WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden has picked California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be his health secretary, putting a defender of the Affordable Care Act in a leading role to oversee his administration's coronavirus response.

Separately, Biden picked a Harvard infectious disease expert, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

If confirmed by the Senate, Becerra, 62, will be the first Latino to head the Department of Health and Human Services, a $1-trillion-plus agency with 80,000 employees and a portfolio that includes drugs and vaccines, leading-edge medical research and health insurance programs covering more than 130 million Americans.Biden's selection of Becerra was confirmed Sunday by.

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Biden to deliver remarks Monday night on electoral college certification

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks during an event to announce new cabinet nominations at the Queen Theatre on December 11, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware.

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Biden's challenge: Building Cabinet that meets all his goals

WASHINGTON – Shortly after President-elect Joe Biden’s victory last month, Cabinet hopeful Marcia Fudge pointedly noted that Black people are often typecast into positions such as housing secretary.On Friday, Biden announced Fudge, a prominent Black congresswoman from Ohio, was his nominee for that very role. She was introduced alongside Biden’s pick for the job she initially sought, head of the Agriculture Department.

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Biden campaign raised $1B+ in record-breaking fundraising haul

TOPSHOT - Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden delivers remarks at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 6, 2020.

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Hunter Biden subpoena seeks info on Burisma, other entities

WASHINGTON – A subpoena seeking documents from Hunter Biden asked for information related to more than two dozen entities, including Ukraine gas company Burisma, according to a person familiar with a Justice Department tax investigation of President-elect Joe Biden's son. The breadth of the subpoena, issued Tuesday, underscores the wide-angle lens prosecutors are taking as they examine the younger Biden’s finances and international business ventures.

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Federal court dismisses Trump lawsuit seeking to overturn Biden’s Wisconsin win

Donald Trump lost a federal lawsuit Saturday while his attorney was arguing his case before a skeptical Wisconsin Supreme Court in another lawsuit that liberal justices said “smacks of racism” and would disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters only in the state’s most diverse counties.U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig, a Trump appointee, dismissed Trump’s federal lawsuit asking the court to order the Republican-controlled Legislature to name Trump the winner over Democrat Joe Biden.

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Biden's foot continues to heal "as expected" after fracture

President-elect Joe Biden wears a slip on shoe over his fractured foot as he arrives at The Queen in Wilmington, Delaware, on December 3, 2020. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA - President-elect Joe Biden’s fractured foot has been healing, his doctor said Saturday.Biden made the drive from his Delaware home to a Philadelphia hospital for a special CT scan that was able to obtain a “weight-bearing” image.

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Doctor says Biden's fractured foot is healing as expected

PHILADELPHIA – President-elect Joe Biden’s fractured foot has been healing, his doctor said Saturday.Biden made the drive from his Delaware home to a Philadelphia hospital for a special CT scan that was able to obtain a “weight-bearing” image. His doctor, in a statement released after the visit, said the small fracture was “healing as expected” “Weight-bearing CT results were very encouraging,” said Dr.

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Biden's Homeland Security pick faces questions on old probe

WASHINGTON – The last time Alejandro Mayorkas faced Senate confirmation, not a single Republican voted for him because there was an open investigation into his management of the U.S. immigration agency under President Barack Obama.

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COMMENTARY: COVID-19 ended Trump’s presidency after one term — and here’s why

Our study examining the effect of COVID-19 cases on county-level voting in the United States shows that the pandemic led to Trump’s defeat on Nov. 3.

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Supreme Court rejects Republican attack on Biden victory

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory, ending a desperate attempt to get legal issues rejected by state and federal judges before the nation’s highest court and subvert the will of voters.Trump bemoaned the decision late Friday, tweeting: “The Supreme Court really let us down.

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Supreme Court rejects Texas lawsuit to overturn Biden's election victory

(LEFT) President Donald Trump looks on during a ceremony presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to wrestler Dan Gable in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Dec.

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The Latest: Biden urges public to have confidence in vaccine

WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):3:05 p.m.President-elect Joe Biden says the American public should have confidence in a coronavirus vaccine that may soon begin to become available.Biden said during remarks Friday in Wilmington that combatting the pandemic is “serious business” that requires “presidential leadership.”On Thursday, a U.S.

