President Trump’s push to reverse the election results in key swing states fell short again as two states carried narrowly by Joe Biden formally signed off on their results.
He needs to make the G.O.P. pay a price for obstruction.
Frustrated by the dysfunction on Capitol Hill, Senator Joe Manchin III is eager to cut bipartisan deals and check what he views as progressive overreach in the Biden administration.
With vaccines and a new administration, the pandemic will be tamed. But experts say the coming months “are going to be just horrible.”
Es probable que el asesinato del principal científico nuclear de Irán impida las ambiciones militares del país. Su verdadero propósito puede haber sido evitar que el presidente electo de Estados Unidos Joe Biden reanude la diplomacia con Teherán.
The president-elect’s aim of restoring foreign policy norms has spooked human rights defenders in Asia, who praise President Trump as someone willing to confront dictators.
Some of his foreign policy choices present an ethics test: This is your morning tip sheet.
Survey research tries to sort out the typical partisan reactions to a loss from an erosion of trust that may be more lasting.
The future looks quite different with the president in the rearview mirror.
Los países que integran los grandes acuerdos comerciales continúan avanzando para promover una mayor diversificación de sus mercados mientras la región permanece estancada.
The president-elect visited an orthopedic specialist, and while initial X-rays did not show an obvious fracture, a more detailed CT scan showed hairline cracks.
Nothing greases the gears of government quite like pork.
Ms. Psaki, who served in prominent communications roles in the Obama administration, said she saw her job as trying to “rebuild trust.”
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is expected to nominate Neera Tanden, a divisive figure within the Democratic Party, to lead the budget office. He also named an all-female communications staff.
Biden wants to reinstate the nuclear deal, but first he must confront the new Middle East.
Many readers view the political divide as the greatest challenge facing the president-elect.
A fight over the council’s presidency is seen by some as an effort by China, Russia and Saudi Arabia to put a more compliant state in control ahead of greater involvement by the Biden administration.
Markets hit all-time highs this week, breaking pre-pandemic records and reflecting confidence in Biden’s administration.
After suffering a string of audacious attacks, Tehran faces an agonizing choice: embracing hard-liner demands for swift retaliation or trying to make a fresh start with the Biden administration.
The last cat to live in the White House, India, belonged to President George W. Bush.
Despite the president-elect’s vow to halt the project, the Trump administration is expanding the wall at a breakneck pace.
They refuted conspiracy theories, certified results, dismissed lawsuits and repudiated a president of their own party.
The killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist is likely to impede the country’s military ambitions. Its real purpose may have been to prevent the president-elect from resuming diplomacy with Tehran.
Some of the president-elect’s choices for top posts have done work for undisclosed corporate clients and aided a fund that invests in government contractors.
What is the greatest challenge facing President-elect Joe Biden? We asked readers that question, and what advice they would give him.
In statehouse races, suburban voters’ disgust with President Trump failed to translate into a rebuke of other Republicans, ensuring the party’s grip on partisan mapmaking.
Lists of names of those the president-elect is said to be considering are flying across Washington, prompting lawmakers and interest groups to raise questions about some top contenders.
Democrats made historic inroads. But it’s a deeply divided place, and some say a “blood bath” is on the horizon in 2022.
Iran expressed fury over the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, blaming it on Israel and the United States. His death may complicate President-elect Biden’s intention to restore the Iranian nuclear deal.
Readers react to a column by Bret Stephens arguing that “groupthink” is blinding progressives.
The senator from Maine has emerged from the toughest re-election battle of her career more influential than ever, and ready to play a crucial deal-making role in a divided Senate.
The incoming administration aims to tackle child care, elder care, preschool and more in one ambitious aid program.
The incoming administration aims to tackle child care, elder care, preschool and more in one ambitious aid program.
U.S. and Israeli intelligence described the scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, as the force behind what they call Iran’s covert push for nuclear weapons.
Readers around the world tell us about the global ripple effect of the U.S. election.
Churches are doing what politicians have been unable to do, rescuing Americans from crushing medical bills.
