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President-elect Joe Biden said that President Trump's refusal to concede "will not help the president's legacy." (Video: The Post; photo: Demetrius Freeman/The Post)
Democrats have grown increasingly agitated that Republicans have been unwilling to accept the outcome of the vote. “It’s an embarrassment, quite frankly,” President-elect Joe Biden said of President Trump’s actions.
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The changes, including President Trump’s firing of his defense secretary, have alarmed Democrats and some Republicans and have promised to complicate a transition to a Biden administration.
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President Trump has left a vacuum, and Joe Biden has filled that void: a calm, smiling force in a buttoned-up blue-gray suit and a perfectly centered blue-striped tie.
The four lawmakers were ousted after Beijing issued a new directive barring those who either support Hong Kong’s independence or are deemed unpatriotic.
The attack follows a string of attacks on France and a knifing near its Jiddah consulate.
Roy Benavidez while serving in the Army (left) and after receiving the Medal of Honor. (U.S. Army)
Roy Benavidez’s unbelievable battlefield story is at the center of efforts to strip Confederate names from 10 Army posts.
An internal report shows how the church repeatedly received clues about Theodore McCarrick’s misconduct with young adults.
Hearing a challenge from Republican-led states and the Trump administration, two key justices said that Congress’s decision in 2017 to zero out the penalty for not buying health insurance did not indicate a desire to kill the entire law.
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State Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Secretary of State Alex Padilla have emerged as the leading candidates for the post to be vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris. The state has never had a Latino in the Senate.
A military engineer for Libya’s U.N.-recognized government sorts ammunition and explosives for safe disposal in Tripoli on Oct. 12. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images)
In a letter to to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) said the Trump administration had taken “few concrete steps” to enforce the ban on providing weapons to Libya’s warring parties.
The ouster of popular anticorruption crusader Martín Vizcarra plunged the South American nation into a new period of instability.
Nearly 2,000 Russian peacekeeping forces were deployed to the disputed region on Tuesday after a cease-fire deal reached overnight allowed Azerbaijan to hold on to the substantial territory it has regained in six weeks of heavy fighting.
Investigators concluded that Swiss authorities were aware of, and at times complicit in, an elaborate espionage operation in which the CIA covertly owned and controlled a Swiss company that secretly sold rigged encryption systems to foreign governments.
As the one reporter closely following the vote count in the place that tipped Joe Biden into a statewide lead, Robin Kemp won thousands of followers — and donations.
Jeffrey Rease photographs Alvin Lopez, 99, who served as a Seaman 1st Class on the USS Portland. (Jeffrey Rease)
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Restaurants must reduce indoor dining capacity from 75 to 50 percent. A new health advisory urges a 25-person cap on indoor gatherings. The governor also issued a heightened travel advisory that warns against visiting states with high rates of infections, ruling out nonessential travel to 35 states.
Attorney General Mark Herring (D) filed a motion seeking to vacate an injunction left in place last month by a judge who said he would allow time for an appeal by a group of residents who want the statue to stay in place.
Five sailors carved their names into this small boat after they left their shipwrecked comrades to go for help. It is among the many Navy items stored in Richmond. (John McDonnell/The Post)
Thousands of artifacts are currently stored in Richmond as the Navy plans for its new flagship museum in Washington. Many of the items have stories.
The group’s left-leaning makeup puts a focus on consumer protections and rule-writing.
TikTok said the government committee that demanded its divestiture has provided no “substantive feedback” on a deal the company has proposed.
Johny Srouji, Apple's senior vice president of hardware technologies, talks about the company’s new M1 chip on Tuesday. (Apple/AFP/Getty Images)
Apple introduced a new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac Mini that feature an Apple-designed processor called the M1. The two laptops and small desktop computers are the first new Apple PCs in more than a decade that aren’t powered by chips from Intel.
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Yes, the IRS is still trying to distribute pandemic relief money to millions of Americans. But, no, that text about a second stimulus payment is not real.
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NFL owners ratified proposals to award draft picks to any team that develops a minority candidate hired by another franchise as head coach or GM, and to add two playoff teams if the pandemic shortens the season.
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While the White Sox stand behind the La Russa hiring — which was widely panned at the time — there is now a tangible cost to doing so.
Boston Celtics broadcaster Tommy Heinsohn smiles as he receives a commemorative jersey in 2011. (AP)
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Heinsohn was a player, coach or announcer for all 17 of the Boston Celtics' NBA titles.
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The defending Masters champion takes aim at Augusta National again.
The world's best players — led by Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson and Jon Rahm — are looking strong entering this unusual autumn Masters.
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The students from Georgia's DeKalb County recognized the significance of the moment. But as Democrats across the country danced in the streets, the extra-credit history class was more cautious: After all, one student said, President  Obama’s historic tenure ended with the country electing Donald Trump.
Considering the real source of her angst may help you make peace with the situation.
Parents did work that reader thought live-in partner should have done. Partner is fine with it.
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