandate diversity in the boardroom for companies listed on its stock exchange.

President Donald Trump teased running again for president in 2024 as he hosted a holiday reception at the White House on Tuesday evening.

Introducing his high-profile and experienced team to the nation, US President-elect Joe Biden exuded confidence that it will create a recovery for all and get the country's economy moving again

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California sent about $400 million in fraudulent unemployment benefit payments to state prisoners, a state official said Tuesday, nearly triple the amount disclosed last week and a number that could grow as a criminal investigation continues.

Alfred Bourgeois, Dustin Higgs, and Cory Johnson are also facing execution in December.

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The hearing comes after Michigan certified election results showing President-elect Joe Biden won the state.

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These officials have earned praise in the wake of Trump's ongoing—and ultimately futile—effort to overturn the 2020 election.

Liberal New York Times columnist Paul Krugman falsely claimed Democrats "never said Donald Trump was illegitimate" in his latest piece.

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Joe Biden's incoming economic team will shoulder the desperate hopes of millions of Americans who have lost jobs, face eviction from their homes or who are going hungry in a monstrous Covid-19-induced slump.

The silence of congressional Republican leaders as President Donald Trump's unfounded claims of election fraud grow wilder and more venomous increasingly resembles the party's deference to Sen. Joe McCarthy during the worst excesses of his anti-Communist crusade in the early 1950s.

A zoo in Wroclaw, Poland has captured the birth of a tiny mouse deer on camera for the first time ever, in a hopeful moment for the highly endangered species...

What will future generations see when they look at images of this year?