The only absolute must-do business is preventing a government shutdown when a temporary spending bill expires on Dec. 11.

The president-elect announces several of his most senior economic advisers.

Maine's outgoing secretary of state achieved a high profile on election-related issues, but he says the rewards of the job came in small, personal spheres.

Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap is wrapping up his tenure after a frenetic four-year span in which he stood up to President Donald Trump’s Election Integrity Commission

A lower court judge had said the campaign's error-filled complaint, 'like Frankenstein’s Monster, has been haphazardly stitched together.'

With the nation on edge but a vaccine in sight, the complicated logistics of vaccinating hundreds of millions of Americans raise the stakes.

The president says he's not giving up his fight to overturn the election results, even as agencies across the federal government begin to support President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration.

The outgoing secretary of state says he is campaigning for the position, which will be filled by the Legislature when it convenes Dec. 2.

The Nevada Supreme Court has made Joe Biden’s win in the state official, approving the final canvass of the Nov. 3 election

President-elect Biden and aides have said the designation is crucial so they can legally begin consulting with federal experts about plans to distribute a coronavirus vaccine.

The best known of the bunch is John Kerry, who made climate change one of his top priorities while serving as Obama's secretary of state.

Both the president and top Republican officials sought to discredit the vote process in Michigan’s Wayne County, home of Detroit, making sweeping and unsubstantiated claims about widespread fraud and citing errors in the vote tallies.

Secretary of State Matt Dunlap says Maine has certified the results of the 2020 election.

General Services Administration chief Emily Murphy finally made the determination Monday after Trump efforts to subvert the vote failed across battleground states.

Yellen, who is widely admired in the financial world, would be the first woman to lead the Treasury Department in a line stretching back to Alexander Hamilton in 1789.

President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate the first woman to serve as director of national intelligences, former CIA deputy director Avril Haines.

Avril Haines is expected to be nominated as director of national intelligence, a job for which Maine Sen. Angus King, an independent, was under consideration.

Maine's 2nd Congressional District representative, a combat veteran, said it's "time to bring our armed forces home."

Officials say President Trump's refusal to concede 'constitutes a serious threat' to America's democratic process.

Sidney Powell has made multiple incorrect statements about the voting process, unspooled unsupported and complex conspiracy theories and vowed to 'blow up' Georgia with a 'biblical' court filing.

Among other legislation, the Senate passed the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021.

President Trump’s campaign has filed plenty of lawsuits in six states as he tries to upend an election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

However, state House Speaker Lee Chatfield did not elaborate on what was discussed.

His transition was chaotic, but the disarray in many ways was of his own doing.

But they also saw setbacks, including a blow to the movement to defund local police departments.

Nearly 200 legislators nationwide have tested positive for the virus and four have died.

Rep. Deb Haaland, a New Mexico Democrat and member of the Pueblo of Laguna, could become the first Native American secretary of the interior.

One largely abandons governing, while the other tries to build a government.

The president-elect holds his first in-person meeting since the election with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer.

An official recount saw Lapointe win 860-857 after one of AuCoin's votes was thrown out Friday after an overvote.

Both of Maine's senators say the president is wrong to pressure state officials to override the will of voters.

The Republican governor now has until Saturday afternoon to certify the results, and the Trump campaign has 2 business days to request a recount.

The president had summoned the lawmakers to the White House, and his play for Michigan was among a series of last-ditch tactics in battleground states that his team is using to challenge his defeat.

The latest on the election and transition.

Biden called the Trump campaign's attempt to subvert the results of the elections 'totally irresponsible.'

The Associated Press declared Biden the winner of Georgia and its 16 Electoral College votes

The president’s constant barrage of baseless claims, his work to personally sway local officials who certify votes, and his allies' refusal to admit he lost is likely to have a lasting negative impact on the country.

The chair of the elections board, a Democrat, said Trump’s allegation that election clerks mailed thousands of absentee ballots to voters who hadn’t requested them was 'absurd,' 'factually bizarre' and a 'vague, paranoid conspiracy.'

