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Biden intends to nominate Indian-American Tanden as budget chief: Reports

US President-elect Joe Biden intends to nominate Indian-American Neera Tanden as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, according to local media reports

Presidential elections 2020 were probably least secure polls ever: Trump

The November 3rd presidential elections were probably the least secure American polls ever, US President Donald Trump alleged Sunday, a repeated claim which has found very few takers and has, so far, not been able to stand legal scrutiny. Our 2020 Election, from poorly rated Dominion to a Country FLOODED with unaccounted for Mail-In ballots, was probably our least secure EVER! Trump said in a tweet on a day the recount of votes in two Wisconsin counties witnessed President-elect Joe Biden maintain his lead over the incumbent. We have some big things happening in our various litigations on the Election Hoax. Everybody knows it was Rigged. They know Biden didn't get more votes from the Black community than Obama, & certainly didn't get 80,000,000 votes. Look what happened in Detroit, Philadelphia, plus! Trump alleged in another tweet. Earlier in his first post-election result interview, Trump told Fox News the entire world is watching over what is happening in the US. I have to ...

US President-elect Biden chooses an all-female White House press team

President-elect Joe Biden will have an all-female senior communications team at his White House, led by campaign communications director Kate Bedingfield.

More members of Trump's own party say it's time for him to accept defeat

"It's past time to start a transition, to at least cooperate with a transition. I'd rather have a president who has more than one day to prepare," Republican Senator Kevin Cramer said

Mnuchin halts Fed's emergency lending programs, limiting Biden amid Covid

The Treasury Department asked the Federal Reserve to return unused funds, downsizing the next secretary's ability to restart the economic support

US presidential elections: Trump targets Michigan to overturn results

In a brazen step, the president invited Republican state leaders in Michigan to the White House as he and his allies try to prevent the state from certifying Joe Biden's clear victory there

Trump challenged election results in key states but can he win them back?

In order to reverse last week's results and get the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House, Trump would need to move at least three of those states into his column

Will file more lawsuits proving unconstitutionality of election, says Trump

US President Donald Trump has promised more lawsuits in the near future that will prove the unconstitutionality of the November presidential election

Nearly 2 dozen arrested in protest over Trump's defeat in US elections

Demonstrations over Trump's loss at the polls have resulted in charges against nearly two dozen people in Washington

Joe Biden is set to 'undo the Trump years' with civil rights makeover

Biden will seek to return the division to its original purpose, focusing on anti-discrimination laws that protect millions of people in minority groups that were mostly ignored in the Trump years

US: Democrats clinch House control, but majority likely to shrink

The party has now nailed down at least 218 seats, according to The Associated Press, and could win a few others when more votes are counted

Facebook extends post-election ban on US political ads for another month

As false claims about voting integrity multiply on social media, Alphabet Inc's Google also appears to be sticking with its post-election political ad ban.

Does Trump's defeat in US elections signal the start of populism's decline?

Populist leaders may have lost their most prominent champion, but their economic, social and political grievances remain potent

Fighting US election results, Trump employs a new weapon: The government

As President Trump and his administration insist he didn't lose, the rest of the world has increasingly moved to accept Joe Biden's victory

US elections: Trump campaign seeks hand recount in Georgia, could get it

Republicans are making more demands of Georgia's chief elections officer as they seek to overturn Democrat Joe Biden's 12,000-vote lead in the state's presidential race

US elections 2020: Donald Trump polls highest votes for a losing candidate

As Democrat Joe Biden won more than 75 million votes--the highest number for a presidential candidate in history, Trump received more than 70 million the highest total for a losing candidate

In America president doesn't choose his or her voters: NY AG slams Trump

New York Attorney General Letitia James slammed President Donald Trump for raising doubts around the integrity of the 2020 election, saying in America it's the people who choose their president

TV networks cut away from Trump as he made baseless claim of election fraud

ABC, CBS and NBC all cut away from President Donald Trump as he spoke from the White House to make an unfounded accusation that the presidential election was being stolen from him

Explainer: What effect could Trump's lawsuits have on the US election?

Two days later, an uneasy United States is still waiting to hear who will be its next president

US elections: Trump campaign loses lawsuits in Michigan and Georgia

US courts have dismissed Trump campaign's lawsuits in Michigan and Georgia related to electoral malpractice