To the dismay of Democrats, the president’s strategy of ignoring the pandemic mostly worked for Republicans.
The president’s inability to concede the election is the latest reality-denying moment in a career preoccupied with an epithet.
No arguments — or turkey — this Thanksgiving. Just a cocktail.
The delicate proxy clash has pitted Democrats eager to emphasize issues like hunger and nutrition against traditionalists who believe the department should represent rural America.
“Seriously, there’s a name from the past,” Jimmy Fallon said of Flynn on Wednesday. “Even Michael Flynn was like, ‘Damn, I totally forgot about Michael Flynn.’”
The Obama administration, Part 2, takes shape: This is your morning tip sheet.
In an emotional address, he pleaded with Americans to “hang on” and cited the death of his son to say that he understood the loss in the nation.
The makeup of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s inner circle is becoming clearer as the transition to his administration begins.
Claims for new unemployment benefits and other data suggest that the recent increase in infections is threatening the economic recovery.
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. stressed the importance of unity and encouraged Americans to be careful with Thanksgiving celebrations this year to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Also this week: Winter heating options, and the E.P.A. chief’s travel plans
A reader humorously describes a scheme by “diabolical” conspirators.
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. gives a speech ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.
One reader feels “a burst of gratitude and pride” while another worries about “a Republican-light team” pushing for U.S. world leadership.
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt is using human rights activists in a game of geopolitical brinkmanship. What will the new administration do about it?
The picks are a repudiation of President Trump’s isolationism, but they will have to resolve tensions between an Obama-era approach and the “fresh thinking” the president-elect says he wants.
Wall Street notched records, as relief settled in that the election is over and Janet Yellen will be the Treasury secretary in the next administration.
Within hours of the Trump administration’s decision to stop blocking the process, representatives of the president-elect began coordinating the handover of power.
From trade and sanctions to tax policy and financial regulation, the former Fed chair will be at the center of the new administration’s agenda.
Even in the absence of a questionable outcome or any evidence of fraud, President Trump managed to freeze the passage of power for most of a month.
Readers praise the “exceptionally qualified people” the president-elect is choosing as advisers and condemn President Trump’s continued efforts to contest the election.
The Trump presidency forced European countries to come together and stand more on their own. Officials in France and Germany are already tussling about life after he departs.
President Trump turned his Twitter feed into a singular source of market volatility. Now, investors are looking forward to markets free of presidential tweets.
The G.S.A. administrator faces reality as Trump creeps closer to it: This is your morning tip sheet.
The Trump administration has authorized formal preparations for the transfer of power. Here is a look at the campaign of lawsuits, lies and pressure that sought to prevent that from happening.
Suburban women who played a huge role in Joe Biden’s victory are not convinced that they need a white man to win their governor’s race next year.
A key official designated President-elect Joe Biden as the apparent winner after Michigan certified his victory there and President Trump lost another court decision in Pennsylvania.
An obscene conspiracy theory from the past echoes loudly in the present.
The former Fed chair, a labor market expert, appears poised to become one of few people to ever have wielded economic power from the White House, the Federal Reserve and the president’s cabinet.
Trashing the nation on his way out the door.
Alejandro N. Mayorkas, a former deputy homeland security secretary, would be tasked with restoring faith in a department that carried out the Trump immigration agenda.
Progressives wonder whether Avril D. Haines, the president-elect’s pick for director of national intelligence, is bold enough. But she believes a good process effects good government.
General Motors said it would no longer back President Trump’s effort to strip California of the power to set fuel economy standards.
Election officials in Michigan certified its election results on Monday, resisting pressure from President Trump to delay the process and making President-elect Biden’s win official.
John Kerry, the former secretary of state, will be the international climate czar, signaling the new administration’s commitment to fighting climate change.
John Kerry, el exsecretario de Estado, será el zar del clima, según el equipo de transición del presidente electo Biden.
Mr. Biden said he would name Mr. Kerry to a cabinet-level climate post, a role laden with political and diplomatic challenges in the post-Trump era.