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Biden unveils top picks with deep Obama administration ties

WILMINGTON, Del. – President-elect Joe Biden is introducing five top picks for his new administration on Friday, drawing on leading names from the Obama White House while also tapping an Ohio congresswoman and a congressional committee veteran.Appearing at the afternoon event are Biden's choice for director of White House Domestic Policy Council, Susan Rice, who served as President Barack Obama’s national security adviser and U.N. ambassador; and Denis McDonough, Obama’s White House chief of staff, now nominated as veterans affairs secretary.

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Obama reunion? Biden fills Cabinet with former WH leaders

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden is getting the old gang back together.Increasingly deep into the process of selecting Cabinet members and other senior staff, the incoming Biden administration has a distinctly Obama feel.There's Denis McDonough, former President Barack Obama's chief of staff who Biden announced on Thursday would be nominated as the secretary of veterans affairs.

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Time magazine names Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Person of the Year

SAN FRANCISCO - Highly anticipated? Maybe. Tradition? Definitely.

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Gun restrictions face uphill battle even under Biden

The gun debate in America will soon enter a new chapter with a Democrat in the White House after four years under President Donald Trump in which gun control advocates developed a long wish list for reform amid a spate of large-scale mass killings in places like Las Vegas, El Paso and Parkland, Florida.

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Biden taps Susan Rice as domestic policy adviser, Denis McDonough for VA

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden is naming Susan Rice as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, giving her broad sway over his administration’s approach to immigration, health care and racial inequality and elevating the prominence of the position in the West Wing.The move marks a surprising shift for Rice, a longtime Democratic foreign policy expert who served as President Barack Obama’s national security adviser and U.N. ambassador.

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Biden taps Rice as domestic policy adviser, McDonough for VA

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden is naming Susan Rice as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, giving her broad sway over his administration’s approach to immigration, health care and racial inequality and elevating the prominence of the position in the West Wing. The move marks a surprising shift for Rice, a longtime Democratic foreign policy expert who served as President Barack Obama’s national security adviser and U.N.

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Chris Rock calls on Joe Biden to create 'Supreme Court of Science' to handle any crisis like the coronavirus

Chris Rock called on President-elect Joe Biden to institute a fourth branch of government dedicated to science in order to combat another crisis like the coronavirus pandemic in a bipartisan way. The comedian and former “Saturday Night Live” star spoke with Deadline about his role on the fourth season of the FX drama “Fargo,” where he played a 1950s mobster in Missouri.The conversation turned to the difficult year that was 2020 as well as his thoughts on the outcome of the election. “I don’t know. When Biden won, I wasn’t jumping for joy.

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The Latest: Biden to campaign in Georgia for Senate runoffs

WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):7 a.m.President-elect Joe Biden is heading to Georgia to campaign for the Democratic candidates in the state's two critical U.S. Senate runoffs.Biden says he'll travel to Atlanta on Tuesday to support Jon Ossoff, the Rev.

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President Trump cementing death penalty legacy up to Biden inaugural

CHICAGO, Ill. - As Donald Trump’s presidency winds down, his administration is ratcheting up the pace of federal executions despite a surge of coronavirus cases in prisons, announcing plans for five starting Thursday and concluding just days before the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.If the five go off as planned, it will make 13 executions since July when the Republican administration resumed putting inmates to death after a 17-year hiatus and will cement Trump’s legacy as the most prolific execution president in over 130 years.

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Supreme Court rejects GOP bid to halt Biden's Pennsylvania win

The United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. (Government file photo) HARRISBURG, Pa. - The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Republicans' last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania's certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the electoral battleground.The court without comment refused to call into question the certification process in Pennsylvania.

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Despite Trump's venting and threats, Biden's win is sealed

WASHINGTON – There’s plenty of noise but no cause for confusion as President Donald Trump vents about how the election turned out and vows to subvert it even still.This truth is self-evident: Joe Biden is on track to become president Jan. 20.

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Hunter Biden tax probe examining Chinese business dealings

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department is investigating the finances of President-elect Joe Biden’s son, including scrutinizing some of his Chinese business dealings and other transactions, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.The revelations put a renewed spotlight on questions about Hunter Biden’s financial history, which dogged his father’s successful White House campaign and were a frequent target of President Donald Trump and his allies. They also come at a politically delicate time for the president-elect, who is weighing his choice to lead an agency that is actively investigating his son.The tax investigation was launched in 2018, the year before the elder Biden announced his candidacy for president.

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AP sources: Biden to pick Katherine Tai as top trade envoy

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden is set to nominate Katherine Tai to be the top U.S. trade envoy, according to two people familiar with his plans.Tai, who is chief trade counsel for the House Ways and Means Committee, will be tapped as the U.S.

