Presidential Transition Live Updates: As More Republicans Break With Trump, He Refuses to Budge  —  Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s team will deploy “people, money, resources” to Georgia, reflecting the high stakes of two Senate races.  Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has kept a low public profile since her acceptance speech last weekend.

Trump Allies Explored Buyout of Newsmax TV as Fox News Alternative  —  Hicks Equity Partners, a firm with ties to a co-chair of the Republican National Committee, is pitching investors on a new conservative news channel  —  For nearly two years, allies of President Trump have been exploring ways …

The ending of Trump's presidency echoes the beginning — with a lie  —  The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights  —  The Trump administration is ending as it began: with a lie about crowd size.  —  On Saturday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweeted …

Scoop: Trump plans last-minute China crackdown  —  President Trump will enact a series of hardline policies during his final 10 weeks to cement his legacy on China, senior administration officials with direct knowledge of the plans tells Axios.  —  Why it matters: He'll try …

Inslee announces statewide restrictions for four-weeks  —  The restrictions go into effect Monday, November 16 at 11:59 PM  —  Gov. Jay Inslee today announced a four-week statewide set of restrictions in response to the recent rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus in Washington and across the country.

Georgia Sen. David Perdue declines to debate opponent ahead of January 5 runoff  —  Fight for Georgia's Senate seats intensifies as races head to runoffs  —  (CNN)Georgia Republican Sen. David Perdue has declined an invitation to debate Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff ahead …

Barack Obama on his book, President Trump, George Floyd, the divisions in the country, and more  —  The former president shares the advice he would give President Trump, his thoughts on the killing of George Floyd, and what's behind the divisions in Washington and across the U.S.

Cuomo threatens to sue Trump for equitable vaccine distribution  —  ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo is promising to “mobilize an army” to ensure that Black and brown New Yorkers have equal access to any coronavirus vaccines, and threatened a lawsuit against the Trump administration if its distribution plan …

Here are 14 changes going into effect under Michigan's new COVID-19 restrictions  —  Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announces tighter COVID-19 restrictions, starting Nov. 18  —  LANSING, Mich. - Michigan officials have implemented a new series of stricter COVID-19 regulations that will go into effect this week.

The Ongoing Death of Free Speech: Prominent ACLU Lawyer Cheers Suppression of a New Book  —  Free speech has always been more than a Constitutional guarantee: it's also a crucial societal value.  And it's more imperiled than ever.  —  5 hr ago  —  In May of 2019, a source in Brazil provided …

Tax filings reveal Biden cancer charity spent millions on salaries, zero on research  —  A cancer charity started by Joe Biden gave out no money to research, and spent most of its contributions on staff salaries, federal filings show.  —  The Biden Cancer Initiative was founded in 2017 …

With Trench Warfare Deepening, Parties Face Unsettled Electoral Map  —  Voters delivered a convincing victory for Joe Biden, but a split decision for the two parties.  Now Democrats and Republicans face perhaps the most up-for-grabs electoral landscape in a generation.

Lack of influence means it's time to dismiss the Lincoln Project  —  The two entities that had the worst election night were a.) the pollsters and b.) the Lincoln Project.  —  Most pollsters forecast a Democratic landslide, including Joe Biden easily taking the White House …

Trump edges closer to conceding the election, then backs off  —  President Donald Trump has yet to concede the election, but on Sunday he briefly came close to acknowledging that he lost in a tweet.  —  “He won because the Election was Rigged,” Trump tweeted.

The federal government's chief information security officer is helping an outside effort to hunt for alleged voter fraud  —  The federal government's chief information security officer is participating in an effort backed by supporters of President Trump to hunt for evidence of voter fraud …

Un-Normalizing America's Third Wave  —  “The cases are going vertical,” wrote Eric Topol, the head of Scripps Research Translational Institute and not temperamentally an alarmist, on Thursday.  In the spring, Americans nervously following the course of the pandemic heard a lot about the risks of …

The President vs. the American Media  —  After terrorist attacks, France's leader accuses the English-language media of “legitimizing this violence.”  —  The president has some bones to pick with the American media: about our “bias,” our obsession with racism, our views on terrorism …

Why Trump Carried Out His Pentagon Purge  —  In 2018, as American officials in Kabul were sitting down to negotiate with the Taliban, a bleak joke circulated in the U.S. Embassy that at any moment the talks could be derailed by “the Tweet of Damocles”—a unilateral decision by President …

Asia forms world's biggest trade bloc, a China-backed group excluding U.S.  — Fifteen Asia-Pacific economies formed the world's largest free trade bloc on Sunday, a China-backed deal that excludes the United States.  — The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was signed at a regional summit in Hanoi.

Trump is putting this country through something unprecedented.  Here are three scenarios.  —  We are living through something unprecedented — all the more alarming because we can't be sure what that something is.  —  Three scenarios fit the known facts:  —  Scenario 1: President …

Biden won places that are thriving.  Trump won ones that are hurting.  —  In a trend that's been unfolding since 2000, Democrats continue to gain votes in prosperous, highly educated urban areas.  Republicans are gaining in small cities and rural communities.  —  Are you better off than you were four years ago?