Presidential Transition Live Updates: Trump Returns to Golf Course as World Leaders Discuss Pandemic  —  President Trump briefly met with the Group of 20 on Saturday after facing two setbacks in his attempt to undo election results in Michigan and Georgia.  The Trump administration has scheduled …

Trump Using Last Days to Lock In Policies and Make Biden's Task More Difficult  —  At a wide range of departments and agencies, Mr. Trump's political appointees are going to extraordinary lengths to try to prevent Mr. Biden from rolling back the president's legacy.

Trump tweets undermine Michigan leaders; images show Chatfield drinking at Trump hotel  —  Dave Boucher Clara HendricksonDetroit Free Press  —  Public skepticism that Michigan's Republican legislative leaders focused on COVID-19 assistance during a Friday meeting with President Donald …

Secret plans helped Brooklyn synagogue pull off massive, maskless wedding  —  A Hasidic synagogue in Brooklyn planned the wedding of a chief rabbi's grandson with such secrecy it was able to host thousands of maskless celebrants without the city catching on.

Trump tries to drum out GOP election officials who won't play his games  —  President Donald Trump has driven senators into retirement and tweeted wayward Republicans into primary defeat during four years leading the GOP.  Now, as a lame duck, he's launched a new campaign against GOP election officials who won't bend to his will.

Georgia Certifies: Donald Trump Lost  —  A recount changed little, as the evidence of ballot fraud fails to appear.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  The recount in Georgia is finished, after workers examined five million ballots by hand, but President Trump still lags Joe Biden by 12,000 votes.

Pennsylvania VBM Certification Challenge  —  Several Republican candidates and voters filed a lawsuit against Pennsylvania, the General Assembly, the governor, and Secretary of State.  The lawsuit seeks to block the state from certifying the election results and asks the court to exclude mail …

Michigan Legislators Face Calls For Possible Criminal Charges After Meeting With President Trump On Certification  —  We have been discussing the campaign of The Lincoln Project and others to harass and abuse lawyers who represent the Trump campaign or other parties bringing election challenges.

Culture wars fuel Trump's blue-collar Latino gains  —  Donald Trump lost the presidency, but showed Republicans a way to win the culture wars with working-class Hispanics.  —  Despite four years of being defined as a racist for his rhetoric and harsh immigration policies …

Stacey Abrams' group finances grassroots efforts to win Senate runoffs  —  The voting rights group founded by Stacey Abrams is pumping $2.7 million to boost the work of a network of grassroots organizations ahead of the Jan. 5 runoffs - not to finance more TV ads but to strengthen their get-out-the-vote apparatus.

Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?  —  There are now businesses that sell fake people.  On the website Generated.Photos, you can buy a “unique, worry-free” fake person for $2.99, or 1,000 people for $1,000.  If you just need a couple of fake people — for characters in a video game …

The Founders didn't prepare for a president who refuses to step down, historians say  —  President Trump continued Friday to deny the results of the election, pressuring state officials in Michigan and Georgia to overturn the will of voters, and increasing fears that he might refuse to cede power to President-elect Joe Biden.

Trump Appointee Unconstitutionally Interfered With VOA, Judge Rules  —  Toggle more options  —  The chief executive over the Voice of America and its sister networks has acted unconstitutionally in investigating what he claimed was a deep-seated bias against President Trump by his own journalists, a federal judge has ruled.

The Major Difference Between Black Male and Female Voters  —  Since the years following the New Deal, when the majority of Black voters left the Republican Party, Black men and women have turned out in spectacular numbers for Democrats in presidential elections.  No other racial group has been as consistent for the Dems.

Justice Dept. meets Trump, Giuliani vote-fraud claims with silent skepticism  —  The Justice Department has met President Trump's fantastical claims of widespread voter fraud with two weeks of skeptical silence, not taking any overt moves to investigate what Trump's lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani …

1,000 U.S. Hospitals Are ‘Critically’ Short On Staff — And More Expect To Be Soon  —  More than 1,000 hospitals across the United States are “critically” short on staff, according to numbers released this week by the Department of Health and Human Services.

COVID-19 deniers are still all too real.  Here's how we can convince them  —  COVID-19 has killed 250,000 Americans and counting.  We're nine months into the pandemic, and our infection rates are worse than ever.  —  A majority of people across the political spectrum acknowledge the danger of COVID-19.

No, State Legislatures May Not Reverse the Result of the Election  —  The Trump Elector Strategy That Dare Not Speak Its Name  —  How We Know Dominion Voting Machines Didn't Affect the Election Outcome  —  Lamar Alexander Calls on Trump Admin. to Give Biden Presidential Briefings

Inside the Neo-Nazi Cabal Tied to Marines and a Porn Star  —  The evidence includes a sickening video of live-fire weapons training that ended with the masked participants giving “Heil Hitler” salutes.  —  An active-duty Marine assigned to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina has been charged …

Why You Don't Mess Around With Presidential Transitions  —  In his new memoir, Barack Obama reveals that there was a terrorist threat on his Inauguration Day.  As he addressed the nation, he was prepared to interrupt himself to read evacuation instructions for the millions gathered on the National Mall.

Politics, Science and the Remarkable Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine  —  The furious race to develop a coronavirus vaccine played out against a presidential election, between a pharmaceutical giant and a biotech upstart, with the stakes as high as they could get.  —  WASHINGTON — The call was tense, the message discouraging.

A traveler tested negative for covid-19 before a flight.  He had the virus and infected 4 passengers.  —  The study details an outbreak linked to one passenger on an 18-hour flight from Dubai to New Zealand in September.  —  Health officials in New Zealand, a country that has a strict 14 …