Us elections
Top Republican congratulates 'President-elect' Biden
Biden is riding high after members of the Electoral College gathered in all 50 states and the capital Washington to put the official stamp on the will of the...
Electors in all 50 states were meeting to cast their votes in a tradition that has long been considered mostly a formality for confirming the will of the people expressed at the polls.
Bill Barr's comments confirmed the conclusions of the Department of Homeland Security, US intelligence and independent poll watchers that the 2020 election was, in the language of government officials, the "most secure in American history."
Officially, Trump had nothing on his schedule but US media reports quoted officials saying that he planned an impromptu trip there -- his first outside the Washington area since losing his reelection to Democrat Joe Biden.
The social media giant is "actively preparing to support the transition of White House institutional Twitter accounts on January 20th, 2021," Twitter spokesperson Nick Pacilio told Politico in an email.
Trump has refused to accept his loss on 3 November, despite his opponent getting over six million more votes.
Trump announced on Twitter the termination 'effective immediately' of Chris Krebs, who leads the agency that jointly declared 'the November 3rd election was the most secure in American history'.
Some Trump administration officials say privately that they understand that Biden won, but that the president needs time to 'process' his loss.
US-China ties have grown increasingly strained in recent years under the administration of incumbent Donald Trump, and relations are as icy as at any time since formal ties were established four decades ago.
Their messages came hours after President Donald Trump once again cried foul, retweeting a baseless claim that an election equipment maker "deleted" 2.7 million votes for him nationwide.
Biden tapped longtime aide Ron Klain, who previously served as his first chief of staff while vice president, acknowledging the two had a long road ahead in fighting the coronavirus pandemic as well as healing a deeply divided nation.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel all offered congratulations in calls to Biden, who a week earlier edged out Trump in the presidential election.
Voting fraud investigations are normally the purview of individual states, which establish and police their own election rules.
According to scholars and mental health professionals, the same authoritarian qualities that defined Trump's rise to power and his presidency make it almost impossible for him to digest a graceful concession to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden.
The Trump administration is also refusing traditional cooperation with Biden's team, denying him the normal transition package that includes office space, a budget and expertise to prepare for the takeover.
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China - among a handful of major countries including Russia and Mexico that has not congratulated the President-Elect - said Monday it had 'noticed that Mr. Biden declared he is the winner of the election'.
Ella Pamfilova, the head of Russia's elections commission, said she had carefully studied mail-in voting in the United States and found the process vulnerable to fraud.
Efforts by Twitter and Facebook to balance letting political leaders speak to the people unfettered with enforcing rules about hateful and misleading posts have afforded Trump leeway not given to regular users.