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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) speaks during the second day of Judge Amy Coney Barrett's Senate confirmation hearing on October 13, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

Senior Republican senators say Biden should have access to classified briefings

Manu Raju and Ted Barrett, CNN November 12, 2020

(CNN) -- A growing number of GOP senators told CNN on Thursday that Joe Biden should have access to classified briefings, the latest indication that Republicans acknowledge the President-elect is likely...

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during election night in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, early on November 4, 2020.

Few legal wins so far as Trump team hunts for proof of fraud

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — During a Pennsylvania court hearing this week on one of the many election lawsuits brought by President Donald Trump, a judge asked a campaign lawyer whether he had found any signs...

Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford said Wednesday that he will intervene if the Trump administration has not allowed President-elect Joe Biden access to presidential daily intelligence briefings by the end of the week.

Republican senator says he will step in if Biden doesn’t have access to intelligence briefings by Friday

Alison Main and Caroline Kelly, CNN November 12, 2020

(CNN) -- Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford said Wednesday that he will intervene if the Trump administration has not allowed President-elect Joe Biden access to presidential daily intelligence...

Immigration rights activists take part in a rally in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on November 12, 2019. - The US Supreme Court hears arguments on November 12, 2019 on the fate of the "Dreamers," an estimated 700,000 people brought to the country illegally as children but allowed to stay and work under a program created by former president Barack Obama.Known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA, the program came under attack from President Donald Trump who wants it terminated, and expired last year after the Congress failed to come up with a replacement. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Some big, early shifts on immigration expected under Biden

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some dramatic moves on immigration are expected in the early days of the Biden administration. Joe Biden will likely use executive orders to reverse some of President Donald Trump's...

President-Elect Joe Biden speaks after meeting with COVID Advisory Board Nov. 9, 2020. 

Biden defends health care law as high court mulls its fate

Will Weissert, Associated Press November 10, 2020

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is championing the Obama administration's signature health law as it goes before the Supreme Court in a case that could overturn it. He will deliver...

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 10: U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson testifies during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on September 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. Trump administration officials were testifying before the committee in support of a report released last week calling for the privatization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage-finance behemoths taken over by the federal government 11 years ago to prevent their collapse in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. (Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

Ben Carson is the latest Trump official to test positive for coronavirus

(CNN) -- Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson tested positive for coronavirus on Monday, his deputy chief of staff Coalter Baker confirmed to CNN."Secretary Carson has tested positive for...

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 24: U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper attends a meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda and U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on June 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. Duda, who faces a tight re-election contest in four days, is Trump's first world leader visit from overseas since the coronavirus pandemic began. (Photo by Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump fires Secretary of Defense Mark Esper

(CNN) -- President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Monday that he has fired Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and that Christopher Miller, who serves as director of the National Counterterrorism Center,...

US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris react as confetti falls, with Jill Biden and Douglas Emhoff, after delivering remarks in Wilmington, Delaware, on Nov. 7.

President-elect Joe Biden seeks to unite nation with victory speech

(CNN) -- President-elect Joe Biden addressed a deeply divided nation Saturday night, turning to the challenges ahead by grounding his victory speech in the spirit of compromise, asking supporters of...

Trump supporters demonstrating during the election results, at right, pray with a counter protester after the presidential election was called for Joe Biden outside the State Capitol in Lansing, Mich., Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

‘This isn’t over!’: Trump supporters refuse to accept defeat

Chanting “This isn’t over!" and “Stop the steal,” supporters of President Donald Trump protested at state capitols across the country Saturday, refusing to accept defeat and echoing Trump’s unsubstantiated...

President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks in Wilmington, Delaware, on Nov. 7.

President-elect Joe Biden seeks to unite nation with victory speech

(CNN) -- President-elect Joe Biden is speaking to a deeply divided nation tonight, making a plea for unity and understanding after four years of turmoil and conflict fomented by President Donald Trump,...

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden delivers remarks at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 6, 2020. - Three days after the US election in which there was a record turnout of 160 million voters, a winner had yet to be declared. 

World leaders congratulate Joe Biden on his victory

Zamira Rahim and Martin Goillandeau, CNN November 7, 2020

(CNN) -- A stream of world leaders have congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Saturday on their victory in the 2020 US presidential election, with many striking...

People react as media announce that Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden has won the 2020 U.S. presidential election, in, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., November 7, 2020. REUTERS/Rachel Wisniewski

Cities erupt in celebration after Biden named winner

Jeremy HerbCNN November 7, 2020

(CNN) -- President-elect Joe Biden's victory over President Donald Trump sparked celebrations in cities across the country, including many of the places that swept Biden into the White House.After CNN...