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Dr. Rachel Levine is President Joe Biden's nominee for assistant health secretary. She could be the first transgender federal official confirmed by the Senate.

There's a hilarious story out of Pennsylvania today that you simply have to see. Whether or not it amounts to anything remains to be seen but Republican state legislators aren't giving Dem...

The campaign had asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots in Dane and Milwaukee counties, the state's two most heavily Democratic counties.

"If he had voted for Joe Biden or he had written Donald Duck or Mickey Mouse, we would still be prosecuting this case," Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said.

The petition seeks to reverse a trio of Pennsylvania Supreme Court cases having to do with mail-in ballots and asks the court to reject voters' will and allow the Pennsylvania General Assembly to pick its own slate of electors.

"The petition seeks all appropriate remedies, including vacating the appointment of electors committed to Joseph Biden."

The Trump campaign asked the Supreme Court on Sunday to reverse Pennsylvania's state court rulings that "illegally changed" the state's mail balloting laws, and asked that President-elect Joseph R. Biden's slate of 20 electors from the state be vacated.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has volunteered to argue a lawsuit brought by some Pennsylvania Republicans challenging President Donald Trump's election loss, and one legal scholar was appalled. The Texas Republican said he would be willing to challenge the election results in oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court if the justices agreed to take up […]

Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. This article is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan reporting project covering local election integrity and voting access. HARRISBURG — More than 60 Republicans, including the top

The lawsuit was brought by several Republicans, including Rep. Mike Kelly, and sought to have mail-in ballots tossed out. But justices rejected it unanimously.

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A federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit by the Trump campaign over Pennsylvania's voting procedures on Friday, paving the way for the issue to escalate all the way up to the Supreme Court.

A PA Court ordered a halt to the certification of the state's election results, though it is unclear what effect t will have after the state already certified.

Rudy Giuliani, representing President Trump's campaign, asked a federal judge Wednesday to declare Trump the winner in Pennsylvania, a state President-elect Joe Biden won by about 82,000 votes. Giuliani amended the campaign's court filing for a second time, seeking to put back in complaints Trump's previous legal team had removed Sunday about how close Trump's observers had been allowed during ballot counting. The…

President Trump has a new longshot strategy for overturning President-elect Joe Biden's win. Over the past few weeks, Trump and his supporters have lost and dropped lawsuit after lawsuit aimed at throwing out ballots to take states away from Biden. But with a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania and reported invitation to Michigan's Republican legislators, Trump is looking to shift the focus of his post-election campaign…

Early-stage trials indicated that British drug maker AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine, which it is developing with the University of Oxford, was safe and effective, according to results published Thursday in The Lancet, a top medical journal. The study of 560 healthy adults found that the vaccine produced a similar immune response in all adults, meaning it could protect older people who face a 'significant risk'…

Lawmakers in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have all said they won't intervene in selecting electors.

Republican leaders in four critical states won by President-elect Joe Biden say they won't participate in a legally dubious scheme to flip their state's...

The president and his allies have baselessly claimed that rampant voter fraud stole victory from him. Officials contacted by The Times said that there were no irregularities that affected the outcome.

Jeannie Suk Gersen writes on the Trump campaign's slate of lawsuits regarding the election, and on ways that Republicans in Congress may yet undermine the popular vote if judicial strategies fail to reverse Joe Biden's victory.