Antony Blinken (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)The contours of President-elect Joe Biden’s cabinet are coming into focus after he announced that he has selected Antony Blinken as his incoming administration’s secretary of state.“We have no time to lose when it comes to our national security and foreign policy.

I need a team ready on Day One to help me reclaim America’s seat at the head of the table, rally the world to meet the biggest challenges we face, and advance our security, prosperity, and values.

This is the crux of that team,” Biden said in a statement. “These individuals are equally as experienced and crisis-tested as they are innovative and imaginative.”Blinken isn’t a stranger to the field of foreign.

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Wisconsin counties finish 2020 election recounts, solidifying Biden’s win over Trump

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Biden adds more members to COVID-19 advisory board

Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden makes a zero with his hand as he delivers remarks at an aluminum manufacturing facility in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on September 21, 2020. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden announced the newest members to his COVID-19 advisory board Saturday.

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejects Republican lawsuit challenging U.S. Election

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Pennsylvania high court rejects lawsuit challenging election

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Pennsylvania's highest court on Saturday night threw out a lower court's order preventing the state from certifying dozens of contests on its Nov. 3 election ballot in the latest lawsuit filed by Republicans attempting to thwart President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the battleground state.The state Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, threw out the three-day-old order, saying the underlying lawsuit was filed months after the law allowed for challenges to Pennsylvania's expansive year-old mail-in voting law.The state's attorney general, Democrat Josh Shapiro, called the court's decision “another win for Democracy.”The week-old lawsuit, led by Republican U.S.

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To court Latinos, Democrats have to expand strategy in 2022

PHOENIX – President-elect Joe Biden’s campaign credits its success in Arizona to the immigrant-rights and grassroots organizations that have been mobilizing Latinos for nearly two decades. The fruits of their labor — in triple-digit heat, no less — paid off in this traditionally conservative state, where changing demographics and suburban voters turning out to oppose President Donald Trump also worked in Biden's favor.

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Biden to let health experts decide who will get Covid vaccine first: Gounder

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Biden plans swift moves to protect and advance LGBTQ rights

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Biden's win means some Guantanamo prisoners may be released

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Trump says he'll leave White House if Electoral College formalizes Biden's victory

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Top California air, climate regulator hopes to run Biden EPA

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‘A polite coup d’etat’: Trump and allies continue baseless claims on U.S. election

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Jake Sullivan: Joe Biden’s national security adviser one of youngest to hold key role

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Biden to deliver Thanksgiving address on Wednesday

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Biden seeks swift Cabinet votes, but GOP Senate stays silent

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The Latest: Biden says his picks show US back on world stage

WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):1:20 p.m.President-elect Joe Biden says his national security team will lead the way in reflecting the fact that “America is back” on the world stage.During a speech Tuesday in Wilmington, Delaware, Biden said that his team would “embody my core beliefs that America is strongest when it works with its allies.”In rolling out his national security picks, including top posts for State Department and Department of Homeland Security, Biden said the nominees show “experience and leadership, fresh thinking and perspective and an unrelenting belief in the promise of America.”The State Department alone has seen a significant number of departures from its senior and rising

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Pennsylvania certifies Biden as winner of presidential vote

US President-elect Joe Biden speaks after a meeting with governors in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 19, 2020. - Biden said today he would not order a nationwide shutdown to fight the Covid-19 pandemic despite a surge in cases.

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Asian shares mostly rise on virus vaccine, Yellen hopes

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U.S. election: Here’s what the Biden team gets now that the transition is approved

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US election: Trump administration to begin transition of power process to president-elect Biden

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Biden transition gets govt OK after Trump out of options

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Biden set to formally introduce his national security team

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Approval for transition gives Biden team access to resources

WASHINGTON – The federal government is set to begin working with President-elect Joe Biden's transition team now that the head of the General Services Administration has “ascertained” that he is the apparent winner of this month's presidential election.Among other things, the ascertainment process gives the incoming president and his team access to officials at federal agencies and directs the Justice Department to work on security clearances for transition team members and Biden political appointees.

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Who is Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Biden’s pick for US ambassador to UN?

Linda Thomas Greenfield (Photo by Pete Marovich/Getty Images)President-elect Joe Biden’s foreign policy team was beginning to take shape after he nominated Linda Thomas-Greenfield as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.Thomas-Greenfield was one of Biden’s notable foreign policy picks, which were announced Monday.

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Biden taps ex-Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to lead treasury, AP sources say

FILE - Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen speaks during a news conference December 13, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden has chosen former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to serve as treasury secretary, a pivotal role in which she would help shape and direct his economic policies, according to a person familiar with the transition plans.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.Her nomination was confirmed to The Associated Press by a person who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss Biden's plans.President-elect Joe Biden spoke Nov.

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GSA officially recognizes Biden as president-elect, clearing way for transition

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States certifying results ahead of Electoral College meeting

States have begun certifying their results from the Nov. 3 presidential election in the run-up to the Electoral College meeting in mid-December.Among the states certifying on Monday was Michigan, where President Donald Trump and his allies tried and failed to delay the process.

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Biden names John Kerry as climate envoy

FILE - US Vice President Joe Biden (L) speaks with US Secretary of State John Kerry as they walk the colonnade at the White House in Washington, DC, October 18, 2016.

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Alejandro Mayorkas: Biden’s pick for secretary of Homeland Security

Alejandro Mayorkas (Photo by Brad Barket/Getty Images for PEOPLE En Espanol)President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Alejandro Mayorkas for his secretary of Homeland Security. Mayorkas is the first Latino and immigrant to be nominated to the position in U.S.

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AP source: Biden taps ex-Fed chair Yellen to lead treasury

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden has chosen former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to serve as treasury secretary, a pivotal role in which she would help shape and direct his economic policies at a perilous time, according to a person familiar with the transition plans.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. Her nomination was confirmed to The Associated Press by a person who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss Biden's plans.As treasury secretary, Yellen would face a shaky U.S.

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Ex-Homeland Security official Mayorkas returns under Biden

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden is turning to a veteran of the Department of Homeland Security to lead the agency created after the Sept. 11 attacks, but reshaped by President Donald Trump to carry out his hardline immigration and law enforcement agenda.Biden on Monday announced the nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas, who served under President Barack Obama as deputy secretary of Homeland Security and director of the Citizenship and Immigration Services.

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Biden names climate statesman John Kerry as climate envoy

John Kerry, one of the leading architects of the Paris climate agreement, is getting one more chance to lead the fight against climate change after President-elect Joe Biden named the longtime senator and former secretary of state as climate envoy for national security.Biden's team gave little immediate detail on Monday about how he envisioned Kerry shaping the new job, which many on social media and on all sides of the climate-action spectrum were quick to dub “climate czar.” But the transition team made clear that it will be a prominent role, with Kerry becoming the first member of the National Security Council to focus exclusively on climate change.It was one of Biden’s first steps making good on campaign pledges to confront

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