SCOOP: Inside the GOP's strategy to challenge Biden's win (and the nail biter GA election)  —  With big assists from Melanie, Sarah and Kyle.  —  SCOOP: Sen. Ted Cruz and about nine or 10 other senators joined GOP Reps. Mo Brooks (Ala.), Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Andy Biggs (Ariz.) …

Duty of Congress  —  The House and Senate will meet Wednesday in a joint session to count the votes cast by the electoral college in the presidential election.  —  Some argue that Republicans in Congress should object to electoral votes from certain states, such as Arizona and Pennsylvania.

Trump not allowed into Scotland to escape Biden inauguration, Sturgeon warns  —  US president reportedly planning to visit his Turnberry golf resort to avoid opponent being sworn into office  —  Donald Trump will not be allowed to visit Scotland to play golf during Joe Biden's inauguration, Nicola Sturgeon has said.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Bypasses Top Career Prosecutor To Name New Acting US Attorney In Atlanta  —  Following the abrupt Monday resignation of Byung Jin “BJay” Pak, the U.S. attorney in Atlanta, President Trump is bypassing his first assistant, a career prosecutor, to name a new acting leader from outside the office.

GA State Senator: We Have Asked Pence to Postpone Counting the Election Results  —  A handful of Republican state senators in Georgia have asked Vice President Mike Pence to postpone the counting of electoral votes.  The meeting to count - and certify - the votes from the 2020 presidential election …

Trump shared the wrong number for a Michigan lawmaker.  A 28-year-old has gotten thousands of angry calls.  —  A 28-year-old Michigan native was napping on Sunday when they were suddenly awakened by a barrage of rings, pings and buzzes coming from their cellphone.

Georgia Runoffs Live Updates: Voters Head to the Polls  —  In Democratic-heavy Atlanta and G.O.P. strongholds in North Georgia, voters eagerly line up.  —  ATLANTA — Whitney Leonard, 24, walked out of the West Hunter Street Baptist Church in Atlanta's West End neighborhood on Tuesday morning …

Biden to tap more Obama vets to fill key national security roles  —  President-elect Joe Biden and his transition team have begun to fill out top positions on the incoming National Security Council and at the State Department, with key roles like deputy national security adviser and deputy secretary …

Its freezer kaput, this NorCal hospital had two hours to give out 600 vaccine shots  —  About the time Gov. Newsom took to Facebook on Monday to lament the pace of vaccine distribution statewide, one Northern California hospital was injecting local residents at a furious pace …

‘Borat 2’ Director Reveals What Really Happened With Rudy Giuliani: ‘My Jaw Hit the Floor’  —  THE LAST LAUGH  —  The director of ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ tells ‘The Last Laugh’ podcast how Maria Bakalova infiltrated OAN to get to Rudy Giuliani—and what really went down in that hotel room.

GOP leaders in Pa. Senate will refuse to seat Democrat certified by state as winner  —  Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media.

Democratic Senators Urge Joe Biden To Pick Doug Jones For Attorney General  —  Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and 11 other Democratic senators wrote a letter to the Biden transition team recommending their former colleague.  —  A dozen Democratic senators have sent a letter …

Sen. Josh Hawley says ‘Antifa scumbags’ terrorized his family's Virginia home.  Protesters say they held a peaceful vigil.  —  The activists said they had staged a peaceful vigil on Monday night, protesting the GOP plan to object to Congress's certification of the electoral vote this week.

Biden transition hoping for victory but bracing for defeat in Georgia  —  Joe Biden is eyeing a more ambitious agenda for the first 100 days of his presidency — if, that is, Democrats can win twin upsets in a pair of Georgia Senate runoffs on Tuesday.  —  But Biden's advisers are privately skeptical …

Loeffler's Husband Entangled in Secret Gov't Surveillance Operation  —  The feds are renting an airport hangar from him for planes linked to a U.S. Marshals Service domestic spying program. … Sen. Kelly Loeffler's husband is renting out an airport hangar to the U.S. Marshals Service …

It's Over  —  The president of the United States is out of options to fulfill his authoritarian dreams.  —  walk toward the white house during the final days of the Trump presidency, and you'll get an unmistakable feel of a government under siege.  Buildings near Pennsylvania Avenue are boarded up in anticipation of street violence.

Arnold Schwarzenegger on why Republicans must stop Trump  —  It is time to end the president's “stupid, crazy and evil” ploy to cling to power, says the former governor of California  —  THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA was my first love.  I fell for this country long before I was lucky enough to live here.

Pharmacist Accused of Tampering With Vaccine Was Conspiracy Theorist, Police Say  —  The police say a Wisconsin pharmacist believed the Moderna vaccine would harm people and tried to sabotage the effort to vaccinate frontline workers.  —  A pharmacist who was arrested on charges …

The Beleaguered Chroniclers of the Trump White House Four years of history, day after day after day.  —  On January 21, 2017, the new administration introduced itself to the White House press corps with a surprise briefing in which Sean Spicer yelled for five minutes about how the crowd …

Sedition fatigue: For Trump and many Republicans, betrayal is now politics as usual  —  A treacherous president is behaving precisely as his party trained him to behave: Be Trump.  You are above the law.  We like your Gambino family values.  —  It was one thing when the steady drumbeat …

Georgia Election Results Could Be Impacted as Atlanta Mail Slowdown Threatens Accurate Ballot Count  —  Atlanta-area mail delays, which Postmaster Louis DeJoy promised would improve following a national slowdown last summer, remain far below US Postal Service standards, threatening …

Judge Denies Trump Bid to Invalidate Georgia Election Result  —  A federal judge denied Donald Trump's bid to invalidate his election loss in Georgia and allow the state's Republican-led legislature to declare him the winner — the latest courtroom defeat in the president's effort to remain in office …

Georgia runoff election: Polls are open as nation watches  —  *Georgia's long moment in the national spotlight will culminate today, when state voters determine which party controls the U.S. Senate.  *Georgia voters also will elect a member of the state Public Service Commission, which regulates energy and utility rates and issues.