By Reuters Staff SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The head of the Tibetan government in exile has visited the U.S. White House for the first time in six decades, a move that could further infuriate Beijing, which has accused the United States of trying to destabilise the region. Lobsang Sangay, President of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), […]
By Matt Spetalnick, Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Joe Biden on Saturday reached the two-week mark since becoming president-elect, with President Donald Trump stinging from back-to-back setbacks in his desperate, unprecedented bid to undo his election defeat. Biden, a Democrat, is preparing to take office on Jan. 20, but Trump, a Republican, has refused to concede and […]
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A key battleground state in the 2020 presidential election is expected on Thursday to affirm Democrat Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump, which would deal yet another setback to Trump’s scattershot efforts to hold on to power. Georgia’s top election official, a Republican, has said a labor-intensive hand recount […]
US election 2020 President Donald Trump is to seek a partial recount of votes in the state of Wisconsin which his rival Joe Biden is projected to win by 20,000 votes. Hours before a Wednesday deadline, the Trump campaign said it wanted a recount in the counties of Milwaukee and Dane, alleging irregularities. State officials […]
By Soutik Biswas BBC News, Delhi Former US president Barack Obama’s memoirs have already caused a minor stir in India – his frank, unflattering description of Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the main opposition Congress party incensed the latter’s supporters and amused his detractors. A Promised Land, the first volume of Mr Obama’s account of […]
US President-elect Joe Biden has warned that “people may die” if his incoming administration continues to be impeded by incumbent Donald Trump. Mr Biden said co-ordination was needed to tackle the coronavirus outbreak. He called President Trump’s refusal to acknowledge he lost the election, despite calls to do so from both sides, “totally irresponsible”. The […]
Lawmakers in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have all said they won’t intervene in selecting electors. Bob Christie and Nicholas Riccardi Republican leaders in four critical states won by President-elect Joe Biden say they won’t participate in a legally dubious scheme to flip their state’s electors to vote for President Donald Trump. Their comments effectively […]
Coronavirus pandemic Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk says he “most likely” has a “moderate case” of Covid-19 but has been “getting wildly different results from different labs”. The boss of Tesla and SpaceX, who is 49, tweeted his symptoms were those of a “minor cold”. On Friday he said he had been tested four times, with […]
By James Oliphant, Simon Lewis WASHINGTON/WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) – President-elect Joe Biden will continue to lay the groundwork for his administration on Thursday against the backdrop of a resurgence of COVID-19 cases across the United States, while President Donald Trump refuses to accept the election’s outcome. Biden named long-time adviser Ron Klain as his White House […]
The longtime Democratic adviser is a consensus pick in the Democratic Party. By Tara Golshan, HuffPost US Ronald Klain, who oversaw the Obama administration’s response to the Ebola outbreak, will be President-elect Joe Biden’s White House chief of staff, HuffPost confirmed with Biden’s campaign. Klain, a longtime Biden adviser who served as his vice presidential chief […]