NOVEMBER 10, 2020
FILE PHOTO: The Pentagon. - Charles Dharapak/AP
Anthony Tata, a retired brigadier general whose nomination for a top Pentagon job collapsed this summer due to Islamophobic tweets and other controversial statements, began overseeing policy for the Defense Department on Tuesday.
The move was part of a high-level civilian leadership shakeup that began on Monday when President Donald Trump fired...
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2019, file photo, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., asks a question on Capitol Hill in Washington. The reelection defeat of Peterson in Minnesota and some key retirements mean a shakeup is coming for the industry on Capitol Hill, with power likely to shift from the Midwest to the...
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 28: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House July 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump announced that Eastman Kodak will receive a loan to manufacture ingredients used in pharmaceuticals. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
For all the people who predicted that the Republican fever would break the...
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
The question is not whether President Donald Trump is leaving. It's how much destruction, revenge and chaos he will wreak on the way out the door.
Trump's refusal to concede the election, delusional tweets about states tipping his way and failure to so far grant President-elect Joe Biden access to federal funding and resources to power up his...
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
Horseshoe crab.
West Sayville, New York — The safety of any new coronavirus vaccine may depend on help from an ancient marine creature. Horseshoe crabs have been helping pharmaceutical companies for decades to keep vaccines free of contaminants.
"Horseshoe crabs have been on Earth for 445 million years," said John Tanacredi, the director of the Environmental Research and Coastal Oceans Monitoring...
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
President Donald Trump on Oct. 28, 2020, in Goodyear, Arizona. - Ross D. Franklin/AP
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump’s campaign is aggressively seeking donations to pay for lawsuits and recounts in a handful of states where Democrat Joe Biden won, but some GOP donors are already moving on to other fights, such as a pair of runoff...
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar predicted Tuesday that there would be enough Covid-19 vaccine for general public vaccination campaigns by spring 2021.
In an appearance on the TODAY show, Azar outlined what he said would be the distribution schedule for Pfizer's and other companies' experimental vaccines, none of which are approved, but Pfizer said Monday...
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
President Trump has spread claims about the integrity of the election that are at odds with extensive evidence, but congressional Republicans have been reluctant to confront him. - Doug Mills/NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Since he was elected, President Trump’s relationships with Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill have mostly fallen into one of two categories: the unbreakable...
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
Texas Gov. George W. Bush greets Vice President Al Gore at Washington University in St. Louis on Oct. 17, 2000. - LAURA RAUCH/AP
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Around 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 8, 2000, Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore had called his Republican opponent, George W. Bush, to concede, and he began making his way to the War Memorial...
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
“Every legal challenge should be heard,” Representative Kevin McCarthy of California said. “Then and only then will America decide who won the race.” - Anna Moneymaker/NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. prepared on Sunday to start building his administration, even as Republican leaders and scores of party lawmakers refrained from acknowledging his victory out...
