WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump isn't abandoning his drive to overturn the election results in Wisconsin, despite state officials announcing a recount in Milwaukee County had only added to Democrat Joe Biden's lead.

"The Wisconsin recount is not about finding mistakes in the count, it is about finding people who have voted illegally, and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Vice President-elect Kamala Harris dismissed the prospect of a rematch against President Donald Trump, who's been signaling he could run again in 2024 if he can't reverse the results of this month's vote.

Speaking to reporters at a holiday market in Washington, Harris made a scoffing sound when asked whether she and President-...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is aware his fight to overturn the election is winding down, according to people familiar with the matter, but he isn't ready to end the effort as he fundraises off the furor, directing much of the proceeds to his political action committee.

Still, Trump appears to be staking out a path that will end with ...Read more

How far will the Supreme Court's new conservative supermajority go?

With President-elect Joe Biden's victory and the potential for Democrats to control the Senate, it's the question on the mind of everyone who cares about the court. If the conservative justices lurch the law to the right, calls to retaliate by adding liberal justices will ...Read more

NEW YORK — Whether or not President Donald Trump runs in 2024 is anyone's guess, but the website DonaldJTrump2024.com is up and running, thanks to a pair of jokers who snatched up the domain name to taunt the lame-duck president.

Comedians Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler, who call themselves The Good Liars, took credit for buying the site ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A federal appeals court on Friday rejected an appeal of President Donald Trump's last significant legal challenge to Pennsylvania's election results, setting the stage for his campaign to potentially appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

A three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd ...Read more

The unsigned opinion by the nation's highest court got it wrong, insisting that restrictions placed on religious gatherings imposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York's COVID hot spots must be nullified, for they violate the First Amendment.

The dissent by the Bronx's Sonia Sotomayor got it right. The rules, capping gatherings at 10 people or ...Read more

ATLANTA — President Donald Trump's decision to visit Georgia next week was celebrated as a "Thanksgiving miracle" by the Republican U.S. Senate runoff candidates. But his trip will test how they balance his unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud with their all-out efforts to drive up turnout.

Even as U.S. Sens. Kelly Loeffler and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Despite outlining a detailed agenda on his website, President-elect Joe Biden's campaign often focused less on policies than his temperament and character, seeking to make the election a referendum on President Donald Trump's four years in office.

Now that Biden has begun announcing Cabinet appointments before taking office Jan. ...Read more

SEATTLE — From reintroduction of the grizzly bear to its wild North Cascades redoubt to attacking climate change, a wide range of environmental policies could see a new direction in the Pacific Northwest under a Biden administration.

For starters, government and nonprofit policy leaders say they are looking forward to a return to science as a...Read more

AUSTIN, Texas — A three-year legal battle involving Austin's ban on digital advertising on commercial billboards appears to be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court, an escalation by the city that could have rippling consequences throughout Texas and two other states.

Austin is among roughly 90% of cities in Texas that prohibit digital billboards ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A few days before national security adviser Robert O'Brien left for a high-profile tour of southeast Asia, President Donald Trump delivered some news to him, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence in the Oval Office.

Trump planned to run for president again in 2024, he told the men, if he couldn't ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said a U.S. Supreme Court decision handed down Wednesday night blocking state officials from enforcing a cap on religious gatherings in coronavirus hot spots in Brooklyn and Queens is "irrelevant from any practical impact" because those areas are no longer designated virus hot spots.

He said the decision,...Read more

WASHINGTON — Within days of the 2020 presidential election, President-elect Joe Biden received a blunt reminder of the challenges ahead when a bridge that has come to symbolize the nation's outdated infrastructure caught fire.

Long before the Nov. 11 collision of two semi-trailers on the Brent Spence Bridge, which links Cincinnati and ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — If The U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of President Donald Trump's memorandum to remove unauthorized immigrants from the 2020 census count, California stands to lose some political power.

The Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments Nov. 30 on the Trump administration's July memorandum to exclude undocumented ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's conservative justices moved for the first time late Wednesday to block a governor's COVID-19 restrictions, ruling that New York's attempt to control rapidly spreading infections in churches and synagogues had violated constitutional religious freedom rights.

Newly seated Justice Amy Coney Barrett cast a key ...Read more