The video of a crowd singing happy birthday to the president-elect was from 2019.
The video of a crowd singing happy birthday to the president-elect was from 2019.
The video of a crowd singing happy birthday to the president-elect was from 2019.
In choosing Tony Blinken as secretary of state, the Biden team suggests a return to global cooperation.
The president-elect picks an old ally to lead the State Department: This is your morning tip sheet.
At the urging of New York’s attorney general, business leaders in New York push for the Trump administration to begin a transfer of power.
At the urging of New York’s attorney general, business leaders in New York pushed for the Trump administration to begin a transfer of power.
A domestic transformation of the United States would have a tremendous impact in the region.
Una transformación de la agenda de Estados Unidos tendría un impacto importante en la región.
Its work is usually routine, but thanks to a push by President Trump and other Republicans to overturn the election results, the Michigan Board of State Canvassers is now under a microscope.
The president-elect is also expected to name Jake Sullivan, another close aide of his, as national security adviser, and Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a 35-year Foreign Service veteran, as his ambassador to the U.N.
Donald Trump cares about nothing else except undermining our country’s election results.
Many of the most vocal Republicans denouncing President Trump’s refusal to concede are out of office or retiring, but some others have started to join them on urging the transition to officially begin.
The next president promises to do for old-line newspaper columnists what Donald Trump did for cable. What a time to be George Will!
Economists warn that lawmakers must pass aid now, as a renewed coronavirus surge chills consumer spending and business activity.
Democracy is hard work. That work paid off.
World leaders committed to some efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic, but the meeting illustrated the difficulty of carrying out an agenda when the United States is indifferent or hostile to many goals.
Why President Trump’s stonewalling makes America less safe.
At a wide range of departments and agencies, Mr. Trump’s political appointees are going to extraordinary lengths to try to prevent Mr. Biden from rolling back the president’s legacy.
In pushing his false claims to the limits and cowing Republicans into acquiescence or silence, President Trump has revealed the fragility of the electoral system — and shaken it.
He lost. We’ll have to stop obsessing about him.
As Election Day approached, print editors at The Times were ready for anything. Or so we thought.
Unfeeling royals offer no respite from unfeeling Republicans.
Unfeeling royals offer no respite from unfeeling Republicans.
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is seizing the moment, not to aggressively confront the president he defeated, but to act presidential in his stead.
On his 78th birthday, President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. ignored President Trump's continued efforts to subvert the election results.
Trump’s Treasury secretary said Congress wanted key economic supports to end by Dec. 31, a view he expressed only after the vote count in the presidential election.
An expanding coalition of Native Americans, liberal activists and Democrats in Congress are demanding an American Indian Interior secretary, and they want Deb Haaland.
President Trump and his lawyers are engaged in a spectacle that would be funny if it weren’t so dangerous, and if the stakes weren’t so high.
The polarization of the confirmation process, once a matter of giving the president the team he chooses, will present the new administration with a challenge in filling out its upper echelons.
Yohannes Abraham and Jen Psaki, spokespeople for the Biden-Harris transition team, told reporters on Friday that the delayed presidential transition might have a harmful effect on the country.
His only success will be in ruining what should be the celebration of a successful election under highly challenging circumstances.
Saudi Arabia’s leaders counted on President Trump’s unwavering support, but President-elect Biden has vowed to take away the kingdom’s “dangerous blank check.”
Bob Bauer, the top election lawyer for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., called President Trump’s attempts to overturn Michigan’s election results “an abuse of office” and “doomed to failure.”
The president-elect is considering tax changes that could affect stock sales, selling a family business and leaving money to heirs. But we still don’t know how much he’ll be able to do.
More than 500 readers sent in their predictions, but only one correctly forecast the exact Electoral College count.
A doomsday plan could slash subway service by 40 percent, eliminate bus routes and cut jobs if the M.T.A. doesn’t get billions in federal aid.
Después de medio siglo de fracasos, Estados Unidos y México tienen la oportunidad de aplicar un nuevo modelo contra los narcóticos.
