The president-elect will confront a changed world and difficult diplomacy with nations such as China, Iran and Venezuela.
Category: Politics
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The marketplace for fantasy is reshaping conservative media, just like it reshaped conservative politics
Fox News is being challenged by upstarts willing to go further into the abyss of nonsense.
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Winners and losers from 2020 state battles
Winners: electoral reform and marijuana. Losers: Democrats
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In competing events, Trump and Biden offer conflicting messages on the pandemic — and illustrate an ongoing fight for attention
The split screen came as Trump seeks to maintain power by leveling baseless accusations of voter fraud while Biden works to assemble his administration, all against the backdrop of a global health and economic crisis.
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Senate confirms three FEC commissioners, restoring full slate for the first time since 2017
The Federal Election Commission was unable to conduct business for the vast majority of the 2020 election cycle.
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Joe Biden goes to church. Politics remains outside.
Politics has been bludgeoning religion at a time when scripture and faith really should be at their most profound and when grace should shine.
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Trump’s effort to steal the election comes down to some utterly ridiculous statistical claims
A lawsuit filed by the embattled attorney general of Texas stands little chance of success — though perhaps slightly better than one-in-one-quadrillion.
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Biden selects Marcia L. Fudge as HUD secretary and Tom Vilsack to lead Agriculture department
The Fudge decision, along with the naming of a Black Defense secretary-designate, occurred as Biden was pressured by organizations seeking diversity in his Cabinet.
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Live updates: Biden to appear alongside defense secretary nominee as he names more top-level picks
President-elect Joe Biden has selected Marcia L. Fudge as his secretary of housing and urban development and plans to name Tom Vilsack as agriculture secretary.
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After criticism, Cobb County restores some early-voting sites for Ga. Senate runoffs
Elections officials in Georgia’s third-most populous county had come under fire for closing more than half of its advance voting sites for the crucial Senate runoffs.
