Biden expected to tap Tony Blinken as secretary of state
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 people familiar with the decision confirmed to CBS News. Mr. Biden is expected to make the announcement on Tuesday....
Two dead in stabbing at northern California church
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Two people died in a stabbing Sunday night at a church in California, and multiple other people are “seriously wounded,” San Jose police and Mayor Sam Liccardo said. “Our hearts go out to the families of the two community members who...
Joe Biden reprimands reporter while dodging ‘completely valid’ question on schools closing
Joe Biden gathered with his running mate Kamala Harris, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Friday. However, Biden had no patience for a reporter, who asked a timely question, and he quickly admonished the correspondent. POLL: Who is...
Trump Team Making False Argument About His 2016 Transition
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not just President-elect Joe Biden’s transition that’s under a microscope. President Donald Trump and his allies are harking back to his own transition four years ago to make a false argument that his own presidency was denied a fair chance for...
Biden Expected to Nominate Blinken as Secretary of State
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Antony Blinken as secretary of state, according to multiple people familiar with the Biden team’s planning. Blinken, 58, served as deputy secretary of state and deputy national security adviser during the Obama administration and has...
Biden’s margin of victory widens as Trump’s subversion efforts grow more frantic
Overturning elections sounds like the stuff of secret deals in smoke-filled rooms, but President Donald Trump’s not even trying to hide his effort to subvert the results of the election as President-elect Joe Biden’s margin widens to more than 6 million votes. Trump’s efforts to...
Patriarch dies from Covid after leading open-casket funeral of bishop killed by virus
The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Irinej, died in a Belgrade hospital on Friday after contracting coronavirus, according to a statement from the church. Irinej, who was 90, led an open-casket funeral service for the church’s top cleric in Montenegro, Metropolitan Amfilohije Radović,...
U.S. surpasses 12 million cases of Covid-19
The United States topped 12 million cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, as the third wave’s uncontrolled spread prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to urge Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving. The country recorded more than 200,000 coronavirus cases over the last 24...
Conservative News Site Warns Trump: ‘Concede And Move On’
the Washington Examiner urged President Donald Trump to “move on” and accept defeat in the 2020 election in an editorial published Friday. The conservative news outlet warned that Trump’s ongoing attempts to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory could jeopardize the GOP candidates running for Georgia’s...
Trump team requests recount of Georgia vote
USA TODAY’S coverage of the 2020 election continues this week as states prepare to finish certifying their vote counts after President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the hard-fought presidential race. President Donald Trump has yet to concede the race as Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris...
Ben Carson says he is ‘out of the woods’ after being ‘desperately ill’ from COVID
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, who tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this month, was “extremely sick” and “desperately ill,” according to a post on his Facebook page Friday morning. “Thank you everyone for your support and prayers as Candy and I battled COVID-19....
Trump questions Biden transition moves as president’s voter-fraud battles continue
President Trump took to Twitter on Saturday night to voice frustrations about Joe Biden making Cabinet choices, as Trump’s legal team continued to push allegations of election and voter fraud. “Why is Joe Biden so quickly forming a Cabinet when my investigators have found hundreds...
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s ‘rift with the royal family is widening’
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s ‘rift with the royal family is widening’ because they insist on ‘doing things their own way whatever the cost’, royal expert claims Prince Harry and Meghan Markle now live in Santa Barbara with their son Archie The Duke and Duchess...
Trump continues to blast election count claiming
Trump continues to blast election count claiming there was a suspicious dump of votes in Wisconsin for Biden the day after polls closed – as he pays $3 million for partial recount in the state On Wednesday, the Trump campaign coughed up $3 million for...
What to Know About the Timing and Distribution of Coronavirus Vaccines
BACK-AND-FORTH announcements from two major companies – Pfizer and Moderna – about the high efficacy of their coronavirus vaccines has peaked hope in a possible light at the end of the tunnel as the U.S. experiences more infections than ever before, but questions remain about...
A Covid-19 vaccine is on track to roll out in December. Here’s how that will work.
Following the release of more data from its Covid-19 vaccine Phase 3 clinical trial, the drugmaker Pfizer said Wednesday that it expects to submit an application for what’s called emergency use authorization to the Food and Drug Administration “within days.” Another drugmaker, Moderna, has also...