He terminated emergency-lending programs that will limit the new administration’s options — and upset the Federal Reserve, too.
And I fear there’s no going back.
Some people oppose student loan forgiveness because they want others to suffer, too.
After a half a century of failure, the U.S. and Mexico have an opportunity to find a new way forward on narcotics policy.
In the first episode of this special pre-Inauguration series from “The Argument,” Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and “Sway” host Kara Swisher join the debate.
The execution of Orlando Cordia Hall was the eighth since the Trump administration revived capital punishment for federal crimes and the first of three scheduled during the presidential transition.
The president’s push to prevent states from certifying electors and get legislators to override voters’ choice eclipses even the bitter 1876 election as an audacious use of brute political force.
Georgia’s vote audit found more than 5,000 new votes but left Joe Biden’s victory intact.
Coronavirus case rates fall across Europe.
The audited vote totals showed that Joe Biden defeated President Trump in the state by 12,284 votes.
Choosing his words carefully, the president-elect stepped up his criticism of President Trump and warned that the delayed transition sent “a horrible message about who we are as a country.”
The president’s actions are disgraceful and damaging to our democracy.
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. spoke in Wilmington, Del., on Thursday after a virtual meeting with several governors pledging that he would not pursue a national shutdown and criticized President Trump for delaying the transition process.
The prime minister wants to show that Britain remains a vital ally. On climate change and military spending, he is promising major steps that will be welcomed by the president-elect.
The prime minister wants to show that Britain remains a vital ally. On climate change and military spending, he is promising major steps that will be welcomed by the president-elect.
One reader suggests turning the promising vaccine news into a victory lap for the president.
The Trump administration holds out in blocking the transition: This is your morning tip sheet.
Despite President Trump’s message, the evidence shows no signs of fraud.
A succession of Trump policies reflected the administration’s spite and heartlessness.
Well, many reasons. But Harvard economist Raj Chetty says that’s the age at which America’s “Einsteins” are identified — and lost.
The Palestinian Authority pays stipends to prisoners held by Israel in a system critics call “pay to slay.” The worse the crime, the higher the payment.
The Palestinian Authority pays stipends to prisoners held by Israel in a system critics call “pay to slay.” The worse the crime, the higher the payment.
Confrontations have escalated in swing states, with elections officials in both parties facing threats of violence, as the president and other Republicans try to subvert the country’s voting system.
Confrontations have escalated in swing states, with elections officials in both parties facing threats of violence, as the president and other Republicans try to subvert the country’s voting system.
The Trump administration is continuing to carry out capital punishment for federal crimes even though President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has signaled he will reverse the policy.
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. spoke with a group of health care workers on Wednesday, pressuring the Trump administration to authorize giving him access to federal resources to plan his coronavirus response.
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a public health emergency decree did not give the Trump administration authority to expel unaccompanied children before they could request asylum.
The California Republican believes his party’s victories in 2020 came thanks to the president, not in spite of him: “He brought turnout.”
Goals include ending sales of gas and diesel cars by 2030, achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and, perhaps, pleasing a new sensibility in Washington.
The government in Tehran has put uranium into its newest centrifuges. At the same time, Iran’s foreign minister appears to offer a return to commitments that would prohibit exactly that.
Some view his age as bringing wisdom and experience, while others worry about mental sharpness.
Las mascarillas evitan que la gente transmita el coronavirus a otros, concuerdan los científicos. Pero un nuevo estudio no logró documentar la protección contra el virus entre quienes las usan.
In media appearances and social media posts this past week, Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, spread debunked claims of barred poll workers and a voting software company.
G.O.P. elections officials backtrack in Michigan: This is your morning tip sheet.
Divided government sometimes overperforms expectations.
State and city governments employ millions of essential workers. But the pandemic has pushed them to the brink. President-elect Biden needs to step in now.
Pros and cons of loan forgiveness aside, there’s a more fundamental problem.
It’s less about foreign policy than the culture wars.