Threats and Tensions Rise as Trump and Allies Attack Elections Process  —  Confrontations have escalated in swing states, with elections officials in both parties facing threats of violence, as the president and other Republicans try to subvert the country's voting system.

Lawsuit: Tyson managers bet money on how many workers would contract COVID-19  —  A wrongful death lawsuit tied to COVID-19 infections in a Waterloo pork processing plant alleges that during the initial stages the pandemic, Tyson Foods ordered employees to report for work …

Current and former Trump officials quietly reach out to Biden team  —  Washington (CNN)A handful of current Trump administration officials, as well as some political appointees who left in recent months, have quietly started to reach out to members of President-elect Joe Biden's transition team …

Trump's legal adviser Jenna Ellis in 2016 called him an ‘idiot’ and said his supporters didn't care about ‘facts or logic’  —  (CNN)Jenna Ellis has been one of President Donald Trump's most ardent defenders since joining his campaign as a legal adviser and surrogate a year ago …

The Problem With Coronavirus School Closures  —  Children have suffered because many mayors and governors were too willing to close public schools.  —  Some things are true even though President Trump says them.  —  Trump has been demanding for months that schools reopen, and on that he seems to have been largely right.

Biden approaches 80 million votes in historic victory  —  President-elect Joe Biden's winning tally is approaching a record 80 million votes as Democratic bastions continue to count ballots and the 2020 election cracks turnout records.  —  Biden has already set a record for the highest number …

Trump campaign revises Pennsylvania suit, again  —  The latest version of the lawsuit asks the court to declare Trump the winner in Pennsylvania.  —  Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference in Philadelphia on Nov. 7, 2020.

Sen. Perdue Helped Defense Contractor—and Sold Off Its Stock  —  SUB-OPTIMAL … Sen. David Perdue had never invested in the Navy supplier BWX Technologies until right before he assumed control of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower.  —  Right before he was put in charge …

DEA Investigators Fuming Over Dropped Case Against Mexican General  —  Some senior law enforcement officials who helped build the case against Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda were reportedly not consulted ahead of the dropped drug-trafficking charges.  —  The former Mexican defense chief accused …

Election Night with Biden's Data Guru  —  The last time chief analytics officer Becca Siegel had been inside Joe Biden's sprawling campaign headquarters in Center City Philadelphia, her department had about 15 staffers on its payroll.  That was in March.  In late October, her team had ballooned …

Trump appoints speechwriter fired for attending conference with white nationalists to commission that preserves Holocaust memorials  —  WASHINGTON — A former speechwriter fired from the White House in 2018 for attending a conference at which white supremacists were also present has been appointed …

‘If you make China the enemy, China will be the enemy’: Beijing's fresh threat to Australia  —  Beijing has issued an extraordinary attack on the Australian government, accusing it of “poisoning bilateral relations” in a deliberately leaked document that threatens to escalate tensions between the two countries.

Sources say outgoing Democratic Rep. Max Rose is mulling run for NYC mayor  —  Rep. Max Rose, D-N.Y., is considering a quick return to politics after losing his House seat this month.  Rose has begun laying the groundwork for a potential mayoral campaign in New York City, according to three different sources.

California doctors' top brass attended French Laundry dinner with Newsom  —  OAKLAND — California Medical Association officials were among the guests seated next to Gov. Gavin Newsom at a top California political operative's opulent birthday dinner at the French Laundry restaurant this month.

‘Traitors to the president’: Conservatives fear public preparation for Biden term  —  The conservative movement has become handicapped.  —  Organizations can't sound the alarm about President-elect Joe Biden's agenda.  Conservative reporters won't take pitches about Biden's rumored Cabinet contenders …

White House Sought Suit Against Omarosa Manigault Newman After News of Her Memoir  —  A day after the 2018 announcement that she had written a negative book about President Trump, the White House escalated an unrelated dispute by referring it to the Justice Department.

Senators Take Aim At Massive Trump Arms Deal  —  A bipartisan group of senators announced plans to try to block Trump's weapons sales to the United Arab Emirates after HuffPost revealed the effort was in the works.  —  A bipartisan group of senators announced four bills …

GOP increasingly accepts Trump's defeat — but not in public  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — When Kamala Harris returned to the Senate this week for the first time as vice president-elect, her Republican colleagues offered their congratulations and Sen. Lindsey Graham greeted her with a fist bump.

Dolly Parton helped fund Moderna's vaccine.  It began with a car crash and an unlikely friendship.  —  As Dolly Parton tells it, her first-ever car accident in October 2013 was minor, but left her bruised and sore enough to seek medical advice at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

States That Imposed Few Restrictions Now Have the Worst Outbreaks  —  Coronavirus cases are rising in almost every U.S. state.  But the surge is worst now in places where leaders neglected to keep up forceful virus containment efforts or failed to implement basic measures like mask mandates …

Coronavirus cases in Texas are soaring again.  But this time Gov. Greg Abbott says no lockdown is coming.  —  The last time case numbers were this high, Abbott closed bars and urged Texans to avoid summer holiday gatherings.  This time, he's staying the course, relying on a 2-month-old blueprint …

Barack Obama memoir off to record-setting start in sales  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Barack Obama's “A Promised Land” sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 24 hours, putting it on track to be the best selling presidential memoir in modern history.

House Republicans demand investigation into ‘integrity’ of 2020 election, call for hearings ‘immediately’  —  House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan and Oversight Committee Ranking Member James Comer called for hearings amid “troubling reports of irregularities and improprieties” in the 2020 election.

Chinese dissident in US says Communist Party froze his life savings  —  Deng Yuwen says the action is a warning to critics of the party in the United States Former senior editor of party journal is a vocal advocate of reform in China Deng Yuwen says the action is a warning to critics of the party …

Arizona GOP pressures counties to delay vote certification  —  PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Republican Party is pressuring county officials across the state to delay their certification of election results — even though there hasn't been any evidence of legitimate questions about the vote tally showing …

The Last Children of Down Syndrome  —  Every few weeks or so, Grete Fält-Hansen gets a call from a stranger asking a question for the first time: What is it like to raise a child with Down syndrome?  —  Sometimes the caller is a pregnant woman, deciding whether to have an abortion.

State legislatures do not have the power to veto the people's choice in an election  —  Trump fans are peddling the theory that legislatures can override election results.  But the framers rejected the idea, and so did the Supreme Court.  —  The conservative radio talk show host Mark Levin …

President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate and Appoint the Following Individuals to Key Administration Posts  —  Today, President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key positions in his Administration:  —  Brian P. Brooks, of Colorado …

Georgia elections chief: ‘Emotional abuse’ to mislead voters about fraud  —  The top election official in Georgia on Tuesday raged at what he described as politicians giving false hope and ginning up anger over unsubstantiated allegations of systemic voter fraud, calling it “emotional abuse” …