SUIT: MEAT BOSSES PLACED BETS ON WORKER COVID COUNT
A wrongful death lawsuit tied to COVID-19 infections at Tyson Foods’ largest pork processing plant accuses the meatpacking giant of ordering employees to come to work while supervisors privately bet money on how many would get infected with the deadly coronavirus. The family of Isidro...
Coronavirus updates: US reaches 250K COVID deaths; New York City schools to close again; Kentucky toughens restrictions
The nation’s largest public school system will temporarily halt in-person learning again in an effort to stem the continued spread of COVID-19, according to New York City mayor Bill de Blasio. The news came on an Wednesday when the U.S. surpassed 250,000 deaths from the...
GOP members in Michigan’s Wayne County rescind votes to certify, cite Dem bullying, threats
The two Republicans on Michigan’s Wayne County Board of Canvassers claimed in signed affidavits Wednesday that they were bullied into siding with Democrats and have now rescinded their votes to certify. The two Republicans — Monica Palmer and William C. Hartmann — were involved in...
Trump bans Americans from investing in Chinese firms he claims have ties to the military
New York/Hong Kong (CNN Business)President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning Americans from investing in Chinese firms that the administration says are owned or controlled by the Chinese military. The order applies to 31 Chinese companies which it says “enable the development and...
Is Joe Biden about to reset US relations with Beijing? Here’s what he’s said so far about where he stands
Hong Kong (CNN)As United States President-elect Joe Biden faces an ugly, potentially contested transition, foreign policy may be the last thing on his mind. But in capitals around the world, foreign leaders are already clamoring for his attention, hoping to reset relationships and restore norms...
Trump falsely claims he won the election; Twitter flags the tweet
The tweet culminated a day in which Mr. Trump worked to take back an apparent acknowledgement that Joe Biden had won the White House. Mr. Trump’s earlier comments had given some critics and supporters hope that the White House was ready to begin working on...
Obama says he doesn’t take Trump seriously; Giuliani claims to have proof he ‘can’t disclose yet’
USA TODAY’S coverage of the 2020 election continues this week after Joe Biden won a bitterly fought presidential election and states prepare to finish certifying their vote counts. Be sure to refresh this page often to get the latest information on how things are going....
n Less Than A Week, The US Went From 10 Million Coronavirus Cases To 11 Million
The US has careened past 11 million recorded cases of the coronavirus, adding one million new cases in just the past week as the country faces an alarming acceleration in spread. According to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, the US hit the 11-million mark...
Violent rioters throw fireworks at Trump supporters eating dinner after MAGA march
Police have arrested a suspect in connection with fireworks that went off at a D.C. restaurant, hitting Trump supporters after Saturday’s “MAGA Million March,” according to reports. A video of the incident shows a large crowd descending on P.J. Clarke’s restaurant just a few blocks...
Iran’s oil exports, uranium stockpile surge as Trump administration’s ‘maximum pressure’ policy hits a wall
Last week, as the White House digested news of a defeat at the polls, Trump administration officials were greeted with reports of troubling setbacks on two fronts in the country’s long-simmering conflict with Iran. Follow the latest on Election 2020 First came a leaked U.N....
GOP senators, former security officials push for Biden to receive intelligence briefings
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans and former national security officials Thursday increased the pressure on the General Services Administration to grant President-elect Joe Biden access to presidential-level intelligence briefings, a key step in the transition to the White House. The congressional Republicans stopped short of acknowledging...
Elon Musk says he tested both positive and negative twice for COVID-19 in one day
The Tesla boss tweeted late Thursday to reveal he had taken four tests that day with ‘same machine, same test, same nurse’ with conflicting results ‘Something extremely bogus is going on,’ he wrote Musk, 49, then said he was suffering ‘typical cold’ symptoms and warned...
China’s President Personally Scuttled Jack Ma’s Ant IPO
Chinese President Xi Jinping personally made the decision to halt the initial public offering of Ant Group, which would have been the world’s biggest, after controlling shareholder Jack Ma infuriated government leaders, according to Chinese officials with knowledge of the matter.
Trump-Biden transition live updates: ABC News projects Biden wins Arizona
President-elect Joe Biden is moving forward with transition plans, capping a tumultuous and tension-filled campaign during a historic pandemic against President Donald Trump, who refuses to concede the election, despite a growing list of foreign heads of states moving on and recognizing Biden as the...