Missing the Dec. 31 deadline for turning in the apportionment numbers would be a blow to President Trump's efforts to control how many congressional seats each state gets and how $1.5 trillion in federal spending is distributed.

The latest on the election and transition.

Trump’s campaign is openly floating the notion of trying to get friendly state legislatures to appoint electors who would overturn the will of the voters.

Some in the president’s orbit hope that by delaying certification, GOP-controlled state legislatures will get a chance to select different electors.

Trump and his allies are continuing to try to stop state certifications of the election.

His campaign has paid $3 million for a recount of two heavily Democratic Wisconsin counties, saying that they were the site of the 'worst irregularities.'

While commissioners stress that the reviews will be conducted 'without any suggestion of impropriety,' findings of problems could lead to proposals for regular audits of the political action committees.

The former New York City mayor tried to make a case in Pennsylvania that there was a nationwide conspiracy by Democrats to steal the election, but he had no evidence.

Democrat Joe Biden received 577,455 votes in those counties, to 213,157 for Trump. No evidence of illegal activity has been presented.

The hand count is meant to ensure that the state’s new election machines accurately tabulated the votes and isn’t expected to change the overall outcome, state election officials have repeatedly said.

The 40 lawmakers urge the PMA, which opposes the effort, to 'not engage in any anti-union tactics' before the employees vote in December.

President-elect Joe Biden has been forced to seek extraordinary workarounds to prepare for the exploding public health threat and evolving national security challenges he will inherit in just nine weeks.

Maine is no longer the only state to rely on ranked-choice voting after Alaskans approve a ballot question to revise its elections.

Grassley announced earlier Tuesday that he was quarantining after being exposed to the virus, and his office said he was showing no symptoms.

The CEOs of Twitter and Facebook promised Congress they would take action for two special elections in Georgia that could determine which party controls the U.S. Senate.

States have generally not been allowed to use the infusion of coronavirus aid in the spring for one of their major needs: replacing declining tax revenue to keep regular government services running.

President-elect Joe Biden has announced top White House staff positions, drawing from the senior ranks of his campaign and some of his closest confidants

The former New York City mayor asserted without evidence that there was a wide-ranging scheme to steal the election from President Trump in big cities in Pennsylvania and 10 other places.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refuse to budge in either direction on aid packages.

What does Maine's secretary of state do and how is someone elected to the post? Here's a Q&A.

Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey will return to Congress for a virtual hearing on how they moderate content.

The decisions come as no surprise, following Trump’s shakeup of the Pentagon leadership last week in which he installed loyalists who share his frustration with the continued troop presence in the war zones.

Maine's Republican Sen. Susan Collins joins in the call for Trump to work with the transition team, saying it's ‘absolutely crucial that the apparent president-elect and his team have full access to the planning that has gone on’ for vaccine distribution.

The president, without using Biden's name, tweeted Sunday morning that “He won,” something Trump had not said before publicly.

Nighttime clashes with counterdemonstrators led to fistfights and more than 20 arrests after Saturday's Million MAGA March.

Along with the week's roll call votes, the Senate also passed the Veterans COMPACT Act.

The United States is made up of 11 distinct regions, and their boundaries showed up again at the polls this month.

A guide to the distinct regions that make up our country.

The president-elect has devoted most of his public remarks to encouraging Americans to wear a mask.

Michele Flournoy, a politically moderate Pentagon veteran, is regarded as a top choice for the position.

Much of the focus will be on how he fills out his administration.

Thousands of his loyalists converge on the nation’s capital to protest the election results.

Biddeford's Ryan Fecteau will be the youngest speaker of the House for any state Legislature in the U.S.

On Election Day, George Lapointe won the race to be Hallowell's next mayor by two votes, leading his opponent Maureen AuCoin to call for a ballot inspection and recount.

King, an independent who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, is being considered to become director of national intelligence.

There is no requirement that Save America use the money for legal fees. And unlike campaign money, which can't be spent on personal expenses, the PAC has no such prohibition.

Voting rights activists say hundreds of people on the list submitted by President Trump's campaign as evidence of 'criminal voter fraud' appear to be linked to the U.S. military.