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US set to execute 1st of 5 inmates before Biden inauguration

CHICAGO – The Trump administration is planning an unprecedented five more federal executions before President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, starting with a Texas street-gang member set to be put to death Thursday for his role in the 1999 slayings of an Iowa religious couple whose bodies he burned in the trunk of their car.Brandon Bernard was 18 when he and four other teenagers abducted and robbed Todd and Stacie Bagley on their way from a Sunday service in Killeen, Texas.

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Hunter Biden facing federal investigation over his 'tax affairs'

(Photo by Teresa Kroeger/Getty Images for World Food Program USA) WILMINGTON, Del. - The Justice Department’s investigation scrutinizing Hunter Biden’s taxes has been examining some of his Chinese business dealings, among other financial transactions, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Wednesday.The investigation was launched in 2018, a year before his father, Joe Biden, announced his candidacy for president, but it isn’t clear which entities might be tied up in the probe, and the inquiry was not disclosed to Hunter Biden until Tuesday.The younger Biden has a history of international affairs and business dealings in a number of countries, and the revelation of a federal investigation puts a renewed spotlight on

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Hunter Biden facing federal investigation over 'tax affairs'

(Photo by Teresa Kroeger/Getty Images for World Food Program USA) WILMINGTON, Del. - President-elect Joe Biden's son Hunter said Wednesday that he has learned from federal prosecutors that his tax affairs are under investigation.The investigation by the Delaware U.S.

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Human rights in U.S. will be ‘much better’ under Biden: UN high commissioner

Joe Biden will be “much, much better” when it comes to human rights, and warned of shrinking “democratic space” in Hong Kong — saying her office will be monitoring the rights situation there.Michelle Bachelet spoke to reporters in Geneva in a catch-all news conference to recap the year and look ahead to 2021.She cited concerns about the inequalities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic and systemic racism like that highlighted by the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Biden's Pentagon nominee Gen. Lloyd Austin puts some Democrats in a bind

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden's nomination of retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin to be secretary of defense has put some Senate Democrats in a bind.

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Biden's COVID-19 plan includes mask mandate for interstate travel on planes, trains and buses

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday called for urgent action on the coronavirus pandemic as he introduced a health care team that will be tested at every turn while striving to restore the nation to normalcy.Biden laid out three COVID-19 priorities for his first 100 days in office: a call for all Americans to voluntarily mask up during those 100 days, a commitment to administer 100 million vaccines and a pledge to try to reopen a majority of the nation's schools.“I know that out of our collective pain, we will find our collective purpose: to control the pandemic, to save lives, and to heal as a nation," Biden said.RELATED: Trump holds White House COVID-19 vaccine summit as Biden introduces health teamThe

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President-elect Joe Biden calls for action on coronavirus as he introduces health team

WILMINGTON, Del. – President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday called for urgent action on the coronavirus pandemic as he introduced a health care team that will be tested at every turn while striving to restore the nation to normalcy.Biden laid out three COVID-19 priorities for his first 100 days in office: a call for all Americans to voluntarily mask up during those 100 days, a commitment to administer 100 million vaccines and a pledge to try to reopen a majority of the nation's schools.“I know that out of our collective pain, we will find our collective purpose: to control the pandemic, to save lives, and to heal as a nation," Biden said.The president-elect also said he would use the power of the federal government to require people to wear

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IPL, coronavirus most-searched words on Google in 2020

Coronavirus captured India's attention this year amid the concern about the pandemic, with a huge surge in queries related to the virus and the disease on search engine Google.While the excitement around the Indian Premier League (IPL) made it the top trending query, presidential elections in the US also triggered significant searches along with Bihar and Delhi assembly polls.

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Biden makes pitch for retired general to be Pentagon chief

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday made his case for retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin to be secretary of defense, urging Congress to waive a legal prohibition against a recently serving military officer running the Pentagon.With concern rising in Congress about maintaining civilian control of the military, Biden suggested he felt a need to counter an emerging narrative that Austin's nomination blurs the lines between civil and military roles.“Given the immense and urgent threats and challenges our nation faces, he should be confirmed swiftly,” Biden wrote in The Atlantic.

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President-elect? GOP may wait for January to say Biden won

WASHINGTON – Americans waiting for Republicans in Congress to acknowledge Joe Biden as the president-elect may have to keep waiting until January as GOP leaders stick with President Donald Trump’s litany of legal challenges and unproven claims of fraud.Tuesday’s deadline for states to certify their elections — once viewed as a pivot point for Republicans to mark Biden's win — came and went without much comment. Next week’s Dec.

