Giuliani wrecks Trump campaign's well-laid legal plans  —  President Donald Trump's senior campaign aides were gathered in their headquarters Saturday morning when word emerged that Rudy Giuliani would be holding a news conference in the parking lot of a Philadelphia landscaping business.

Al Qaeda's No. 2, Accused in U.S. Embassy Attacks, Is Secretly Killed in Iran  —  Israeli agents shot Abu Muhammad al-Masri on the streets of Tehran at the behest of the U.S., officials said, but no one — Iran, Al Qaeda, the U.S. or Israel — has publicly acknowledged the killing.

Vaccine tsar calls on White House to allow contact with Biden  —  Head of Operation Warp Speed warns thousands of lives at stake if project is interrupted  —  The head of Donald Trump's flagship vaccine project has called on the White House to allow Operation Warp Speed to make contact …

Two accused ‘dead’ Georgia voters very much alive despite claims - and they voted legally  —  11Alive confirmed that two of the four Georgia voters the president accused of fraudulently voting “dead” are alive.  —  Accusations of voter fraud continue to be in the headlines …

US Messaging to Russian Citizens: Time to Step It Up?  —  In the first week of August, cellphones across Russia lit up with surprising text messages.  They came from different numbers, but each said the same thing in Russian: “The US State Department is offering up to $10 million for information about interference in the US elections.

Charges filed in father-son voter fraud case in Chester County  —  EAST GOSHEN — A Willistown man's clumsy attempt at trying to cast a false ballot in the 2020 presidential election has led to one of the only verified instances in Chester County of alleged voter fraud.

Pentagon senior adviser accused Pompeo and senior politicians of taking money and getting rich from ‘the Israeli lobby’  —  (CNN)A new senior adviser at the Pentagon repeatedly said the United States' support for Israel was the result of “Israeli lobby” money and accused prominent officials …

Trump team persists in Pa. court fights despite COVID quarantine, quitting lawyers, and courtroom losses  —  President Donald Trump's effort to contest the Nov. 3 election in court suffered a series of setbacks Friday, leaving his house-of-cards legal strategy to reverse the results in Pennsylvania teetering on the edge of collapse.

GOP leaders in 4 states quash dubious Trump bid on electors  —  Republican leaders in four critical states won by President-elect Joe Biden say they won't participate in a legally dubious scheme to flip their state's electors to vote for President Donald Trump.

How Trump's Voter Fraud War Room Became a Fart-Infused ‘Room From Hell’  —  The president's campaign built a tip line.  Instead, it traumatized their own staff, just as staffers felt Team Trump had hung them out to dry.  —  On Friday, the remnants of Donald Trump's failed re-election campaign informed staff …

Jared and Ivanka are poised to return to a Manhattan social scene that no longer welcomes them  —  New York (CNN)If the celebrations that spilled into the streets of New York City in the wake of Joe Biden's victory made one thing clear, it's that the Trumps aren't welcome here.

Biden is bringing back the daily briefing.  Here's who is likely to be at the podium.  —  President-elect Joe Biden's return to “normalcy” will include restoring the daily press briefing — and at least two women are under consideration to lead the new post-Trump show, according to people familiar with the deliberations.

In Trump's final days, a 30-year-old aide purges officials seen as insufficiently loyal  —  Over the past week, President Trump has axed his defense secretary and other top Pentagon aides, his second-in-command at the U.S. Agency for International Development, two top Homeland Security officials …

Minneapolis violence surges as police officers leave department in droves  —  MINNEAPOLIS — The sound of gunfire has become so familiar across North Minneapolis that Cathy Spann worries she has grown numb to it.  —  Day and night the bullets zip through this predominantly Black neighborhood, hitting cars and homes and people.

Sore loser or victim?  Trump voters struggle with president's role in defeat.  —  Markay Harlan has been on the Trump train from the start and she's not getting off now.  The 70-year-old real estate developer from suburban Pittsburgh revels in President Trump's body blows to the status quo.

Why Trump supporters are here for good  —  If people living in Trump country seem like they live in a different world from that inhabited by Silicon Valley executives and the editors of The New York Times, there is a reason for that: They do.  —  Before the election, I talked to Democratic partisans …

Trump putting democracy to the test after his loss to Biden  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Winston Churchill was not known for leaving his thoughts unspoken.  One of them was this: “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried.”

Democrats Work to Defy History in Georgia Runoffs That Have Favored G.O.P.  —  The special elections were devised by white Republicans to dilute the power of Black voters.  But those involved in earlier contests say demographic change and Democratic energy could allow the party to finally beat the odds.

Ann Coulter: What America Wants Is ‘Trumpism without Trump’  —  “Trumpism without Trump” is what America needs in four years, said conservative author Ann Coulter during a lecture at the University of Texas at Austin on Thursday night hosted by the university's Young Conservatives of Texas.

Christopher Krebs Hasn't Been Fired, Yet  —  Mr. Krebs's government agency contradicted President Trump's false claims that the election was rigged.  At this point, Mr. Krebs, a former Microsoft executive, still has a job.  —  WASHINGTON — Christopher Krebs is a 43-year-old former Microsoft executive …

Biden changed the electoral map, but can Democrats capitalize in the future?  —  The final projections for the 2020 election brought with them a new electoral map, one that highlights the changing shape of America and the divisions that now define the Democratic and Republican parties in the Trump era.

Stop the Steal's massive disinformation campaign connected to Roger Stone  —  Massive election disinformation campaign connected to Roger Stone  —  (CNN)It is an internet battle cry: Stop the Steal has swept across inboxes, Facebook pages and Twitter like an out-of-control virus …

Federal prosecutors assigned to monitor election malfeasance tell Barr they see no evidence of substantial irregularities  —  Sixteen assistant U.S. attorneys specially assigned to monitor malfeasance in the 2020 election urged Attorney General William P. Barr on Friday to rescind …

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem won't comply if Biden pursues national mask mandate  —  Biden 'doesn't have the authority to institute a mask mandate,' Noem's office said  —  As former Vice President Joe Biden proposes a nationwide lockdown and a national mask mandate in response …

Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville flubs basics of the Constitution, World War II and the 2000 election.  —  In his first big interview as a senator-elect, Tommy Tuberville, Republican of Alabama, misidentified the three branches of the federal government, claimed erroneously that World War II …