‘Time for everybody to move on’: Senate GOP accepts Biden's win  —  Senate Republicans are finally starting to recognize Joe Biden as the next president of the United States — even if they waited until the very last minute.  —  When asked on Monday afternoon whether Biden was the president-elect …

Bye-Bye, Bill Barr  —  The mostly tarnished legacy of Trump's mostly complicit attorney general.  —  Some heads snapped when Attorney General William Barr told the truth on December 1.  “To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”

Congressman cites Trump's efforts to overturn election in announcing decision to quit GOP  —  (CNN)In an exclusive interview, Rep. Paul Mitchell, Republican of Michigan, told CNN that his disgust and disappointment with President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the election …

‘Massively disruptive’ cyber crisis engulfs multiple agencies  —  The sophisticated cyber campaign that breached email accounts across the federal government created a deepening crisis Monday as signs multiplied about the scope of the foreign intruders' reach.

Georgia's Supreme Court Rejected Trump's Suit Over the Weekend.  His Proxy Appealed Another Case and Lost Immediately on Monday.  —  Not long after rejecting outgoing President Donald Trump's election gripes, the Supreme Court of Georgia received and shredded an appeal by the lame duck's proxy on Monday.

Putin finally congratulates Biden on US election victory  —  Biden: Trump's entire presidency has been a gift to Putin  —  Moscow (CNN)Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Joe Biden on his victory in the US presidential election Tuesday, six weeks after the vote …

White House Official Recovers From Severe Covid-19, Friend Says  — Crede Bailey spent three months in hospital with disease  — Friend created GoFundMe account with details of illness  —  A White House official who fell ill with Covid-19 in September is recovering after three months …

Scoop: Trump's frenetic, fanciful, bitter final plea  —  Right up to Monday's Electoral College vote, President Trump held the false hope that Republican-controlled state legislatures would replace electors with allies who'd overturn Joe Biden's win, two people who discussed the matter with him told Axios.

Fake electors try to deliver Arizona's 11 votes for Trump  —  In another sign of the lingering unrest over President Donald Trump's election loss, an Arizona group sent the National Archives in Washington, D.C., notarized documents last week intended to deliver, wrongly, the state's 11 electoral votes for him.

China's ‘tainted’ cotton  —  China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang, according to new research seen by the BBC.  —  Based on newly discovered online documents …

Just How Dangerous Was Donald Trump?  —  He failed to bend the state to his will, but he still broke the country.  —  Throughout Donald Trump's presidency, there's been an argument on the left over the sort of threat he poses.  —  The American left's most famous figures — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …

Can the FBI Stop the Trump Extremists?  —  The president's backers are openly calling for sedition, secession, even murder, while police struggle with sympathizers in their ranks  —  Last month a young Georgia man and his girlfriend were stopped by Washington, D.C. police as they sauntered across …

Stephen Miller is a fraud who should just go away already  —  The electors are voting.  As of the latest count, Joe Biden has secured 302 electoral college votes, making him the next president.  The electors in the key battlegrounds of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin …

Dagbladet can reveal that Norwegian authorities intervened when Saudi Arabia deployed a mysterious ten-man security team to Norway.  —  The Norwegian Police Security Service has informed a Norway-based critic of the Saudi regime about the case.  —  He fears for his safety.  —  Line Fransson

Ex-Hill Staffer Linked to Veselnitskaya Dies Suddenly After Fall Near His Home  —  Paul Behrends, who lost his job on the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee after links to Russia were reported, suffered a head injury close to his home on Friday night.  —  The longtime aide to “Putin's Congressman” …

Treasure hunter marks five years in jail for refusing to give up his gold  —  Research scientist Tommy Thompson has for years refused to tell the location of 500 missing coins found in a historic shipwreck  —  A former deep-sea treasure hunter is about to mark his fifth year in jail …