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...
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US Electoral College to formalise Biden win
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.
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US attorney general says no evidence of decisive election fraud
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."
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Trump's election defiance in fresh chaos
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.
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Twitter to hand @POTUS account to Biden on inauguration day
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.
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Biden denounces 'irresponsible' Trump fight to reverse election
Trump has refused to accept his loss on 3 November, despite his opponent getting over six million more votes.
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Trump fires US election security official who rejected fraud claims
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'.
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Trump - for a moment - alludes to election defeat
Some Trump administration officials say privately that they understand that Biden won, but that the president needs time to 'process' his loss.
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China sends 'congratulations' to Joe Biden on US election win
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.
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US election officials say 'no evidence' of compromised votes
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.
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Biden presses ahead with transition, names chief of staff
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.
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Biden tells world leaders 'America is back' but Pompeo digs in
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.
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US justice chief authorises probes into vote fraud claims
Voting fraud investigations are normally the purview of individual states, which establish and police their own election rules.
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Why can't Trump accept his defeat? Experts weigh in
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.
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Trump refuses to concede, Biden leads on COVID-19
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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US president-elect Joe Biden's anti-COVID-19 strategy
A look at the main proposals by US president-elect Joe Biden to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
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China declines to acknowledge Biden victory
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'.
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Russia elections chief casts doubt on US president vote
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.
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An ex-president Trump fair game for social media rules
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.