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Here's What President-Elect Joe Biden's Inauguration Will Be Like Amid the Pandemic

A source is sharing new details about what Joe Biden‘s Inauguration will be like amid the pandemic in January – TMZ See the latest Hawkeye set pics! – Just Jared Jr Erika Jayne‘s estranged husband Tom Girardi doesn’t want to give her spousal support – DListed Wendy Williams is mourning the death of her mom – TooFab Pro wrestling’s first gay superstar has sadly died – Towleroad Find out when grown-ish is coming back for season three – Just Jared Jr

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AP sources: Biden picks Fudge for housing, Vilsack for USDA

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden made two key domestic policy picks Tuesday, selecting Ohio Rep.

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Biden tells civil rights leaders he'll advance racial equity

DETROIT – In a meeting with leaders of some of the nation’s top civil rights organizations, President-elect Joe Biden reaffirmed Tuesday that his administration will prioritize racial justice and assemble a diverse Cabinet that can tackle pressing equity issues.Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and Louisiana Rep. Cedric Richmond, who will join the Biden administration as a senior adviser, also participated in the nearly two-hour virtual meeting with seven civil rights leaders.

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Arizona's Supreme Court upholds Biden's win after GOP challenge

MARICOPA COUNTY, Ariz. - It was further affirmed that Democratic President-elect Joe Biden won Arizona's 11 electoral votes on Tuesday, Dec.

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Biden's attorney general search is focused on Jones, Garland

WASHINGTON – Alabama Sen. Doug Jones and federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland are emerging as the leading contenders to be nominated as President-elect Joe Biden’s attorney general, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.A decision hasn't been finalized and the dynamics could shift in the coming days as Biden builds out his Cabinet with an eye to ensuring diverse leadership in the top ranks of his administration.But Jones, who lost reelection last month, and Garland, whose Supreme Court nomination was snubbed by Republicans, appear increasingly well positioned ahead of other rivals.

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Biden promises 100 million COVID-19 vaccines in first 100 days

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE - NOVEMBER 10: U.S. President-elect Joe Biden addresses the media about the Trump Administration’s lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act on November 10, 2020 at the Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware.

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U.S. election: Dr. Fauci, Xavier Becerra among those tapped for Biden’s healthcare team

President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday introduced his federal healthcare team, tasked with confronting the growing number of COVID-19 cases in the United States. Topping the roster of picks was health secretary nominee Xavier Becerra, a Latino politician who rose from humble beginnings to serve in Congress and as California’s attorney general.

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The Latest: Biden vows 100 million shots in first 100 days

WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):2:20 p.m.President-elect Joe Biden is promising to distribute a coronavirus vaccine to 100 million people during the first three months of his incoming administration, pledging “100 million shots in the first 100 days.”At an event from Delaware to introduce his pandemic response team on Tuesday, Biden laid out his top three priorities for the start of his new government.

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Trump to hold White House COVID-19 vaccine summit as Biden introduces health team

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump will hold a coronavirus vaccine summit on Tuesday at the White House as President-elect Joe Biden, who was not invited to the event, formally introduces his health team. The “Operation Warp Speed” summit will feature Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and a host of government experts, state leaders and business executives who will outline U.S. vaccine distribution plans.The Trump administration is aiming to instill public confidence by holding the summit, as well as claim major credit for the forthcoming vaccines.

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Jill Biden will back debt-free community college as student debt nears $1.7 trillion: report

Photo by Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images Jill Biden will advocate for debt-free community college as first lady, a source close to President-elect Joe Biden's wife told Yahoo News. “That is what she would like to see.

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AP sources: Biden picks Lloyd Austin as secretary of defense

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden will nominate retired four-star Army general Lloyd J. Austin to be secretary of defense, according to four people familiar with the decision.

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AP sources: Biden picks Lloyd Austin as defense secretary

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 16: Gen. Lloyd Austin III, commander of U.S.

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Biden's health team offers glimpse of his COVID-19 strategy

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden's choices for his health care team point to a stronger federal role in the nation’s COVID-19 strategy, restoration of a guiding stress on science and an emphasis on equitable distribution of vaccines and treatments.With Monday's announcement of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as his health secretary and a half dozen other key appointments, Biden aims to leave behind the personality dramas that sometimes flourished under President Donald Trump.

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India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
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