Wisconsin, Arizona certify Joe Biden wins in presidential vote
By SCOTT BAUER, JONATHAN J. COOPER and TERRY TANG Two battleground states, Wisconsin and Arizona, certified their presidential election results Monday in favor of Joe Biden, even as President Donald Trump’s legal team continued to dispute the results. Biden’s victory in Wisconsin was certified following a partial recount that only added to his 20,600-vote margin […]
Joe Biden picks Indian-American Neera Tanden to head powerful budget office: Reports
NEW YORK: Joe Biden, who is to become US President in January, has picked Indian-American Neera Tanden, a controversial close confidante of the Clintons, to head the powerful White House Office of Management and Budget, according to several media reports. But opposition to Tanden was welling up Sunday night soon after the news of her […]
Donald Trump says he will leave White House if Electoral College declares President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory
By JILL COLVIN WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory — even as he insisted such a decision would be a “mistake” — as he spent his Thanksgiving renewing baseless claims that “massive fraud” and crooked officials in battleground states […]
Joe Biden transition OK’d to start as Donald Trump runs out of options
WASHINGTON: The federal government recognized President-elect Joe Biden as the “apparent winner” of the Nov. 3 election, formally starting the transition of power after President Donald Trump spent weeks testing the boundaries of American democracy. Trump relented after suffering yet more legal and procedural defeats in his seemingly futile effort to overturn the election with […]
‘America is back’: Joe Biden pushes past Donald Trump era with nominees
By ALEXANDRA JAFFE, MATTHEW LEE and AAMER MADHANI WILMINGTON: Declaring “America is back,” President-elect Joe Biden introduced his national security team, his first substantive offering of how he’ll shift from Trump-era “America First” policies by relying on experts from the Democratic establishment to be some of his most important advisers. “Together, these public servants will […]
Joe Biden seeks swift Cabinet votes, but GOP Senate stays silent
By Lisa Mascaro and Matthew Daly WASHINGTON: As President-elect Joe Biden started rolling out his administrative team, one voice has been notably silent: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Senate Republicans will hold great sway in confirming or denying Biden’s Cabinet nominees, regardless of which party controls the narrowly split Senate after runoff elections. But key […]
Joe Biden plans to nominate topmost economist Janet Yallen as Treasury Secretary: Reports
By Lalit K Jha WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden is planning to nominate former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yallen as his Treasury Secretary to lead his economic response to the raging coronavirus pandemic, which has wreaked havoc on the world’s biggest economy and led millions of Americans to lose their jobs. A formal announcement on […]
US agency ascertains Joe Biden as winner, lets transition begin
WASHINGTON: The General Services Administration (GSA) ascertained Monday that President-elect Joe Biden is the “apparent winner” of the November 3 election, clearing the way for the start of the transition from President Donald Trump’s administration and allowing Biden to coordinate with federal agencies on plans for taking over on January 20. Trump, who had refused […]
Transfer of power will be orderly and happen right on time: Top Republican leader
By Lalit K Jha WASHINGTON: The transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden’s administration would be “orderly” and happen “right on time,” according to a top Republican leader and Senator Mitch McConnell. Last week, the mainstream media declared Biden as the winner of the presidential election after the 77-year-old former vice president crossed […]
Narendra Modi speaks to US President-elect Joe Biden
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to US President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday, with both leaders reiterating their firm commitment to the strategic partnership between the two countries as they discussed their shared priorities and concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region. This was the first interaction between […]
With victory in Georgia, Joe Biden’s electoral college matches Donald Trump’s in 2016
WASHINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden has wrested Georgia and President Donald Trump has retained North Carolina, major US media outlets have projected, bringing the closely-fought and bitter 2020 presidential race to a close. Trump, who has not yet conceded the election to the projected winner, Biden, has repeatedly asserted, without evidence, that fraud and other irregularities […]
Donald Trump administration not sharing threat assessment, intelligence reports: Joe Biden team
NEW DELHI: US President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team has said that they are not getting access to real-time threat assessment and intelligence reports by the outgoing Donald Trump administration. According to media projections, Democrat Biden has won the November 3 presidential election. However, Trump, the Republican incumbent, has alleged election fraud and mounted legal fights […]
China finally congratulates Joe Biden, Harris for their victory in US election
BEIJING:China on Friday shed its initial hesitation and congratulated US President-elect Joe Biden and his deputy Kamala Harris for their victory in the 2020 US presidential election, saying Beijing respects the choice of the American people. “We have been following reactions on the US elections from both within the US and the international community,” Chinese […]
Factbox: How a Joe Biden presidency would transform the U.S. energy landscape
Should Joe Biden win November’s U.S. presidential election, there could be a number of changes in energy policy. Here are the issues at stake: INTERNATIONAL OIL SUPPLIES President Donald Trump’s unilateral sanctions on OPEC members Iran and Venezuela have together taken around 3 million barrels per day of crude oil off international markets, a little […]
Donald Trump votes early in Florida as Joe Biden warns of COVID-19 ‘dark winter’
WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA: President Donald Trump voted in his adopted home of Florida before hitting the campaign trail for rallies in three swing states on Saturday, joining more than 54 million Americans who have cast early ballots at a record-setting pace ahead of the November 3 election. Trump cast his ballot at a library […]
COVID-19 vaccine ready & coming within weeks: Donald Trump at final presidential debate with Joe Biden
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that a COVID-19 vaccine is “ready” and going to be announced “within weeks” to combat the deadly disease that has killed over 223,000 Americans, as he debated with his Democratic challenger Joe Biden for the final time before the presidential election. The debate, just less than two […]