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A SPAC with ties to people selected by Joe Biden for his Cabinet is seeing a surge in support from Wall Street giants.

Austin would require a special Senate waiver in order to bypass the rule that Defense secretaries must be retired from active duty for at least seven years.

In a letter to the HHS secretary, Sens. Warren and Smith said they made the discovery after contacting five of the world's largest Covid testing labs.

Congress is rushing to extend government funding and pass coronavirus relief before unemployment and eviction moratorium provisions expire.

Rudy Giuliani, who led efforts by President Trump to reverse Joe Biden's presidential victory, is the latest person in Trump's orbit to contract coronavirus.

Michael Flynn lied to FBI agents about his talks with a Russian diplomat in the weeks before President Donald Trump was inaugurated.

Krebs accuses the defendants of conspiring to defame him over his statement that the presidential election was secure from foreign interference.

Trump is expected to sign an executive order designed to promote his "America First" foreign policy with regard to Covid-19 vaccinations.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., repeated his call on President-elect Biden to forgive $50,000 in student debt for every borrower. Can Biden do it without Congress?

A Trump-appointed federal media agency CEO is attempting one final purge of executive staff before Joe Biden becomes the next commander in chief.

Congress aims to both pass a coronavirus relief package and avoid a government shutdown in the coming days.

The dismissal of Sidney Powell's cases in Georgia and Michigan are blows to Trump's long-shot effort to deny Biden a victory in the Electoral College.

President-elect Joe Biden announces inaugural committee co-chairs, including Rep. James Clyburn as lead chair and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as a co-chair.

The president's comments are "stoking anger and fear among his supporters," Gabriel Sterling, a voting system official in Georgia, said on NBC's Meet the Press.

President Trump asked Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to convince state legislators to help overturn President-elect Joe Biden's win in Georgia and permit an audit of signatures on the absentee ballots.

"I think it would be better if they had the $1,200 [payments to families]" in the Covid relief package, Biden said at a press conference.

The initial claim that votes had been improperly handed to Trump, resulting in a net increase in votes for Biden, was "Bassakwards," Powell admitted to CNBC.

The DC attorney general's office is suing over alleged improper spending by Donald Trump's inaugural committee. Ivanka Trump is upset about that.

The New York Young Republican Club hosted a large indoor gala with little-to-no mask-wearing or social distancing in Jersey City Thursday night, drawing fierce criticism from New Jersey officials Friday.

Ghislaine Maxwell has been held without bail since her arrest on crimes related to Jeffrey Epstein, a former friend of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.