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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump never admits defeat. But he faces a stark choice now that Democrat Joe Biden has won the White House: Concede...

WILMINGTON, Del. — President-elect Joe Biden signaled on Sunday he plans to move quickly to build out his government, focusing first on the raging pan...

WASHINGTON — Democrat Joe Biden overtook President Donald Trump in the vote count in Pennsylvania and Georgia Friday morning, closing in on a presiden...

WASHINGTON — The election scrambled seats in the House and Senate but ultimately left Congress much like it began, deeply split as voters resisted big...

Of all the Twitter attacks on President Trump — and there are thousands every day — one stood out on election eve. It was a photo of a woman sitting w...

WASHINGTON — The battle for control of the Senate tightened Tuesday after Democrats picked up a seat in Colorado, but suffered a setback in Alabama, a...

WASHINGTON — Polls closed across the country Tuesday night as President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden concluded an epic campaign th...

ALBANY (TNS) — The federal government sent New York and other states a “data sharing agreement” Monday to be used to distribute an eventual COVID-19 v...

ALBANY (AP) — Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer faces pressure from more than 20 New York elected officials in his own party to support federal l...

Now dragging into its fifth month, the back-and-forth over a new pandemic relief package is enough to give anyone whiplash. It is also a slap in the f...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden squared off, in a way, Thursday night, their scuttled second debate replaced by dueling tel...

Every political campaign hopes for an October surprise to shift the November election their way. President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis and hospi...

It is possible, given a president’s necessary interactions with the public, staff and others seeking his ear (not to mention a reelection campaign), t...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Trading barbs through plexiglass shields, Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Kamala Harris turned the only vice presidential deb...

Most political observers understand that the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a reliable “progressive” voice on the Supreme Court, and the nomina...

Most political observers understand that the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a reliable “progressive” voice on the Supreme Court, and the nomina...

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Two days after being hospitalized with COVID-19, President Donald Trump declared, "I get it," in a message to the nation Sunday b...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Friday that President Donald Trump had contracted COVID-19 and was suffering "mild symptoms" as the virus that ...