Federal judge rules acting DHS head Chad Wolf unlawfully appointed, invalidates DACA suspension  —  A federal judge in New York City on Saturday said Chad Wolf has not been acting lawfully as the chief of Homeland Security and that, as such, his suspension of protections for a class …

Trump and his White House minimize pandemic surge as he focuses on denying election loss  —  President Trump finally received some good news this past week: Amid spiking coronavirus cases nationwide — more than 100,000 new cases a day since Nov. 4, with deaths rising, too …

Trump greets thousands of supporters gathered in D.C. to falsely claim he won election  —  A week after the election was called for Joe Biden, thousands of President Trump's supporters gathered in the nation's capital Saturday to falsely claim that the race had been stolen from the man they adore …

Parler, Backed by Mercer Family, Makes Play for Conservatives Mad at Facebook, Twitter  —  The libertarian-minded platform aims to challenge tech giants through a focus on free speech; surge in users since the election  —  As Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. have taken a harder line …

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham holds off stiff challenge from Jaime Harrison, NBC News projects … Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has held on to his seat in South Carolina, according to an NBC News projection, defeating Democrat Jaime Harrison in a race that broke fundraising records …

Raphael Warnock's radicalism is catching up with him  —  The presidential race has been decided, but Election 2020 is not over yet.  The nation's eyes now turn to Georgia, where two statewide runoff elections will determine party control of the U.S. Senate.

False reports claim election servers were seized in Germany  —  CLAIM: The U.S. Army raided the Frankfurt office of the Spanish election software company Scytl to seize servers that had evidence of voting irregularities in the Nov. 3 U.S. election.  —  AP'S ASSESSMENT: False.

US, Israel worked together to track and kill al-Qaida No. 2  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Israel worked together to track and kill a senior al-Qaida operative in Iran earlier this year, a bold intelligence operation by the two allied nations that came as the Trump administration was ramping up pressure on Tehran.

It's Time to Hunker Down  —  Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers.  Find the collection here.  —  The end may be near for the pestilence that has haunted the world this year.  Good news is arriving on almost every front: treatments …

There Was No Knockout, So Democrats and G.O.P. Regroup for Next Round  —  Voters delivered a convincing victory for Joseph R. Biden Jr. but a split decision for the two parties.  Now they face perhaps the most up-for-grabs electoral map the country has seen in a generation.

Top Pentagon adviser has said ‘Israeli lobby’ funds government officials who want war  —  WASHINGTON (JTA) — Douglas Macgregor, a top adviser to President Donald Trump's new acting defense secretary, routinely blames “the Israeli lobby” and “neocons” for pushing the United States into wars.

Trump lost at the ballot box.  His legal challenges aren't going any better.  —  President Trump lost his reelection bid at the ballot box.  But he said he could win it back in court.  —  In five key states, Trump and his allies filed lawsuits that — according to Trump …

Schwarzman defended Trump at CEO meeting on election results  —  Exclusive: Blackstone founder dismissed ‘coup’ fears and predicted legal process would take its course  —  Blackstone founder Stephen Schwarzman defended Donald Trump's response to this year's US poll results during …

The Dakotas are ‘as bad as it gets anywhere in the world’ for COVID-19  —  South Dakota welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors to a massive motorcycle rally this summer, declined to cancel the state fair and still doesn't require masks.  Now its hospitals are filling …

Law Firm's Withdrawal Reflects Chilling Reality [Updated]  —  This is one of the saddest news stories of recent times: Porter Wright firm withdraws from representation of President Trump. … I assume they have withdrawn, or will withdraw, from the state court case as well.  The Trump campaign commented:

We opposed each other in Bush v. Gore.  Now we agree: Biden won.  —  David Boies is chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner.  Theodore B. Olson, a former U.S. solicitor general, is a partner of the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  —  Twenty years ago, we represented the opposing sides in Bush v. Gore.

Doctors Plead With Americans to Take Virus Surge Seriously  —  More than 1 in every 400 people tested positive in the past week, and infections and hospitalizations have hit record levels across the country.  Rising deaths have pushed even some reluctant governors to issue mask mandates and to limit gatherings.

New stats reveal massive NYC exodus amid coronavirus, crime  —  More than 300,000 New Yorkers have bailed from the Big Apple in the last eight months, new stats show.  —  City residents filed 295,103 change of address requests from March 1 through Oct. 31, according to data The Post obtained …