Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, slammed Democrats for expecting the president to quickly concede and said he had every right to pursue legal challenges. Mr. Esper’s removal was quickly followed by speculation that the president was not finished: The F.B.I. director and the C.I.A. director could be next, according to administration officials. The PAC could accept donations from an unlimited number of people and spend to benefit other candidates, allowing the president to retain influence in a party remade largely in his image. Some lawyers at Jones Day and Porter Wright, which have filed suits about the 2020 vote, said they were worried about undermining the electoral system. Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler took an extraordinary step in urging Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to step down. His office has defended the integrity of the election. The attorney general said that he had authorized “instances” of investigative steps but that inquiries should not be based on specious claims. President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. took back Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin by surging in the suburbs. He held his own in big cities, but there were signs of weakness in Black and Latino neighborhoods. With average new infections totaling 111,000 per day, President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is confronting a coronavirus pandemic that is surging out of control. Pfizer announced positive early results from its coronavirus vaccine trial, cementing the lead in a frenzied global race that has unfolded at record-breaking speed. What’s the big deal? Was it part of Operation Warp Speed? When can you get one? The university’s president promised strict punishments for students who break virus protocols. But his credibility on campus is wearing thin. Experts worry that some of the hundreds of thousands of departing students will be “little ticking time bombs.” The 2020 election was the biggest test yet of a new approach of pre-emptive action against adversaries trying to hack election infrastructure or wage disinformation campaigns. President Trump’s baseless claims of a stolen election resonate on Russian state media. Both Russia and China have painted American democracy as volatile and vulnerable. A paper by a researcher at the Schuyler Mansion finds overlooked evidence in letters and Hamilton’s own account books indicating that he bought, sold and personally owned slaves. Here’s what you need to make the end of the meal shine. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. We traveled the country to capture dispatches from a divided nation. The couples counsellor has some advice for how to heal “the screaming match” in a relationship — and in our nation. Just as ignorance was strength in George Orwell’s “1984,” shamelessness is virtue in Trump’s G.O.P. A Democratic win offers hope — but also a warning. We are still a nation painfully divided. The victory of the Biden-Harris ticket and the enduring power of Republicanism tell two stories. Readers continue to digest the election results. “My fear has been replaced with optimism,” one reader writes. “My anxiety has been replaced with hope.” The Constitution is supposed to protect us from demagogues. Can we make it work again? Kamala Harris will make history as the first woman to serve as vice president. Joe Biden represents a move back to normalcy, but progressives will push for change. Unlike any other Chinese leader since 1949, he has no identifiable rivals and no likely successors. In this short story written exclusively for T, the ghost of a former North Korean diplomat finds his way back to Leipzig, Germany, and to the woman he once loved. Running into a former colleague, making a delicious discovery and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary. In an agreement brokered by Russia, Azerbaijan won many of the concessions it has sought for decades in negotiations over the Nagorno-Karabakh separatist region. The vote to remove President Martín Vizcarra comes amid a devastating coronavirus pandemic. Mr. Vizcarra said he accepted the vote, reducing the likelihood of a constitutional crisis. Michael Kuperberg was told he would no longer oversee the National Climate Assessment. The job is expected to go to a climate-change skeptic, according to people familiar with the changes. Chief Lang Holland of Marshall, Ark., advocated online that Democrats should be attacked and summarily executed. He resigned soon after his comments were made public. Detectives used genetic genealogy to connect Terrence Williams to the killing of Jody Loomis outside Seattle. He was charged last year. A city that “will long remember slights,” as one area congressman put it, came through for Joe Biden, who benefited from his ties there and President Trump’s affronts to its voters. Emily Harrington is the first woman to free-climb the Golden Gate route up El Capitan, a 3,000-foot-high monolith in Yosemite National Park, in under 24 hours. The arrival of Theta broke the annual record for the number of storms strong enough to be given names. That benchmark was set in 2005, the year Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. The Police Department agreed to change its policy and allow religious people to be photographed in head coverings so long as their faces were left unobstructed. Every year, millions of pilgrims descend on the central Iraqi city of Karbala to commemorate the Shiite holiday of Arbaeen, one of the largest organized gatherings in the world. Achiuwa has gone from Nigeria to New York to Memphis, cultivating an “extreme level of versatility” in his game that is key to making it in today’s N.B.A. The message with spidery writing, carrying details of German military drills, was found in eastern France in a capsule probably dropped by a carrier pigeon. Understanding how grains flow is vital for everything from landslide prediction to agricultural processing, and scientists aren’t very good at it. Public health officials urge families to keep celebrations small, avoid mixing households and open the windows. Government officials said on Wednesday that a mutation in the virus could interfere with vaccine effectiveness in humans. Far too few patients are referred for treatment that could stave off another costly, debilitating and sometimes deadly fracture. More Recent Articles |
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